Meanwhile, we moved beyond the tired scope of haunted houses and asylums and expanded into new environments like spooky suburban neighborhoods, alien-infested spaceships, and secretive government facilities. Nostalgia also played a large role in the diversifying horror game scene, drawing from 80s film and vintage visuals to evoke terror on a not-quite-new, but different, level. Remedy Entertainment stood out with some of the best-scripted in the business, and Resident Evil and Silent Hill both held their own. That said, the big boys of horror design still managed to impress. Some of the most effectively scary games you’ll ever play are touched by the fewest hands. If there’s anywhere the case can be made for “too many cooks spoil the broth”, it’s horror games.
Over the past ten years, some of the best titles were made by small teams or individuals, from the Mod DB community to the library of self-produced titles at Itch.io. Once dominated by Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Fatal Frame, the rise of accessible tools and independent publishing has seen the formation of several niches and subgenres, from retrograde throwbacks to point and click revivals and survival horror standbys. The horror videogame genre has been revitalized in the past decade.
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