Despite being almost comedic a lot of the time, the Fallout universe nonetheless hosts more than a few downright creepy locations. Fallout 3’s Vault 108 and its legion of Garys is one. Basically the entirety of Point Lookout is another, and you could say The Sierra Madre in Fallout: New Vegas thanks to its combination…
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The Horror that Surrounds: The Tragedy of Oakvale
In the first Fable game, the village of Oakvale is the home of the game’s hero. It’s a small but lively town with all the amenities any family might need. One fateful date, the village was ransacked by bandits, and only a few residents survived, including a young boy who would go on to shape…
The Horror That Surrounds: The Abyss
Hollow Knight is a challenging Metroidvania about a bug who travels to the dead kingdom of Hallownest, which has been ravaged by a terrible infection, leaving very few inhabitants alive and sane. This game is no stranger to dark things, and sometimes it veers off into outright horror. This is especially apparent in two locations…
The Horror That Surrounds: The Suffocating Anxiety of Deepnest
For the most part, Hollow Knight isn’t exactly a scary game. Sure, the bosses might make you fear for your life at times, but most of the rest of the experience is quite atmospheric and even relaxing. There is one pretty big exception to this though, an area of the map that can and will…
Spooktober: The Horror that Surrounds
Fellow readers, writers, and players, one and all, we’ve made it. We’ve finally made it to the best month of the year. It’s that month when we finally know that summer is behind us, and a chill starts to set in. That month when the orange sun peers through autumn leaves as a restless fog…
Spooktober 2023 round-up and reactions
Another Spooktober has come and gone, and what a time we had! We came up with four themes – scariest horror subgenre, worst type of scare, scariest enemies, and scariest environments – and offered up our own articles for each. But that wasn’t all. We asked you, our loyal readers and supporters, to lend your…
Spooktober Poll Results Are In!
Over the course of the last four weeks, our spooky discussions revolving around horror games and what about them terrifies us the most have been accompanied by equally spooky polls where you, our dear readers, could participate and let us know what you find the scariest in video games. From the scariest horror subgenre to…
Scariest Environment: The Great, Wide Open
You know the feeling. That feeling of entering a big, open space after traversing an obstacle-filled landscape and knowing that a battle against a formidable foe is about to take place. Yeah, that feeling. I can think of no greater moment of dread than that one, especially the first time you encounter such in any…
Scariest Environments: Open Water and Outer Space
The Duck’s most dreaded environments are not of the traditional variety. Sure, I love getting creeped out by a particularly decrepit abandoned asylum or jumping at the mysterious noises one might encounter in the deep, dark woods. But there is something very important that these locations have in common that prevents them from being especially…
Scariest Environments: The Wrong and The Abandoned
One of the best (and worst) aspects of horror is that pretty much nowhere is safe. Given the right circumstances, just about any space can be transformed from warm and comfortable to absolutely terrifying. Some places are just inherently scary though, and for me almost nothing tops abandoned places. There’s just something so wrong about…
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