There are indie games you play once and forget. Then there are games like Sally Face, which somehow crawl into your head and refuse to leave. When Steve Gabry, working as Portable Moose, released the first episode back in 2016, there was nothing about Sally Face that looked like a conventional horror hit. The hand-drawn…
There are very few games that leave the same strange feeling as BioShock Infinite. I still remember the first time I walked through Columbia — the bright skies, the cheerful music, the impossible floating city, and that uncomfortable feeling that something was deeply wrong beneath all the beauty. It looked like a dream, but every…
If there’s one horror game that immediately grabbed my attention this year, it’s The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu. The moment I saw four explorers stumbling through an ancient jungle while questioning their own sanity, I knew this wasn’t going to be another generic co-op shooter. It mixes tactical teamwork with psychological horror, wraps everything in…
If you’ve been anywhere near the co-op horror scene lately, you already know the genre is absolutely feral right now—in the best way possible. Games are throwing players into haunted forests, abandoned labs, cursed apartment blocks, and calling it “teamwork.” But then comes Forest Escape: Last Train, and suddenly the formula tilts sideways. This isn’t…
If you’ve spent even a little time in modern co-op horror, you already know the formula: friends scream, someone panics, someone else hoards useless junk, and everything collapses in the funniest possible way. Now drop that chaos onto a moving steam locomotive trapped inside a cursed forest, and you get Forest Escape: Last Train—a game…
I’ve played a lot of horror games over the years, from slow psychological experiments to action-heavy survival titles that confuse noise for tension. Very few actually stay with you after you put the controller down. Silver Pines is one of the rare exceptions. Developed by Wych Elm and published by Team17, this upcoming 2D survival…
I’ve played a lot of horror games over the years—from the slow-burn dread of classic survival titles to modern indie experiments that try to reinvent fear through systems and structure. So when I first came across Silver Pines, I didn’t expect much beyond another ambitious genre hybrid that might struggle to hold itself together. But…
If you’ve been around horror games long enough, you start to notice how quickly they repeat themselves. Foggy towns, locked doors, scarce ammo, symbolic storytelling—it all starts to blend together. Silver Pines doesn’t escape those traditions, but it does something more interesting: it tries to fuse familiar systems into a single structure that actually feels…
I’ve played a lot of indie horror games over the years—some brilliant, some forgettable, and a few that tried too hard to imitate Silent Hill without understanding why it worked in the first place. So when I first saw Silver Pines, I went in cautiously optimistic. Another psychological Metroidvania horror game? Sure. I’ve heard that…
I’ve played enough horror games over the years to know when something is simply chasing darkness as a theme versus when it actually understands how to build tension. Silver Pines feels like the latter more often than not. It’s one of those upcoming indie titles that doesn’t just imitate influences like Silent Hill or Twin…
