I would imagine so -- the themes are all pretty timeless and universal.

I never heard of it either.  It also appears to be only for PC/Mac, not console, thought looking quickly at the site and 3D capabilities, it seems like it would make a good console game.

Yeah, I don't really go for console games, but my friends and I are all die-hard Steam users, so I guess I thought it was more well-known than it is.

Well, then I'm not longer amazed, but seriously, go check it out.  Preferably, during the brightest part day, when you're not alone in the house, and with a stuffed animal of your choosing to cuddle with while you rock back and forth and ask God why.

Yeah, I tend to console games now since my wife and kids tend to monopolize the computers and laptops.  Having multiple teenagers in the house is not fun.  I can also play console games more easily on large screen TVs with surround sound and 3D.

It says it's a short game.  How long does it take to run through?

Depends on how fast you want to blow through it.  If you want to just run around until you find the wolf, maybe 30min-an hour each; if you get a little more in depth, stop to pick things up, really take your time and let yourself get immersed in it, 1-2 hours per character is probably a safe bet.  Ginger and Carmen both took me closer to 3 hours.

Tl;dr: the game will keep a fairly casual player busy for a week, easily.

Oh, and I highly recommend playing the characters in order of age, starting with Robin (the youngest).  I went in a crazy order and was still scared out of my wits, but my friends who played youngest-to-oldest were seriously wigged out even worse than I was (one of them still hasn't finished), and the ones who played oldest-to-youngest were less impressed overall.

It is unfortunate that on the whole, Horror games tend to be limited to PC.... even there, they are REALLY rare.

Although the same is true for fighting games (like street fighter) tending to be limited to consoles.

Both PCs and Consoles can do both. But the devs don't tend to let it.

I'm not sure that's actually the case. Just looking at what's listed here:

Bioshock 1/2 - platform & PC
White Chamber - PC only
Rule of the Rose - platform only
Dead Space 1/2 - platform & PC
The Ugly - Any Internet- and flash-enabled device (not sure if that includes platforms or not, but I'm going to skip it, as it's not strictly a PC game).
Sanity Requiem: Eternal Darkness - platform only
The Darkness - platform only
Resident Evil 0/1/2/3 - platform & PC/platform only
Legend of Zelda - platform only
Uninvited - platform & PC
Amnesia: Dark Descent - PC only
Cry of Fear - PC only
Silent Hill 1/2 - Platform only
Slender - PC only
Half Life 2 (Ravenholm Scene) - PC & platform
Metal Gear Solid 2 - PC & platform
F.E.A.R. - PC & platform
Stalker - PC only
Aliens vs. Predators 2 - PC only
Doom 3 - PC & platform
Left4Dead 2 - PC & platform
The Suffering - PC & platform
Illbleed - Platform only
The Ring: Terrors Realm - Platform only
Manhunt - PC & platform
System Shock - PC only
The Path - PC only

Of those that are PC only, the majority seem to be very small, indie companies. Because of the high cost of developing and selling products for platforms, it seems reasonable that tiny indie companies won't market to them. But for the most part, horror games appear to be released for both PC and a platform.

(In this list there are slightly more games released only for PC than only for a platform, but it's almost even.)
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Pacman: some poor deformed dude running around eating 'power pills' and being chased by 'ghosts'???

tell me that's not just a bad trip!

:-O

waka waka waka

Pacman - platform only

I actually have Half Life 2 on my PS3 as part of the Orange Box (with Team Fortress and Portal), so it'd be platform and PC, not PC only.

Just sayin' ^^'

Noted :P

watching my 4 year old godson play Theme Park when he realizes he can just drag&drop all of the unhappy people into the pond to drown and then the satisfaction rating for his park goes up... CREEPY  :-O

A lesson for everyone I think there ^^

In reply to cero1 (msg # 44):

Be happy at theme parks or an infantile god will drown you?

I'm sure someone could make a movie out of that.

That's not too far from the theme of Stephen King's "Under the Dome."

EDIT: And I guess we should also mention the Twilight Zone episode (as well as the movie incorporating that episode).
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Fhtagn Cthulhu! ^~

On that note, was Call of Cthulhu (the video game) mentioned? Towards the start when the Great Old Ones come along, that was really freaky... They were so big and uncanny looking... ugh *shivers*

In reply to The_Blob (msg # 43):

Wow...nobody suggest that to my boss (yes, I work at a theme park).

Really? CoC was fun and I guess it was CREEPY, but not effective horror.

I finished the Path. It is indeed creepy, but very muchso a WTF creepy. I don't think at any point I was scared, and a few points I was frustrated (for each girl, there's a wolf who ends her story. But you might accidentally 'engage' the wolf before you're done exploring, cutting off the story before you've had much time to explore or meet the character. And there's no redoes if you did it wrong until you go through with each other girl as well. There are clues that you're about to meet the wolf, but I hadn't figured them out until the very end, so ... Robin was the only one I really had the luck and patience to properly explore.)

So, someone asked about System Shock....

http://www.escapistmagazine.co.../7356-System-Shock-2

Obviously its Yahtzee, so some things can be taken with a pinch of salt, but for the most part, he sums up the game really well.


And yes, System shock is the origin of Bioshock. It probably would have been called System Shock 3 had they been able to secure the naming rights off the publisher.

And yes, he is both accurate in that BioShock was dumbed down, and that it wasn't a big deal. Honnestly, as much as I enjoyed the game, getting to a point and finding out I had to start again due to bad skill point spending, made me want to punch babies.

Wow, thank you for that truly creepy yet hilarious story... couldn't help but smile!

Well, although I find that a complete thought, I am being told the message is too short for the quote, but I can think of no good way to trim the quote, so I will start an unrelated thought.

I too thought DOOM 3 was very atmospheric, and though I am not sure it would qualify as traditionally 'creepy', it did draw me in, then make me jump a time or two.

I fear I am too cynical to really enjoy a creepy game, much the way movies which are creepy usually only elicit a chuckle from me, I do not find myself immersed enough into the games to 'get' the creepiness.

I actually wish I could suspend disbelief more easily when it comes to creepy, the way I can with fantasy/sci fi stuff.

I do find the concept of games which parody real life tragedies creepy, but more in a meta-way, disturbed at the idea, then at the game-play itself.

In reply to Piestar (msg # 52):

so a combination Rule of Rose , Clock Tower 3, and A Home invasion would be best for you?

Actually I have never heard of those games, but I looked up Rule of Rose and Clock Tower Three, and I would have to say no. The game mechanisms sound too point-and-clicky to allow immersion into the story.

I think if I  were to request suggestions for the perfect creepy game for me, it would have to be a first person game, not a first person shooter exactly, but it helps to feel like it is 'me' in the story.

Sound would be a key factor, I found the zombie noises in Resident Evil Two to be very evocative, though the rest of the game wasn't really that creepy.

I also like the sense that my choices make a difference, even if every choice eventually appears to be the wrong one. Indigo Prophecy did this pretty well.

The closer to things that can really happen, the better, for example, perhaps the best creepy book I ever read was Intensity, by Dean Koontz. Most of his books are too out there to really draw me in, but 99% of this book could really happen. Makes it much creepier to me.

So if it wasn't for the magic element, Amnesia would be a good choice.

Penumbra may be supernatural less... BUT I am not sure.

Both of them are First Person games, with lots of sound, and the complete inability to attack anything, based around hiding. They have puzzle elements where your choices can delay or advance you HOWEVER, the games themselves are very linear, and for the most part, the puzzles never occur at the same time as the monsters, decreasing the tension.

However it has 4 endings. However most of the choice for that is late game... but the magic side of the game would ruin it, so it would be good for the first... 10minutes, 20minutes