It is September now which means my wife has decided it is fall and time to celebrate 2 months of Halloween. Anyone have and spooky game recommendations?
Amnesia: the Bunker. A masterpiece in horror and very tense. It is my personal GOTY for 2023
Costume Quest.
Funny answer: Nightmare Kart. It’s Bloodborne Mario Kart with Sega Saturn graphics. Delightfully postmodern, spooky, and free.
If you need a break from genuinely scary and just want thematically spooky fun, it’s Crypt of the Necrodancer and Darkest Dungeon.
If you have a reasonably strong machine, try emulating Call of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth. It’s genuinely scary a lot of the time.
Soma, Stasis (and the other games in the series), Observer, Observation
No one has mentioned Phasmophonia yet so I’ll throw that in the ring
I really love Visage. Costume Quest is a cozy rpg.
Costume Quest
Just what I came here for! Not spooky, but entirely Halloween themed. I beat the first, but never got around to playing much of the second. A pretty simple turn based RPG, but the costumes you put on your party become the actual thing they are in battle. Very cute and fun games
Supermassive games like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the Dark Pictures are great for this, especially since later iterations have built-in “pass the controller” modes that are great for sharing a game with your spouse.
Played Until Dawn, that was a fun one will need to look into the other 2
They’re all the same format, but The Dark Pictures is an anthology of games that are about half the size of Until Dawn. There are 5 or 6 of them at this point.
Alien isolation stressed me out. For fun, run monster bash on an emulator.
Still Wakes the Deep. Shit goes wrong on a Scottish oil rig in the 70s, it’s sorta like dead space mixed with alien isolation and a walking simulator. Stealth gameplay with some puzzles and a decent emotional narrative. I had a good time playing it and it’s on gamepass. Short and sweet.
Dusk. Quake meets Evil Dead. One of the best games I’ve played in years. It’s definitely more of a straight up shooter than a horror game, but the themes/setting/art style nail the spooktober vibe. I replay it every autumn and always have a great time
Alien Isolation. Resident Evil 7. If you can do either/both in VR, DO IT.
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Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition - the undisputable best way to play Silent Hill 2
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Dead by Daylight is horror themed, just don’t interact with the highly toxic community
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Resident Evil HD is the best way to play Resident Evil
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Project Zomboid - you either quit in 15 minutes, or you rack up thousands of hours, there is no inbetween
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The Forest and Sons of the Forest
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