10 Things Every Horror Game Needs To Be Good: Page 6 of 10
5. Atmosphere
A surefire way to keep a player uneasy is through a game’s atmosphere. An unnerving atmosphere will flood players with the feeling of dread.
Everything looks cozy
What would Silent Hill be without the town’s iconic rust, metal, gore, and decay? A lesser town for sure. When the Silent Hill games take a visual shift from a normal creepy town to the traditional nightmarish atmosphere of the horrific Silent Hill, this is a terrifying change that shakes players to their core.
The game’s atmosphere sets the tone of what is to come for the player. A nice field of flowers is going to freak out players far less than an abandoned mental hospital will. Playing a first-person game will make things even more intense for players as they are forced to look through the eyes of the character and directly face the game’s terrors.
- silent hill |
- BIOSHOCK |
- amnesia |
- fatal frame |
- The Evil Within |
- outlast |
- dead space |
- Left 4 Dead |
- alien: isolation
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