However, it won countless awards for its game design, sound design and many nominations as a top action/adventure game in 2009. Though many important horror games have followed this similar pattern throughout the early-to-mid 2000s, one smaller game would revolutionize the horror genre across all media in 2008: Dead Space.ĭespite being an immediate hit among critics in 2008, Dead Space had slower sales, reaching over a million units sold just a year after release. All of these games were based around survival and attempting to get past scary environments and creatures for the first time. Spawned from horror film influences, each of these games offered something new as interactive media that followed a filmlike narrative with the goal of attempting to scare players. Many horror games of the 1990s, such as 3D Monster Maze (1981), Alone in the Dark (1992), Resident Evil (1996) and Silent Hill (1998) are among some of the most influential to horror as a whole. New concepts, technology and creativity allowed for new ways to scare audiences that simply weren’t possible in decades past. With the unique ways games are able to immerse players with perspective and intimacy in both stories and actions that are hard to achieve in film, horror has found a lot of success in gaming over the past few decades.Īs new technology and culture spawned new trends in horror for film, gaming followed suit. The horror genre has been tied to video games since their early inception.

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