Game Developer

JUNE 8, 2023

The clever conceits that allow The Tartarus Key to serve up retro, PS1-style horror (and laughs) minus '90s-era frustrations.

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Indie DB

MAY 21, 2024

The horror game Whispering Lane takes you to an abandoned house on Whispering Lane Street. Darkness reigns on the street, and strange noises stir unease among the neighbors. The main character, police officer Jackson Harrowfield, is sent to investigate.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

Based in the city of Ohrid in North Macedonia, the two brothers Bobby and Zhanko Mojsovski work hard on their next game, the bodycam survival-horror shooter Chasmal Fear. That’s when we asked ourselves what it would be like to create a bodycam sci-fi survival horror.” Our games are made for the players.

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Game Developer

JUNE 14, 2024

How and why did we, as a small studio, end up with a visual novel side series? And was it worth it? Now that What Lydia Knows is complete, I wanted to share our process, what our motivations were, and how it’s changed our company’s approach to game development.

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Game Wisdom

JUNE 7, 2024

What Makes the “Survival” of Survival Horror Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com The Silent Hill 2 remake is in the news following the Sony state of play, and while people are either gushing over details about the world, yelling about character redesigns, or just ignoring it and playing Resident Evil 4 , … The post What Makes the “Survival” (..)

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iHobo

JUNE 14, 2023

Ten Player Motives #6 Why do we love horror? It's a question that has provoked a great deal of debate, but the two most important things to understand about the horror motive are that it is about indulging in unpleasant feelings, and that precisely because it's about nasty things, it's not for everyone.

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Indie DB

DECEMBER 12, 2023

MUZY is a scary horror game where you are uncovering secrets behind a well known, and what used to be the most popular children's toy called - MUZY. Multiple tales have been reported regarding these toys which also leads to deaths - and you as an detective.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 22, 2023

Apartment 1406 is a horror game that will provide you with an amazing experience in a dark world of horror. The game features psychological elements, such as changing environments and two alternative worlds, which make the game very interesting and mysterious.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Featuring 40+ interviews with horror developers and genre experts, the five-part documentary will be preceded by a year-long series of live events exclusive to pre-sale supporters

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 26, 2024

A couple of months ago I worked on the liminal spaces psychological horror POOLS from developer Tensori. Around the release, POOLS became the horror game of the moment, with millions of views on TikTok (IGNs TikTok got us just under 2 million views alone), YouTube, and great user reviews. Pretty impressive.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 8, 2024

The Difficulty of Horror Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this somewhat spooky video, I’m talking about the challenges of making a horror game and three trends that have taken root that I’m not a huge fan of for making good horror design.…

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2024

The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If For example, when a monster tries to kill you, instead of, say, horror violins, it goes full metal. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. You never know until you ship.”

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Nightmares of the ‘90s Live On in Upcoming PC Game Heartworm from Independent Developer Vincent Adinolfi and Horror Games Publisher DreadXP

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It's launch day for Casper Croes' retro survival horror game.

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Playtown is a adventure horror game set in a kid's abandoned indoor playground. Your daughter has just lost her necklace which was very dear to her, and now you are tasked with finding it. Try to search around and unravel the mysteries surrounding the.

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Game Wisdom

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Why Horror Is the Hardest Game Genre Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com This year I was all set to play the latest crop of indie (and AAA) horror games for Halloween, except this time I didn’t find a lot of games compared to last year.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Just because your game features monsters, the dark, and even the fear of dying, does not immediately make it an example of horror.

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Horror Feature Games 159

Game Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2023

Signalis Is a Successful Survival Horror Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com There has been quite a variety of indie horror lately and Signalis feels like the perfect companion to Scorn as a definite follower of old-school survival horror but replacing body horror with the creepiness of existential terror.

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Horror Indy Games 59

Game Developer

JULY 15, 2024

The co-op horror game is the start of publisher Oro Interactive's focus toward "content-creator-focused horror games." "

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

The myth, the legend, the 1978 Dungeons & Dragons murderfest Tomb of Horrors. The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. Tomb of Horrors is a very cool experiment, but it is not a well-considered one. And that's it!

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The UK studio has spent years working on a 'rebuilt and enhanced' version of the horror title.

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Game Wisdom

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

You Will Die Here Tonight Twists Survival Horror Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com You Will Die Here Tonight starts out as close as one could get to copying the Resident Evil formula without warranting a lawsuit.

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Horror Games Indy 52

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 12, 2024

For his debut game Supernormal , Hitori was inspired by the much-hyped, but never-released horror game Allison Road. For me, it has always been a goal to make Hitori De Productions mean something in the world of indie horror games”, he says. “I That’s why working in a team was never enjoyable for me.” It was relatively easy.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 8, 2023

Dredge is a Relaxing Take on Horror Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Dredge is one of those concepts that comes from the ever-popular mix of something + horror = game we see from indie developers. One part horror game, and a peaceful fishing adventure.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Psych-horror title creeps up on Xbox owners soon.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The other day I was told that my writing is appreciated and that I need to write more… so I’m taking a moment to write about a rabbit hole that I’ve fallen down since working on BlueSuburbia!

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Game Wisdom

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Game-Wisdom 2022 Awards for Best Horror Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. Since horror and holidays go perfectly together, for today’s best of list, it’s my favorite horror games of 2022. Honorable Mentions: Stay Out of the House.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here are ten lessons from decades of interviews, GDC lectures and community blogs, condensed for your convenience.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Kyle Rowley: We wanted to figure out what kind of horror experience we wanted to make, based on Alan Wake as an established franchise, and the things that we did in the first game. Early on, we wanted to identify ourselves as more of a psychological horror game. So psychological horror made a lot of sense for us.

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Indie DB

MAY 28, 2024

"James" makes his second appearance and solidifies himself as an important voice within the UFO Disclosure movement. In this video he tells us about some of his experiences recovering alien artifacts while working for a classified group within the US.

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Horror 92

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Creator David Szymanski tells us how an exercise in speed game development led to this strange monochromatic experience.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 19, 2023

The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If For example, when a monster tries to kill you, instead of, say, horror violins, it goes full metal. Wishlist The Axis Unseen on Steam or Epic Store The post Skyrim-dev Nate Purkeypile goes solo and makes a heavy metal horror game appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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Game Developer

JUNE 3, 2024

The co-op horror game got off to a good start by launching as a free-to-keep game, and its fortunes have only improved since.

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Game Developer

JUNE 17, 2024

When it comes to playgrounds one can have lots of fun in, the virtual kind provided by video games is hard to top.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

The developers at Baroque Decay break down the specific factors contributing to the underdog's success.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2024

Stephen Gillmurphy and Tommy Tone talk about using the naturally-frayed edges of long-term serial narratives to explore absurd, hilarious, and creepy situations in Anthology of the Killer.

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Horror 267

Indie DB

JUNE 2, 2024

Video footage of the current alpha build, gameplay and systems based on a HL mod.

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