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The horror genre contains a unique mixture of science fiction and horror and creates unforgettable game experiences.
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Retro-commorist setting of horror as in Invincible Offer a combination of beauty and frightening tension.
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Games like Bioshock Mix steampunk and horror elements and create iconic and absorbing worlds.
The horror genre is huge, with many styles of playing that resulted in famous one -off and franchises. It also resulted in various visual styles and settings, for example Retro-enteristic horror. This subgenre carved a unique niche in playing and mixed nostalgic aesthetics with scary options.
Although there is nothing wrong with the splendid and conventional versions of the future, as can be seen in the games as as a Dead space and ReturnThere is something attractive when you see sci-fi through the eyes of the past. From Steampunk Action-Horror to the horror of survival with cassette futurism, some games bring chills and visual excitement.
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Invincible
Thriller with slow burning inspired by a book
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Hack and Slash
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Based on a book of the same name by Stanislav Lem, Invincible It is not a horror game in a traditional sense, but there is plenty of fear and tension on the desert alien planet Regis 3.
Like games as FirewatchThe game consists of walking, dialogue and exploring a strange planet with many places on the planet that are both beautiful and scary. As a result Invincible It does not have to be a cup of everyone's tea, but science fiction visuals in the middle of the century in combination with a significant appearance of an extraterrestrial planet results in an adventure based on a story that feels like a love letter of sci-fi.
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Spoil
The cosmic race has never been more frightening
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May 5, 2017
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M for mature: blood, tongue, alcohol use, violence
It's like a classic cosmic horror game. Spoil He focuses on a lonely surviving name Morgan stuck on an abandoned space station surrounded by an alien threat. Talos 1 and architecture are designed to reflect the world concept where the space race was much more advanced, resulting in an alternative 1958.
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Art Deco designs at Talos 1 would be almost home, but each corner has an alien known as Typhon. They can imitate any object, allowing them to hide on simple supervision, which makes the first few hours Spoil Equal horror of survival. Even in later parts of the game, if it is armed with powerful weapons, it can be tense.
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We're happy
Non -conformist leads to the post -war horror
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August 10, 2018
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M for mature 17+ due to blood, strong tongue, suggestive topics, drug and alcohol, violence
We're happy Feels like an extended episode Twilight zoneTo introduce dystopic alternative history where the Nazis won 2. World War and people are forced to use a drug called Joy. This forces users to believe that everything is a paradise, but in fact it is a dark and terrible condition full of masked guards who follow those who do not match.
The England's post -war environment mixes the Gothic atmosphere with Teslapunk technology. Combined with porcelain masks of people, this makes the world feel like a nightmare. The game is a mixture of survey and secrecy, forcing the player to either be seen or to try to mix with the rest of the population living in the euphoric state.
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Iron lung
A disturbing examination of the ocean of the blood
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Simulation
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March 10, 2022
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Although held in 2370, Iron lung He does not feel advanced in the least as a title submarine and explores the mysterious planet. It was said that the planet did not have water, only the oceans of blood. This is quite disturbing, but the player must explore and find resources with a Rusta submarine, a 20th century that has no windows, only a camera and a sonar that leads them.
From the beginning to the end, a short independent horror game constantly builds tension with its drone atmosphere, thanks to which the player is afraid of the surroundings. Iron lung It even has a disturbing tradition of the future, when an event called silent ecstasy caused all the stars to just disappear. Now humanity is desperate for resources, even at the cost of running into underwater monsters.
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Bioshock
Horror and Steampunk will make a rapture iconic setting
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August 21, 2007
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Underwater City of Rapture stunned players in 2008 and helped make Bioshock Bonafide first person. Some of this has to do with its mixture of the design of a steam jaw steam and a fallen civilization, where the genetic modification caused that the residents of the ecstasy go crazy and moved to the war among themselves.
Different mutants, mad people and bizarre creations, such as big dads, make traveling over Rapture feel like a horror movie. Even with all weapons and superpowers that players can unlock BioshockThis will never change the fact that enemies can jump off the walls and corners at any time.
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Bioshock 2
Ecstatic by the eyes of a great father
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February 9, 2010
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M for mature 17+ due to blood, intense violence, sexual themes, strong language
Rather than a copy of the first game, players came to experience the Rapture world as a big dad, seven years after the events of their predecessor. Bioshock 2 It shows many of the same horrors with twisted factions fighting for control over the ecstasy, but from a new perspective. Big Daddy is fighting with new monsters like The Big Sisters and a villain known as Sophia Lamb.
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As before, the most frightening parts of the game are in the first few chapters, most of which come from listening to demented murderers and villains who mock the great father. Although it was not as kindly remembered as the first game, Bioshock 2 It is a strong sequel that has tried new ideas and gave the right end of ecstasy.
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Alien: insulation
The official sequel of sci-fi horror 70.
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October 7, 2014
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M for mature: blood, strong tongue, violence
It is a sign of how impressive the game is when it considers itself an official canon on the film timeline. This is the case Alien: insulation. After years of action games, Foreign The franchise returned to the style of Ridley Scott Foreign Thematically and visually, with technology and the environment replicating sci-fi look of the 1970s.
Alien: insulation is the horror of pure survival and is inspired by games as Resident Evil and Ride out As the daughter of Ellen Ripley, Amanda, she goes through a damaged space station. Xenomorf is still frightening ten years later because of its experimental AI, which learns the more player progresses in the game, allowing it to chase and hunt more effectively.
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