Stick Skills: "With Halloween less than a week away, most of you are probably preparing for whatever nefarious festivities you have planned for the 31st. In celebration of the upcoming holiday for all things dark and mysterious, I've gathered together a list of five terrifying games to help get you in the mood for this holiest of horror holidays. To avoid needless repetition down worn paths, I've tried to limit myself to newer releases from this year you might have missed, spread across a variety of platforms. Enjoy."
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "Slender: The Arrival is a frustrating horror game in that it's easy to complement specific elements while disliking the core conceit. I may have found Slender's origins to be flawed from the start, yet I'm also left commending a full-fledged game rising out of creepy pasta threads. If nothing else, it's a sign of earnest appreciation from unexpected source material. But when I feel more legitimate tension from linear sections than repeated trial-and-error collecting bits – i.e. the series' main identity – I can't help but feel something is fundamentally lacking. The 10th Anniversary Update showcases Blue Isle's sedulous care in honoring the past, but it's nevertheless tainted by a game trying to pad out a one-trick pony."
Kind of a shame how quickly this game fell off after it's popularity. It even got a movie faster than any other horror game of the last decade. Still an interesting concept and design for the cryptid.
True. If there's one takeaway I'll consistently have for Slender Man, as a property, is its rise to prominence from humble origins. I think Amnesia: The Bunker would be a great foundation to look at for new ideas too. There's still hope for him to star in a stellar title, but Blue Isle (or another dev) has to look past this incongruent mishmash of templates.
Was it ever actually good was basically meme worthy from day 1 and resulted in some quick cash in attempts the whole concept felt like it was built off of a early 2000s forward to X number people or X will appear at night and kill you.
@Profchaos
Your thoughts on The Eight Pages (freeware game) seem closely aligned with me. Even at the beginning, I found the execution to be flawed. But what I'm arguing is I think someone *could* make a good Slender game. Amnesia: The Bunker can be a good place to look as to how it could be done were he the sole villain.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "This brand new 10th anniversary remake of Slender: The Arrival might be an impressive visual overhaul of what was once a cheap-looking horror game, but at its core, it’s still the same janky and frustrating walking simulator released ten years ago. It may be a cult hit in the horror gaming community, but I didn’t find it very scary, nor compelling. I will give Blue Isle Studios credit for showcasing what Unreal 5 can provide to smaller games and teams, but sadly, mechanic-wise, nothing else of importance has been added. If you haven’t liked Slender: The Arrival back then, I doubt this overhaul will convince you otherwise."
If you are yet to play a Slenderman game but are a fan of all things horror, Slender: The Arrival on Xbox Series X|S is the version to step into.
This will be useful. Been trying to get into the spirit of the holiday!
infamous festival of blood will get you going. and i believe its on sale in the ps store
My 5 would be:
-RE4 (el lago, yikes!)
-The last of Us
-Shadow of the Colossus (some colossi, and environments are just trippy to me)
-Far Cry 3 ( I have thalassaphobia, fear of anything under the ocean, and shark attacks are scary as all hell).
-Bioshock 1 (again, under the ocean).
Honorable mentions: Demon Souls and Dark Souls...lol, I'm a wuss!
I shall be playing Outlast.
Costume Quest!
It is a little cute and for every age, but it is pure Halloween goodness.