The year’s about half over, and much of the bounty of new games we know of has been spent trying to please the writing mass of pale bodies that form us, the gamer horde and our insatiable appetite for fizzy refreshments and interactive amusements. Every year, games developers have their turn at the altar where they present a sacrifice to the Beast With Many Gamertags, afraid to unsettle the Slumbering One before its noon awakening, but eager to earn its fickle admiration.
It’s usually around this time of the year, when we’ve amassed enough tributes paid to us by the developers we allow to exist with us in this reality — praise be us, for we are Legion — that we conjure the ageless listicle from the Murky Depths of Many Pageviews to help determine the most epic of all the offerings.
That time has come, but rather than list my top offerings so they can endure your scrutiny, I’m going to leave it to you to decide which of 2016’s many spooky offerings is worthy of Transcendence. I’d do it, but I’m having trouble choosing between Doom, Oxenfree, The Town of Light and Dying Light: The Following. Please, lend me your aid, brothers and sisters of the Pale Horde, so that we can commence preparations for the return of The Three E’s.
Here they are:
Pony Island (PC)
Oxenfree (PC, XBO)
Resident Evil 0 HD (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
Calendula (PC)
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii U)
Dying Light: The Following / Enhanced Edition (PC, PS4, XBO)
Pesadelo – Regressão (PC)
Layers of Fear (PC, PS4, XBO)
The Walking Dead: Michonne (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
The Town of Light (PC, XBO)
UnderDread (PC)
Kholat (PC, PS4)
The Guest (PC)
Moving Hazard (PC)
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh (PC)
At the Mountains of Madness (PC)
Resident Evil 6 (PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO)
Dark Souls III (PC, PS4, XBO)
Phantasmal: City of Darkness (PC)
Sylvio Remastered (PC)
The Park (PS4, XBO)
Neverending Nightmares (PC, PS4)
Doom (PC, PS4, XBO)
So, which game deserves our praise today?
