Before finally purchasing it on Steam, it had been ages since I played any sort of point-and-click game. But Gone Home was a game that I wasn’t sure I wanted to play. But while degrees of its playability were mixed, everyone beat that MUST PLAY dead horse into the ground.Īs you can tell from this writing, I didn’t go unaffected. There popped up questions of genre, storytelling, adventure, and exploration – it seemed Gone Home couldn’t be properly categorized by the pundits.
For several months last year, Gone Home was the star of plenty of gaming discussions and blog posts. Gone Home by The Fullbright Company topped many a favorites list of 2013. I really like games that introduce eeriness without being blatantly gory. Anxiety is the number one reason why I’ve still yet to get through DOOM 3 and why I’m not going to be picking up Slender and Amnesia or anything like that anytime soon.īut this is not to say that I don’t like a game unless it makes me feel all warm and cuddly. Now-a-days, “scary” equates to “anxiety,” something I don’t like to feel while I’m trying to play a game. I was much less trepidatious during my DOOM days and willing to take scary things by the horns and run with them. That’s really a discussion for elsewhere, and probably for someone else entirely, because I don’t like scary video games. Sure the game might scare some, but is it a “horror” game? Games like Slender: The Nine Pages focus on limited fields of vision and jump scares.
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They also tackled the question of “what is a ‘horror’ video game?” There are lots of games that obviously use and exploit plenty of your standard horror tropes, from scary things generally like zombies and serial killers in masks, to the use of creepy music and unappetizing environments.
Early on in their career, the good folks of the Manic Pixie Dream Cast presented a great discussion on horror and the use of fear in video games.
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