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Games with horror themes and/or settings, gameplay. Survival horror, narrative/adventure horror, horror RPGs, even city-builder horror. Interactive horror experiences.

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Travel to the Dreamland to explore the Nameless City and the Unknown Kadath in this new game - Hypnos ((Free demo on Steam)) (store.steampowered.com)
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HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny.

Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7ftSkdqV0

The game is largely inspired by Lovecraft's Dreamlands subject of many of his stories and in particular "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

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‘Out Fishing’ Demo Set to Deliver Chilling Lake Horror on March 18 (www.relyonhorror.com)
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The first-person survival horror game Out Fishing will get its demo on March 18, letting players explore a chilling lake.

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How Steven Spielberg, a Pinhead bust, and Robert De Niro's sex appeal gave us the horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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The developers of cult classic horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying tell us how Steven Spielberg, Clive Barker, and Robert De Niro made the game happen.

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Chase St, Minimalist "Suburban Nightmare" Horror, Out Now on Steam - Chase St, an indie from Ibzy Studios, [aims] to deliver the feeling that something is following you home. (www.relyonhorror.com)
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Chase St, an indie from Ibzy Studios, has launched on Steam to deliver the feeling that something is following you home.

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Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss' free Steam demo has detective investigation so detailed it threatens to unravel my mind (www.gamesradar.com)
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Hands-on | Getting in deep trouble in this cosmic horror detective adventure

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Moonrot, a short atmospheric horror game, where you pilot a rover across a distant alien moon, with beautiful retro isometric style graphics, released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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Resident Evil Requiem Tops 320,000 Steam Players on Day 1 (www.techpowerup.com)
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Hands-On Preview: The Alighieri Circle: Dante's Bloodline (www.relyonhorror.com)
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The Alighieri Circle: Dante’s Bloodline doesn’t attempt a direct adaptation of The Inferno, but purposely situates itself in its shadow.

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Running With Scissors announced horror first person shooter Flesh & Wire (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Diving into the roots of the POSTAL series, Running With Scissors recently revealed the new horror first person shooter Flesh & Wire.

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Classic Resident Evil mutates into a comedy fever-dream through the power of BioRand (www.pcgamer.com)
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Return to where it all began, but not quite how you remember.

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Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says adapting games without playing them is "outrageous," and he forces his production designers to at least watch let's plays (www.gamesradar.com)
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I thought 'I have to make a scary movie because the game is scary'

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Resident Evil Requiem review - a cathartic cross-breed of creeps and carnage (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Resident Evil Requiem is a skin-crawling combination of everything that makes Resident Evil tick, even if it lost us a bit in the second half.

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After 9 years, my favorite Lovecraftian FMV detective game, [Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker] is getting a sequel and a free Steam demo (www.gamesradar.com)
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Hands-on | The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 puts me back on the familiar couch in its Steam Next Fest demo

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When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puzzles: 'We’ll just have to make the police chief a weirdo!' (www.pcgamer.com)
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In an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could've become a lot more serious.

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Total Chaos, the survival horror based on one of Doom's best mods, is getting a New Game+ mode featuring an Alien: Isolation-style persistent enemy: 'It does not patrol. It does not follow rules. It a (www.pcgamer.com)
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There are no safe zones.

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Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was overlooked, but it was great survival horror (www.pcgamer.com)
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Perfect B-movie writing? Check. Smart character mechanics? Check. Great PC controls? Those, too.

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Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse is a horror adventure, so I of course spent several hours diving for lobster instead (www.gamesradar.com)
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Now Playing | In the game, to be clear

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'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips' (www.pcgamer.com)
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These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium.

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Review: Romeo Is A Dead Man (www.relyonhorror.com)
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We assess the newest time-traveling, genre-hopping sci-fi horror adventure from the mind of Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, Romeo Is A Dead Man

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True Japanese horror games avoid "jump scares and graphic violence," Fatal Frame 2 directors say, because they respect that "frightening things can be beautiful" (www.gamesradar.com)
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These two concepts are closely connected, almost like twins

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Silent Hill 2 remake devs Bloober Team reveal Layers of Fear 3 via creepy poetry reading (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Layers of Fear 3 has been revealed by Silent Hill 2 remake devs Bloober Team, via a poetry-focused teaser in a Valentines weekend showcase.

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Indie Horror Game ‘Safe House’ Asks the Tough Question: “Who Do You Save?” (www.relyonhorror.com)
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Created by indie developer, Mike Hvll, Safe House is an upcoming story-driven psychological horror title where players must survive a plague.

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Reanimal review: "A feast of twisted weirdness conjuring up unpleasant imagery and dark world building" (www.gamesradar.com)
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Silent Hill: Townfall ditches tradition and goes full first-person survival horror (www.pcgamer.com)
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The question is if this game will let me perfect parry or not.

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Dark Pictures sci-fi horror Directive 8020 will open its doors in May, letting some evil fleshslime loose (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Dark Pictures sci-fi horror game Directive 2080 will release on May 12th, Until Dawn developers Supermassive Games have announced.

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