Fact: You can't make a horror game without filling it with tons of jumpscares

Fact: You can't make a horror game without filling it with tons of jumpscares
>b-but muh spooky atmosphere
Might as well call Bioshock or Bloodborne horror games in that case

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If it's short enough, you can make it 100% spooky atmosphere and there won't be enough time for the audience to get acclimated.

system shock 2 managed to be a good horror game relying entirely on atmosphere and having enemies unpridictably show up anytime anywhere

Impending doom can be pretty terrifying even if you see it coming—no, especially when you see it coming. In Alien: Isolation, you often know the alien is right there, and even when you're doomed, it's still several seconds of dreadful anticipation as it runs up to you. Take all the traditional jumpscares out of the game and it would still have its horror.
The moon in Majora's Mask is a good example in a non-horror game; a horror game with more focus on those kinds of gradual, nebulous threats could work.

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Which is why the best horror games aren't longer than a few hours tops

>girl wants to go to my place and play vidoe agmes
>i tell her we're playing the best bone chilling jump-scare-free atmospheric character driven slow burn horror game from team silent
>she starts doing this

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>my tounge rolls out.
>I begin to slurp it up.

jumpscares are an important part of the process of tension, suspense, and release
the right way is to make threatening enemies and sudden encounters
the wrong way is making pre-rendered scarey monsters teleport in front of the center of the screen accompanied by a stock stinger sound that's 80 decibels louder than everything else in the game

bioshock is filled with jumpscares though

>You can't make a horror game without filling it with tons of jumpscares
>What is Darkwood