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The equivalent to found footage films. A follow-up to Sara is Missing mobile game, Simulacra offers an immersive gameplay as it turns your phone into somebody else's. It's almost like you're being immersed into a horror found footage film like the Blair Witch Project. In this game, you found the phone of a girl named Anna, and as you explore its contents you stumble upon a disturbing discovery: Anna is in desperate need of help. Solve the mystery surrounding Anna's disappearance and beat the game. Gameplay: The game is designed to look like Anna's phone, so when you start it up it already gives you the weird sensation of holding a different mobile device even when it is yours you're holding. The IRIS OS of the phone is behaving strangely so you can only access a few apps in the beginning of the game. To uncover the truth behind Anna's whereabouts, you have to piece together the information that you could find within her phone, including her photos, videos, messages, and more. Simulacra is a paid game available at the App Store for iOS users and at the Google Play Store for Android users. Its predecessor, Sara is Missing which offers a similar gameplay is available for free in both stores.

Because it's Slender Man. From its humble beginnings as a creepypasta content, Slender Man has become a famous figure in video games, and you just can't miss facing him on your mobile, that's why we recommend Slender Man Origins 3: Abandoned School. Years after an ordinary school closed down because of missing children, a young woman is lured to return only to find out that the Slender Man still lurks underneath its shadows. Gameplay: You have to explore the school to free the souls of the missing children from the Slender Man. Pick up keys, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the items of the abandoned school. The game is also accompanied by a creepy soundtrack that completes the scary atmosphere of the whole game. Slender Man Origins 3: Abandoned School is available for free at the Download for Android users and for purchase at the App Store for iOS users.

The exploration-focused game is set to graduate from Early Access. Exclusion zone-based survival horror game Chernobylite has been on our radar for a few years now, but its development foray in Early Access is coming to a close this July as The Farm 51 take it into a full release. It's a game about the Chernobyl incident in the vein of the STALKER series, but has the protagonist as an ex-worker at the nuclear power plant who's trying to unravel a mystery and find their beloved, who has disappeared. The game's main schtick is that it's a non-linear, exploration focused, survival horror game. Choices made in play are linked to and have consequences on story events hours later, as well as changing the Zone around you. There are multiple stories in the game, and several alternate endings along the branched paths of the main plot, which pits you against both supernatural horrors and the military trying to cover them up. It's also a crafting RPG, where you need to build a team of companions and keep them together and well-supplied in order to get what you need. These companions can die, or even turn against you, if the description is anything to go by. Chernobylite is made by The Farm 51, who also developed Get Even and World War 3. It has been in development since late 2019 and is now scheduled for a July 2021 release. You can find Chernobylite on Steam.

It’s Halloween month and a new indie horror game has been announced, and it’s something a little different – and terrifying. Choo-Choo Charles from Two Star Games is a game about maintaining a train and using it to fight an evil murderous clown-faced spider-train that wants to eat you. It’s Stephen King’s It meets Thomas the Tank Engine. Every time a game gets released with mod support, the first thing that gets added is a Thomas the Tank Engine mod – it’s like a running joke at this point, but some are scarier than others. Two Star seems to have taken this murderous train concept and mixed it with the final clown-spider form of Pennywise in Stephen King’s It – with a bit of another lesser-known King monster in there too, Charlie The Choo-Choo. As for the game itself – which is available to wishlist on Steam with a release date of Q1 2022 – Choo-Choo Charles is a first-person horror game set on an island where players are continually stalked by the spider-train Charles. The goal of the game is to take on quests for the terrified inhabitants, upgrade your own yellow train with weapons and armour, and eventually take on Charles in a battle to the death. Players can get off the train and explore on foot, but that’s probably not a wise idea as the trailer below shows. We blame Skyrim for the rise of monster trains in games, but it’s fun to see a developer run with it to create an original-looking horror game – and we thought The Grudge with cats was unique. Choo-Choo Charles is out next year, although sadly it doesn’t have a demo in Steam Next Fest – which is going on right now. Get involved in the conversation by heading over to our Facebook and Instagram pages. To stay up to date with the latest PC gaming guides, news, and reviews, follow PCGamesN on Twitter and Steam News Hub, or download our free app for Overwolf. We sometimes include relevant affiliate links in articles from which we earn a small commission. For more information

Eyes: The Horror Game is said to be the first independent horror title on Android that is played from first-person perspective. The target is to get inside an abandoned mansion, collect the money and get out. But while this sounds all so simple, you need to defy ghastly places. The dark environment, impeding sound manages to create sheer nervousness. The objective is to collect bags and avoid being touched by the ghosts haunting the abandoned mansion. We would recommend you to keep a small torch on the side just in case you are playing in a completely dark and silent room.

Playing as a two-year-old brings a sense of wide-eyed wonder and some pretty tight restrictions on the actual gameplay. In my personal experience, there’s nothing more frightening than when the two-year-old in a horror movie or video game starts making cryptic drawings or saying ominous things about death or dead people. Kids are just naturally terrifying and spooky, right? Well Krillbite Studio decided to expand on this traditional horror concept by allowing us to actually play as the innocent toddler in Among the Sleep. But while the first-person explorative horror game is great on the atmosphere, does playing as a two-year-old have one too many limitations from a gameplay perspective? Among the Sleep starts out simply enough, with players assuming the role of a nameless and silent toddler protagonist on his second birthday. After your affectionate mother puts you to bed, it isn’t long before the game’s surrealist elements start to emerge, as your creepy new teddy bear Teddy starts talking and walking around, and serves as your guide through a warped and twisted journey through your own memories. While Teddy offers some sparse commentary along the way, his primary purpose in the game is to provide a fleeting light source when hugged to help you navigate the darker corners of the world. The story was actually my favorite part about Among the Sleep. While it doesn’t seem like much at first, the surprising and rewarding ending sheds some crucial details that will cast the world around you in an entirely different light, and gives a new sense of depth to the protagonist’s journey through these fragmented memories. It might even warrant a second playthrough of the incredibly brief game, to experience this world with a newfound sense of enlightenment. For what it’s worth, the game’s atmosphere does do its job of putting you in the shoes (or footsy pajamas) of a two-year-old toddler. Everything seems abnormally taller around you, and there’s a certain sense of wonder in exploring familiar locations like a bedroom or a kitchen and seeing where you can actually go with your limited skills: pulling out drawers and using them as footholds to climb up a dresser is a key component to progressing through the game. Even the surrealist locations are mesmerizing to look at, from dark playgrounds and forests, to a dilapidated playhouse with peeling paint on the walls. And the best part is that it all makes sense coming from the perspective of a toddler. I especially liked the fact that you move faster when crawling, as opposed to when walking upright. While this mechanic is realistic and serves to add to the story’s believability, it also allows you to crawl under tables to hide from the sinister things that are lurking in the shadows. But while the presentation is great, there’s a reason why the two-year-old is never the main character in your favorite horror flick or game: there’s not all that many interesting things that a toddler can do. As a result, the gameplay in Among the Sleep really suffers, if you could even call it gameplay. Aside from moving objects and climbing on them to access new areas, the majority of the gameplay involves collecting a handful of items and occasionally avoiding a monster that roams a given room, much like a Slender game. Among the Sleep can be completed in well under two hours, and there really isn’t anything else to see or do in the game outside of the primary and very linear main pathway. The only time I ever needed to restart a section was when the game glitched on me, jamming up a platform I had to cross in order to continue. Other bugs in the game are just more disrupting, like one which casts the background visuals in a bright and demonic shade of red. But glitches aside, the game and its limited puzzles are still so easy that a two-year-old could do it. Oh wait a minute… In the end, Among the Sleep is a brief but interesting experience of playing a horror game from a completely different perspective. While not particularly fulfilling in a gameplay sense, there’s still something that’s worth exploring here in the poignant and minimalist story, as well as the surrealist and often captivating worlds as they appear in the eyes and the mind of a child.

Dead by Daylight, the multiplayer horror game that pits one player as a nigh-unstoppable killer and four others as resilient survivors, has seen more than its fair share of downloadable content. The lone killer setup is just begging for horror icons, which is exactly what the game has been getting since release. Players have been able to inhabit Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Ghostface, and more horror icons. Even the Demorgorgon from Stranger Things has made an appearance. Along with these killers, the DLC also brings the appropriate survivors, like Laurie Strode from Halloween and Steve Harrington from Stranger Things. With the new Silent Hill DLC, players can hunt Silent Hill 3 protagonist Cheryl Mason as the dreaded Executioner, otherwise known as Pyramid Head. PYRAMID HEAD COMES TO DEAD BY DAYLIGHT AND KONAMI DROPS SEVERAL SILENT HILL SOUNDTRACKS ONTO SPOTIFY TO CELEBRATE Pyramid Head Comes To Dead By Daylight And Konami Drops Several Silent Hill Soundtracks Onto Spotify To Celebrate Jun 17, 2020 Dylan Duarte 0 815 Pyramid Head Comes To Dead By Daylight And Konami Drops Several Silent Hill Soundtracks Onto Spotify To Celebrate Credit: Steam Next Article Dead by Daylight, the multiplayer horror game that pits one player as a nigh-unstoppable killer and four others as resilient survivors, has seen more than its fair share of downloadable content. The lone killer setup is just begging for horror icons, which is exactly what the game has been getting since release. Players have been able to inhabit Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Ghostface, and more horror icons. Even the Demorgorgon from Stranger Things has made an appearance. Along with these killers, the DLC also brings the appropriate survivors, like Laurie Strode from Halloween and Steve Harrington from Stranger Things. With the new Silent Hill DLC, players can hunt Silent Hill 3 protagonist Cheryl Mason as the dreaded Executioner, otherwise known as Pyramid Head. The Silent Hill downloadable content became available yesterday. Along with the characters, the pack also includes Midwich Elementary School as a new map. Pyramid Head wields his trademark giant sword and is just as terrifying here as he is in the Silent Hill series. The DLC is only $6.99 on Steam, though it’s $7.99 on the Microsoft store. In celebration of Dead by Daylight: Silent Hill, Konami has dropped a total of seven soundtracks from the series on the Spotify music service. If that seems like a high number to you, keep in mind that there are almost a dozen games in the series. So that’s only a little over half of the soundtracks. All of the soundtracks are from the main series, starting with the second entry. That’s Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Silent Hill: Origins, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and Silent Hill: Downpour. Akira Yamaoka composed the music for every entry in the series, with the exception of the last game, Silent Hill: Downpour. Daniel Licht, perhaps best known for the soundtrack to the Showtime show Dexter, took over music duties on that installment. Spotify is a bit of a mess. If you try to search for the soundtracks, you’re going to get a lot of user playlists from people trying to piece together the soundtracks before they were officially available. While that’s a noble effort, and I personally have a lot of user playlists saved for when I can’t find official soundtracks, it makes it difficult to find specific things. Luckily, you can just search for Konami Europe’s Spotify profile and find all the soundtracks there (along with the Castlevania soundtracks). Do we have any Yamaoka fans here with any particular favorites? I’m personally partial to You’re Not Here off of the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack.