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/horg/ - Horror Games General

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Welcome to /horg/, the place to discuss anything horror games-related, such as:
- AAA series: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Alien Isolation, Dying Light, The Evil Within, etc.
- Current indie games and hidden gems: Alisa, Amnesia, Conscript, Darkwood, Faith, Pathologic, Penumbra, Signalis, Soma, Song Of Horror, Tormented Souls, Voices of the Void, World of Horror, Yume Nikki, etc.
- Retro classics: Alone in the Dark, Clock Tower, Dino Crisis, Eternal Darkness, Fatal Frame, Parasite Eve, Sweet Home, System Shock, etc.
- Free mods: HL1's Afraid of Monsters and Cry Of Fear, Doom's MyHouse.wad and Total Chaos, fan-made games like Blood: Death Wish, Penumbra: Necrologue, Resident Evil REVisited, stand-alone free games like SCP Containment Breach, etc.

>Horror games lists, guides, and resources:
https://rentry.org/horrorgeneral

>Question for the thread:
What horror games are you currently playing???

>Quick game recommendations
Random games???

>Previous threads:
https://arch.b4k.co/vg/search/subject/horg/

Resources (downloads, retro gaming, modding...)

MyAbandonware

GOG (Official)

GOG Games (Unofficial) (Backup)

Emulation Wiki (Emulation guides and list of best emulators for each console)

RetroArch (Emulators)

Vimm's Lair (Emulation ROMs)

CDRomance (Emulation ROMs)

PC Gaming Wiki (PC gaming troubleshooting and fixes)

ModDB

Nexus

Steam Workshop

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WebMs (recording and encoding)

You want to make some .WebM clips of your gameplay footage to share in the threads?

If you are a Nvidia user, you can just use the GeForce/ShadowPlay utility built into your video drivers and customize your hotkeys (default should be Alt+Z to enable the recording overlay).
You can also use a third-party screen recording software like OBS.

How to use WebM for Lazies to convert your videos:

Download and install the latest build of AviSynth. required

Download and unpack the latest build of WebM for Lazies in folder of your choice (latest version of "WebM for..." tool with VP9 support).

• 1. Launch WebMConverter.exe and open your recorded video in it. (you may encounter an error message if the built-in updater is blocked by your firewall)
• 2. Be mindful of the 4MB upload limit.
• 3. In the Processing tab, you can easily trim, crop, resize, etc. your footage. It's best to keep footage under 30-60 seconds. You can apply some light cropping and resize to lower resolution to reduce output filesize.
• 4. In the Encoding tab, set Mode to variable, enable High quality mode. Default CRF value should be set at around 30. You can try raising the value between 30 and 40 or above to reduce filesize output until you get a result under 4MB (upload limit), but this will also reduce video quality. It's best to reduce resolution rather than cranking up CRF too much. Alternatively, you can set Mode to Constant and force Size limit to 3.9MB but quality won't be optimal.
• 5. In the Advanced tab, tick the VP9/Opus box. You only need to tick it once as it should remember your choice. VP9 offers better quality output for lesser filesizes, but takes longer to encode.
• 6. To make more complex edits, click on the down-arrow next to Trim and select Multiple trim. Use Go to to directly input footage timecode or frame number.

Alternatively, if your WebM is too long, too large in size, or contains audio, you can quickly upload it to /wsg/ or Streamable.

• /wsg/ board: Post webm in /wsg/, then link it in the thread. 6MB limit, supports audio.
• Streamable: Requires quick account signup. 250MB limit, supports audio.

You can also share WebMs with external audio on non-audio boards via this custom userscript (Tampermonkey, a script manager for your browser, is required). Once installed, go in "Tools", "Data" section and input both your WebM video and audio source, then "Create", then "Post". This will upload the audio file to a third-party site and embed in your filename. Plays well with 4chanx.

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Lists & Recommendations

Official (and unofficial) places you can get these games.

Popular AAA series and console titles

Alan Wake 1, American Nightmare & Alan Wake 2 ▶️
Aliens: Dark Descent ▶️
Alien Isolation ▶️
Condemned 1: Criminal Origins & 2: Bloodshot (via Xenia) ▶️
Control ▶️
Days Gone ▶️
Dead by Daylight ▶️ play the free characters first before you sink money into dlc
Dead Rising 1, 2 & 2:OTR, 3 ▶️
Dead Space 1 Original & Remake, 2 & 3 ▶️
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut + PC fixes ▶️
Doom 3 ▶️
Dying Light 1 & 2 ▶️
F.E.A.R. 1 ▶️
Left 4 Dead 2 ▶️
Prey ▶️
Resident Evil Classic Era: RE1 (& RE1: DC), 2, 3 + 0, Code Veronica, Outbreak 1 & 2 ▶️
Resident Evil TPS era: RE4, 5 & 6 + Revelations 1 & 2 ▶️
Resident Evil Remake era: RE1R, RE2R, RE3R & RE4R ▶️
Resident Evil FPS era: RE7 & 8: Village ▶️
Resident Evil Lightgun spin-offs: Survivor, Dead Aim, Umbrella Chronicles, Darkside Chronicles ▶️
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 1: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky & Call of Pripyat ▶️
Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, 4 + Origins, Shattered Memories ▶️
Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Quarry, Dark Pictures Anthology...) ▶️
The Callisto Protocol ▶️ spiritual successor to Dead Space
The Evil Within 1 & 2 ▶️
The Last Of Us 1 ▶️
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ▶️

Survival horror - Retro classic era

Aka, mostly fixed angles, tank controls, pre-rendered backgrounds, limited resources and inventory, etc.

Alone In The Dark 1, 2, 3, 4: The New Nightmare, 2024 Reboot (1992-2024) ▶️
Blair Witch Trilogy ▶️
Blue Stinger ▶️
Carrier ▶️
Clock Tower 3 ▶️
Countdown Vampires ▶️
Curse: The Eye of Isis ▶️
Deep Fear ▶️
Dino Crisis 1 & 2 ▶️
Doctor Hauzer (1994) ▶️
Echo Night 1 & 2 ▶️ + Mouse support first person
Ecstatica ▶️
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem ▶️
Evil Dead: Hail to the King ▶️
Extermination ▶️
Fatal Frame 1, 2, 3 & 4 ▶️
Fear Effect 1 & 2 ▶️
Forbidden Siren 1, 2 & 3 ▶️ directed by Keiichiro Toyama, creator of Silent Hill
Galerians ▶️
Haunting Ground ▶️
Hellnight ▶️ + Mouse support first person
Illbleed ▶️
Kabus 22 ▶️
Koudelka ▶️ JRPG gameplay
Kuon ▶️
Martian Gothic ▶️
Nocturne ▶️
ObsCure 1 & 2 ▶️
Onimusha 1 ▶️
OverBlood ▶️
Parasite Eve 1 & 2 ▶️ JRPG gameplay
Resident Evil Classic Era: RE1 (& RE1: DC), 2, 3 + 0, Code Veronica, Outbreak 1 & 2 + RE1R ▶️
Rule of Rose ▶️
Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, 4 + Origins, Shattered Memories ▶️
The Note ▶️ + Mouse support first person
The X-Files: Resist or Serve ▶️

Survival horror - Retro early precursors

Clock Tower 1 (1995), 2 & Ghost Head ▶️ PS1 versions have mouse support
Laplace No Ma (1987-1995) ▶️
Project Firestart (1989) ▶️
Splatterhouse 1, 2 & 3 (1988-1993) ▶️
Sweet Home (1989) ▶️
War Of The Dead (1987) ▶️

Survival horror - Indie homage/revival

Alisa ▶️
Back in 1995 ▶️
Conscript ▶️
Nightmare of Decay ▶️ FPS
Signalis ▶️
Song Of Horror ▶️
Them and Us ▶️
Tormented Souls ▶️

Others:
Haunted PS1 Demo Discs (Wiki) ▶️ compilations of indie horror demos inspired by low poly PS1 aesthetics
Puppet Combo Store (Wiki) ▶️ (Murder House ▶️, Nun Massacre ▶️, etc.) indie studio specialized in developing and publishing low poly horror games, typically slasher-inspired
Individual demos/vaporware developers to check out: Banned Memories, Becrowned, Code: Dino-H, Compound Fracture, Echoes of the Living, Endless Blue, Heartworm, Hollowbody, Lake Haven, MalformationAB's Ground Zero, Paracusia, Post Trauma, Protagoras Bleeds, Simulacrum, The Devil, The Lunar Effect, The Pale... few games in this scene end up getting finished commercial products, most will likely never become more than vaporware demos or game jam prototypes, but can be worth following dev progress on Twitter/YouTube...

First-person hide-and-seek/walking-sims

Aka, the Frictional formula, popularized with Penumbra and Amnesia, recycled by Outlast and Silent Hills P.T., etc. doesn't typically feature combat except in rare occasions. Worth mentioning that Bunker breaks the formula and features classic survival horror elements.

Alien Isolation ▶️
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Machine for Pigs, Rebirth, The Bunker ▶️
Layers Of Fear ▶️
Outlast 1, 2 ▶️
Observer ▶️
Penumbra 1 & 2 ▶️
SOMA ▶️
Visage ▶️

Indie horror titles

ANATOMY ▶️
Ao Oni ▶️
Barotrauma ▶️
Blasphemous ▶️ 2D sidescroller, Metroidvania
Darkwood ▶️ top down, survival
Daymare: 1998 ▶️ third person, RE2-influenced
Dead Estate ▶️ isometric, rogue-like
Demonophobia (Ryona Guro, Untranslated) ▶️
Devotion ▶️
Discover My Body ▶️ medical horror, 10 minutes to beat
Doki Doki Literature Club Original & Plus ▶️
Don't Starve (Play The Screecher) ▶️
Duskers ▶️
Evil Tonight ▶️
Faith: The Unholy Trinity ▶️
Fear & Hunger ▶️
Five Nights at Freddy's 1 ▶️
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel ▶️ RE7-inspired
Fran Bow ▶️ point and click
GOHOME ▶️
Golden Light ▶️ FPS, rogue-like
Hatred ▶️ isometric, twin-sticks shooter
Hello? Hell... o? ▶️
HellSign ▶️
I'm on Observation Duty ▶️ spot the difference game
Ib (Remake) & Original ▶️
IMSCARED (Remake) & Original ▶️
Inscryption ▶️
INSIDE ▶️ 2.5D sidescroller platformer, spiritual successor to Limbo
Iron Lung ▶️ first person
Lamentum ▶️ top down
Lily's Well ▶️
Limbo ▶️ 2D sidescroller platformer
Little Nightmares ▶️
Lone Survivor ▶️ 2D sidescroller, SH-inspired
Lost in Vivo ▶️ FPS, SH-inspired
Mad Father (Remake) & Original ▶️
MEMENTO ▶️
Mirror Layers ▶️
Misao (Remake) & Original ▶️
Monstrum ▶️
Mundaun ▶️ first person
Pathologic 1 & 2 ▶️ first person
Phasmophobia (VR support) ▶️
Project Zomboid ▶️
Psychopomp& Gold▶️3D dungeon crawler, surreal horror
Remorse: The List ▶️ FPS
Saturnalia ▶️
Scorn ▶️ first person, Giger-inspired
Slender: 8 Pages & Arrival ▶️
Spooky's House of Jumpscares (Original) & HD ▶️
Stories Untold ▶️
Sylvio ▶️
The Complex ▶️
The Count Lucanor ▶️
The Crooked Man (Remake) & Original ▶️
The White Chamber ▶️
Who's Lila?▶️
The Witch's House (Remake) & Original ▶️
Torutaru ▶️
Voices of the Void ▶️
Where They Cremate The Roadkill ▶️
White Day: A Labryinth Named School ▶️
World of Horror ▶️ Junji Ito-inspired RPG
Yume Nikki ▶️
Yuppie Psycho ▶️

Point and click adventures

Baron Wittard ▶️
Barrow Hill ▶️
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet ▶️ & Prisoner of Ice ▶️
D ▶️
Dark Fall ▶️
Dark Seed ▶️
Darkness Within ▶️
Dead of the Brain ▶️
Dracula: Resurrection ▶️
Harvester ▶️
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream ▶️
Last Half of Darkness ▶️
Maniac Mansion ▶️
Necronomicon ▶️
Phantasmagoria ▶️
Sanitarium ▶️
Scratches ▶️
The 7th Guest ▶️
The Dark Eye ▶️
The Legacy: Realm of Terror ▶️
Waxworks ▶️ + Elvira 1 & 2 ▶️

Others, action-horror

American McGee's Alice 1 ▶️ & Madness Returns ▶️
Alien Resurrection ▶️ native PS1 mouse support
Aliens Versus Predator 2 ▶️
Blood ▶️
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth ▶️
Castlevania series ▶️
Clive Barker's Undying ▶️
Cold Fear ▶️
Cryostasis ▶️
House of the Dead ▶️ lightgun series
Manhunt 1 ▶️
Metroid Fusion ▶️
Nightmare Creatures 1 & 2 ▶️
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi ▶️
Realms of the Haunting ▶️
Shadow Man ▶️
Shadows of the Damned (via Xenia) ▶️ co-produced by Shinji Mikami, director of RE1/4
System Shock 1, 1 Remake & 2 ▶️
The Suffering 1 & 2 ▶️
The Thing ▶️
Zombi ▶️

Others, horror parodies, Halloween games

Lighthearted, cartoonish, kids-friendly or fun takes on horror tropes, etc. perfect for the Halloween season.

Castlevania: Kid Dracula ▶️
Evil Twin ▶️
Gregory Horror Show ▶️
Luigi's Mansion, Luigi's Mansion 2 & Luigi's Mansion 3 ▶️
MediEvil ▶️
Ghosts 'n Goblins ▶️, Ghouls 'n Ghosts ▶️, Demon's Crest ▶️ & Maximo ▶️
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti ▶️
Zombie/horror spin-offs of popular series, like Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare or Yakuza: Dead Souls... ▶️

Free mods / total conversions

Blood: Death Wish ▶️
Doom: MyHouse.wad ▶️
Doom: Total Chaos ▶️
Half-Life 1: Afraid of Monsters DC ▶️ requires a copy of Half-Life 1
Half-Life 1: Cry of Fear ▶️
Half-Life 1: They Hunger ▶️
Half Life 2: Grey ▶️
Half Life 2: Nightmare House 2 ▶️
Half-Life 2: Underhell ▶️
Left 4 Dead 2: Resident Evil series re-creation campaigns ▶️
Penumbra: Necrologue, Twilight of The Archaic ▶️ requires a copy of Amnesia TDD + Prisoner of Fate requires a copy of SOMA
Resident Evil: Survivor Redux (Remake) ▶️ + Containment ▶️ (T) - REVisited ▶️ (T) - RE1.5 ▶️
SCP Containment Breach & Mods ▶️
Silent Hill: Alchemilla (SH2-inspired, using HL2's Source engine) ▶️ & Silent Hills: P.T. Demo Remake in Unreal Engine ▶️

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Guides for PC best versions

Dino Crisis

Dino Crisis 1 + Patch

Alternatively, emulating the PS1 version (via DuckStation) or Dreamcast port is easy. Dino Crisis 2 is best emulated.

Resident Evil

Resident Evil 1 + Patch
Resident Evil 2 + Patch
Resident Evil 3 + Patch

Alternatively, emulating the PS1 versions (via DuckStation) or GameCube ports (via Dolphin) is easy.

HD Project for RE2 & RE3 (AI upscaling)
HD Project for RE4

RE4 Tweaks
RE5 Tweaks
RE8 Tweaks

Resident Evil Timeline Generator in essence, this will help you figure out what's canon in the resident evil franchise, what kind of canon they're in and lets you organise them in the dates they were released or chronologically

Silent Hill

Silent Hill 1 (alt) PS1 ROM + emulate via DuckStation
Silent Hill 2 (alt) PC NTSC + Enhanced Edition mod (just run the installer ; "Enhanced .EXE" is also the no-CD crack)
Silent Hill 3 (alt) PC NTSC + PC Tweaks like Widescreen Fix (fix)
Silent Hill 4 (alt) PC NTSC + PC Tweaks

Alternatively, you may also try emulating the PS2 versions. However, avoid the "HD Collection".

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