Blue Eye Samurai is coming to Netflix on Friday – and the show already has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
12.10.2023 - 19:39 / pcgamesn.com / New / Best
It’s the perfect time for horror games. As Halloween and the spooky month descend, from Resident Evil to Silent Hill, Five Nights at Freddy’s and Phasmophobia, the absolute best that the genre has to offer are bound to make a return to your Steam playlist. But alongside all the classics, there are loads of fantastic Steam Next Fest demos available now that give you a window into horror games’ future. The sheer amount of upcoming games can get overwhelming, so at PCGamesN, we’ve gathered a flashlight and a dusty old map, and trawled the haunted caves to find you the absolute best horrors available to try now.
October is the month for horror games. From classic-style, fixed-camera retro cuts to fear-inflected shooters and creepy platformers, there are dozens of future classics waiting for you at Steam Next Fest. Everything is free to try, and with so much to choose from – and so many enormous scares just waiting to pounce – this is the ideal time to sample the Steam Next Fest horror catalog. We’ve chosen five of the absolute best.
The best Steam Next Fest horror games to play are:
A team of investigators and commandos is sent to a remote facility in the wilderness of Japan. Naturally, something has gone horribly wrong – your job is to find out what. Played from a top-down perspective, not dissimilar to Hotline Miami, Empty Shell is a roguelike shooter with a highly distinctive black-and-white aesthetic. The whole game looks like a crusty, haunted old VHS tape, and there’s a terrific mix of action and big scares. There’s also a neat gimmick, true to the absolute best roguelikes, whereby if you get killed, you jump to another member of the commando team with completely randomized gear and abilities. Scavenge gear. Explore dark, randomly generated maps. Try to survive and figure out what the heck is going on. Super frightening but endlessly playable, Empty Space is one to watch.
Empty Space is available to try free as part of Steam Next Fest, with a full release scheduled for Monday, October 16.
Inspired by the classic slasher films of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Terror at Oakheart is a side-scrolling, pixel-art adventure horror game reminiscent of Lakeview Cabin Collection. In a small town, that bears a striking resemblance to the creepy suburbs of Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, you play as one of a group of over-eager teenagers trying to uncover the mystery of Teddy, a vaguely Lovecraftian, absolutely terrifying clown-teddy bear-type monster man on a murder spree. It looks a bit like Terraria or Stardew Valley, but as your characters get killed off one after another – and you get closer to the truth about Teddy – it becomes gradually clear that this is one of the best-looking and also funniest indie
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