ZLO
Go in search of the ultimate evil!
Cast out evil spirits with the word of God and the cross.
Prepare for the horror that lurks in this forest and uncover the mystery of the priest protagonist.
Psychological horror inspired by the Silent Hill series and movies like The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project and many others.
Zlo is a story-driven horror adventure game.
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Collect notes;
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Exorcise evil spirits;
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Explore atmospheric locations;
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Corpse Party (2021)
Corpse Party (2021) has one of the best stories I’ve ever heard, full stop. For a 2D 16-bit horror pseudo-visual-novel, it doesn’t get any better than this. Not only that, it is superlatively intense and immerses consumes any player daring enough to take on the challenge. Corpse Party is the kind of game that one doesn’t play through so much as live through; this game weighs heavy on the soul. The halls of Heavenly Host seem to exact as much toll on the player as on the characters themselves! The game has an uncanny knack for getting into the player’s head, too - this game is eerily good at cultivating within the player the sense of fear and dread that pervades the school, and it’s easy to get the impression that perhaps the game is toying with the player more than the other way around…
– Real player with 69.7 hrs in game
This was the game that started it all for me. Over a decade ago, long before I cared for story telling, I found this game. I watched YouTubers play it as a kid, because back than, that’s what I did. Watch games, play games, go to school, that was it. However, soon I’d find out this wasn’t just a game to have fun and enjoy like the rest I experienced at the time.
Looking back on it now, I can say the story of Corpse Party quite literally changed my entire life. For the first time, a story made me feel pain, an extreme sadness. It was powerful, and as a child, it confused me. No game, no show, nothing, ever made me feel the level of despair this relentlessly dished out to me. It was so long ago, so it’s hard to remember, but I think as a child, after I finished this, I avoided it at all costs. That way, I didn’t have to think about it. However, it already planted something in my mind. Although it made me feel terrible, the feeling was very real. It fascinated me that something made up could hurt me so badly. So, from there, I left this series and searched for countless ones like it. Searching for even more stories that could leave an impact on their viewers all the same.
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
Dark Fracture: Prologue
Dark Fracture is INTENSE! This is a unique horror game the likes of which I have never seen before. The game play, lighting, environments and story are all completely focused on delivering an excellently executed horror experience. I was really impressed at how much stuff was interactable and right from the start the game gave a foreboding feeling and I found myself opening every drawer looking for stuff to help me, my survival gamer instincts kicking in. Even if this isn’t completely a survival game, it had aspects of it, like the sanity meter, that made me feel like I needed to find as much stuff as I could to help myself survive. Which is a plus! However, the game is certainly focused on horror first and boy did it deliver! The horror was heavy, constant, and like I mentioned before, INTENSE! I almost could not handle this game! There were several points I said to myself, “I do not want to go out there.” There were points at which I nearly jumped out of my headphones! There was so much quality horror content and game play packed into this demo I can only imagine what the full game will be like! Well worth the time spent and I can’t wait for the full game!
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game
UPDATE
Holy bananas Batman! I fixed the graphical problems I was having by popping in and out of windowed mode a few times and adjusting the resolution that way. Then the mouse worked fine and I was able to see the journal properly.
Big difference. I’m changing my down thumb to an up thumb. :)
This was an interesting game as far as the insanity mechanic goes. I enjoyed playing through and exploring and eventually finding my way to the the end. I also appreciate the humor that is gently sprinkled in here and there.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
God’s Basement
Ever heard of “The Backrooms?”
It’s one of those creepypasta-type things that makes the rounds from time to time. The basic idea is that you can fall through the walls of reality in certain places and get trapped a sort of limbo in the form of an endless labyrinth of empty rooms, like a deserted office building. The aesthetic is grounded in this whole idea of liminal space, like a threshold frozen in a suspended state between one place and another. People and other things may come and go from this borderland, or else they wind up stuck there forever.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
This game is a chore, and had potential.
God’s Basement is a Walk Sim that set’s up a nice idea of uncovering your story through death, and sending you down a tragic past. Guided by a voice called “The Operator”, you walk down a dark paths to discover a grim truth……. Then that’s about where the game leaves your peak interest.
God’s Basement is a lot of fluff with little going on. You play James, a man who’s dead, and figuring things out. With the “The Operator” overseeing you through the walk down in the Basement, you encounter some really creepy scenes, and setups. The problem with God’s Basement, or few problems at that, are that the setups are poorly executed. You see a button puzzle, and the game just expects you to get it down with no hints or sense of understanding. You hear a phone ringing, and have to avoid answering it, but wouldn’t know that without trial and error. The puzzles are a chore in God’s Basement. They really grind your sense of interest to the bone, and after a chapter, you’ll just lose interest more and more. You collect text logs along the way to fill in the gaps of the story too, which are nice, but have a dry feeling to them.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Insaniam
Story
You play as investigative journalist “Mr. Johnson” after receiving several tips of a government cover up at a recently abandoned psychiatric hospital. All reports suggest illegal experiments taking place on the patients of the facility- and supposedly a government cover up. Detective Johnson decided to go through with this one off-books and after just a few days of preparation he sets out to explore the abandoned facility in the middle of the night, to recover patient records.
2AM: You arrive at the scene, it is a gloomy and silent night. Rain is pouring, wind flows through the air as an unsetteling feeling kicks in. Something isn’t right here, but there is only one way to figure out what it is…
Gameplay
Insaniam is a first person survival horror game, your objective is to retrieve at least five patient records for the abandoned facility.
You’ll be forced to scavenge for batteries to keep your camcorder charged, utilize the night vision mode to explore the dark, use sanity pills or stay in the light to keep sane, avoid hallucinations, while something is lurking in the darkness and so much more.
Gameplay is based around a speed run mechanic where you’ll play for shortest time to escape or longest time survived. Randomized game mechanics keep this experience fresh and increases re-playablity.
The game is not story focused but there is underlying lore that is optional to explore through text, visuals or audio.
Loop Room
The loop room is a horror game from the first person point of view, and the goal is to operate 5 panels in 100 repeated rooms and escape to the emergency exit.
Run away from the endless room through various equipment and items.
- Four kinds of maps : There are four different types of maps. Each map has different ghosts and sounds.
Also, experience new fun in a different way from map to map.
- Escape : You can escape after operating the panel with a key card that you can get around the room.
MADiSON
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game, featuring disturbing gameplay and an unsettling and compelling narrative.
STORYLINE
What would you do if you woke up locked in a dark room, with your hands covered in blood? Play as Luca, and endure the brute torture of MADiSON, a demon that has forced him to continue a gory ritual started decades ago, making him commit abominable acts. Will you be able to finish this sinister ceremony?
CHARACTERS
Every character in MADiSON has a disturbing story that blends seamlessly into the main narrative. Watch every step you make and be careful not to attract any unwanted attention. You won’t be alone.
GAMEPLAY
Use the instant camera to survive this torture or dive deeper into it.
Develop the photos you take manually and face the fear of unveiling the truth.
Search everything, pick up elements and interact with them to survive the entities.
Randomly activated events and changing puzzles throughout the game assures a higher level of replayability.
Get lost in this immersive and terrifying experience thanks to high quality visuals and 3D sounds.
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MIDNIGHT Remastered
Pretty interesting game that kept me entertained. 10/10 would recommend compared to the other games classified as a indie horror. Still can’t figure out the last achievement though.. :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep6z4L3nyRY
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Fun little indie pixel horror based loosely off of the ‘Midnight Man’ urban legend/game.
When you start, your character has already completed the ritual which bummed me out because I like going through the candle lighting and knocking and stuff. No worries though!
My biggest challenge when beating this game was remembering where things were. The object is to collect seven envelopes that are marked with one of the deadly sins from the bible. Luckily they aren’t randomly placed so it’s just a matter of finding them all and not running out of matches before you can escape.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Psych
i had recently seen a youtuber play this i had to check it out ! i thought all his jumping and shrieking was all for show but after playing this wow shit made me jump outa my skin when i got caught the only thing so far i have to say is maybe put some kind of map in there to reference not one that stays on the screen as i know thats part of the thrill of the game . but also i could be wrong but the colors to fix the electricity was a little odd for me but over all cant wait for more !!!! would be cool to interact with more objects maybe start a fire in the power house as a diversion or something but great game so far cant wait to see whats next
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Loving the game so far! It really has me wondering what´s real and what isn´t and i´m really looking forward to seeing how to story progresses. The gameplay is mostly very smooth, but i do have a couple problems with it.
Mainly the fact that there´s no map or no way to know where you are and have to rely on pure memory, which kinda sucks for me since i tend to forget new things such as the geography of a place rather quickly, so it was a bit hard to navigate through the park since i didn´t know where i had to go, so i think it would be a good idea to implement a map of sorts as an item, but without telling you exactly where you are, just the general geography of the place. The second problem was a bug that threw me off a bit a while after i began spoilers ahead for those who haven´t played it. After i grabbed Sam´s phone on the ground, after walking around for a minute or two, the phone appeared again on the ground and i picked it up again, which made the dialogues mix up and be interrupted by one another, basically giving me a hard time to understand what was going on. I´d appreaciate it if you could fix it so future players don´t have the same problem i did when trying to understand what´s going on.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Sally Face - Episode One
epic storygame ⊙﹏⊙
– Real player with 53.8 hrs in game
This game is by far one of my favorite games! I’ve grown attached to just about all the characters and the story line will have absolutely have you on the edge of your seat the entire time! 10/10 recommend trying out this horror- story based game :)
– Real player with 21.5 hrs in game