Horror in video games




There is something very strange about awful. As much as it terrifies and shakes a person, it also has the power to entertain. The immense potential of harnessing this genre in the entertainment industry was realized decades ago and ever since, directors, actors, showmen, and everyone else in the business have been using this twisted form of entertainment. Well, we are focusing on how Horror has now become a tool to attract gamers of all ages from all over the world by giving them a bit of depth into some of the hit horror games.

  1. Heading this graph is, without a doubt, the Alone in the dark Series. With the protagonist Edward Carnby trying to solve supernatural and mysterious occurrences in New York, this game surely awakens the player’s inner fears and frankly speaking, playing alone in the dark can get really creepy.
  2. Biohazard in Japan, and the famous resident Evil all over the world it has been a treat for gamers, comic readers and young people for quite some time. It is a sci-fi survival horror series that also has many movies with the same name. Although it started out as a short novel, it soon became the best-known horror series in the entertainment business. The first installment in the game series came in the form of a PlayStation game that involved a series of mysterious disappearances, gory murders, and clues about cannibalism.
  3. Konami’s best known survival horror game by far has to be the Silent Hill series. The first came out in 1999 with the protagonist Harry Mason arriving in Silent Hill in search of his kidnapped daughter. During the gameplay, the protagonist and the player are told about the girl’s past, which constitutes the real cause of the horror in the plot.

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