The month of October means a lot of things like pumpkin-flavored everything and comfy sweaters. But it means Halloween the best day for horror movies and video games. Playing a horror game is a lot different from watching a horror movie. Video games allow you to get right in on the action. So you feel like you’re the one running for your life through a dark forest. So today why not try something different and play a horror game instead. Go ahead and spook yourself silly this Halloween with these spooktacular games.
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Yomawari: Night Alone
Yomawari: Night Alone follows a young female protagonist who returns home with just her dog’s leash after an accident. Her older sister goes got looking for the dog and tells her to stay home while she’s out searching. As time passes the young girl begins to worry and goes out searching for her older sister and dog in a creepy town at night. She only has a flashlight but, using the flashlight let you see things that you shouldn’t. 
Platforms: PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows
Little Nightmares
The adventure-suspense Little Nightmares follows a girl named Six. As she attempts to escape the strange world of The Maw. A mysterious vessel inhabited by corrupted souls looking for their next meal. The imagery is the game is beyond creepy with a bit of Tim Burton meets Miyazaki feel to it. The music is a perfect match for the eerie feel of the game, adding tensions, and to the overall feeling of dread.
Platforms: Xbox One, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4
Until Dawn
Until Dawn is an interactive drama survival horror video game designed for multiple playthroughs. It uses an in-game system, called the butterfly effect that makes the player’s choices lead to unforeseen consequences later on. Throughout the game, you’ll make difficult decisions, such as sacrificing one character to save another. There is no way of knowing what’s the right or wrong decision but, this allows the game to have many different paths and offer several different endings. There is an in-game system that will keep track of all the clues and secrets players have discovered in total, even if there are multiple playthroughs. These clues will allow you to piece together the mysteries of Blackwood.
Platforms:PlayStation 4
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Bendy and the Ink Machine is a first-person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons. Play as Henry and solve the puzzles to escape the old animation studio that you’re trapped in. Along the way discover tape recorders with tales from the previous employees and piece together the mystery of what happened to the animation studio.
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, SteamOS, Nintendo Switch
SOMA
SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, creators of the groundbreaking Amnesia and Penumbra series. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves. Delve through locked terminals and secret documents to uncover the truth behind the chaos. Seek out the last remaining inhabitants and take part in the events that will ultimately shape the fate of the station.
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, SteamOS
Happy Halloween!
Not a fan of scary stuff but still looking for a fun video game to play? Check out my Great Indie Games You Might Have Missed for some fun indie games to check out.
What are some of your favorite horror/thriller games to play during the month of October?
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Ooh interesting post! I haven’t heard of any of these games except for Bendy and the Ink Machine. Considering I love scary, horror genre games and movies I can’t believe these were all so new to me! Love the sound of Until Dawn incorporating the butterfly effect affecting the future and the potentially unexpected consequences that come with earlier decisions. Such an interesting concept. Have you played and completed them all?
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I have played them all and completed them. But I haven’t played all the DLCs that go along with the little nightmare. Until Dawn is one of my favorite games. The butterfly effect really makes you think about your actions in the game.
I love horror and Halloween but haven’t played many horror video games before. In fact I’ve never heard of any of these! I recently started playing the Friday 13th game which I’m enjoying, although the cut scene graphics and acting are shoddy!
Thank you! I’ve played Friday 13th as well. It does get a bit weird during cutscenes. The first time I played it I feel out of my chair laughing at one of the cutscenes. ;D
I know what you mean! My fella and I laugh a lot at one characters line “I wanna see da hot girls at de pardee”. It’s the way he says ‘party’ that gets us.