The Independent Games Festival for 2012 has seen a record number of entries into the main section of the event – counting in at 568 games entered to be eligible for a nice, shiny indie award.
The IGF is the biggest gathering of indie developers in the game industry and serves as a platform for devs to show off their games.
In celebration of Halloween happening over this weekend – because we totally celebrate it here in South Africa and are totally not using it as an excuse for themed features – we scoured the entries and found the most horrifying titles there.
Horrifying as in scary, not as in, you know, really bad.
Brainsss
What is a bit of horror without a zombie pitching up to devour your fleshy grey matter?
The key difference with Brainsss, though, you get put on the other side – literally. You’re dead.
Or rather the zombie hordes you amass to go and “convince” the living to join your cause are dead.
This game looks like it’s going to be quite a popular jolt when it pops up in Apple’s app store.
Alone
There isn’t much known about Alone, aside from the fact you play as a creepy little kid wearing a creepy mask – and wander around, alone, in a creepy house.
The game looks like a puzzle, adventure game – with a Myst-like feel to it when you’re not wandering around in 3rd-person.
I’m not entirely sure if this is actually a horror title at all, but looking at the trailer below, tell me you don’t feel at least a little creeped out.
Haunt the House
In this quirky game, you’re a ghost, and your sole aim is to possess different objects in a house, and use them to scare the people wandering around out of it.
The more of a haunted atmosphere you create, the more “scary” things you’re able to do with the items (like make them float around) – and subsequently scare more people.
Scare them too much, though, and they might run in the opposite direction, so you’ve got to be a bit more strategic.
Play it here on the site.
Snowfield
“You are a lone soldier wandering the aftermath of a great battle. It is the dead of winter and you won’t last long in the cold. But you are not alone.”
Snowfield looks like one of those games that’s just creepy by default – it’s foggy, it’s cold, and as you wander around the desolate environments, whispers from what may or may not be there, echo in the distance.
Or in your head.
It looks and feels very much like Silent Hill meets Call of Cthulu – but not really as horrific or ominous; atmospherically it feels desolate…but it’s difficult to tell what’s actually going on…creepy…
You can read up on what the whole idea behind the experimental approach to the game’s design on their website.
Home
Home is a horror adventure game with some wonderfully retro 8-bit artwork.
Woken up by a storm, you find yourself in a dark room, in a house that’s not yours – and there’s something sinister afoot. The dead bodies kind of give that one away.
A murder mystery that apparently ends in a way determined by you – it tops off our list of games coming out of IGF that seems to be aiming to creep us the hell out.
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