Horror Games We Love #1

There are some fake but there are also some REAL scary games out there! I couldn't start this topic without at least mentioning Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It made me freak out a few months ago, when I first discovered it. The atmosphere developed by the sounds and the awesome graphics gets into you and there is no way that you can avoid getting deep into the story. And what a great story, I must add!

The creators of Amnesia did what - at least not that I remember - no one else has ever done: a TRUE horror game. Not some shooting nonsense that seems more like Action than horror. This IS real horror, and add to that a good amount of suspense, too. Not wanting to give too much away, because knowing stuff before playing spoils more than usual all the fun, in this case.

You play as the character Daniel, a man who forgot all important details about who he is and what he was up to in - if memory doesn't fail me - Prussia, or something like that. The environment is, of course, a dark and creepy castle, full of disturbing rooms and shadowy corners. Not to tell you about the thrilling flashbacks and unsettling events...

The thing is: you need to explore the castle in order to remember what you forgot, even though you know there is a shadow coming for you and that... Well... It was you in the first place who, apparently, chose to forget something too terrible to keep in mind.

Aware of that, you start your journey and go on by solving puzzles and figuring out how to get out of difficult situations, always with a sense of urgency and danger. Soon enough you discover why is that. Oh, and for the record: you can't fight. Just remember that. Running and hiding is all you have. (That's why I first elected this as one true horror game; even in other cool horror games you have to fight somehow, and this kind of takes away the point of real fear: hopeless.) To finish, you can't stay in the dark for too long, otherwise, you'll go insane. Nevertheless, there are times when you'll be forced to stay in complete darkness.

I really wish every fan of horror games try and BUY Amnesia, to support the awesome work those guys did. I recall they've won several prizes and awards and this was the game that made their company, Frictional Games, be able to maintain itself. They've also released a trilogy before their big Amnesia hit, but I'll leave these amazing three other games to be commented here in the future.

After The Dark Descent, they also released an extension to it, twice as cool and difficult, but this will also be a future topic here.

Sad enough to hear rumors that Frictional's next game won't be a horror one. Let's see how they do in an adventure, though.