Horror Games

It's Halloween, so that means it's both the peak and the end of Spooky Season, so today I'm going to highlight a couple neat spooky games that are currently on sale and worth your time.

The light crackling of a fire, far off chimes which shift closer and further, slightly left and then right channel in your headphones, and the quiet whispering in Italian that feels like it's murmuring between your shoulderblades -- you know a horror game has the juice when you get full body frisson chills just from the sound design in the main menu.

As we go through Spooky Season and a bunch of horror video games, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow was an instant favorite for how it played with tropes that were common to literature, especially gothic horror conventions.