rpanons | if ur breath were baited, it would smell fishy

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i like horror but i'm tired of body horror/torture porn horror, i want some good psychological horror where the actual horrible happenings are fewer and further between and the fear comes from the anxiety of what MIGHT happen/the setting messing with characters' heads. it feels like every single horror game we get is either body horror like ryslig or "terrible things happen on a regular basis and your characters get to react to them" and that's just not my jam. i want something more along the lines of silent hill or fatal frame in terms of atmosphere.

I would also play in this. I would prefer less big events and more subtle tension building because it's tiring when your character figures out how jam jars work (not explicitly but in the "everything happens each month" type deal)

I would sell my soul for a Fatal Frame inspired game.

ooh yes

psychological horror would be awesome too, but i can't even find any games with good torture horror anymore. i miss games that had truly horrifying settings and evil organizations inflicting awful experiments on our characters. games with events like "randomly sorted groups must decide who gets put in the saw trap" or "everyone wakes up to find that some awful modification was made on them".

every horror game these days seems like a spooky atmospheric town with standard jamjar events that have some optional horror twists. anything actually horrific will be crouched in either alternative non-horror prompts or the option to play a much less horrific version of the same thing. they end up being 90% spooky slice of life with 10% horror.

(not that opt-outs are bad, but ime a lot of games nowadays even beyond the horror genre feel less like "[genre] game where you can opt-out of stuff you don't like" and more like "generic jamjar where you can opt-in to [genre]" if that makes any sense)

i tried to put together a game like this but i'm an lj fossil so i got shot down for having a too detailed setting and too bare bones events that depend on player initiative and that vibe of calm with random bits of horror hitting you in between... i don't know how to create a game for the current climate when the last game i enjoyed was ten years ago but i would live and die for one like that

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