Topic: October is here! Which horror games will you be playing?

I also love this time of year but very rarely find time for spooky games. Having said that i intend to get through RE8 DLC, Amnesia Collection and Alan Wake. Happy Halloween and autumn to you all 👍

Maybe not quite the 'crap your pants spooky' type of game like a few others mentioned but a friend of mine just picked up Back 4 Blood and he's been hounding me to play through it with him, so I might redownload that and get stuck into that again. I haven't played it since I beat the game on Nightmare difficulty (they've since added No Hope difficulty, which... yeah, no.) so it'll be quite nice to jump back in and slay some Ridden again.

I'm also tempted to play through the Little Nightmares games again, so maybe I'll do that closer to the end of the month.

Gonna be playing through my very first horror game around the end of Halloween with the original Dead Space! Heard a ton of fantastic things about it and have been on a major sci-fi/cosmic horror kick ever since I played through Metroid Fusion for the first time earlier this year so I'm extremely excited to finally try it out come the end of the month! 🩸🧟👽🧟🩸

Iam not sure if Iam the only one who count the Batman games as horror? Ohter then that I also love games such as Silent Hill, Resident Evil and more recently Evil Within. All which I think are amazing.

I'm playing through the Amnesia collection now for the PXGC, hoping to play through Amnesia Rebirth afterward as well!

That's if my pants stay clean throughout

@oliverp I mean, the encounters with the Manbat in Arkham Knight were pretty scary..

I'm on 'Signalis" at the moment and then I'm moving on to "Soma" followed by "The Quarry" if I get the time.

Depending on the price of the game and wether or not my iPhone 15 Pro Max arrives by the 31st, I might be playing Resident Evil Village!

Pumpkin Jack

Yay! Spooky month is almost here. Feel like a kid at Christmas - or maybe like an emo/goth kid at Haloween. So time to resurrect the October spooky games month thread again...

Started Dead Space remake yesterday and the first hour or so was about as excellent as I'd hoped for. Lots of panic inducing scary noises and enemies randomly jumping out on top of me when I'm not expecting it.

Also planning to play through both The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and Little Nightmares 2 for the PS community game club (check it out and feel free to join in).

Other games I would like to play before the end of the month include RE4 Remake, Tormented Souls and Animal Well.

Anybody else got a game or a few ready to go?

@sorteddan
Ooh enjoy Dead Space remake as it is great.

I'm playing Resident 2 which I bought soon after release but stupidly put in the backlog (I blame joining PS Extra) plus Resident Evil village in VR which I haven't started yet.

Enjoy the scares everyone.

@CaptD
Back to you - enjoy RE2 as I thought that was great also. And I think I've mentioned to you before that I don't think I'd be brave enough to leave the save room if I was playing an RE game in VR! Though Village is not as terrifying as 7 imo.

@sorteddan I also feel like a kid at Christmas, funnily enough. You can't really associate any other genre with a certain time of the year besides horror and October. It's also interesting that I used to play 1-2 horror games at most every October as I found them strenuous to play but now I'm already up to two horror games (Condemned and Little Hope) and I still want to play more! Like you, I also have Little Nightmares 2 planned up and whatever game Pure Xbox Game Club decides to go for. I'm also considering playing through the first Silent Hill, but I think I'll skip the remake of Silent Hill 2 for now as I want to play the older titles first. I'm unsure if I'll play anything more, which is fine as five horror games are enough.

Dead Space remake is my favourite horror game of all time. It's just so much fun to play and so scary. Is it your first time playing the game?

Also, seeing as how I'm running out of horror games to play, I'd love to delve into the indie horror scene as there are so many of those games. Does anyone have any indie horror games they'd recommend? Some titles I've been interested in checking out are Martha is Dead, Madison, the Daymare games and Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel.

Dead Space 3 and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (though I’m not sure whether the latter can actually be considered a horror… maybe 🤔)

@colonelkilgore I’d say so.

@Yousef- good enough for me 👊

@LtSarge
No I played the original Dead Space way back when - think it may have been when I was on the green team on the 360. Maybe? Can't remember how it looked so unable to appreciate how much it's been upgraded but it looks as good as my mind remembers it being. Had a moment when playing it this morning where I entered an office and just knew the bookcase could be moved aside to find a secret room. Weird how that had just been stored in some compartment of my brain all these years. And removing limbs with the plasma cutter is still as fun as ever, maybe my favourite game weapon of all time.

Can't really recommend any indie horror stuff though I've played a few I'd rather not have! Like I mentioned I plan to get to Tormented Souls this year but also would be interested in picking up Saturnalia, Crow Country and World of Horror if the price was right. Maybe also something by Puppet Combo who've been pumping out a bunch of retro style games for a few years. Oh and Darkwood. That's been in my backlog for too long but maybe I'm just to scared to start it up.

Whatever you land on hope you enjoy it and I'm sure we'll cross paths in the Gameclub thread. 🎃

@colonelkilgore
Just watching a gameranx horror top 20 video and Resident Evil remake is (quite rightly) on the list.
About time you entered the mansion?

@CaptD it is tbh. I played through 2 Remake back in 2020 (need to go back for the plat actually)… and played through Code Veronica on Dreamcast back in the day. I liked both of them but the series always found itself falling down the schedule for one reason or another.

It’s set to change next year though, I done a complete reschedule through to December 2027 the other day, by which point I should’ve done the first 5.

Oh yeah I forgot to type here, mainly cuz I rarely think about horror but I realized my October game incidentally will happen to be Dead Rising; Deluxe Remaster

It’s been essentially a 10/10 for me so far. It is both everything I like in both sandboxes and survival horrors and everything I want out of a remaster/remake. Can’t find a single thing to fault about it as a series veteran. Just a jolly time from beginning to end. Great use of the RE engine and there are a few minor tweaks made that I feel make it a great starting point, but the entire classic dead rising quintalogy (DR1, DR2, DR2OTR, DR3 and now this game) is faaaaantastic in my opinion. (Kudos if you remember the voice line).
This niche doesn’t have a super loyal following so I’ll continue to support it as a hyperfan. I loved it to death since day 1.