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The Scariest PS4 games to play this Halloween
With fall season just ending and the jitters of winter approaching, it’s time to take a look at the creepiest and scariest Playstation 4 games coming up this Halloween season. So get ready with your Jack O’ Lantern, don your best ghost face and prepare yourself to be scared with these titles.
SOMA
From the creative genius of Frictional Games, comes the survival horror called SOMA. Taking place on the remote underwater facility, SOMA is the story of mankind set in a post-apocalyptical world set in a futuristic world. Most of the planet has been wiped out by a large meteor crash in 2103. The underwater facility used to be a launch pad to propel humans within a space vessel out of the facility.
Player takes the character of Simon, a human that has survived as a ‘scan’ of his original life form inside a robot’s body on the underwater facility. He, as well as Catherine (another scan-human) need to find a way on the underwater facility. While now in disarray, players must find a way to use the facility to launch out of Earth to survive. However, things are scarier than they seem, as most of the artificial intelligence on the facility is hostile, and has proved to be fatal to others who tried to escape the facility.
The game cuts across a number of sub-genres in horror, including adding Amnesia-like features as players anticipate an attack anytime. This, along with the ability to interact with the environment (such as throwing objects, operating machines and using physical environment to avoid detection) makes this a very realistic game, something to definitely check out on the Playstation4.
Until Dawn
Until Dawn is designed to be played each time with a different player to experience the entire set of scenarios that the game offers. Often the player has to take decisions that may be ethically challenging, such as leaving a friend to save one’s own life, which bring to the game a degree of realism that is as rare as it is exciting.
Outlast 2
The much awaited sequel for the popular PC game, Outlast 2 is expected to be released this winter on Playstation4. The original Outlast, a brainchild of creators Red Berries, featured the protagonist as an investigative journalist who sets about the Mount Massive Asylum, and finds a dying SWAT officer who claims that the ‘Variants’ did this to him.
The player must venture through a number of dinghy, unlit areas, including the ward, the Prison block and many others, all the while knowing not if the next door has an enemy behind. There are a number of entities that the player faces, all with their own abilities and weapons, which mean he must take time to understand and deal with accordingly.
Outlast 2 promises to bring even greater horror and environment to the original game, and critics have given very positive feedback on the first installment, thereby making the sequel an eagerly awaited game for the creepy season.
Among the Sleep
A bit different from the traditional survival horror games, Among the Sleep depicts the story of a first-person shooter from the perspective of a toddler. Player has the ability to move around by crawling or running, bringing more realism to the game. He can also use his toy Teddy bear (which can help illuminate the environment through its built in light) and can interact with the surroundings (such as pushing objects, climbing chairs etc.)
The player faces primarily two monsters, one is a female figure and the other is a male wearing a trench-coat. When the monster is near, the player observes blurriness of vision, some sounds and a lullaby (in the case of the female monster).
The object of the game is mostly going from point-to-point, and with four levels it is one fairly short. However, the uniqueness derives from the perspective of the child, something that gives off an eerily creepy feeling.