>>1171147Eh, actually, screw it, I am just gonna write down some random favorites I played over the last few months.
If you're at all into "Mascot Horror" (that is, innocent characters corrupted into monsters), there is a free first chapter to a game called
Indigo Park making the sweeps right now. It doesn't reinvent the wheel by any means, but it is made by a streamer who enjoys the genre a lot and really does his damndest to ensure his world's aesthetics are great.
There was also
My Friendly Neighborhood, where you play as a TV repair man who gets sent to an old TV studio that broadcasts a Sesame-Street esque puppet show, when it mysteriously starts airing again on its own after decades of inactivity. It plays kind of like modern Resident Evil (VII and VIII), and is somewhat "horror lite" in that it is not really trying to be the scariest thing ever, but it is a LOT of fun and does tell a slightyl different story than most games like it.
Similarly, the game
Hollow Cocoon where you play a young Japanese Man who has to spend the night at his estranged grandmother's manor - a former silkworm farm - who soon gets chased by a strange monster. It's a 3-ish hour romp, and does have some of that "run and hide" I mentioned not liking earlier, but it's a great "solve puzzles in the creepy location" kind of game and tells a very dark, unique story.
And while we're still speaking of Resident Evil,
Crow Country is a recent Classic Resident Evil-like (though more top-down isometric) that is really, really damn great. I highly recommend this one, it's just a super well thought out location.
For a different vibe, try [b]Killer Frequency[/?]. You play an 80ies radio host who gets tasked with taking 911 calls on a night a serial killer is loose, and you have to use things like maps, info and the like to help people survive their encounters with the killer over the phone. Kind of has the vibe of Scream-era slasher films.
If you want something that's a little slower and more narratively driven,
Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place is fantastic. It's a pixel art point and click where you play as a young man who hasn't left his room in over a month and seems irrationally deathly afraid of stepping outside. It's more narrative than game, but it is absolutely excellent. As the title implies, it's also part of a series, but dom't worry - it's an anthology, no need to play the others to understand this one.
If you like analog horror, try
Home Safety Hotline. You play a new worker at a company that helps people take care of problems in their home, like say, ants, termites, frozen water pipes, trolls, fairies, mice... the usual.
The whole game takes place on your work computer and through phone calls. It's quite a fun little experience.
The
Tsugunohi series is a great collection of small, spooky scenarios. It's a series of short (and by that i mean somewhere between 15 and 90 minutes each) japanese horror games where all you really do... is walk left. But trust me, they get quite unsettling, and there are like 12 of them at this point. You can buy a collection witht he first 9 for a quite low price.
In the Visual Novel end of things,
SLay the Princess is phenomenal. You play a hero, who is told by the narrator that he must go to a cabin, find a princess chained up in the attic... and kill her, because otherwise the world will end.
You know those games that brag about how "all your chocies matter?" Here, they truly do. The nature of the story and the princess' behavior changes drastically and dramatically depending on how you approach the situation, and it can be really mind bendy. I believe they recently released a sort of "ultimate version", too.
And for a REALLY short experience, try
It's Just A Prank. It's only 30-40 minutes, but I assure you they are gonna be 30-40 intensely uncomfortable ones.
These are just some over the last few months or so, and ones that you should get a decent amount of playtime out of. I know of many other, shorter (30-120 minute) experiences if you like.
Or you can just check my Lets Play channel sometime, heh.
>Art FightYe, I suppose. Though odds are I'd forget to get anything done on time. I also totally forget how it works...
Anyway, I should go sleep now. It is vurry, vurry late. Have a good one.
