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What Are Your Most Anticipated Crowdfunded Horror Games?

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There’s only a few days left in the Kickstarter for Night Dive Studios’ remake of the 1994 cyberpunk horror game System Shock, which has until Thursday to reach its second stretch goal of $1.2M and unlock localization support for French, Italian, German and Spanish. Last week, it bested the $1.04M raised by Friday the 13th: The Game to become the horror genre’s top earner, and while that’s certainly impressive, it’s hardly going to be the end of it.

Like so many other crowdfunding projects — including the Friday the 13th game that got its impressive total after two campaigns — I suspect the fundraising will continue beyond this week. I hope it does, anyway. It’d be a shame if Night Dive left those remaining stretch goals untouched.

Another $100k would be enough to get System Shock some additional locations and an expanded narrative, and that’s absolutely doable when the game is still more than a year out. $1.5M would unlock a full orchestral score, or $1.7M for more brutal death cinematics. You don’t need to be an audiophile or a bloodthirsty gorehound to appreciate these things, and they’re all within reach.

Thanks to platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, we’ve amassed a fairly substantial collection of horror games to look forward to between now and 2017, and System Shock is only one of them. A guide to all the rest can be found among our most anticipated crowdfunded horror games. Ranking the 15 titles on that list is asking too much of me, so I’m going to leave it to you. You can choose up to five games from the poll below to lend your support. Let the games begin.


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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78

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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).

Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.

While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.

The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.

Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.

We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.

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