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Ricardo Cesteiro, Co-Founder and Producer of Camel 101 in his blogįrom the moment you leave the hotel, you get a creepy advice to “stay in the light” and you’d best stick to that as much as you can. I don’t have anything against jump scares per se, but I feel that it is an overused trick, both in video games and movies. When we set out, one of our important goals was to create a scary game without resorting to jump scares. Instead, placing emphasis on its dark and lonely atmosphere to push you out of your comfort zone. Unlike many horror games we’ve come to know, it doesn’t rely on the simple jump scare. Those Who Remain does an amazing job with how it handles its scares. Which is pretty much the driving force of what keeps you going in this game - finding out what happened to the denizens of Dormont. They are eerily creepy as you walk through clearly lived-in areas that are now absent of life as you wonder what exactly happened. Even more so when you realize they’re done by a three-man team. The environments you explore in first-person are rather well done for an indie game. In particular, Those Who Remain plays more like Silent Hill P.T. Fans of the Konami game will immediately draw up the similarities between the two games. That’s because it does borrow a few things from other games, particularly Silent Hill. A problem ensues with the transformers and he’s ultimately left alone in the darkness… only to find out that he’s not alone.įor long time players who have played other horror titles, they may find Those Who Remain to be familiar territory. He meets his paramour in a sleazy hotel in the middle of nowhere to break things off with her before his car gets stolen and he’s left to chase the thief to the streets. In Those Who Remain, you play as Edward on the verge of ending the affair he is having on his wife.

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THOSE WHO REMAIN REVIEW FULL

And this psychological horror is a narrative-driven experience that takes full advantage of such a primal fear. We’ve at least once in our lives had persistent feelings that we are never truly alone under the absence of light. Those Who Remain revolves around the fear of darkness. Most of anything could qualify as this subgenre of horror in my opinion if people really tried hard enough. I mean, most monsters by definition are already unsettling to the human eyes.

It feels like psychological horror is just a fancy term meant to draw people and make something more interesting than it is. Most psychological horrors I’ve played are borderline supernatural, which puts the “psychological” aspect into question.

Psychological horror has always been a phrase that’s been of interest to me.

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