You know, you don’t have to be a decrepit old man with a musky robe, yellowed fingernails, and a weird obsession with dusty books and black beeswax candles to be an exorcist, or medium, or whatever you’d like to call it. In fact, I’m betting you’d get better results coaxing […]
Horror
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After playing the recently updated M Edition of Lust from Beyond, we couldn’t help but feel that the vision for the original may have been compromised due to its extensive censoring and retooling for a wider audience. Although the core concepts still shone through, and from a gameplay perspective it […]
Giulia’s love for photography allows her to see the world through a different lens, and living in the serene countryside of Italy seems the perfect backdrop for one seeking to capture the innate beauty that surrounds us. However, with a war ravaged country on her doorstep, the cruel and violent […]
Poor Victor Holloway just wants to run his beloved, dusty antique shop, and settle into a comfy, no nonsense life with his new fiancee, Lily. Except strange and violent nightmares plague him far too often to be able to make that cozy life anything more than a distant pipe dream. […]
It’s October which means horror movies, scary games and eating too much candy! That and it’s the best time of the year if you want our opinions on such things! So here in the Backlog Odyssey spooky brain trust, we thought to ourselves, we’re already having anxious bedtimes from the […]
The 40 days of horror games challenge is complete and I talk about some of what went behind it! Some Time in September One weird September day (the 22nd if I recall), I said to myself, “You know what would be cool? If I shared a picture of a horror […]
I take a look at the game that has an unhealthy obsession with dank and disgusting holes, Silent Hill 4: The Room. It Starts With Denial If I’m going to be perfectly honest I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the Silent Hill series. Going from illogically hating it as […]
Layers of Fear throws paint at the canvas and calls it horror. But is it more than just a few jump scares? But is it Art? Horror games are like onions… or maybe that was ogres… Either way they need to hit you on multiple levels, or layers if you […]
“We’re going back to the roots of survival horror!”. That’s a phrase that’ll make any fan of the sub-genre’s ears perk up and start foaming at the mouth. And this was exactly what Shinji Mikami and Tango Gameworks promised when they announced that they were working on a new franchise […]
The mind is a funny thing. It helps us express our creativity, solve complex problems, communicate with and relate information to one another. In many ways it defines who we are and how we perceive the world around us. But our mind can also be our worst enemy. It can […]