horror
VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam’s sweeping censorship campaign
Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including…
I’m Glad We’re Finally Out Of The Action Horror Era
The timeline of horror games wasn’t always smooth sailing – at one point, it had a horrifying era of its own: when every horror game tried to be an action game. Starting in the late 2000s and spanning to the mid-2010s, horror games stopped being scary and started being just… loud. Loud in action, loud…
Creepy Horror Series Rusty Lake Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With A Surprise New Game And Film
It all began with Cube Escape back in April 2015. Two mobile games were released simultaneously, Cube Escape: The Lake and Cube Escape: Seasons. Each, at first glance, appeared to be part of the current trend for both digital and real-world escape room games, in which you solved puzzles to set yourself free from some…
Look Outside is an unexpected cosmic horror masterpiece that shook me to the core
What kind of person would you be in the face of a disaster that’s beyond explanation? Would you help distressed neighbors and open your home even to sketchy-looking strangers in the hope that there’s strength in numbers, or go it alone regardless of how heavily the odds are stacked against you? Would you still brush…