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Poisoning, paralysis, burns, sleep, and all other status ailments pale before that most frightening affliction: Kid Icarus' Eggplant status.
Parasite Eve is filled with gross monsters, but how these creatures came about is far more disturbing than the creatures…
Echo Night: Beyond focuses on the sad, human side of its spectres, offering some affecting, emotional horror alongside its terrors.
Splatterhouse made clever use of sickening creatures and gore to create a sense of horror and unease while playing an…
While dying can be annoying when playing a game, Shadowgate uses its creative text-based deaths to enhance its unsettling atmosphere.
Earthbound's charming world and quirky characters leave players unprepared for Giygas, a malevolent force that turns the game's tone on…
Subverting expectations can be a great way to make the player feel fear in a game. Something Ironsword exemplifies through…
Horror games can create some incredible scares, but sometimes it's those moments of unexpected horror in other genres that stick…
Omori shows that it's not the monsters and frightening places that scare us most, but the all-too-human mistakes and failures…
Getting physically hurt playing horror games may not happen often, but one of Mario Party's minigames caused some painful real…
A pair of special mechanics, when combined with the relentless challenge of Contra 4, turn the run n' gun experience…
While they make look tame almost 40 years later, Halloween's violent deaths marked a new, unsettling possibility for horror games.
