Project Zero/Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly originally launched in 2003, and its remake now has a release date of mid-March 2026. Emphasis on the word remake: the game has undergone a complete overhaul, offering a beautifully reborn haunting experience thanks to enhanced graphics, sound, and control elements. The game features Japanese voices with texts in English, French, German, Italian, and…
The best way to think of Tormented Souls 2 is as an atmospheric experience above all else. That was the case for the first, too, but the developers have doubled down on it for the sequel, and that’s playing it smart. The atmosphere is definitely Tormented Souls 2’s strength. It…
I would argue that Silent Hill f is the finest game in…
COVID lockdowns broke us all a little bit (or, at least, those…
Schools are creepy places, and it doesn’t seem to matter which country you’re talking about, they’re going to be one of the most common settings for horror stories. The Bridge Curse 2: The Extraction is Taiwan’s turn to haunt a place of learning (in this case, a university), and it’s…
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I try my hardest to keep current when it comes to video games, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, a lot of indie games still slip through the crack. Sometimes even viral ones. Today is the first I’ve heard of Amanda the Adventurer. The game looks cute and happy, but underneath all…
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When I think of Idea Factory otome games, much of what comes to mind is as cute and colourful as the upcoming Cupid Paradise: Sweet and Spicy Darling. Don’t get me wrong, those are wonderful and creative games – but what if an otome visual novel decides to go dark…
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I do not understand Sker Ritual. At all. It seems that at every opportunity the developers took what was great about Maid of Sker and do the exact opposite to it, and so now, across just two games in the “Sker” property, we’ve got a confused mess across the “franchise”…
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It was only a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about PQube publishing The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication in the West (you can read that here). At the time there was nothing mentioned of a release date past 2024, so I wasn’t expecting a launch date so soon.…
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The Corpse Party series is a bit confusing if you’re a newcomer. The first game in the series, originally launched in the mid-’90s, has been remade/re-released a ridiculous amount of times. There’s a sequel that isn’t a sequel but also is one (it’s literally called Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient).…
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I’m not going to lie: when Dollhouse first launched in 2019, it wasn’t exactly to large amount of fanfare. Or, you know, any. The game looked really promising (see an early trailer here) but there were minimal reviews for it: on Metacritic, it has a total of three ratings for…
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1992’s Alone in the Dark is one of those genuine masterpieces of our little medium. Four full years before Capcom, deeply inspired by Frédérick Raynal’s work, hit it big with Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark brought us a non-linear haunted mansion to explore, filled with monsters and puzzles. As…
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Based on Welsh folklore, Maid of Sker is best described as first-person survival horror. According to Matt’s review, it is subtle and nuanced. Sker Ritual is a spin-off that changes up the genre a little bit: it is an intense round-based zombie survival first-person shooter. That sounds significantly less subtle/nuanced…
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Death Mark deserves better recognition than it gets. The first two games in the series (Death Mark itself, and then Spirit Hunter: Ng) are both incredible horror visual novels, through which Experience Inc. has given us some of the finest art and suspense narratives that we’ve seen. And yet to…
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