What do you like most about horror games?
What do you like most about horror games?
Austin Parker
Joshua Morgan
i don't like horror games
Anthony Martin
Same, I like horror movies and books but with games being scary comes at the expense of fun.
Ethan Perry
the atmosphere ?
i didn't play a lot of horror games , so i can't say for sure
William Rogers
It's a different kind of fun.
Angel Bailey
Jacob Hernandez
Cool monster designs
Brandon Nguyen
The horror.
...the horror...
Sebastian Cooper
Playing with my sister and embracing each other or spending the night together when it's gets too scary
Levi Rivera
monster women
Jeremiah Myers
What's the age difference between you and your sister?
Leo Fisher
overcoming the terror
William Martin
The feeling of having things at stake. Not enough horror games do this. They think taking away mechanics and making it more "realistic" somehow makes it scarier, when 9 out of 10 times it makes it boring and shallow to play, and ironically makes it more transparent that you're playing a video game.
Adrian Perry
10 years
Matthew Baker
>music
>comfy
>gore
>plot
>aesthetic
>strategy
>feeling powerless
>...and, sometimes, feel powerful by end game
What came up to my mind.
Angel Brown
Atmosphere, generally.
Often they have survival elements which add stress due to limited supplies, and it's fun to try and scrape by on very little. Resident Evil games tend to do this balance very good. The RE2 remake, for example, really got the perfect balance between difficulty and allowing player skill to be a factor, rather than head to wall.
Amnesia does a similar thing, although in a different direction.
Joshua Roberts
Scary ambient
Cameron Lewis
>stories that have stakes and aren't afraid to kill the cast
>being forced to face incomprehensible horrors and figure out a way to deal with them
>typically great soundtracks
>typically M rated so they aren't boiled down for maximum mass appeal
>will likely have a final boss with an orchestra with vocals, give me a super weapon, and make me fight an enemy the size of a skyscraper with a big delicious glowing weakpoint
Used to be why
Now it's all about playing Co-op horror games with local mic chat with friends and fucking with eachother while trying to deal with a monster of the week
Josiah Torres
Just to add onto what everyone else is saying, I generally like them for their atmosphere, designs and gameplay. A lot of horror games are just nice slow romps and I genuinely love the aspect of you being alone in a place fighting for survival against something you may not fully understand. It's that kinda feeling of dread that I love and makes for my favourite kinda stories.
James Smith
this
I loved witch hunt because it was scary, but the downtrodden relied on you to succeed and you're ultimately the hunter seeking to destroy the horror rather than just prey. I wish we had more games like that, like a scary version of Witcher's monster hunter premise.
Ian Carter
sound design