10 Surprisingly Good Indie Horror Video Games Of 2016

10. Buried Beneath

Last release date: Sep 4

On the surface, this is just another trite, shopworn sample, but hey!, that’s why it is called Buried Beneath. It supposedly takes place inside an abandoned bunker, where our character gets into for a reason which isn’t explained during gameplay. There are no dialogues; a few instructions pop up on the screen and thereupon a levitating head starts chasing the player.

This little underdeveloped demo looks like the materialized whim of a 13 year old boy, and it is. But it isn’t completely what made it deserving of positive reviews; it was that, despite its precocious origin and rusticity, deploys a very uncommon restraint. One would think his undertaking is full of tawdry gimmicks coarsely trying to obtain shocks; nonetheless, it gains them seamlessly and almost noiseless.

Suffice to say, those narrow corridors are reminiscent of Power Drill Massacre. The overall product has the same effect, minus hearing damage, since the antagonist announces itself with a mild, yet spine-chilling metalline moan. It also moves pretty fast and smoothly, and, of course, scares the hell out of you once it gets you. The quiet ambience and the mission of searching for small things in the mostly impenetrable darkness of bedraggled walls, with a sneaky company… well, this guy definitely did his homework.