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What’s Your Most Anticipated Horror Game?
I want to know what your most anticipated horror game(s) is right now. And please, take your time. This is a safe place for you to sift through the enormous selection of titles that pepper the still mostly hazy 2016-2017 release schedule. I’ll even help you make a decision that represents you as an individual, because you’re not a comment on a website, you’re a whole bunch of wet and squishy stuff packed inside a person-shaped skin bag that sometimes enjoys exploring virtual worlds inhabited by monsters and an assortment of other horrors.
This is a wildly open-ended question, so let’s start with what’s coming up within the next few months. We have the finale of The Walking Dead: Michonne next week, as well as the console release of The Park (PS4, XBO) and Neverending Nightmares (PS4) in the first week of May. Then we have an avalanche of demons in the new Doom, followed by a stampede of zombies in the remastered Dead Island Definitive Collection to cap off the month. We might also get Narcosis.
June starts strong with Insomniac’s Oculus Rift exclusive Lovecraftian horror game Edge of Nowhere — one of many virtual reality horror games we’re looking forward to right now — and after that, Umbrella Corps and PAMELA.
In the more distant future that’s still 2016, we have the third season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Allison Road, Visage, Friday the 13th: The Game, Last Year, Outlast II, Perception, Inner Chains, Dead by Daylight, The Hum: Abductions, and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, among so many others.
And in 2017: Dead Island 2 (probably), Draugen, Vampyr, Overkill’s The Walking Dead, Routine, System Shock 3, and remakes of the original System Shock, Resident Evil 2, and Pathologic.
That’s hardly everything, but it should give you an idea of the horrors to come.
So, which horror game(s) are you most looking forward to?
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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