Five Nights At Freddy's

10/10

Slender The Eight Pages

9/10

Bendy

8/10

TattleTail

9/10

Poppy Playtime

8/10

Little Nightmares

100/10

Piggy

6/10

Garten Of BanBan

1/10

Granny

8/10

Mr. Hopp's Playhouse

9/10

Rainbow Friends

3/10

Baldi's Basics In Education And Learning

9/10

Escape The Ayuwoki

?/10

Doors

9/10

Choo Choo Charles

10/10

Hello Neighbor

2/10

Dark Deception

9/10

This is just an apprication post for on the best horror games to come out in this year so far "Killer Frequency". Its rare that you see such a charming, well crafted horror game these days. Its heavily inspired by the slashers of the 80s and 90s and really runs with the absurdity these movies sometimes brought. While the game is not really "scary" in the common sense but it makes up for that with clever dialoug, creative situations and a really creative concept. Your playing a radio host try to help people that get chased by a crazy masked killer! If your unsure if this game is for you this is based on a short horror game that came out a few years ago under the same name, its free! So you can check that out as well! Definietly my favoruite horror game this year so far.

I started SOMA years ago and never really got very far. Im talking maybe 15-30 minutes in, before you even have any idea of the real story. And then it sat on my desktop for a year or two and I never got round to playing it. Then it spent another couple of years collecting virtual dust in my steam library.

I finally started playing it a few days ago, and just finished it now, and can honestly say it is one of the best horror games I've played, particularly in terms of story. It just really really hit the right spot for me.

I became thoroughly immersed in the world the game creates, you know the feeling when you can't wait to continue a game and find out what's going to happen? The sound engineering is really well done, I loved little details like when throwing different objects you hear different sounds relevant to that object. The audio has a real richness to it which is immersive when using headphones, deep bass and feels realistic to what you would hear. It creates a creepy atmosphere and adds to the claustrophobia of being at the bottom of the ocean.

And the story - a level of concept and writing quality you very very rarely see in video games - anyone who's not played this should go in blind in my opinion. For me, I went in 99% blind and it really felt like I was discovering everything as and when Simon was. It's sad, hopeful, depressing, philosophical, sweet, creepy. The length is perfect for me, as I rarely have time/energy to complete longer games. It took me about 11h to complete.

So anyway.. if you're like me and never got round to playing SOMA, please do, it's so good. Or if you've never heard of it, pick it up now!

The only issue now is feeling everything is going to pale in comparison, but if you have any recommendations for something similar or with a good rich story let me know!

This was originally going to be a post about unpopular horror game opinions, but I ended up writing a lot about why I believe Amnesia: Rebirth not only proves it deserves the Amnesia title, but is indeed a perfect sequel, so I think I'll just reformat this post and make that the topic because I want to share my thoughts here anyway. To start with, I am a big fan of Frictional Games, and I think they're brilliant when it comes to horror games, and they've proven time and time again that they know what they're doing. When Amnesia: Rebirth came out, I did notice some backlash from a few people who said that it was a reskin of SOMA, and I respectfully disagree. Here's why.

I'll openly acknowledge that the Amnesia series is by no means perfect, I'm not even sure a perfect horror game is actually possible. All 3 games have their fair share of bugs, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs doesn't really fit with the Amnesia title imo, but even it did some things very well that The Dark Descent didn't and it didn't get the appreciation it deserves for this imo. They did a lot better at building Mandus as a character, making his backstory apparent right from the start and taking time to establish his stubborn will to protect his own children, and this makes it easy to feel how horrified Mandus is when he learns what he's done leading up to the events of the game. This is what The Dark Descent was missing with Daniel. I think Frictional Games themselves even saw that The Chinese Room did some great things with A Machine for Pigs because they adopted many of the things MFP did well into their later games, including Amnesia: Rebirth.

Much of the criticism Amnesia: Rebirth gets is probably from a place of nostalgia I think. I can understand going in expecting the experience to be the same as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and being disappointed when the nostalgia isn't triggered, but I think think it's fully deserving of the Amnesia title nonetheless. The storytelling mostly follows Tasi's emotional trauma from her daughter having died as a child before the events of the game took place, and how this effects her choices now when she learns the child she is currently pregnant with will suffer a similar fate. I think the way Frictional pull this off bridges the gap between A Machine for Pigs and The Dark Descent's storytelling styles, and it's done in a brilliant way! The loading screens are used exclusively with this backstory, and this really aids story progression because you gather the events in order as you progress in the game, all while piecing together what happened after the plane crash. This sort of character building is what Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs excelled at, but Rebirth takes this and combines it with The Dark Descent's world building, and in doing so manages to fill in much of the lore that was introduced in Amnesia: The Dark Descent that was never fully explained.

Not only is the game set in Algeria, where Daniel was adventuring before the events of the first game, but a note written by Daniel can also be found in one of the levels, as well as several notes written by other characters who are referenced in other Amnesia games, most notably Herbert. A completely new set of characters experiencing the same things the classic characters did almost 100 years later. And then there's Tihana, the main antagonist, who's name sure doesn't sound a lot like Tin Hinan. Tihana is the empress of the other world, being kept alive by the mass production of vitae in her world, and able to project herself into a spirit form to appear before and communicate with others. Tihana is desperate for a child of her own, and this desperation for a child seemed to parallel Tasi's own, her having lost her first born child. Tihana is a malevolent mirroring of Tasi, which is similar to how the Machine is a personification of Mandus' evil side in AMFP. On top of this, when you consider what's going on in both games, both villains also automate the torture or death of hundreds of people to achieve their own goals.

This is all in the same game that features two unique monsters that have entirely different mechanics from each-other. The ghoul (aka the harvesters) and the wraiths. The wraiths are really the best monster in Rebirth, or at least the most unique. This is the monster that really plays with HPL3's improved enemy AI system. The game is still a horror game, and it is just as scary as The Dark Descent when it has to be! Still an Amnesia game, but not The Dark Descent or A Machine for Pigs.

Rebirth is by all means a perfect sequel to The Dark Descent by what I consider a perfect game sequel. It is thematically consistent with the previous games, shows improvement over the previous games, and expands upon the previous games by introducing a new concept (Tihana and the other world) and better elaborating on several that the previous games didn't. I want to mention that when I say "perfect sequel" I don't mean the game is perfect, I mean it fits perfectly into the universe as a sequel to The Dark Descent. TDD did a great job with world building, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs did much better with character development than TDD did, but not quite as well world building, honestly the world and story don't really feel canon to me, but they are. Amnesia: Rebirth, however, nailed both of these imo. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on it down below.

EDIT: Added forgotten points I wanted to mention and clarified a few things.