Not written by Pumpkin Person
24 years ago, when cult classic game Resident Evil was first released on the market, horror was a relatively unexplored theme in gaming. All previous attempts to establish an entertaining and popular horror-themed game had fallen short of the mark.
Resident Evil was therefore revolutionary, showing developers that with a little bit of imagination and outside of the box thinking, horror could be a successful video game theme. In the years since 1996 horror has become an established gaming genre with memorable titles released across all platforms.
Such is the popularity of horror games that it can be tough to separate the good from the bad and find a game that will truly get your blood pumping. Fortunately for you we’ve collated five of the very best horror themed games that you should be playing now and here they are…
#1 Until Dawn (PS4)
In the late 1990s and early 2000s it was impossible to take a trip to the cinema without seeing a trailer for yet another teen slasher movie. The theme was so popular that director Keenan Wayans chose to satirise it in his 2001 comedy release Scary Movie.
Weirdly the teen slasher craze never migrated from movies to games until 2015 when Supermassive Games released their eminently playable PS4 title Until Dawn. The game follows eight teenagers on a trip to a remote cabin up in the mountains.
They aren’t alone though, there’s a frightening presence amongst them intent on picking them off one by one and it’s up to you to make the decisions that will keep your character alive until dawn. The game manages to straddle the line between movie and game effortlessly and will keep you engaged and on the edge of your seat throughout.
Sony exclusive Until Dawn took the previously untapped teen slasher sub-genre to gaming back in 2015
#2 Nightmare on Elm Street (PC & Mobile)
Slot machines may not be best known for their integration of horror but this effort draws on a classic movie to get your blood pumping. Fans of the cult classic film will recognise all of the terrifying characters featured on the spinning reels.
Whereas spotting Freddy might be cause for concern in usual circumstances it is actually a good sing in this game as the vicious villain is the wild symbol. The slot’s successful integration of music and effects from the film helps to create a feeling of suspense and fear as you play.
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Seeing Freddy Krueger usually means bad news but in this game you’ll be wishing for his icon to appear as when it does, it will bring money
#3 The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (PS4, Xbox One & Nintendo Switch)
The success of Until Dawn inspired Supermassive Games to come up with another choice-based horror and this one is an absolute classic. Similarly, to its predecessor, The Dark Pictures follows a group of young adults who come up a cropper in a remote place.
The remote cabin in Until Dawn is replaced with a ghost ship in the South Pacific Sea where the characters worst dreams come to life. Again, your choices in the game influence the outcome of the story and determine who lives and who dies.
What makes The Dark Pictures better than Until Dawn is the interactive Shared Story and Movie Night modes which allow you to play along with your friends in a party.
If you liked Until Dawn you’ll love The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan
#4 Alien: Isolation (PC, PS4 & Xbox One)
The 1979 classic horror film Alien has inspired a series of video game spin-offs over the years, but none can shine a light to Alien: Isolation. Released six years ago this month, Alien: Isolation breathes fresh life into the Alien franchise making the Xenomorph terrifying once again.
In the game you take on the role of Amanda, daughter of Ellen Ripley and begin searching a derelict space station. Along the way you discover that the space station may not be as abandoned as once thought as you encounter the Xenomorph, the same fearsome creature that your Mother once fought.
What makes this game so terrifying to play isn’t the blood and thunder of the Xenomorph, rather it is the subtlety of the direction and the anxiety provoking stealth mode. The atmosphere cultivated by the game is a triumph, making it uncomfortable and engaging at the same time.
The Xenomorph was beginning to lose its fear factor until the release of this game in 2014
#5 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PC, PS4 & Xbox One)
At the beginning of this article we discussed how the 1996 release of Resident Evil revolutionised the gaming industry by successfully incorporating horror as a genre. In the near two-and-a-half decades since that first release the Resident Evil still rules the roost when it comes to terrifying, blood pumping horror games.
Three years ago, when Resident Evil 7 was released fans bought the game with trepidation, fearing that it could have been a clunky, forced revival of a cult classic series. Fortunately, their fears were misplaced as the game ended up being the best in the series so far.
Director Koshi Nakanishi called on a zeitgeist of horror films from the past two decades to create a gruelling and deeply unsettling game. There’s still enough nostalgia in the game to delight long-term fans of the series but Resident Evil 7 excels in its own right as a disturbing, modern horror game.
Resident Evil 7 is so terrifying that you might have to play it during the day, with the lights on and with other people in the house….
This is a decent list. I’ve played a few of these. The guy that won the oscar last year played a character in After Dawn – Rami Malek.
Other games I’ve played that have been excellent horrors were:
Bloodborne (PS4): Super creepy and weird. Tough game. You will die A LOT. Think they want to remaster this for the PS5. Theres some replay-ability with the dungeon chalices and it lets you summon another player to help now and then. Its an experience…
Resident Evil 1 (PS4): This is the Citizen Kane of Horror games. The original one was the most scary imo with the music and the forced camera angles. They’ve made it a bit more like an action game in the remake but you should still have fun with the various puzzles and riddles which adds to the atmosphere.
Clocktower 3(PS2): This is from the same creators as resident evil, capcom and has a very interesting setup where your a little girl who can’t fight and has to run and hide from the monster. This game actually introduced me to Chopin and the sound effects are very memorable…especially the graveyard scene.
Also loved last of Us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_horror#Golden_age_(1996%E2%80%932004)
More in link above.
How is bloodborne considered horror?
Is dark souls also horror?
How is it not.
Because it’s not really scary I mean the arts creepy but I don’t think the intention behind the game is to scare you.
Never played any of those. Which should I play first?
And when I say “Never played any of those” I mean Bloodborne. I’ve played Clocktower on a Snes emulator when I was younger.
Bloodborne is like Dark souls but they replaced the shields with guns and slapped a gothic skin over it.
I highly suggest it if you haven’t played any of the souls series games
Pumpkin, are you a gamer by chance?
Hell yes!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA You probably play mobile phone games and the like right?
I didn’t get a 98 inch TV to play on a mobile phone
Ok then which console do you prefer and what are you favorite games you are playing right now?
AHAHAH its so cute. Little puppy playing vidja games now. Im so proud.
98″ tv?
as tony the tiger says…
GRRRRR-OSS!
sadly, the guy in the foreground is one of peepee’s english teachers.
Actually that’s the professor who gave you your math “degree”.
“which console do you prefer and what are you favorite games you are playing right now?”
PS4 and PC. I play mostly JRPGs though. Last game I beat was Tales of Berseria. Great game with a great story. The games I beat before Berseria were Trails in the Sky: First Chapter, Second Chapter, and Trails the Third.
Have you played persona 5 yet?
Persona is haram brother, we only speak of SMT.
hahaha
It’s a satire of her legendary Tom Cruise interview:
Im homozygous for a few Tay-Sachs SNPs actually. Might explain my heightened intelligence.
Yes…”heightened”….sure….
The proof is in the pudding….
Has peepee played the walking dead point-and-click game?
No is it good?
Haven’t played it myself but it looks really good in the let’s plays I’ve seen.
Damn
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/NotPoliticallyCorrect
LOL i don’t understand why the libs aren’t in love with RR. He is their champion.
RationalWiki is a pretty funny site
RR had a past as a neo-Nazi. This is your biggest flaw. I have a conspiracy theory. American Italian RR is dead and has been replaced by a Jewish sociologist.
^^^100% PLAUSIBLE
I used to have shitty views and I don’t have them anymore. Changing your views—especially shitty ones—is a good thing, no?
You have changed from wrong to incorrect. congratulations!
What’s the difference?
your new “views” are at least as dumb as your old “views”. you’re devolving or treading water.
You were too right-wing. Now, you are excessively left-wing. There are numerous examples of varying levels of genetic or biological transmission of behavioral trends from parents to their children that partially prove hereditarianism. Whether conspiratorial or not, the most reasonable and generally factually correct responses and approaches are always in the middle of a spectrum of possible responses. But ideological polarization despise the middle of this spectrum. For example, abortion. Liberals are excessively supportive of abortion. Ultraconservatives are excessively opposed. The former compromise the coherence of their position when abortions occur, for example, if the parents discover that the fetus has down syndrome (they call “eugenics”). Ultraconservatives tend to oppose even when the woman become pregnant after be raped.
I remember when they first made that and when they changed it to reflect my new views—good times.
I have to say survival horror is my favourite game genre. Multiple entries in the Resident Evil series would make it into my top 20 favourite ever games. I’m basically addicted to playing the latest addition RE: Resistance where you get put against a human mastermind with 3 human comrades on the net. Great fun.
you’re way too old to play video games pill. you are over 13 right?
why don;t you take up online chess, backgammon, or poker?
i play a lot of 3/0 on chess.com.
i also play the ultimate online game…my brokerage accounts.
Lol forreal tho. Ever since I’ve been fucking around with the stocks I’ve been playing video games less and less
the only video games i like are the old type and racing games or first person shooter. video games should exercise the spatial and coordination and reaction time parts of your brain.
i rmember in college i’d play mrs pacman and ignore all the other games in the arcade.
simplicity is complexity…
this means when something becomes a farrago it becomes vomit and burnt beans.
more has been written about chess than all other games combined yet chess is far simpler than Axis & Allies and so many war games.
actually the axis can always win Axis & Allies. just always attack only with overwhelming force, make tanks, invade siberia from japan.
I wonder if Mugabe would enjoy red dead redemption?
Is that a time-sink game? I’ve heard it’s long but I haven’t gotten into it. My PS4 pissed me off because of the storage space. I remember during PS2 days when I didn’t have this problem.
It’s definitely a time sink. It’s totally worth it though in my opinion. I haven’t played a game that went this far into word building.
Its basically GTA with cowboys. I prefer it to GTA actually. Last few GTAs have been lacklustre.
i wrote some very short vba code for A&A to calculate odds. it’s complicated enough the odds can’t be calculated except by monte carlo.
i won playing the axis and it wasn’t even close.[redacted by pp, oct 12, 2020]
Im pretty proficient in FIFA, probably average amongst players who play it. Im slightly better at Madden tho much easier reading coverages than having an active game plan for FIFA.
Buying NBA 2K today ill let yall know how much progress I can make on that game!
you can tell peepee is VERY lower class because her 98″ tv.
It was an ironic purchase. I know I’m upper class so I’m able to break the rules, unlike pretentious strivers like yourself
Classism is a sign of low intelligence. The smartest tend to be paradoxically humble in a social sense.
True
Is it against…”rich people rules” to buy large TVs?
It’s more of a nouveau riche thing to do. Upper class rich people generally don’t buy things just to impress people, which is pretty much the only reason why you’d want to buy a 98-inch TV.
It’s not just to impress women. Movies are supposed to be watched on the big screen. That’s why movie theatres and drive-ins were invented.
I guess I can see where pumpkin is coming from. I mean just imagine RDR2 or GoT on an 100 inch screen.
rich people don’t watch tv or movies morons.
I’ve seen 98 inch projection TVs. Is that what you have PP?
Nope! Not a projection.
i hope it’s at least 4k
Sly Cooper might be the best classic game….ever.
i play scary maze game for halloween
cue vid to 8:30 to see peepee’s VERY lower classness.
i remember when i ironically bought a 98″ tv and loved oprah so much i couldn’t stand it.
and then ironically claimed i was very upper class. npt just upper class, but very upper class.
Joe Buck is calling the Dodgers-Braves series. Sad!
Offy
https://unherd.com/2020/10/facebook-is-radicalising-your-parents/
What games are you playing right now puppy?
Right now? Nothing. But after sunset? The terrifying Resident Evil 7
what do these pictures have in common?
Oh that is the Neanderthal shadow government theory more commonly known to regular folks as Atlantis.
WRONG!
So you’ve found a different version? Happens often, what are the features of this variant then?
people who buy call options on TSLA should self-gas or shoot themselves in the mangina.
Mugabe is allergic to making money.
it’s not making money. it’s stealing from stupid people. it’s ant-social.
#finalsolutionforconservatards
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8831947/Madrids-roads-brought-standstill-anti-lockdown-protesters.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Garbage list. No Silent Hill?
PP, for Halloween you should review either Hereditary (it’s right up your alley) and Midsommar.
Maybe. Been avoiding Hereditary because I eschew ghost stories but perhaps time to broaden my horizons.
would like to here melo’s opinion of this paper from 2008:
Productivity in banks: myths & truths of the cost income ratio
Authors: Andreas Burger, Jürgen Moormann
I love frosties. I guess there called Frosted Flakes or something in America.
non-interest expense to book value is what i use.
so buy OZK?
it’s got the best/lowest ratio, but it’s focused in commercial and so may suck forever.
Yeah and honey nut frosties are even better. They don’t sell those here.
One thing I don’t get is why instant coffee is so popular in England. It’s nasty.
mr market = walter jenkins
even though varoufakis is a shill for zion, he’s right about the “citizen’s dividend”.
because whore for zion, he don’t be unnuhstannin how the “citizen’s dividend” is 100% inconsistent with mass immigration.
the point is “basic income” may be sold as a “citizen’s dividend”.
the ONLY reason CH rejected basic income was immigration.
so when so-called leftist politicians say, “basic income…but also open borders…” you know they’re shilling hard for zion.
It depends on what part of South Asia youre talking about. Indian men are like 10% less masculine than white men, Pakistani men have a decently higher mean but the extremes are probably similar.
Bengali or Bengladeshi people are as manly as the Indians. And Nepalese are….too low IQ to be considered. Afghani men (from whom I descend) have a higher mean yet again the extremes are probably there too.
South asian men are not very far off east asian men in terms of effective T levels. And by that I mean they are much lower than whites who in turn are lower than blacks.
From what Ive noticed South Indians as a whole are in the ballpark of what East Asians are if you exclude Afghans. South Indians are decently below whites who are decently below Latinos who are decently below African Americans.
So for the most part you are correct. But South Indians who come to America have a decently higher amount of T levels than South Asians living in the motherland.
basic income was boosted by milton friedman.
the point is that the “administrative expenses” of welfare are OBSCENE and can be eliminated by basic income.
might be one time a lolbertarian high priest was right.
rr thinks training people is easier than training dogs.
sad!
they look like an 80s hair band.
RR says dogs need to be raised in a middle class household to have the same IQ as humans.
RR’s dog should know more about behavior than him.
maybe lindsey graham isn’t gay.
maybe he’s just short, like bill maher.
Based on phenotype he looks gay. He looks like a co worker I used to have and he was gay.
Evolutionary psychology is just waiting for you.
pumpkin, I heard that even if you study for the SAT, you can still only score so high- what is the iq level needed for a 1450?
I think the libertarian fad is long over. It kind of lived and died with Ron Paul. Many of them converted to alt right if they weren’t autistic. There are people that believe in it and aren’t autistic. In that case they are just dumb.
frig the alt right and frig the hardcore left tbh None of these ppl can think for themselves
You are talking to a Qanon…
Was thinking what the evolutionary reason for male pattern baldness is. I suspect it has something to do with the sun. The removal of hair allows more vit D to be taken in. It may be that people that go bald are more prone to depression or something and they lose hair to get more sunlight. Aesthetically a person looks much older if they go bald and don’t shave the rest off. Going gray while going bald is common too.
just take ur estrogen pills my dear
Next evolutionary psychologue
Yeah
“Evolutionary reason” is not that ..
Well explain what you think is the reason
A typical evolutionary psychologist would tell you that baldness has been positively selected as a marker of greater masculinity because it is associated with the male hormone and also because bald men look more masculine…
They don’t understand that when you pull a gene to be selected you will also end up pulling several other biological traits that are not necessarily of direct utility.
Women are more prone to depression than men.
https://www.verywellmind.com/why-is-depression-more-common-in-women-1067040
[redacted by pp, oct 16, 2020]
northern europeans are less likely to go bald than southern europeans, jews, arabs, and persians.
baldness overlaps with hairiness.
are the ainu more likely to go bald than orther japanese?
“adaptationism” is the name for the stupid theory that all traits have been selected for.
In 1893, anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having deep-set eyes and an eye shape typical of Europeans, with a large and prominent browridge, large ears, hairy and prone to baldness, slightly hook nose with large and broad nostrils, prominent cheek-bones and a medium mouth.[60]
it may be that self-identifying ainu are actually more than half japanese just like self-identifying native americans are often more than half european.
this is an actual picture of peepee:
The highest concentration looks like the Roman colonies’ population map.
so you’re saying the romans spread their hairiness and baldness? that the OG hairy bald men are the italians?
Male pattern baldness isn’t an adaptation you moron
I’m worried Russia might decide this election again and hack Joe Bidens pc. I hope he has good antivirus.
Bandicoot is actually a good game too….
people who have difficulty getting their blood pumping, people who are chronically under-stimulated, there’s a name for them.
sociopath.
actually fury wilder ii ended in one punch. it didn’t look like much, but wilder was never the same afterward.
so fury might just’ve gotten lucky.
fury wilder iii has been repeatedly delayed because covid.
but even if fury wins again, the point is he comes from a group of people who are even lower than american blacks.
what kind of father names his son after mike tyson?
answer: an irish traveler father.
if rr really is southern italian (like 85% of american italians)…
he changed his “views” when he discovered that there’s still a lot of prejudice against italians in the US.
what rr could not consider, because ego threat mental block, is that this prejudice is…
justified/rational.
for example, “irish american” doesn’t mean anything anymore. it used to mean a lot. today it means literally NOTHING.
Prejudice is the other side of irrationality, fanaticism. Fanaticism and prejudice are two imbalances of perception and judgment caused by emotional or instinctive intrusion on reasoning especially when it is directed at vaguely defined groups, for example, South Italians.
Due to prejudice, the individual can only perceive negative aspects, true and / or exaggerated, in relation to a certain group, individual or behavior (group). Due to fanaticism, the opposite happens. Both are instinctively and evolutionarily justified, but not for reason. For the reason, we ponder, analyze carefully, with justice or precision, criticize, aiming at the construction of the puzzle of a truth that is directly related to ponderation, especially from a moral and evolutionary perspective, less in the utilitarian sense (what that it suits me) and more in a sense of survival (if that poses a threat to me).
but as i mentioned on lion’s former blog…(before he came out)…
prejudice against italians is sometimes actually flattery.
for those who have more than a 3d grade education…
they know that northern italians were the master race, and northern italy was the center of western civilization up to newton.
also rr knows that northern italians think he’s a monkey.
italy was two countries until 150 years ago, right?
now it’s one country and people like rr want to bask in the awesomeness of northen italians.
Is Rome southern Italian?
Only 2??
I find it strange that the genetics of southern Italy represents much of the times when it was Magna Grecia … what went wrong ??
women are extremely variant in what truns them on.
baldness is a turn on for some women.
one explanation for this is that it is a very male trait.
women don’t go bald.
but ladies!
men who wear toupees aren’t doing it for you.
ultimately they’re afraid of death.
and baldness is a sign of aging.
rr has dismiised the lipid hypothesis, but its originator, ancel keys…
1. was NOT italian.
2. moved to southern italy.
3. died at age 100.
Keys died on November 20, 2004, two months before his 101st birthday.[57] A year earlier, he had left Pioppi, his beloved village in the Cilento region located on the southwest coast of Italy, where he had spent 28 years of his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys
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Sweden: why the ‘moral superpower’ dissented over Covid-19
It is saying that Swedes on average think they are morally superior to the rest of the world and they love it and that the very ones who opened the country to refugees in 2015 are the ones who choose this pseudo strategy to combat the covid-19 this year.
intelligence def: predicting what goes together in order to survive.
Swedes on average are extremely conformist / confident about their rulers. The country, perhaps also for a long time without being directly involved in armed conflicts or economic crises, has lost the ability to react quickly to crises. It is the country that has the most delayed response compared to other countries, especially the Nordic ones.
Sweden has become more neoliberal and its response to the pandemic is associated with this change. The country’s campaign to tackle it has been a disaster: the economy has experienced negative growth (contrary to the promise that it would not suffer as much as those who practiced lockdowns) and the number of deaths per capita is one of the highest in the world. Scientists and health workers who disagree with the neoliberal shitfuckery adopted by the government have been silenced. Nothing new in the disgusting little world of white creepiesillies.
I call it WHITE ideology.
https://behavioralscientist.org/the-end-of-nature-versus-nurture/
$6.99 a lb for local wild salmon. very cheap. i went in. i had to buy the whole fish. too much fish. maybe tomorrow.
but outside the fishmonger’s was a car, a very strange car. its people were walking to it with fish. how was it strange? it had no grill. where a grill should’ve been it was solid. i thought, “must be a 100% electric.” i walked to the back and “electric” was on the trunk door.
the point of this story is the car was a honda.
and tesla is a dead man walking.
of course mugabe misspelled “grille”.
both honda and toyota have decided to kill tesla this year, 2020.
maybe they had “limited release” before, but now there’s clearly a hit out on tesla.
https://insideevs.com/news/353600/toyota-six-global-bevs/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honda-electric-idUSKBN25N03Q
and it’s nothing to do with tesla or musk per se.
it’s just a very well learned lesson from the last 100 years or whatever…
new car companies ALWAYS fail.
ALWAYS.
so following mugabe’s theory that “c’est la difference”…
because body hair and baldness are male traits some measure of them is more attractive to the average woman, but only some measure…
so back hair is gross, but some chest hair is better than none.
poor mugabe is as glabrous as xerxes except his chest hair.
so some forms of baldness and balding are super gross.
i have zero so-called “vertex” thinning. just the higher and higher brow.
that former jewish 76ers coach larry brown is an example of the higher and higher brow thing.
Iq is like estimating height by weight. It is not a real measurement tool but its correlative power is good.
For example, verbal skills. Capacity is not skill. Capacity is the potential. Skill is the potential developed. Being able is not the same as being skilled. Still, developing a sophisticated and robust vocabulary is more of an aesthetic value than an essential one. The essence of verbal intelligence is the ability to communicate effectively, to contemplate and critically understand words and even to invent new words. Writing beautifully or pompously is more about your literary or artistic ability. Nothing wrong with that. You just have to be precise.
Iq is like estimating height by weight. It is not a real measurement tool but its correlative power is good
Correct. But the correlation between height & weight is only around 0.4. I’d say IQ is like measuring height by basketball ability where the correlation is at least 0.7. Also basketball ability is a performance on a task that correlates highly with a physical property (height). Similarly IQ is performance on tasks that correlate highly with a mental property (intelligence)
That was a metaphor.
IQ, in fact, measures how good we are at the tests. But what it measures is closely corelated to intelligence.
Basketball’s ability is much more restricted than the complex intelligence. IQ would be inadequately compared to measuring basketball ability by the height of the players.
Pumpkin, what does Figure Weights measure vs Arithmetic? How does Figure Weights apply to math?
Both subtests load on the same sub-factor.
How highly correlated are they?
Some great Beatles songs that never get played:
I’m sick of only hearing their boomer nostalgia tracks.
peepee should change her name to porn person.
lots more traffic.
women lie when they say size doesn’t matter at all. if they just said, “enough is a feast” they’d be more truthful. but women are just as animal as men. they’re turned on by body parts not just “personality”. now with porn freely available, women probably have unrealistic expectations too.
a coke bottle cock gets Bartholin’s glands working overtime.
as kant said:
Thoughts without content are empty, length without girth is pointless.