Five Nights at Freddy’s has transcended gaming and become a multimedia phenomenon, spawning an endless stream of merchandise, novel adaptations, and an in-production feature film on top of numerous spinoffs and sequels. The game’s premise is simple but effective, with players taking on the role of a security guard at a creepy Chuck E. Cheese knockoff restaurant called Freddy Fazbear’s Pi

When players pick up a game from a long-running game series, or from a series of books, they will have certain expectations of what the game should entail. Pokémon GO, for example, has decades worth of gaming material alongside television and movies to draw upon when creating the world that their players can immerse themselves i

There’s some less-than-ideal quirks to the Adventure Game collectibles I hope get ironed out before release, like the fact that the best strategy as a survivor with a killer on your tail is to run in circles around him to exploit the limited perspective. It’s a bit goofy as a survivor, but it mostly just feels clumsy and frustrating as the killer. As well, though the developer described how other maps will provide much different gameplay from the forest level they were showing off, it sounds like activating generators to power an escape door is the only objective survivors will ever be given. I’d really like to see some creativity there, because while the meat of the game is ultimately about the tension of being hunted and the procedurally generated levels will add some variety to every match, it’d be nice to have something else to do once in a while.

Wizards Unite has many more aspects to it and can feel a bit harder to understand. While, overall, it’s still about collecting supplies and items, the story is more complex which can make it seem like less of a straight line to an end goal. It’s lacking a bit of that pick-up-and-play factor in compari

In Remnant: From The Ashes creatures have infested the world and eradicated most of humanity. As one of the few remaining survivors your mission is to explore other dimensions to find the origin of the Root and ways to defeat t

Much like the Ghost Face DLC, Hellraiser only introduces one killer from the iconic franchise. The Cenobite might have some powerful abilities, though they may be considered too powerful for some play

Shattered Bloodline had a lot of potential, but poor design led to much of the fanbase not enjoying it. The Spirit is certainly a terrifying killer and Adam Francis was okay as a survivor, but the Family Residence map for the Yamoaka Estate realm is why this DLC is so loat

Kill or be killed. Those are your options in Dead by Daylight, developer Behaviour Interactive’s upcoming asymmetric multiplayer horror game. You’ll play as either the hopeful survivors attempting escape or the killer making sure they don’t. If you play as a survivor, don’t expect things to be easy just because there’s four of you and only one of him. Make no mistake: the killer is hunting you. He is listening for you. He is watching for signs you were there. He is laying traps for you.

What should be a relatively uneventful job takes a turn for the demented, as the player is harassed and pursued by animatronic animals that appear to be possessed. It may rely heavily on jump scares, but there’s no denying Five Nights at Freddy ‘s ability to genuinely scare its fans, and it’s all backed up by some interesting, expansive, and surprisingly deep l

This music-themed DLC isn’t the greatest in terms of its content, though it still offers a memorable survivor and killer for players to play as. Ji-Woon Hak isn’t the most interesting villain to play as; the Entity helps him out with most of his special skills. However, his popularity among Dead by Daylight fans essentially makes him a must-have for play

Once you’ve fixed all the generators, you can escape via one of two doors, each of which takes a bit of time to open — during which, of course, the killer will be making one final mad dash to kill you. At some point if you play Dead by Daylight, you’re going to be faced with an open escape door and a fellow survivor in need of help behind you, and which you choose is going to reveal a lot to me about your character.

The first Outlast successfully translated the found footage horror genre to video game form, and Outlast 2 delivers a similar, yet arguably even scarier, experience. Outlast 2 changes the setting from a mental asylum to rural Arizona, where players are chased down by insane cult members. Its dark religious themes help to make Outlast 2 especially unnerving, and while the first half is a bit slow, the second half is a dizzying rollercoaster of shocking scenes and moments that will be drilled into the minds of anyone brave enough to play through

Pokémon Go has a cute feel, but Wizards Unite has gone for a more realistic aesthetic. Not only that, but there’s so much more going on, even in the simple encounters that pop up while you’re out and about. The scenes feature a variety of magical creatures and witches and wizards in lots of different scenarios. Production values are darn high h