MTB: Before April of this year, horror games were a dying breed. Silent Hill had lost its direction and teeth, showing glimmers of its original brilliance that had been marred by clueless gameplay and design. Resident Evil had decided that it wanted to be an action series with horrific enemies. Even Dead Space, a game that showed so much promise during its first outing, decided to go slumming with multiplayer instead of worrying about whether its monster appearances were getting predictable (Gee, wonder whether something is going to come out of the air vents AGAIN). It seemed like I was going to be playing the classics for the rest of my life, as the genre was pretty much dead.
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10 awesome and obscure horror games you probably haven't heard of. What offbeat horror games do you love? Let us know in the comments!
You never heard of it?
Obscure is awesome, it has the style of gameplay of Resident Evil.
If you are a fan of the old school Resident Evil then you should play both Obscure 1 and Obscure 2.
They are so cliched as they get but so cool too lol.
No xD
I'm saying that obscure is an obscure game lol
I played Obscure 1 and 2 and I loved them.
Eternal Darkness is pretty popular. A better entry would've been Clock Tower.
I have Haunting Ground on the PS2 and Siren Blood Curse on the PS3. Both of those games are pretty good.
DeSpiria for the Dreamcast it's a strange horror RPG evolving around a special agent sent to discover an underground cult. It's set in a dystopian future after World War III which leads to some serious creepy atmosphere. The character designs are questionable but it flourishes in monster design and disturbing music (which would have been so much better in full-length but tracks are limited to 20 second loops.) I await the day I am fluent in my Japanese studies so I can play this game in it's entirety.
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Haunting Ground, Galerians and Rule of Rose deserves mentions as well. I would go on about these three but I doubt you guys want to read a novel....
COG writes: No Halloween is complete without a descent into virtual terror. We assemble this list of the scariest games of all time that have left us shaking in our boots crying for momma.
There were a couple spots in there that I quite nearly shit myself. No joke.
Interesting choice of Silent Hill 4 over 2! This is also a lengthy list of games that will give me an anxiety attack
There’s nothing better than enjoying a good ‘horror’ game during Halloween. And while many titles deserve to be mentioned, we picked the ones that stood out the most to us. See if your top ten matches our picks for this year's, 'Top 10 Survival Horror Games to Enjoy This Halloween'.
I don't think Metro is considered a Horror game lol. At least not at all in the traditional sense.
