Tag Archives: Survival Horror

I can’t say I’m one for jump scares and horror, but if you ignore all the murder and deathrattles of your fellow campers you can have a delightful time by the shores of Higgins Haven in Friday The 13th (opens in new tab). Set deep in a remote forest full …

You can get jump scares out of just about anything if you suddenly thrust it into players’ faces alongside a stab of carefully selected music. It’s a relatively easy technique, but a really effective one. When used sparingly, at least. Long-term, this dependable psychological trick is barely enough to stretch …

Prepare the ban hammer. If you’ve been playing video games for more than five minutes, you know they have a tendency to be moral outrage magnets. If you can name it, games have been blamed for it, so it’s not too shocking that game bans have followed in force. For …

Drag me to ‘Hill The cancellation of Silent Hills was just cruel. So much terrifying potential lurked in the single corridor of P.T that a full game might have been too much fear to actually handle. So, in mourning of what could have been, lets take a look back at …

The Silent Hill series has long been a fan favourite for its disturbing monster design, but did you know that there’s some psychology behind each horrifying nightmare-incarnate you encounter? The monsters in Silent Hill all have reasons for looking the way they do. Typically manifestations of characters’ fears, faults, or …

Resident Evil has become a superpowered zombie-slaying soap opera in the last decade, but that wouldn’t really work for Resident Evil 7 biohazard (opens in new tab). The game’s producer and director weren’t willing to offer many clues to the main character’s identity on the official Capcom blog (opens in …

Silent Hill has Pyramid Head. Outlast has the perpetually smiling Chris Walker, as well as an asylum’s worth of other nasty characters. SOMA has whatever the hell these are (opens in new tab). Layers of Fear (opens in new tab) has stacks of books and apples. Not exactly what springs …

The Kickstarter success of Friday the 13th: The Game (opens in new tab) is bloody good news for horror fans and now dev studio Gun Media has revealed some early gameplay footage to whet our appetites. It’s clearly early days and the team says its all temporary assets but the …

When it comes to fear, the Fatal Frame series usually follows the mantra that less is more. Telling you you’re trapped in a strange place and must find a way out before horrific paranormal beings kill you is a perfect recipe for fright that doesn’t require extra dressing. Unfortunately, the …

It’s tough to imagine Silent Hill(s) was left off the “Konami heritage games survey (opens in new tab)” by mistake – especially when one of its options is Sunset “Bury Me With My Money” Riders. You can still fix that oversight yourself, even if it probably isn’t worth much more …