10 Amazing Recent Games That Were 5 Hours Or Less
4. Crow Country
Fans of classic PS1 survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill simply need Crow Country in their life. This loving, blocky homage to the genre's heyday sees players investigating an abandoned theme park after its founder disappears.
Per the games that inspired it, exploration and puzzle-solving are very much the focus - the intentionally convoluted array of Things you'll need to find in order to progress and abundance of backtracking both feel wholly true to the genre's formative entries.
Similarly, the game's combat encounters with the monsters littering the park are intentionally clunky - a choice that's unsurprisingly proven divisive, though is absolutely effective in heightening the tension.
Crow Country won't change the minds of anyone who struggles with the proto-survival horror games of yore, but as a nostalgia exercise that's clearly made with nothing but passionate reverence, it's a welcome, fleeting return to a bygone era.