The Mundane Sublime

Games whose aesthetic atmosphere revolves around mundane spaces like homes, urban or suburban spaces, infrastructural spaces, other public spaces, etc., that have been made strange in some way, whether via supernatural intrusion or alteration, the absence of people, or even simply the abstraction imparted by being turned into a video game level.

Infra
Infra
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Ghostwire: Tokyo
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R.
Gone Home
Gone Home
Silent Hill
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Germs: Nerawareta Machi
Germs: Nerawareta Machi
Control
Control
Alan Wake
Alan Wake
Alan Wake II
Alan Wake II
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Half-Life
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

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