October 2020
(Excuse some of the writing as it was rushed.) Actually did it… 31 days of spooky games with a 13 hour session on Halloween. SPOOKY. That’s… that is all I really have to say. since it was the time for spookiness, I have added a SKELETON rating that rates how scary a game is out of 10. Now, some of This was more in agreement with the people I streamed with, so it isn’t entirely my own ratIng, but very close. Hope your October had some spookiness of your own in it and have a great rest of this month!
P.S. Since this was pretty rushed, please let me know if there is anything you want me to expand on!
This game acts both as DreadOut 1.5 and a sort of stand-alone game. I say this as you appear in a hallway with doors that lead to vastly different areas in which you must go between them to solve the various mysteries. At this point it seemed like they put all of their cut ideas from new bosses and entities and put them in this. You do occasionally get a little bit more story that expands and clears up a little bit of the vagueness from the original. Otherwise, not too much has changed between DreadOut and this as it holds all of the same mechanics and areas, but with new puzzles and enemies.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Yes! Those that enjoyed the original should love this one just as much.
Skeletons: 5/10
I had a little higher hope for this. You play as a mother who can’t stop her child from going into an abandoned Amusement Park you have some small memories of along with other various flashbacks. The Amusement Park grows dark and more spooky as you continue to be unable to control your child, but various questionable things come up between you and your relationships with those around you. Though this may have some importance for some, the theme behind this game is well overdone and even shows up in another game I played this month. Through and through it is a walking simulator with a very low fear factor. It’s supposed to tie into another series, but doubt it adds anything substantial.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? No. A quite short walking simulator with a overused theme that doesn’t do horror well.
Skeletons: 2/10
This game was highly recommended to me as one of the scariest games they have played along with great gameplay. Although the game was decent, the fear factor of the game quickly fell off as general frustrations rose. Taking place after the first Alien movie, you are Ellen Ripley’s daughter in search of the mysterious disappearance of your mother after being approached by a big company to take you to discover what happened with the Nostromo. Things turn sour and you must defend yourself against various enemies though the game is mainly focused on stealth.
Let’s talk about the focus on the game and how it became unterrifying after the first few moments. Sure being hunted by a predator that you can’t kill is scary. However, when a mechanic to hide in a locker that should only last a few minutes turns into 10 to 20 minutes because all it does is pace in front of the locker and then after walking away and immediately returns is no longer terrifying and just play frustrating. The alien is supposed to be the main terror of the game. When that loses it’s terror appeal, so does the rest of the game. Add that to some weird pacing and questionable story choices and what could have been a great game then comes to a full stop.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? I guess? It’s okay, overall a decent game, but really destroys itself. But hey… at least it looks good.
Skeletons: 4/10
Play as a very young little boy as you gain a sentient teddy bear that teaches you the terror of the dark, but nothing quite beats the terror of your mother’s face. All jokes aside, this game is generally a walking sim horror game with some puzzles and stealth mechanics. It follows a similar overused theme that I found in The Park which seemed relatively predictable. Most of the horror is pretty tame and gets old pretty fast.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? No, relatively boring for a horror game and low hanging theme.
Skeletons: 2/10
So… this game may as well not exist. A multiplayer 1 v 4 game, much like Dead by Daylight except for one thing… it’s completely dead and you need to sign up with an account to play.
Lewd? Probably not!
Recommend? Dead game for a multiplayer game means NO!
Skeletons: Not Applicable
Didn’t expect this game to be so good. It basically combines the atmosphere of Silent Hill and some of the gameplay of Fatal Frame and creates a weird, interesting, and quite spooky game. Taking place in South East Asia you are on a field trip gone wrong as you seem to have lost your way. Very soon you are locked in a school with your classmates and teacher while Indonesian/Malaysian based Supernatural beings appear while everyone you know disappears. You must use your camera and the information you find to figure out this mystery and (hopefully) escape with everyone.
It really does the spooky atmosphere right, a creeping and unsettling terror all around you. The enemies are quite varied and are dealt with in a variety of ways leading to interesting battles. Now, this game can get a little rough. There are not boundaries where they always should be, and answers to puzzles or battles can be quite vague and ambiguous. Some mechanics are only used once or twice and again are not as obvious as they should be. A cool and more unique aspect is that death isn’t the end. Upon death, you wake up in limbo and must proceed towards the light of the living to return. Each death causes this journey to take longer. Still, I really enjoyed this and is going up in one of my favorite horror games as it did spooky quite well.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Very much so, just have a guide ready… just in case.
Skeletons: 7/10
A direct sequel to 1 and Keepers of the Dark. You face the fallout of the previous game and must live with the knowledge of the horrors you have witnessed are quite real. This is quite similar to DreadOut, but opens up the combat option a little bit more as you can now melee certain enemies with items, and the camera seems more battle oriented now. Visually this game looks great and an open world gives a little bit more depth to the world of DreadOut. The story is now more clear and distinct, however supposedly an inclusion of side missions though I never ran into one. The terror of the game is slightly lower, but still has quite a similar presence as the first.
The major issues in this one is that it is quite buggy. Going into my second playthrough, I caused a boss to glitch into a wall where I could relax as I dealt with it. After that, a fast travel with delayed rendering of assets caused my character to glitch inside of another character. Proceeding to load into that save caused the day/night cycle to switch and cause me to be soft locked.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Despite the issues, it is another great entry and exciting to see what the ends were to the means.
Skeletons: 4/10
Oh man… it’s been six years since I had to put this game away… and I finally did it. This game was probably the worst thing for me at the time as I was in a not-great-place at the time with high anxiety and this game just turned that anxiety up over 9000! It’s hard, the hardest game of the series (in my eyes). It wasn’t even scary anymore as I knew death was coming every time I messed up, but it was a challenge. A challenge that, once overcome, was so sweet of a victory.
To wrap the synopsis, you are in a different Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria. Instead of closing doors and checking monitors… you have no doors. Instead a flashlight, a mask… and a damned music box. Get behind the mask when an animatronic enters, flash those the mask does not work one, and whatever you do… keep that music box wound.
This game was the turning point for me that turned my fear of the games into a love for the series as there is deep, convoluted, lore in the game that are never fully confirmed so that fans can argue with each other on who is who and did what.
Lewd? Toy Chica may be T H I C C (Sorry, not sorry), but no lewdness here.
Recommend? Generally, yeah. Despite my previous gripes with the game, it is a nice challenge that may feel ridiculous at times, but all the greater the victory once beaten. I have yet to beat Night 6 or 7, but I plan to do a marathon through series doing those specific nights for each game.
Skeletons: 4/10
An interesting idea implemented poorly. Don’t get me wrong, I still like the game. It has it’s own fear aesthetic and I appreciate the change in gameplay between series. However, it is much MUCH easier than any of the others and the worst part about it is the cameras. We seemed to have to scale down all of the pixels int eh camera so that trying to see the most basic of things is a task in itself. An equally irritating thing is that the game doesn’t really explain how to play… like at all. So, let me do it here quick. There is one animatronic… you must make sure he doesn’t approach you by sealing one of the vents, and using audio cues to lure him somewhere else. There is more to this than it seems and if any of the equipment fails (video, vents, or cameras) You will have to take time to reset them. Still, it has its own lore and (again) its own kind of spooky aspect that I both appreciated.
Lewd? Very much no.
Recommend? Yes, it has quite a bit of cool hidden lore and secrets and the gameplay is just enough to pass as semi-enjoyable though the scariness factor is generally down. It’s bad when the main antagonist is the least scary thing of the game… well other than Samba Freddy
Skeletons: 4/10
Holy shit this was scary. Like, I did really well through this game as far as progressing… but I was shaking the whole time. This turned the formula of the series on its side. Though the series has always relied on audio cues to alert you… you really really need to hear what’s going on. Furthermore, the previous entries were about being quick between actions, while this one you have to take a second and be sure before doing anything.
To summarize, you are a kid alone in your room with two door ways on each side, a closet in front, and a bed in back. You are dealing with nightmare creatures coming from anyone of these positions. At the doors, you must go to them and listen closely for breathing. If you hear breathing you close the door, else get jumped. Otherwise if no sound, shine your flashlight to potentially back them off. There’s more to it that that, but it gets the point done well enough.
Lewd? Definitely not.
Recommend? Yes! More Lore, Spooky gameplay, and really hits my childhood fears of the dark and that unknown that resides within.
Skeletons: 8/10
This.. was… weird. It definitely broke the mold of the classic game and created a more linear style of gameplay. There are still five nights, but you do different tasks between nights. Honestly, though I appreciate the new ideas, this didn’t quite spook me nearly as much. It had its moments of scary and unease, but generally going along for the ride was more story driven than spooky setting. Also, I just kind of missed the general setup of the previous games. Fret not, as beating the game (in a specific way?) will unlock a custom mode the returns the usual gameplay setup as the previous, but now can control doors and what not with the keyboard! (My dual monitor setup will no longer hinder me!)
Lewd? Nope Nope Nope.
Recommend? Yeah, the game is alright enough and is a nice change of pace (however screw Night 4).
Skeletons: 3/10
Probably my favorite game in the series as it takes the classic formula and adds a fun pizzeria tycoon bit o it. It’s got a bit of both flavors of sour and sweet. On one hand, you are a manager buying fun new attractions and animatronics (though liability risk is a thing, buyer beware) to increase revenue and personalize your establishment. On the other hand, you are a manager who has to defend the unholy nightmares coming through your vents as you try to complete every single job on your own (print flyers, menus, etc.) To top it off, your so gung ho about making money that you CAN risk salvaging animatronics that mysteriously appear by the back of the shop. Successfully doing a maintenance check will allow you to salvage for money, not without risks of course.
Back to the sweet side of things, Pizza Tycoon. As you add things to your pizzeria, you can playtest them. It’s a funny little thing as playtesting successfully will increase your business rating and earn you more money. Some of these things have secrets though, and some in particular are probably the most fundamentally spooky things I have ever experienced in a video game.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Very much so. This is my favorite game of the series so far that fits both new and old ideas together all too well.
Skeltons: 6/10
A platformer that requires you to shoot in the opposite direction to propel your character. You have a choice of three characters, all with various shot types, advantages, and faults. This game is simple in just about every way. Mechanic, visuals, and enemies. It starts out pretty easy and as you progress (along with your chosen path) it gets fairly difficult. Though it does what it sets out to do well, I did not find this all that enjoyable. In fact, it was more boring and tedious through the whole journey. I even was able to skip a bunch of levels and still felt it far too long. Bosses, for the most part are a okay challenge, but again no real satisfaction from overcoming any sort of obstacle/challenge.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Not really. It’s a basic platformer that I really didn’t get much out of.
Skeletons: Not Applicable
A sequel to Outlast in name and mechanics, but not necessarily story or lore. Doing a story with your wife(?) you take a helicopter into the backwoods, but the helicopter randomly crashes. Your wife is missing and you find yourself in a overly religious and dangerous village.
Replacing the creepy and confined surroundings from the asylum in 1 to an open area really took a bit of the horror from me. The game itself was a a rollercoaster ride without the part where you go back up… it just keeps going down. It started out great, decent atmosphere, creepy individuals, and then it just plummets. It becomes so very obvious towards the end not to mention a totally botched ending entirely.
Lewd? Somewhat. There are some lewd/graphic moments.
Recommend? No. No. No. Blame sequelitis or whatever, this game just devolves so much.
Skeletons: 3/10
This… was a lot worse than I remember it. It’s not enough to say it is outright a bad game, but as a Single Player game it is something close to torture. Sheva’s AI is absolute garbage. She will stand in your way and not shoot the enemy, welcome the insta-kill moves, or if she does shoot then shoots directly into me. It makes many points in the game unbearable. Had there been a secondary player with me… this game would be great, albeit still quite action oriented and silly but still fun!
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Not in this state. If you have a friend who is willing to, then by all means get this. It’s not horror, but a fun ride.
Skeletons: Not Applicable
I’ve never played the original Slender game nor was I really into the whole urban legend. My only real exposure was some snippets of information and the Slenderman stabbings near me. This game was weird, it seemed there was a focus on story than the previous. Essentially you get to different levels of the game where you are either searching for pieces of paper or being hunted while solving a puzzle. Overall, it wasn’t too spooky, there was some decent atmosphere and a couple of good moments but mostly just okay.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Meh with a lean towards yes. It was okay, I didn’t dislike it, but I don’t think I would ever feel the need or want to really play it again.
Skeletons: 3/10
This wasn’t what I expected. To be honest, I thought I was going into some person’s house with some basic tools and have to do a ritual exorcise. In fact, you are some random detective who gets roped into the business. It started out pretty spooky, but various issues and vagueness turned down the spookiness into outright annoyance. The first episode had the least to do, but easily the scariest.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? No. As stated, the first episode was the scariest and it slowly devolved with a okayish end.
Skeletons: 3/10
Why… Why can’t you get your RE games right, Capcom? You try to make multiplayer a thing in this and it really REALLY never works out. The only game that truly succeeded was Outbreak and that was when online play wasn’t nearly as much of a thing as it is now. No, instead we get this weak PVP game that involves half-assed map setups and unengaging gameplay. Let me first start out that this is PVP game with a third threat of various enemies across the series. They also have enemies that a from across the series. They, however, do not utilize this well. Most enemies are more annoying than anything (unless you get to the later difficulties in the challenges), while others are ridiculously powerful (any exposed parasite variant). Also, if you are going to set up a map themed with the enemies of that game… why would you include enemies outside of it? For example, RE4 map has ganados, parasite ganados, and… birds! First and foremost, birds were not a threat in 4, thus they should not have been included. Also, the birds have some messed up movement that make them far to hard to hit while they assault you not only dealing damage, but slowing you to get aced by a parasite variant. The game modes are pretty mediocre. You are either killing zombies to pick up a number of samples, capturing points, or killing the special (beefier) infected which are just a elite version of a zombie and not something cool like a Tyrant or Tyrant based accessories. Don’t worry though, if you were worried you were missing out on something cool… you are not! The game is dead, dead as can be, and dead as it ever should be. There is a challenge mode for single player use, but it’s not really worth it. Lastly, the weapons are so unsatisfying. ESPECIALLY, their one introduction to the weapons being a mechanic… the ice climbing axe… thing. It does very little and is hardly worth the effort ever.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? No, even if it was remotely decent, it is too dead to play anyways.
Skeletons: Not Applicable
Wow… this was… not great. So, I guess this was based off of some creepypasta about Jeff the killer? Well, whoever that is, is in this game. He hunts you down in a facility that you must deal with him and/or escape. So… this game is bad. It does not function well as you try to move and play with very little display of controls or how to. This is unbelievably short and quite unsatisfying.
Lewd? No
Recommend? Very much no. There is a good reason it is no longer available to purchase.
Skeletons: 1/10
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
A less traditional Silent Hill game as it evolves more running away than usual with no combat. It also acts as almost a recreation of the original game, but instead of the original creatures and setting it is icy and shriek filled rather than rusty and static sounding. This certainly was an experience and the pretty cool thing about this was that it was due to various choices you make that it actually psychologically profiles you. Honestly, it was pretty accurate. Possibly it is vague enough that I could relate to what it suggested, but still really cool.
Lewd? Not so much.
Recommend? Yes, preferably through the Wii if possible.
Skeletons: 4/10
FNAF World
My growing appreciation for the Five Nights at Freddy’s lead me to some of this spin offs. This was something that was okay. Reducing the excess of visuals could have made this much better. What I am referring to is that attacks and abilities can cause streams of objects to constantly fly across the screen along with some flashing colors. It is visual vomit. Otherwise it is the usual grindy of a RPG game with the secrets and surprises that is custom to be in most FNAF games. It’s an interesting tone shift from outright spooky to almost cute in a way with all the animatronics you can collect, use, and face.
The cooler portion is the Halloween update of the game that allows you to a new world and play interesting mini games that seem like basic concepts. Anything from platform shooter to a bullet hell like game.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Meh leaning towards no. It’s an okay RPG, but the diarrhea visuals being ejected through the screen kill this the most.
Skeletons: Not Applicable
Clock Tower 3
You play a young girl who comes home worrying about her mother, only to be mystically sent to another place and chased by murderous beings.
This is a game that I very briefly played way long ago and remember being terrified of it. Returning to it I was still very much scary, but also a little silly. It’s a little like Survival Horror crosses Sailor Moon minus the overly ridiculous transformations. Not just the general theme, but the animations of the characters in cutscenes were quite silly. Don’t think the silliness takes away from any part of the game though. The terror is still very much there, and it was just such an interesting game to play.
Lewd? Not a bit.
Recommend? Very much so, I am so glad I decided to include this in my Spooktober line up and finally finish it.
Skeletons: 5/10
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Fatal Frame is easily one of my favorite survival horror series and this game is no exception. It very much is consistent to the previous titles, the atmosphere is still very much there, and the story hit so hard. If you are not familiar with the series, you are a character that is in some cursed place where a terrible event happened. You are equipped with a special camera that can dispel and capture these ghosts with various types of film. This one targets a woman who lost her fiancé/boyfriend and each time she sleeps she goes to the manor of sleep where spooky stuff happens. My only issue with this game is that some rooms were REALLY not meant to battle in as there is a lot of obstacles or small spaces where taking a picture is very difficult. The story and theme both hit really hard. I understood very early what the theme was going to be and how everything worked, but they wrote it so well and the ending (that I got) was just so utterly powerful. It really is just another great game in the series and I’m really excited to see who they progress.
Lewd? Nope
Recommend? Yes, absolutely yes. I leave most games in the dust as I finish them, but I am more than excited to return to some more playthroughs when I feel more comfortable about my backlog.
Skeletons: 7/10
Thats alot of games very impressive. My version of horror month was barely horror compared to the ones I recognise up there
Thank you! I love horror in all its forms. This year I had set a goal to play a spooky game every night of the week, so that certainly helped. Even if yours cannot compare in horror, I hope it was just as great!
Yeah I’m a big wuss when it comes to horror stuff. My games were like oh, you aren’t scary at all but you have the tag so it counts. Turns out I was 1st for both halloween themes in the past years. 2019 2020 You can see it more in the 2019 link where the games were classed as horror but like really they just aren’t, while at least with 2020 I had resident evil so thats more horror then anything else
I was so busy that month that I didn’t have time or energy to fill the theme out -_-‘. Despite all else, you were the first to charge in \o/ . I see you actually played the first three Resident Evils. How did you like them? The RE series is up there for favorite Survival Horror, but I’d say they are generally less scary out of the genre as a whole.
I was quite surprised, I brought them because I played number 5 + 6 and wanted to experience the whole story. While I wasn’t a big fan of the 2 route situation going on they weren’t as bad as I expected. After the 1st go through it wasn’t actually that hard to speedrun the remaining routes then I thought they would and I actually just got super into them.
Also yeah I agree with resident evil not being the scariest out there. It kinda just reminded me of dead rising where its classed as horror but mainly because its zombies. As a kid I’m sure it would’ve scared me but as I was playing through they more just annoyed me then scared me, especially the art in 1 and 0 like there’s nothing scary about that compared to the darkness 2 and 3 have