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Games I Like That Everybody Else Dislikes
I realize I'm alone in this, and that's fine - but this is a truly spectacular horror game brimming with atmosphere and filled with careful shit-your-pants jumpscare moments that each feel earned. Mixes the tantalizingly campy creepypasta era of gaming with a genuine lingering sense of real dread - full transparency, I got this thinking it would be a funny meme but the level of creativity on this at any moment is just insane. Equal measures of scary, silly, stylish, and smart. Even its small but memorable one-off predecessor had a fun sense of inevitability and this one not only pays homage to that one in the best way possible, but also amplifies it to levels above. Always loved the variety on display, each vignette essentially serving as a new visual template for something you just know isn't going to end well - the question is how will it proceed to get there? Too few horror games these days take advantage of that simple but effective mindset because it works like a motherfucker here. Also the bizarre lore actually feels like it was cared about in this one, unlike the smarminess of something like Hello Neighbor which only really wanted its bullshit non-story to be streamer bait. Plus it looks rock-solid for what it is even all these years later. Really good shit, severely underappreciated.
Games I Like That Everybody Else Dislikes
I realize I'm alone in this, and that's fine - but this is a truly spectacular horror game brimming with atmosphere and filled with careful shit-your-pants jumpscare moments that each feel earned. Mixes the tantalizingly campy creepypasta era of gaming with a genuine lingering sense of real dread - full transparency, I got this thinking it would be a funny meme but the level of creativity on this at any moment is just insane. Equal measures of scary, silly, stylish, and smart. Even its small but memorable one-off predecessor had a fun sense of inevitability and this one not only pays homage to that one in the best way possible, but also amplifies it to levels above. Always loved the variety on display, each vignette essentially serving as a new visual template for something you just know isn't going to end well - the question is how will it proceed to get there? Too few horror games these days take advantage of that simple but effective mindset because it works like a motherfucker here. Also the bizarre lore actually feels like it was cared about in this one, unlike the smarminess of something like Hello Neighbor which only really wanted its bullshit non-story to be streamer bait. Plus it looks rock-solid for what it is even all these years later. Really good shit, severely underappreciated.