Matthew Sawrey, Thunderbolt writes:
The Last Door feels like a game from a bygone era, a perfectly preserved Point and Click adventure game fossil from the genre’s pre-millennium heyday. It’s familiar and nostalgic, videogame vintage you could say.
But for a game designed with such old-fashioned sensibilities, The Last Door couldn’t have been created under more contemporary circumstances. Spanish developers The Game Kitchen are a small-scale, independent studio, the kind of creative little enterprise that has flourished during the indie renaissance of recent years. And the first chapter of their pixelated horror adventure was created on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign, run just as the crest of the crowd funding wave was reaching its peak.
If you're ready to stare into the face of the unknown, and you're looking for games you can play in the dark, you'll want to take a look at ten of the best Lovecraftian games on Steam. From RPGs to management sims to dungeon crawlers, you can find Lovecraft-inspired games in almost any genre.
Lovecraft may have been a terrible person, but he created, and inspired, some amazing work; and influenced so many horror creators of modern day.
Remove the artist from the art, as is said.
The creepiest games don’t always have photorealistic graphics.The ten games listed below might not look frightening at first glance, but they prove that pixel art can be genuinely horrifying.
Becca at GameSpew: With just a few days until Halloween, we’ve put together a short list of scary games that you can play in one sitting to get you into the creepy spirit.
