If facing perma death in your games is your thing, Canadian indie devs Lost Souls Interactive have just the thing with their newly-announced psychological horror title, Hotel Espir. Coming to Steam, this narrative-driven horror experience focuses on atmosphere and character-driven storytelling, where every sound can be your undoing. Set in 1942 Alabama, Hotel Espir casts […]
If you thought facial recognition was a horror story in the making, indie Japanese developer/publisher Smiley Dog Studio is making it a reality with DON’T STOP SMILING. Coming to Steam Q2 2026, this first-person psychological horror game makes the player’s own face and their expression the core mechanic for survival. The premise is deceptively simple: […]
It’s a matter of near-universal consensus that we’re living in a golden age for horror cinema right now, but horror games haven’t been letting the side down either. For all the other abominable things that the 2020s have wrought, and they’ve wrought a lot, they’ve also given us tons of great interactive experiences to take […]
Modders have once again been poking around in Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 4, and this time have uncovered data for an introductory “Chapter 0” that would have featured Ashley Graham as a playable character. Although the level was never completed and ended up on the cutting room floor prior to the game’s release, modder […]
After recent statements about their mysterious Project M, not to mention that little thing with Konami in the Silent Hill remake, Bloober Team is looking to pique gamers’ interests further with the recent unveiling of a cryptic website that features a countdown timer. Coinciding with an equally-cryptic post on X, Bloober Team has launched RemosdNeulSerorehsoOvamCeyerd.com, […]
The interactive element inherent to video games means that, unlike most other storytelling mediums, the person experiencing the story is usually the main character. And since videogame writers tend to have more control of the world surrounding our hero than the hero themselves, it makes sense that a long-running franchise like Fallout would focus on […]
Sunscorched Studios are taking Surgeon Simulator fans to space with MALPRAXIS. Much like Bossa Games’ cult hit, MALPRAXIS is a first-person surgical horror game, but with the added bonus of taking players aboard the deep-space vessel TRH Rusanov. You are the “bleeding-edge” autonomous surgical system known as the Surgical Procedure Intervention Diagnostic Emergency Response unit, […]
After scooping up publishing rights for Goodwin Games’ bicycle-centred horror title Quite a Ride, Silver Lining Interactive has snagged publishing duties for another unique title in Painted Black Games’ upcoming 2D short-yet-intense atmospheric horror title The Road of Dust and Sorrow. Mashing up elements of The Last of Us with Resident Evil, the story-focuesd The […]
The successes of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f are still not lost on Konami. In fact, according to series producer Motoi Okamoto, the publisher now aims to release a new title every year. As part of its year-end coverage, Japanese gaming website 4Gamer interviewed 194 Japanese developers, asking each one their ambitions for […]
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* 2025 has been a phenomenal year for horror, with the genre putting up a remarkably strong performance on both the big and small screens. In fact, it’s proven itself to be so commercially and critically viable that not one, but three scary movies have […]