The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
When I played the original Splatterhouse arcade game I was disappointed to find that a game with a heavy horror
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The Haunted Hoard: Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 (PC)
While Scott Cawthon definitely has a handle on atmospheric horror and uncanny character design, perhaps the eeriest thing about the
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime (PS3)
With Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Atari created not only one of the most faithful and enjoyable video game adaptations of
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The Haunted Hoard: Spooky Castle (ZX Spectrum)
Spooky Castle for the ZX Spectrum is a game you could beat in three minutes if you didn’t die at
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The Haunted Hoard: Silent Hill: Homecoming (PS3)
By the time of Silent Hill: Homecoming’s creation, the Silent Hill franchise had achieved monumental renown. The first few games
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The Haunted Hoard: Saw (PS3)
The Saw franchise of films is one that is surprisingly grounded in reality. There are no supernatural monsters or undying
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The Haunted Hoard: Creeping Terror (PC)
With the unique setup of the DS and 3DS handhelds, porting games specifically developed for them to other hardware comes
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The Haunted Hoard: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (PS4)
When Supermassive Games committed to a new interactive horror story game every six months with their Dark Picture Anthology I
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The Haunted Hoard: Resident Evil Village (PS5)
Resident Evil helped zombies take off in popularity in the 1990s with their viral origin for the walking dead, but
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The Haunted Hoard: Mystik Belle (PS4)
While the exploration-focused platforming of Metroidvanias and the dialogue heavy puzzle solving of point-and-click adventures might feel like two very
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The Haunted Hoard: Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition (PC)
Plenty of horror stories are set in run down mansions and eerie forests, but there’s one location many people dread
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The Haunted Hoard: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (PC)
No one could have predicted the monumental success that is the first Five Nights at Freddy’s game, but after Youtube
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The Haunted Hoard: SG/ZH: School Girl/Zombie Hunter (PS4)
Much like how there are exploitation films that specifically aim to appeal to audience with their flagrant embraces of violence
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The Haunted Hoard: Sea Salt (Xbox One)
In most stories featuring Lovecraftian monsters and the Cthulhu mythos, the knowledge and worship of cosmic horrors known as Old
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The Haunted Hoard: Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard (Switch)
Unless a film has a direct video game genre analogue like a racing game or shooter, it’s a pretty safe
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The Haunted Hoard: Dark (Xbox 360)
There are two major types of stealth video games. In the first, a player is encouraged and rewarded for moving
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The Haunted Hoard: Remothered: Broken Porcelain (PS4)
Remothered: Tormented Fathers was certainly an uneven horror game with its surprisingly suspenseful stealth not being helped by a plot
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The Haunted Hoard: Decay: The Mare (PC)
In the early 2000s, the rise of flash game sites like Newgrounds lead to many fledgling game creators trying to
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The Haunted Hoard: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii)
Despite the terms remake, reboot, and reimagining all having different meanings, they can so often bleed into each other or
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The Haunted Hoard: White Night (PC)
Dark, dreary, cynical… while it’s hard to peg what exactly makes something definitively noir, you can usually count on these
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The Haunted Hoard: Five Nights at Freddy’s (PC)
When Scott Cawthon showed the world his game Chipper and Sons Lumber Co., he could have let the criticisms drag
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