Horror walking simulators focus on psychological trauma, not monsters or combat. These games explore deep fears through subtle storytelling and eerie atmospheres. The scariest part is the slow, quiet ...

Horror games are infinitely scarier than horror movies for one simple reason: you’re in control of the character, and therefore, have to be the one to face the terrors. You aren’t just watching a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. People who are into games today generally know the term "walking sim." It seems to have cropped up around the time of Dear Esther in 2012, a ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...

It looks like we can look forward to some interesting indie atmospheric horror kicking off in 2021. On the PC Gaming Show, We Create Stuff and Modus Games showed off upcoming first-person horror In ...