Survival Horror

Gameplay and graphics are both shaky, but Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories more than makes up for that with an addictive absurdity

20 Years Later: Resident Evil: Code Veronica Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on March 22, 2016. The Resident Evil series is about experimentation, success, and failure, both inside and outside…

15 Years Later

There’s merit to be had if you just want a quick bash at a quirky, indie horror game, but with so many flaws, I can’t recommend Remothered.

The act of remaking a seminal, classic piece of work in any artistic medium can be a massive undertaking in terms of pressure. Video games in particular are especially tough…

How often do you experience a video game with glaring flaws that you still enjoy, even if those flaws remain constant throughout the experience? In today’s digital world full of…

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on March 11, 2018.  Have you ever taken a cold, hard look at the childhoods of female protagonists in horror games? Many of…

Clock Tower is a series very close to my heart, one of the earlier survival horror games and one to define a side of the genre. It has its own…

Dead Space 2 and 3 are less like survival-horror titles, and closer in relation to their cousins over in the action genre. While they are both fun to play, with engaging…

Last year’s Yomawari: Night Alone is easily one of my favorite games from 2016. It does a lot as a horror piece to scare the player with a good ratio of subtle, fear-building, moments and opportunistic jump scares.

The uncanny valley, a sociocultural phenomenon first hypothesized by Masahiro Mori, proposes “that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached,…

I can’t think of many PlayStation 2 games out there that command the same collector’s price tag that Rule of Rose does. This game is a monetary investment, even when…

Survival horror is a subgenre of video games inspired by horror fiction that focuses on survival of the character as the game tries to frighten players with either horror graphics…

Boss fights have always been an integral part of the Resident Evil experience. From the recurring Tyrant and Nemesis battles the series is known for, to the giant animal fights that…the series…

By the early 2000s the modern definition of “survival horror” had been established thanks to the success of games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. There were plenty of clones…

Much like the first Amnesia title, A Machine for Pigs is engrossing from the very outset. While dropping you into a world with absolutely zero memory of how you got…

Horror games are weird. They’re in one of the few genres where design elements can evolve, devolve, or completely change all within the span of a few years. Trends kill…

Horror is one of the most unique genres in gaming. It can take the form of an action game or something slower-paced like an adventure title. The early years of…

Something eerie appeared in 1989. Something unnerving. That feeling you get when you’re walking home at night alone, and the shadows of the trees belie in the moonlight, and the…

Silent Hill 2 is widely considered one of the best horror games of all time. Whenever there is a list about the scariest games of all time, Silent Hill 2…