Being visual creatures, humans are most comforted by sight because of our ability to discern objects, action and consequences based on a picture.Īs a result, cutting visual stimuli and sticking purely to audio or speech is one of the best ways to keep a player on their toes. Often times utilization of only a fraction of the player’s senses can trigger fear. Possibly the most obvious horror element, the unknown is used to keep the player guessing and their mind going wild. There are the most obvious ones that all horror buffs cite as the most important agents of fear: the unknown, and frights. What truly makes a scary game, though? What have the successful few done to overcome that perilous hurdle that seems to trip up so many? Later still, in hopes of serendipitously stumbling upon a nugget of innovation, developers began to eschew "survival horror" conventions in favor of either the more accessible, or the more obscure.Įach has touched on different elements of fear and terror, sometimes overlapping with each other, and sometimes even being at odds. Since Biohazard’s success in almost every territory (and its revival of a genre that died unceremoniously in the West after the release of the original Alone in the Dark), numerous competitors have tried to copy, emulate and outrun it. My first experience with the horror genre was on the PC, with Hugo’s House of Horrors: an adventure game that had its tendrils primarily wrapped around the pillar of horror, no matter the snippets of humor that managed to rear its ugly head. The last 20 years has seen the genre develop, die suddenly, return to life like a zombie, and escalate to mainstream proportions, surpassing even horror movies as the hair raising entertainment medium of choice. Horror games have had an interesting, if not bumpy, past.
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