I love the original horror game with a smart, metatextual (a-thank you) twist.
It's 1989. You're in an isolated, wooden cabin during a stormy night. Suddenly, a knock on the door – someone's left you a parcel. You remove the contents, a single, black plastic diskette. Slotting it into your chunky Eldrixon PC, you're greeted by a seemingly benign text-based adventure game. But then things go wrong. Like, seriously wrong.
Turns out the videogame is actually a living, thinking, malevolent entity, and the more you play, the stronger it becomes. As the game world – and its many, many monsters – leak into your reality, your job is to survive the night against the encroaching, Eldritch horrors. And so, Suffer The Night becomes a videogame where you're being attacked by a videogame. Check it out in the trailer below:
There are also a few dashes here of indie games like Gone Home and Stories Untold, period horrors that use their respective, contemporary tech as the bases for a spooky, lo-fi aesthetic. Think you can survive against a monstrous and bloodthirsty BBC Micro game? Personally, I'm not sure – I get freaked out enough when Steam updates. Speaking of which, you can get Suffer The Night from the Valve shop right now.
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