Horror games: Is the genre in a golden age?

How do the people behind some of our favourite frightfests come up with ways to keep players scared?

[shinoff2183]

Golden age lol. Sure. The Golden age of horror games has probably passed years ago. Same as rpgs. Especially jrpgs which was snes through ps2ish but mostly snes through ps1 imo. This isn't the Golden Era for horror games most of them coming out seem like knock offs of pt silent hill. While some look better then others, Golden. Age wouldn't be how I describe this Era.

[S2Killinit]

I think people these days are just harder to please and too distracted to care too much about any one thing. If we had VR horror back in the days people would be ecstatic. I mean what has ever come close? I admit though it might be too scary for its own good.

[GhostScholar]

If you think the top down RPG is dead go play sea of stars

[Prubar]

For me it is. I literally just finished off Amnesia the bunker. Playing though Dead Space on game pass. Picked up RE4 DLC, and just bought Calisto Protocol on sale. Plus Alan Wake 2 just dropped. Not sure if ghostwire counts but ima play that after as well.

[S2Killinit]

Resident Evil in VR

Period

[Vits]

I will go with a maybe.

Horror games have been seeing an extremely healthy number of releases that more or less appeal to every kind of market. If it's more or less than what we saw during the PS2 era, I can't say, but just this year we got new franchises, remakes and sequels of really high quality.

[GhostScholar]

I wouldn’t say golden age but definitely a renaissance.

[shinoff2183]

That I can agree with it. Not golden age. In fact a couple listed were older games

[jznrpg]

The original Golden Age was during the PS1/2 era but it is close again with VR and other good horror games. Doesn’t really matter to me what people call the time period as long as I’m playing great games.