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If all you want to do is shoot zombies, you can’t really do better than Killing Floor 2 ($30 on Remove product link) nowadays. With six-player co-op and a ton of unique weapons, your goal is basically to coat every single surface in the game with blood. I mean, technically your goal is just to kill every zombie that moves, but the persistent gore system is definitely a perk here. By the end of a level it’s like a meat-packing plant exploded. Kudos to Tripwire for supporting the game through its rough patches, too. What started out as a so-so sequel has turned into one of the best zombie-slaying games since.well, since the first Killing Floor.
The first Evil Within was a mess of a game. Oh sure, it had brilliant ideas, but the execution was just dismal at times—clunky movement, a tedious and poorly paced opening, and a save system that caused more than one person I know to quit after a few hours. But The Evil Within 2 ($60 on ) is excellent—maybe one of 2017’s best games.
That’s my opinion, at least. The more open-world structure of some acts takes a bit of getting used to, but its more story-driven bits are home to jaw-dropping spectacle: people’s last moments frozen in time, unsettling architecture, supernatural hallucinations. All the pieces that made the first game worth the grind are back, and paired with a game that actually plays well this time. Once upon a time this slide was a battle between Dead by Daylight ($20 on ) and Friday the 13 th, two horror games with a similar conceit: Asymmetric multiplayer, where four survivors have to band together and hold out while another player, the powerful monster, tries to kill them off.
“Think Evolve, but for sadists,” I wrote. But Dead by Daylight is your only option now. The Friday the 13 th game got caught up in the ongoing lawsuit over the series rights, with the developers pretty much abandoning it in July and saying “no new content” would be forthcoming. You can still buy it on Steam, but you’re better off sticking with Dead by Daylight. If you want horror where you have the heavy firepower to fight back, Dusk ($20 on ) is a hellscape worth checking out—even in Early Access.
Taking inspiration from Quake and other blocky FPS games of the late ‘90s, it’s a mile-a-minute battle against the KKK and other less horrific monsters. It’s being released episodically, but two out of the three episodes are done and feel fantastic.
And if you were more into Heretic than Quake, Dusk publisher New Blood is also putting out, another horror-adjacent retro game with a focus on melee weaponry and magic. Now we're digging into Frictional's truly great scares. A Victorian-era castle may not seem like the best setting for a horror game, but with Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($20 on ) Frictional took everything it learned from its earlier games, polished it, and released one of the scariest games of all time.
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You play as Daniel, an archeologist who's lost his memory and has only a letter—apparently written by him—to guide his escape from the mad castle and shadowy figures that stalk him. As of 2018, Amnesia's also been updated with a new difficulty level, harder than before. I wouldn't recommend it for new players, as true horror's found in thinking you might die and then escaping.
But for veterans, it's great to have a reason to revisit the castle. And while it's more polarizing, the sequel Machine for Pigs ($20 on ) is worth checking out, as long as you curb your expectations. Resident Evil 7 ($30 on ) is a huge departure for the long-running horror series—probably the biggest reinvention since Resident Evil 4. It gives up the third-person camera, abandons the usual Resident Evil aesthetic, and even gives up the focus on combat.for most of the game. What’s left is very clearly Frictional-inspired, more similar to Amnesia or Penumbra (or, going outside Frictional, Outlast). There’s a lot of creeping around a house, playing cat-and-mouse with Jack Baker and his crazy family while trying to save your wife Mia.
And being force-fed entrails. It’s not only the best Resident Evil in years, it’s also one of the best horror games period. Paratopic ($5.49 on ) is a horror game, I think.
It’s not scary so much as bizarre, but if I had to fit it into a genre hole I’d choose horror. That disclaimer aside, I’d take 100 more Paratopics over another cobbled together jumpscare game. It’s really, really weird—a 45 minute experience where at least 10 minutes is spent just driving down a poorly-lit road and switching between the two garbled radio stations, smuggling VHS tapes across the border or something. I honestly don’t know, and I don’t think Paratopic wants me to know. It’s an avant-garde experiment wrapped in PlayStation 1 graphics, and I love it in spite of itself. ($20 on ) and its story of a painter-gone-crazy has some hammy sections and a few too many cheesy jump scares, but its quieter moments are masterful psychological horror. Not scary, per se, but unsettling in ways similar to Mark Z.
Danielewski’s House of Leaves. See, every time you turn the camera, things change. Maybe the door you just came through disappears, or you enter a seemingly normal room only to realize all the furniture is on the ceiling. You can never trust your surroundings, and there’s something captivating about that. The newest entry on the list, Visage ($25 on ) is in Early Access at the moment, and it shows. Inventory management is rough, some of the tutorial text has typos, and there are plenty of rooms gated off at the moment.
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But if you like slow-burn horror, Visage is shaping up to be great. You’re trapped in a house that just keeps going and going and going, a non-Euclidian space with creatures in the walls and a dearth of reliable lightbulbs.
Speaking of which, Visage also adopts the “sanity” mechanic from Amnesia, Eternal Darkness, et al. Stay in the darkness too long. Well, don’t stay in the darkness too long. That’s all I can suggest. Little Nightmares ($20 on ) is the best Limbo-style platformer I’ve played.
It borrows the standard Playdead template—you’re a small child and you do a lot of running (and sometimes jumping) to the right. Nothing new there. But these sorts of games live and die on their aesthetic. Little Nightmares blends the surreal and the grotesque in a way that’s both fascinating and just plain disgusting. Its shambling, oversized monsters aren’t necessarily scary but they are unnerving, and there’s a certain quality to them too—a light but ever-present social commentary at work. It’s captivating, and more than makes up for the simplistic mechanics.
Pathologic has been on this list since its inception, but in October of 2015 it got an update: An HD remaster of the game (complete with new translations) released on Steam. It’s not the full-fledged remake that, but rather an intermediate step called Pathologic Classic HD ($13 on ). Why’s the game so great? In short, Pathologic is like someone hired Kafka or maybe Camus (because of the plague storyline) to write The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. There’s a plague killing The Town, and you play as one of three characters trying to unravel the mysteries held within. Many people will die. It’s a cult classic, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s - about the game is pretty much required reading.
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