

Unfortunately, this tension is lost after the first playthrough since players already know what to expect. While it may not be Silent Hills, the legacy of. Players don’t have anything to do while waiting, but the creepy atmosphere makes every second full of tension, especially when the stranger shows up. Its a trial and error game, but your patience is rewarded with a fascinating story, and plenty of jump scares. As the player waits in silence, a mysterious stranger emerges from the dark and greets them.Įach run of the game is around five minutes, giving it a total playtime of around 20 minutes if the player decides to find all endings. Will you ignore him and ride the bus as soon as it arrives? Or will you converse with them? Your decision will dictate the kind of ending you will get in this horror game. He seems friendly and eager to spark up a conversation.

The low-poly graphics, eerie silence, and suffocating darkness of the place succeed in creating a creepy atmosphere. Both ends of the road are pitch dark and the area is surrounded by bushes. There’s a dim light and apart from the signage, a bench, and a trash bin, there’s nothing else. A very 'normal' horror game, but done quite well with in interesting double-timeline gimmick - Youre playing a paranoid puzzle exploration game during the cold war era, and a classic first person horror game a hundred years earlier. There’s no music in the background either, which highlights the strange sudden noises and the uncanniness of the situation.Last Bus Home starts with the player alone at a dark bus stop. However, those few minutes can still be pretty unsettling thanks to the 3D graphics that both look highly realistic for a found footage setting and the VHS effects. It doesn’t help that it’s extremely short-running exactly at five and a half minutes due to its auto-play function.

You can rebind these keys but there really isn’t much you can do in the game. The controls only consist of moving with the WASD keys, zooming in with the camera using your right mouse button, and pausing with Esc. Most Recent Atmospheric Creepy Singleplayer Short 3D First-Person Psychological Horror Retro 2D Low-poly ( View all tags) Explore Simulation games tagged Horror on itch. The major downside to this game is that it’s mostly a creepy walking simulator and you can’t actually interact with anything in the rooms. There are only two rooms you will frequent but the objects there change as time passes. Every now and then, the scene automatically changes to different locations and even displays time and dates on the recorder’s screen. There’s no real explanation as to why you’re there-you simply just start looking around.

In September 1999, you play as someone who’s filming their exploration and observation of an empty house.
