If you’re a horror fan who’s also been tasked with the full-time job of making sure your kid(s) doesn’t become a serial killer, one of the three games I’m about to talk about should be right up your alley. But first, let’s talk about the game that isn’t aimed at kids — unless you’re like my parents, who had no problem letting me watch films like Candyman and A Nightmare On Elm St. at the age of five — but it might nudge your offspring toward a career in the barbed wire industry.
There’s a number of ways to guarantee you’ll be able to get your hands on The Evil Within this October, but just to make sure, Bethesda has gone and made pre-ordering it easy over here. PC gamers can also pre-order The Evil Within for $59.99 on Steam, along with the $19.99 season pass that you can learn more about here..
Next up, we have Alien: Isolation, a game that developer Creative Assembly is doing everything they possibly can to make look, feel and sound as legit as possible. The screenshots and gameplay footage look terrifying, and it looks like a fine way to get your fix for the kind of horror where you’re almost entirely unarmed and being hunted by something terrifying. It should also serve as a pretty decent palate cleanser for any unfortunate soul who got tricked into buying Colonial Marines.
Alien: Isolation can be pre-ordered on Steam for $49.99.
The last game that’s been made available for pre-order is Costume Quest 2, a sequel I’ve been waiting for since it released way back in 2010.
If you missed the first game, it’s still very much worth checking out. For those who missed the original game, it’s a quirky love letter to Halloween that’s elevated by an abundance of humor that have become trademarks of developer DoubleFine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend). Many of DoubleFine’s games tend to be one-offs, so it’s nice seeing one I loved seeing more attention.
Costume Quest 2 releases on October 7, and unless it manages to be substantially less great than its predecessor, I imagine I’ll be including it in a number of future “Games You Should Play This Halloween” lists. It’s not even remotely scary scary, but it is the perfect game to get you in the mood for Halloween. You can pre-order the game on Steam for $14.99.
Also planned for October is retail versions of the first and second seasons of Telltale’s episodic series The Walking Dead: The Game and the Silent Hill inspired indie horror game Silence of the Sleep, but neither are set in stone.
