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Seek is an impressive first person survival horror puzzle adventure game inspired by Amnesia, Outlast and Cry of Fear, that’s set in the 18th century and doesn’t just lock you in a gloomy house, but allows you to explore vast and beautifully rendered expanses of it’s massive game world.

The huge open world of Seek is something you don’t see often in a horror game, with large open expanses that are more reminiscent of an open world RPG. These open areas highlight how alone you are in the world and also serve to amplify the feeling of claustrophobia when the walls do close in as you enter buildings and tunnel networks. Scares are pretty few and far between at the moment, but there is a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, a few glimpses of unknown oddities and some rather nasty Lost-style malicious black clouds later on in the Alpha.

Seek features physics based puzzles, such as using objects to bash a door down or building bridges out of planks of wood. These puzzles are fairly rudimentary at the moment, but they allow for a less formulaic approach than the standard keycards and levers approach, and no doubt they will get trickier as the game progresses.

The game size and graphical polish in Seek’s Alpha alone puts most full horror game releases to shame. It looks set to be an epic horror adventure once it’s fully fleshed out – you’re going to need some seriously sturdy walking boots to traverse it’s expanses!

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VANISH is an first-person horror adventure game where you have to keep your sanity in check as you’re thrown into a sewer-like labyrinth where a blood-thirsty beast roams, ready to rip you to shreds.

In the game you’ll find clues, hints and notes to help you find your way out of the hellhole that you were thrown into. It’s easy to get lost in this labyrinthine maze and you really don’t want to run into the beast. You’ll have to listen to unique sounds and sudden changes to help you escape from the claws of the beast - with a bit of luck you won’t hit a dead end when it’s running after you!

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Dark Deception may look like a horror game, but it’s actually Pac-Man, the creepiest, freakiest Pac-Man game you’re likely to play.
You’re tasked with roaming the corridors of the maps, collecting all the shards (Pac-Mans dots) to complete the level. This is easier said than done though as it’s much harder to do from a first person perspective than a top-down view. Not knowing where the enemies are means there are some real jump scares as enemies pop out from behind corners just in-front of you.
There is a story to the game, that’s something to do with you playing a cop on the run, but it doesn’t really matter, all you need to know about this game is that it is freaky first person Pac-Man and it’s great.
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde were never this scary.
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UPDATE:
Dark Deception has now launched it’s Kickstarter campaign. The team have now been liscenced by Sony, so they’re pretty keen to bring it out on PS4 (and Project Morpheus) and Vita as well as PC. They’ve enlisted one of the main character artists from Bioshock Infinite to overhaul their characters, making them even more creepy. They’ve also employed the voice talent of Carolyn Seymour, who’s appeared on-screen in Congo and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, but is probably best known as Queen Mirrah (Gears of War) and Dr Chakwas (Mass Effect).
As well as a wide range of tweaks, upgrades and improvements, some of the stretch goals include procedurally generated levels, new monsters, multiplayer, Mod support and an Xbox One version. With all the graphical and sound improvements, as well as the promise of new monsters with every level, the scariest Pac-Man you’ve ever played is set to get a whole lot scarier…
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UPDATE:

Dark Deception has now launched it’s Kickstarter campaign - the scariest Pac-Man you've ever played is set to get a whole lot scarier…

Phantasmal is a genuinely terrifying roguelike first person horror game inspired by Dead Space, Silent Hill, Metro and Resident Evil, set in an old abandoned, procedurally generated mansion.

The prevailing darkness makes for a very claustrophobic feeling game, and both the character design and audio are both particularly freaky, but the single most terrifying aspect of it is that the levels are all procedurally generated. This procedural generation means that every playthrough is different and just as pant-wettingly horrifying as the last. You never know what’s going to come at you next, although it’s a safe bet it doesn’t want to be friends.

The goal of the game is to escape the mansion, by making your way through levels full off all manner of creepy ghouls, trying to reach the level exit portal. This is no easy task, resources are sparse and you’re pretty fragile. You have a mixture of traditional weapons and makeshift weapons but a lot of the time, sneaking is your best option, especially with the most common enemy, blind humanoid creatures that hunt through sound.

As if things weren’t stacked against you enough, you’re also prone to hallucinations, looking directly at some creatures with your torchlight turned on will cause you to slowly lose your sanity. Make no mistake, you’ll die a lot in this game, you’ll learn how to take on different enemies, but you can forget about learning level layouts. You never know what’s behind those corners, and most of the time it’s something very bad.

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DreadOut is a very creepy 3rd person adventure horror with a sinister vibe similar to Asian horror classics like The Ring or Ju-On: The Grudge. You play as Linda, a school girl who gets separated from the rest of the students on a high school trip which has taken an unexpected detour into an old deserted town. This results in you roaming this creepy town on your own, with only the camera on your cell phone to fend off the freaky Asian ghosts, taking pictures a-la Fatal Frame/Project Zero to capture/kill them.

The Alpha Demo is a short half hour taster of what the full game will be, and while the controls can be a little clunky at times, but it’s consistently scary. As surreal, tense and freaky as any of the great Asian horror movies, DreadOut offers up some truly terrifying jump scares in it’s short play time.

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