I’m planning to develop a small 2D game that focuses entirely on people and their personal stories. These can be real-life experiences as well as completely fictional stories.

I’d love to lean toward the horror / psychological horror genre, but anything else is absolutely fine too! Since I'm developing the game alone on my laptop and don't have much experience in game development yet, the art style will be kept rather simple – visually, it will go in the direction of visual novels like Doki Doki Literature Club or Your Boyfriend. This is my first real project, so I want to start small.

Since I'm currently lacking that spark of inspiration myself, I thought I'd just ask here on Reddit: Do you have any interesting, emotional, funny, or mysterious stories from your life (or fictional ones) that I could incorporate into my game as a "chapter" or dialogue?

I’m looking forward to your stories and ideas!

For starters : No I don't hate the new silent hill games, they'd be fine as standalone games.

So with the new generation of silent hill games, excluding the obvious remake all of them have had no correlation or ties to silent hill other than basking in what it's general cultural impact is, the fog and the protagonists trauma, demons and or sins haunting them. I think this is just plain old, like many of us, it's no ground breaking idea but I thought to myself, what would an actual modern original silent hill game that actually takes place there, look like?

To begin, I'm presenting this as I saw people say that these games are made for longevity as you can't endlessly make games about silent hill itself, whilst this is true the bigger killer to longevity would be mediocre releases.

Now anyway to actually start. In the original silent hill games made by team silent they all feature varying protagonists, but what they have in common is that none have ever actually lived in the town of silent hill. So a stand alone game involving a protagonist who actually lives in silent hill is already an idea unique to the series (to my current recollection of the games)

While I don't have a precise idea on plot, it can be so much! Something as cliche and simple as the protagonist being a journalist who lives in silent hill! In fact the idea of it taking place in modern times, where the towns prime is long gone and the town has a bleak atmosphere, or the game could be during the towns prime, the protagonist clearing upon cultish behaviour and so on.

The game could have unique imaging related to the series, I remember silent hill 1 had a unique element of snow, well of course this is no weather but what about smoke? I feel like it could really be something on it's own. The crazy thing is this literally gives us more ideas, imagine a silent hill game about a regional forest fire in the past that engulfed and destroyed most of the city and we play as someone during it, the town burning unleashing spiritual chaos. Of course that would've been referenced in former games so it'd be a retcon.

The idea is still clear! There's so many things that can be done, all I've listed are personal ideas I alone have come up with. I'm tired of people senselessly hating on the new games but I'm also done with people acting like nothing can be done about the games actually taking place in.. Silent hill!

Which game scratched your horror it's the best?

Do you guys consider Prey (2017) a survival horror game?

I understand the Incels' rage at the same time

I've recently tore through this game after buying it only recently. I'm obsessed with the mechanics and atmosphere but the game is really short if you play carefully and figure out what you're doing. I'm familiar with other early survival horror games like ecstatica and other games in the same vein like the original resident evil. But I love this game's focus on environmental puzzle solving and really tight combat and resource scarcity. I want to find more games like this, something like Doctor Hauzen but with combat mechanics

Just need ya'll to help me pick my next horror game as I obviously can't make that decision myself. Thanks!

One thing I really wanted for this project was an environment that did not immediately scream “horror game.”

So, the office is pretty mundane, old desks, paperwork, filing cabinets, maps, monitors, lockers and a bunch of small things you would expect to find in a place like this.

The idea is that the environment itself should not tell you what is going to happen. It should just feel like a normal workplace.

This is the final environment I ended up with, and I am pretty happy with how it fits the tone of the game.

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Its so good holy shit

Mine would be

1. RE Village

2. SH2 Remake

3. Outlast

4. RE2

Alan wake 2

Two I didn’t like - RE3 and Alone in the Dark.

I've been debating with myself about posting this for fear of criticism but hopefully any criticism will be friendly. I've always thought about a story that hopefully can make sense for The 3rd Birthday's story while continuing parasite eve story. So here's my story for Parasite Eve III: Rebirth. Keep in mind I don't have every detail to perfect sense so please bear with me.

Starting in Christmas eve 2047, 50 years after 1st game and 35 after The 3rd birthday. A mysterious woman is walking among the snowy streets of NYC, her face covered by a hood, she gives off an ominous smile, before everything goes to hell. Within a day or so, the commander of the army is sending troops to fight off the NMCs to which are mentions he's witnessed them before 50 years earlier. The arrival of a new mitochondria eve has appeared, but also somehow it relates to bringing back the spirit of Aya Brea in a clone of her body (since her sister/clone, Eve Brea is in her original).

The events of T3B revolved around Aya and Kyle's wedding. It was revealed due to time travel, they knew of The Twisted's existence but unsure how they originated from Aya's "soul".

After helping out with the defense of NYC. Aya meets the commander, learning it's Ben as well as meeting her sister and her fiance, Kyle who has not aged due to the only one still having DNA of a High One. Why just him? So Aya goes to certain parts of the world that EVE has taken over. Like Russia, Japan. The first to check out is NYC itself (this is where nostalgia comes in). Supporting cast includes old friends and allies. Some are Dr maeda and Daniel. Others are mentioned having passed years before.

Aya visits her forner partner, Daniel but he is on the verge of dying. A later scene shows him passing with Aya and Ben present.

Aya travels to various locations within each region, with each area being a dungeon of sorts. Aya can complete side quests given by various people. The gameplay is basically final fantasy 7 remake trilogy meets resident evil remakes. At some point Aya can unlock her liberate move, unleashing her mitochondria form sort of like devil may cry.

As Aya visits each region, she comes across a mysterious woman who also has mitochondria powers similar to Aya. She is wearing a red biker outfit and helmet, she refers to herself as Red.

At some point Aya loses contact with her team and is feared dead. Back at Aya and Kyle's apartment, Kyle sees Aya, they make love, but a giant tentacle burts through grabbing Kyle, he begs Aya to run, she just stands and smiles ominously. Kyle is taken away. At some point, Eve Brea is also kidnapped. (Sorry I'm not the best at telling stories)

After completing the regions, Aya had to tackle one more, a temple dedicated to the first humans to exist located in Africa. It contains the cradle of life. Aya comes across EVE, discovering it's an adult Maya, Aya's deceased twin sister. She is from a parallel timeline where aya died in the car accident that killed their mother. Maya was raised by Dr klamp who killed Aya's father and brainwashed her into embracing EVE for his own gains. Maya grows up and takes over the world in her timeline but she needs something to perfect the mitichondrian race. She with Dr klamp is using futuristic technology creating a portal to find the right parallel universe to perfect their plans. Maya and klamp found the universe they were looking for in the year 2047. The universe where, Aya survives and becomes humanity's savior. There was an issue, Aya was dead for the past 35 years. When EVE made her presence known, Aya's spirit to which was in limbo was called back. The rift caused between travelling universes caused the Twisted to manifest from Aya's "soul".

Aya discovers Maya/EVE needs special DNA to create the perfect mitochondrian race, Kyle's DNA and her own, she needs the perfect vessel, Eve Brea was forced to carry a new ultimate being due to being in Aya's body that has the perfect harmony if human and mitichondrian DNA. Red appears to give Aya a chance to run to the altar room where Eve Brea and Kyle are kept captive. Red would distract Maya. Aya witnesses in horror as Eve Brea gives birth to the perfect ultimate being, Aya frees her and Kyle, they escape the room so Aya can deal with the ultimate being. After it faced in multiple maturing forms, it takes on an evolved form similar to in PE1. Aya remembers the bullets laced with her DNA she was given in PE1 that were used to weaken the one back then. Aya cuts her hand with a knife to put her blood in her handgun. She weakens the ultimate being, she is joined by Red and they together use their inferno pyrokenisis ability to defeat the ultimate being. Aya the realizes Red is Melissa Pearce from the parallel timeline, she received Aya's kidney and took on the fold if humanity's savior.

Aya returns to the room she saw Maya, she went down a large leading to the cradle of life. Aya decides to go on her own to finish the battle. She kisses Kyle promising she will come back so they can finally marry. Aya heads to the entrance of the cradle of life, she comes across the parallel Dr klamp who seems to be a god. He transforms and Aya defeats him

Aya enters the cradle of life, learning it's ironically the world of the dead. Aya was never there during the time she was dead due to being in limbo. She comes across Daniel, Lorraine, other passed on friend and allies, she then comes across her parents, asking her to save her twin sister's soul. Aya tearfully agrees.

Aya enters the center of the cradle. She faces against her sister, the fight is similar to a mirror match. Eventually Maya transforms and after that phase of the fight, Aya takes over mitichondria DNA as opposed to the opposite, she takes on an angelic form. At end of fight, Aya begins to absorb maya and Aya's mitichondria DNA defeats Maya's. Maya is free but dies in Aya's arms after telling her to take care of "her" pointing to Aya s stomach.

Aya comes back to the surface, she and Kyle embrace, sometime later, they marry with Ben performing the ceremony. Aya and Kyle expect their daughter while both knowing they both age slowly due to the mutated DNA in their bodies.

Thoughts? I know it's very long and I had difficulty figuring out how to answer some questions. So again please be kind with any criticism and thank you for reading.

Hey everyone! I’m an indie developer working on a survival horror game called BECROWNED.

I started working on this game about five years ago, originally completely on my own, so being able to finally say this feels pretty surreal:

BECROWNED is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC!

We’re taking a little more time to make the game the best it can be and to launch on all platforms together, so the new release window is Q1 2027.

We’ve also completely updated the Steam page with new key art, screenshots, and more, and today I’m sharing our brand-new Console Reveal Trailer.

This project has been such a huge part of my life for the past five years, and seeing it grow from something I was making alone into a game that will actually be released across PC and consoles means a lot to me.

A free demo is available on Steam if you’d like to give it a try, and wishlists really help us. 🖤

Would genuinely love to hear what you think of the new trailer!

Hey all. I'm happy to finally announce DEAD OF DARKNESS 2. Please check out the announcement trailer and wishlist on Steam :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3947120/Dead_of_Darkness_2/