The Haunted Hoard: Mad Father (PC)
Plenty of horror stories choose to start off with a slow burn, the horror delayed as ominous foreshadowing mysteriously hints
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
The Haunted Hoard: Blair Witch (Xbox One)
When The Blair Witch Project was released, it was a bit of a phenomenon. The found footage style of the
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The Haunted Hoard: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (PS2)
The original Fatal Frame turned your camera into a ghost-busting device, but Tecmo seemed to be feeling out the space
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The Haunted Hoard: Dino Crisis 2 (PS1)
The original Dino Crisis game portrayed dinosaurs in such a way that it managed to make them feel like the
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The Haunted Hoard: Bendy and the Ink Machine (PC)
As I mentioned back when I took a look at Cuphead, the early 20th century rubber hose animation style is
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The Haunted Hoard: Creepy Road (PC)
One of the things Creepy Road puts front and center might also be one of its strangest aspects, as the
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The Haunted Hoard: Resident Evil: Revelations (Xbox One)
If one were to track the trajectory of the Resident Evil franchise, they’d find the games constantly experimenting with the
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The Haunted Hoard: Fantom Feast (PC)
Fantom Feast applies a ghostly skin to the somewhat common eat-and-grow game concept. Starting off as a tiny spirit, the
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The Haunted Hoard: Zombie Incident (3DS)
When I was younger and I played games like Final Fantasy, I liked to imagine that even when I was
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The Haunted Hoard: Outlast (Xbox One)
Insane asylums may seem like a bit of a played out location for horror stories, and when it comes to
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The Haunted Hoard: Observer (Xbox One)
Bloober Team’s previous horror title before Observer, Layers of Fear, took the decaying mental state of its artist main character
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The Haunted Hoard: Silent Hill (PS1)
While Resident Evil might be the most recognizable name in video game horror, Silent Hill is perhaps the most well
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The Haunted Hoard: Dead Head Fred (PSP)
I never thought I’d see the day that the highlight of a video game was a celebrity voice actor, but
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The Haunted Hoard: Hello Neighbor (Xbox One)
There seems to be a common feeling of suspicion around a neighbor you don’t know. The idea that someone is
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The Haunted Hoard: Decap Attack (Genesis/Mega Drive)
If there is one thing you can say about game developer Vic Tokai, it’s that they’re persistent. Beginning with Kid
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Psycho Fox (Master System)
Back when Psycho Fox was released, it was fairly common for references to Japanese culture and religion to be scrubbed
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Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs (NES)
Developer Vic Tokai had a vision for a sidescrolling platform game, one where the players could get a power-up that
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FAR: Lone Sails (PC)
By now, the phrase “It’s the journey, not the destination” has been bandied about enough it’s practically a truism. While
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Trampoline Terror! (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Trampoline Terror is certainly an odd pair of words, one made even stranger when you realize the name isn’t referring
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Shanghai (Master System)
Mahjong solitaire stands alongside structured solitaire and hidden object games in the trio of casual computer games that I enjoy
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
The Super Smash Bros. series is one that seems to be constantly getting better over time, with each new installment
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