Escape rooms usually test logic and patience. In Escape The Sex Room, the adult visual novel from Fantasy Games, they test something far less comfortable, and the lock on the door is only the first of the problems. This is an escape story wrapped in horror, where every route asks how far the player is willing to go.
Two children against a whole island: that is the old formula, and it still works. REANIMAL The Prisoner is the new horror adventure episode from Tarsier Studios, published by THQ Nordic, and it continues the story of a brother and a sister trapped in a world built from their worst memories.
The abyss keeps what you want at the very bottom, and Miseria is the slow walk down. The idle role playing game from Somnambulist Games, developed and published by the studio, mixes automatic combat, steady growth and a dark descent into a place that answers desire with danger.
In GRAIN ROT, death is not the end; it is a change of scenery. The cooperative horror game from Beck & Branch Games, published by Neem Interactive, casts players as Living Sparks riding fragile wooden vessels into shifting underground ruins, where everything wants the light inside you.
Open space usually means freedom. In Grim Axiom, the new science fiction horror from studio Rare Soup, it means there is nowhere to run. The game gives players a wide map and fills it with danger, then watches how they handle both at once.
Carrion City has a new nightmare, and it carries a stapler. The Skin Stapler is an action horror game from Tainted Pact, published by Assemble Entertainment, and it drops you into a neon soaked hunt for a killer whose work is impossible to forget and even worse to find.
The machines of the Quake universe have stopped taking orders. Quake Dawn of the Machine is an action shooter created by id Software together with Nightdive Studios and MachineGames, and published by Bethesda Softworks. The episode drops players into the middle of a rising mechanical threat and asks them to answer it with speed, steel and nerve.
Romanian folk horror about guild, money, and sin. Told like a fireside tale and experienced as a dark folk story, this game pulls you into a rural Romanian village in the early 2000s, where you experience inspirations drawn from classic Romanian literature and folklore. The story follows Ion, a simple farmer obsessed with Vasile, the wealthy owner of Hanul Gospodarului. Consumed by his hunger for money, Ion’s mind begins to fracture, until greed drives him to commit an unforgivable act.
Dig Dig Die is an indie co-op horror action game for 1-6 players developed by Alice Games in which you board a cursed flying ship to raid deadly graveyards. Armed with shovels, crowbars and improvised weapons, you have to dig up graves and crypts to collect valuable trophies. Excavating graves gives useful bonuses, such as additional speed and superjumps, but also carries the risk of causing curses or unleashing underground monsters. It is very important to control the noise level, as enemies actively track you by the sounds of your instruments and voice chat in the game.
Uncanny Tales The Watcher is an episodic psychological horror game where fear is born from everyday work. The third episode of the series takes you to a remote part of the Altai Mountains, where you, Ilya, take up the post of caretaker of a nature reserve. Officially, it's quiet, nature, and a steady income. In reality, it's a place where too many things don't add up. Before starting your new job, you experience a prologue, reliving the last working day of the previous caretaker, Sergei Ivanovich Kalashnikov. His duties are simple and familiar: reports, patrols, and monitoring the territory.
