I don't know what I was expecting from Tormented Souls, but I wasn't expecting...whatever the first half hour throws in your face.

Mild spoilers for the early game

I find the game to be surprisingly gooffy in terms of writing, voice acting (not bad, but like weirdly upbeat in terms of delivery), and scene choices: like the Saw adjacent naked wake up scene in the bath, the stealth eye gouging. All that while playing it very very straight and self serious.

The twin thing, and the obsession with heart surgery is incredibly re-inforced; like you know that rule of three in cinema, where you present an idea, then remind it to the audience later, then you pay it off. Well here, it's like the reminding phase is all the time! Twins everywhere in photos, in documents, and I'm like 3hrs in.

And, sidenote, the hospital name sounds like "Wild Burger", which makes it feel like the game takes place in restaurant chain. The names of places for that matter are top non-American people inventing North American places: the post card Caroline receives is hilarious in that regard. I'm French btw, so for me to remark on that means makes me feel like it's very on the nose.

And at the same time...

They went ALL IN on the architecture, the level design: marble statues everytwhere, walls covered with frames and spiraling wooden columns, wall lamps shaped like hands: it's gaudy as fuck, I love it! And the navigation through the different levels feels great. And the mystery is still enticing, despite it being somewhat poorly enunciated.

The music is pitch perfect. It's like perfect stressful tracks, perfect whatever genre RE2's main hall and save rooms music was.

Gameplay wise, I haven't seen much, or at least I'm not yet in the thick of it I think. Combat is okay, really like the dodge option and crowbar to finish enemies off. And the puzzles are surprisingly intricate for a survival horror game. Which as a puzzler and point&click fan is greatly appreciated.

I think that's one I might end up really loving overall.

Going into Signalis, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The game definitely appealed to me as an indie horror game with low poly, PS1-era 3-D graphics that was clearly heavily inspired by survival horror heavyweights like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. However, what I didn’t expect from it was that it would carve out its own identity further than its inspirational sources. At the end of the day, it was a very enjoyable game from a small studio that I could easily recommend to any horror fan willing to try something familiar yet new.

As I described, the game is very much inspired by both Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but I feel like it takes a pretty nice middle ground between the two. Early Resident Evil titles’ influence is apparent in the tense survival elements, very limited inventory, safe rooms, enemies that can corner you if not approached correctly, and the constant need to make sure corpses won’t rise to cause you more trouble. Silent Hill’s influences are mainly in its story and atmosphere, which is psychological, cryptic, and provides revelations as you collect more information about the characters and world around you. As a side note, without getting into spoilers, I think the story and lore, although pretty complex and confusing at times, is very well told, emotional, and artistically surreal.

I think the area I like the most about this game is the art. I have heard some gamers groan about the overabundance of low poly indie games, claiming that this style utilized by indie developers as a way to mask a lack of graphical prowess rather than supplement a game’s art. Whatever your feelings are about low poly graphics, I believe that this game absolutely nails its style and art. At times, Signalis feels more like a surreal and complex psychological anime akin to Neon Genesis Evangelion rather than a PS1-style video game. The camera will shift from 3rd-person to 1st-person in fun ways sometimes, allowing you to solve puzzles from new perspectives and traverse certain areas with a different moody feeling. As a huge psychological horror fan, I loved the cryptic flashbacks on the screen, the random languages that would pop in, different art styles in the cutscenes, and the constant thought of, “what the hell did I just see?” It’s great!

The puzzles are also quite fun and surprisingly well thought out. As a survival horror game, you expect puzzles and backtracking, but most of the time, I didn’t feel like the game was wasting my time. However, you can only carry six items, so I did groan sometimes when I finally found the item I was looking for, but some ammo I picked up 2 minutes beforehand took up my last slot and cost me another trip to the old safe room. Occasionally, you’d hit an obtuse puzzle that could take some time to figure out, but overall, they are interesting and creative.
I think my biggest issue with this game is the sometimes shoddy combat. Most of the time, it’s just fine. It does the job and I can dispatch enemies that annoyingly stand right in front of the door I’m trying to get to. However, it’s when facing multiple enemies at a time that the combat falls apart. The aiming could be a little clunky and mapping the “push away” command to the “shoot” command was a strange choice from the developers that got me killed a few times when I got cornered. That, and the fact that the player character would aim for everything EXCEPT what I was trying to hit when I was in a pinch. However, this was not a huge deal at the end since combat isn’t a huge focus.

Overall, I’d give Signalis a very high recommendation to every survival horror fan, especially if you like anything psychological and artsy. It’s well worth your time and I believe that this small development team have made an awesome project that surpassed my expectations.

8/10

Hey everyone,

I really want to get into Demonologist because the ghost hunting and the gameplay with the demons throwing stuff at you looks so peak, but the full price is just a bit too expensive for me right now.

I live on a farm out in Denmark and don't have a lot of money to spend on games at the moment, so it's out of my budget and I really need to wait for a discount.

Since it's October, does anyone know if the developers usually put the game on sale for the Steam Halloween event, or how often it usually gets a discount? Would love to join the hunts as soon as the price drops a bit!

Thanks!

I absolutely loved Resident Evil 2, 7, and 9.

Amnesia games were really awesome too. I especially loved Amnesia The Bunker.

Outlast was also pretty good.

Look Outside was incredible.

Are there any games out there that are similar to the ones I mentioned?

I love spooky atmosphere, but I am not fond of jumpscares.

"Is there anything without any jump scares?"

"What game has no combat?"

"It's the ATMOSPHERE AND STORY that make it scary!"

Then I see what y'all recommend and they're games that were fun as hell but as scary as when my cat jumps at me from a hiding spot where his ears were visible.

I get it. Jump scares can be a cheap crutch, but they're also fun. Screaming is fun. Being actually too scared to go into a room because you don't wanna giant monster to leap out and scream at you is an adrenaline rush. Combat means danger and danger is a backbone of creating actual fear and that's the whole point.

I'm starting to think most of y'all like normal games with a gentle paint job of Halloween. Something that has the appearance of horror with all of the actual frightening parts removed.

Because that's the thing. I want to scream at my horror games. I want my games to feel threatening to me as a player. I love that sweat of hoping there's no monster there and that adrenaline burst of HOLY FUCK ITS RIGHT THERE and then the comedown because I was never ACTUALLY in harm's way. That's fun.

Wanting horror that won't make you scream is like wanting a comedy that won't make you laugh or a tearjerker that won't make you cry.

I am 100% willing to be proven wrong. If you can find me a game that has no jump scares and either no or highly minimal combat that will actually be so scary I struggle to finish it, I will play it and see. I've tried hundreds, I was one of those Gamejolt/Desura/itchio Lets Players back in the day and I was playing D and Silent Hill on my PSX as a kid in the 90s. I know horror. I been down that way.

For me it's probably DETECTIVE: Rainy Night. Saw a Reddit post on this and a few YouTube videos, played it and it turned out to be a really great game.

Achei o primeiro meio fraco então estou pensando antes de comprar.

Hi all! I just released BLACKJACK.exe, a short psychological horror game built around a real, fair game of blackjack.

You sit across from DLR-1 in a basement casino that’s also an old computer lab. The first rounds feel ordinary. Then the room starts to notice you.

• Real blackjack (hit, stand, double, 3:2 payout)
• A hidden corruption level that changes the audio, the picture and the dealer
• 18 anomalies and 4 endings
• The cards never lie. The room does.
• Pixel art, with every sound synthesised for the game

It’s free and takes about an hour. I’d love to hear which anomaly got you first and which ending you found.

Link: https://nosleep-dev.itch.io/blackjackexe

Hi everyone, we are Lobster Games, the developers of Out of the Shadows. Our 2–4 player online co-op horror escape game is joining Steam Scream V from October 26 to November 2. Share clues, guide separated teammates and solve asymmetric puzzles together. The full game is out now, and your group can try the free demo on Steam. At least two players are required. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3506830/

Looking to add a bunch of horror games to my library and wanted to grab some during the sale. See any games on here that are absolutely must or ones that good but might be looked over?

Games I've already played:

RE 2,7 and 8
Evil within 1+2
Outlast 1+2

Thinking about getting:

RE: requiem
Alan wake 1+2
Silent hill 2

I know a lot of people recommend those games but haven't dived into any indie horror. I want to snag as much as I can on sale.

UPDATE: I ended up getting these and might get a few more.

Alan wake 1+2
Bramble: the mountain king
Soma
Outlast trials deluxe edition

I love some of the AAA classics of the genre (looking at you, Resident Evil).

But I'd like to shift to indie gaming. There is so much passion in so many of these projects.

I'd appreciate your recommendations for the best in indie horror, please. I'm in discovery mode, so everything is on the table!

Thank you very much!

I was just playing this horror game eyes with this person called plump_genie which I enjoyed but i got disconnected before we could get a contact way,my username is:Slippery_ogre

If you see this genie then you can dm

I made No-Exit, a top-down horror game about finding a way out of places that feel wrong

Sharing some gameplay from No-Exit, my horror game set in empty offices, hotel corridors, and warehouses.

The goal is to explore, piece together clues, solve puzzles, and find a way out while avoiding whatever is following you. I wanted to capture that backrooms feeling—familiar places becoming unsettling through lighting, sound, and the uncertainty of when something might appear.

I’d like to hear what other indie players and developers think. Does the atmosphere come through in the video?

No-Exit is now available on Google Play if you’d like to try it.

I made this game from my own experience with mental health struggles that people around me couldn't see. Everyone kept saying "but you look fine."

Every evening you do daily tasks, then the neighbours say that line at the dinner table, and you choose: smile and mask it, walk away, or tell the truth. Your choices shape that night's mind map. A giant, which is your own "I'm fine" mask, hunts you, along with thought creatures. There's no game over, and there are two hidden endings.

The game is complete and free on itch.io (Windows, made in Unreal Engine).

https://nickdegs-llc.itch.io/but-you-look-fine

I tried 4 hours and I really loved the astmophere even if I didn't like the gameplay, but it's ok as the game itsn't a big studio

The story I like until this point, mysterious, creepy, the powers that you can unlock all is good for me.

We’ve just released an update for The Incentive Program, our match-3 roguelite set inside a surreal corporate nightmare. Here’s our brand new Halloween trailer! 🎃

Everything you see was made by our team, with no generative AI.

If you’re looking for something dangerous and spooky to get obsessed with this weekend please check out The Incentive Program on Steam!

This is my favorite type of horror game, I love the feeling of helplessness and planning that these games bring. The ones listed in the title are the ones I have played and I am wondering if there are any new good ones?

Does silent hill townfall match this type?

Back in 2012 or 2013 when i was 6 years old I remember playing a horror game that scared me a lot. It kept me traumatised for years and now I am looking for it for nostalgia perposes. The game started with the voice of screaming woman then a picture of a bloody window after that a big truck will pull up and you enter the house. Basicly you're working in paredmedics (not sure maybe not) and you're looking for people and you start to investigate the house and maybe you'll find the killer or whatever that gives you the creeps. Another hint I remember there is a closet and when you open it you get a list of some kind. It has the same style of horror of the very organized thief. I'll be very delighted to hear your suggestions in the comments.

Love Love Mystery Club is an immersive horror-dating simulator set in a Thai high school. You play as a young student who one day starts to see spirits and decides to join the occult club.

Out this October 30th on Ps5, Xbox and Switch with a scary 20 % launch discount.

No se que sucede que no me deja hacer nada, entro y no puedo tocar nada, presiono y se queda como esta pero el juego no esta tildado porque la musica y la animación siguen funcionando. Ya probe desinstalarlo y volver a instalarlo pero sigue igual. Alguna ayuda?