Putting atmosphere, vulnerability and psychological-oppression right back at the heart of the experience, a whole new movement of inspired indie games are revitalizing a genre that was thought to be dead and buried. Mark Butler salutes this fresh wave of ‘super-hardcore’ horror titles – and the welcome dose of fear they are trailing in their wake.
Footage from what appears to be a prototype build of Red Barrels' first-person psychological survival horror game, Outlast, has emerged.
This sounds interesting. Red Barrels is teaming up with Lionsgate and renown horror producer Roy Lee to develop a feature film anchored in the rich and horrifying universe of the Outlast series.
It has to be. I hope they learned with Borderlands that PG-13 is not the way if the source material is an M-Rated game.
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Very safe list of horror games. I would argue that Amnesia Machine for Pig was not that great. Dark Descent was much a much better game.
Far better games have been released in this genre (Dead Space Remake, Alien Isolation, Alan Wake 2 etc).
I still need to check out Slender, maybe over the holidays,