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January 30, 2021
We explore six games that try to capture the effect of your sanity crumbling as you witness the unspeakable and…
January 23, 2021
Eternal Darkness uses sanity effects to make its players constantly question reality. How far into the real world do those…
January 16, 2021
Pushing the envelope for gore, violence, and content has resulted in many censored and banned horror games, and we've collected…
January 9, 2021
Predictability is the enemy of fear, but Clock Tower shows how a little randomization and chaos can keep players unsettled…
January 2, 2021
Resident Evil 4 takes one of our most familiar shooter tools, the headshot, and uses it against the player in…
December 26, 2020
Joel's best horror games of 2020 bring endless chills, frightening sights, showers of (surprisingly useful) gore, and multiplayer ridiculousness.
December 19, 2020
If you're looking for less merriment and cheer and more murder and bloody chunks in your holidays, we have five…
December 12, 2020
Need a Friday the 13th fix while the legal battles wage on? The NES entry offers some varied, incredible tension…
December 5, 2020
Night Feed's visuals draw from some frightening classics of silent black & white film, using them to create a delightfully-chilling…
November 28, 2020
Monster Party is nonstop lineup of bloody, sickening, and ridiculous bosses, making for endless horror surprises as you fight your…
November 21, 2020
Demon's Souls is a hard, demanding action game, but it’s the game's horror elements that infuses it with its staying…
November 14, 2020
Keeping a thankless, grueling retail job because you need it to pay the bills is its own kind of horror,…