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Horror Bytes Episode 2: Surreal Tea Time and Petting a Dog in the Apocalypse [Safe Room Podcast]
Horror Bytes is back!
It’s Horror Bytes Episode 2, and for the second installment of our monthly segment in which Neil and I cover bite-sized horror experiences, we’ve increased our number of picks from two to four games apiece.
This allows us to produce a more substantial conversation and dissuade me from continuing to inundate Neil’s inbox with bite-sized horror game suggestions on an hourly basis.
And while his efforts were futile, we at least got a longer chat out of it!
Among this month’s picks, we have a cartoon baby running from spiders, a teen left home alone, a Game Boy-inspired meta visual novel about tea, an ax-swinging demon hunter, and a game that ended a little too abruptly. All games are available on Steam and/or itch.io with an entry fee of ‘free’, but as you’ll hear, some are very much worth sending a few bucks to.
Neil’s Picks
Jay’s Picks
Safe Room is a weekly horror video game discussion podcast, premiering on all major platforms every Monday. Feel free to browse our LinkTree for a complete list of services here.
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Safe Room – @SafeRoomPod
Neil – @Nezzko
Jay – @NotFunnyJ
If you’re an indie developer making a short horror game experience and you’d like us to consider your game for Horror Bytes, then contact any of the above Twitter accounts.
Coming Soon & Now Showing is a monthly series on Halloweenies that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors.
This month, Michael Roffman and Justin Gerber discuss the blockbuster weekend involving Backrooms and Obsession. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987’s Dead of Winter and 1977’s False Face.
Stream the episode below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, Alien, and the Universal Monsters.This year? Hellraiser!
You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Re-Animator, Darkman), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Manhunter, ), and even spinoffs like their recent run Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.