Comment on What are your favorite spooky (but not scary) retro games?
Hammerjack@lemmy.zip 3 months agoI’m not so much concerned with the gore or being too scary, it’s the slowness of the SH games that I don’t have the patience for right now. I’m not looking for a game I need to spend hours immersing myself into, I’m hoping to find some fun games I can jump into for 20 minutes at a time.
Ghost n Goblins is a good call, although I’m terrible at that game. I’ll definitely need to checkout Rusty, I’ve played all the Castlevania games so Rusty sounds perfect.
MedEvil definitely fits my criteria, although I find that game too clunky. There’s a new(ish) game called Pumpkin Jack which was heavily inspired by MedEvil but uses more modern game mechanics. It’s a fun one.
Luigi’s Mansion leans a bit too far into the cutesy/silly territory for me, but it’s definitely a good choice.
I didn’t realize Dead By Daylight had a bunch of characters from various horror franchises, that’s really cool! I think I’m probably more likely to play Left4Dead if I wanted an action-y spooky multiplayer game but I’ll definitely give Dead By Daylight more attention.
I’ve never heard of Pascal’s Wager and the reviews on steam don’t look great, but I’ll look into it.
Thanks for the list with so many varied options!
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No worries, I figure maybe one of them might help you pick something. I enjoy all sorts of games, including horror, but my favorites with horror tend to be the very slow survival horror games. To me, the game is basically a giant puzzle box, having multiple smaller puzzles that need to be solved for the whole thing to unlock and reveal its secret.
Kuon, Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground, Silent Hill (in this order: 2,1,3,4 and nothing else exists), Resident Evil (only the original one), Clock Tower and the like are my favorites.
Dino Crisis was a dinosaur version of Resident Evil made by the same developers. They called it “Panic Horror,” because it was a much faster, action oriented version of Resident Evil, where the dinosaurs would actually follow you room to room. It was a great game, and the only made two of them. DC3 doesn’t exist.
Maybe you might have interest in Illbleed? Its a Sega Dreamcaat game that is like a theme park with different lands based on horror movie tropes. Its a pretty whacky game, and is very experiemental. But it is certainly anything but scary. Maybe it may interest you?