In Alan Wake, you take on the role of a writer who seems to have lost his mind (and his wife). In it, Wake is hunted by a darkness, a seemingly omnipresent evil that has the ability to possess people and bend them to its will, turning them into zombie-like shadow people. As a haunted house — which would be great set in a forest or possibly an abandoned lumber mill — people would enter it armed with a flashlight. No gun. Your only defense is to blind the baddies and run.
No, Slender Man is not a game, but by now it’s basically become a sub-genre of horror, with every other indie developer trying to incorporate what Mark Hadley did with his insanely popular game, Slender: The Eight Pages, into their own work.
I imagine this would work similarly to the Alan Wake haunt, with people walking through a forest with the goal of collecting pages. Once you have enough of them you can leave. The only other way out is in the long arms of everyone’s favorite dapper multi-dimensional, faceless bad guy.
