what are some of everyone’s must-play horror games of the last few years. normally horror games give me anxiety but i want to try some out for the spooky month, what do y’all got?
the only horror games i can really think of that i’ve beaten is resident evil 4 and 5
SOMA was good, but you have to want to like it. It would probably help to be familiar with the concept of the technological singularity, because as a first-person game, you lose a little bit of the experience of literal transformation. It raises some really interesting ideas, and probably would have benefited from a bigger budget, more writing and a little bit more world building. It felt kind of empty, and some of the boss battles felt as if you were supposed to know exactly what to do going in, based on how specific the solutions were. Sometimes you were supposed to fight them, sometimes you were supposed to run, and sometimes you were supposed to trigger something like a quick time event in a specific place, and unless you triggered it, you’d just keep getting on-hit KOed.
These are fair points, although just on the last one (working out what to do in bosses) that got less punishing some time after launch when they allowed for the option not to have things kill you, so you can focus on solutions and atmosphere and general creepy vibes. Not a perfect solution, but useful if that becomes an issue for players.
Ah. I played it on PSN about two years ago, and even then, it had already been ported from PS4 to PS5. If the option existed, I didn’t see it. I’d be interested to see how the developers move forward with newer games (that deal with the singularity, as opposed to Amnesia).