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What Are the Best Horror Games of 2016 (So Far)?
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?
Epic’s Fortnite is heading for another crossover, this time with Universal Orlando and Halloween Horror Nights. The title’s annual Fortnitemares Halloween event will be coming to Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort in a new scare zone, kicking off on August 28.
For those not in the know, Scare zones are themed, open-air areas where guests and actors roam around freely.
This is the first time Fortnite will be featured during the after-hours event, which will run from August 28 until November 1. Tickets and packages are on sale now at the official site.
Per the press release, guests will enter Freaky Fields, a Halloween-inspired living battleground that’s been “overcome with a threatening force.” From there, fans will meet up with the Battle Bus, featuring familiar Fortnitemares characters, including “a few new additions exclusive to Halloween Horror Nights.”
And of course, there will be Fortnitemares merchandise available for fans, including a graphic t-shirt, decal set, and an acrylic collectible piece.
Fortnitemares won’t be the only featured property at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. Killer Klowns from Outer Space will also be getting its own scare zone. Sinners, Stranger Things, Hellraiser, and Evil Dead Burn will also be part of the event, though they will be relegated to their own specific houses.
And while it’s early yet, gamers can probably expect Fortnitemares to return to Fortnite this October.
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