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3. What Remains Of Edith Finch

Resident Evil 3
Giant Sparrow

Now, this title isn't so much a horror game as a horror-adjacent one, with a creepy, foreboding sense of dread permeating everything within its beautiful pixel walls as you wander through Edith Finch's old home. Here, she waxes lyrical about her family and growing up under what many of them believed to be a hereditary curse; one that kills the Finch's in elaborate, unseemly ways far before their natural time.

Each family member has their own scenario to see through, with one in particular of interest to hardcore horror fans in the form of a pulpy comic strip narrated by a Pumpkinhead knockoff.

This is a touching exploration of both what makes a life, and the how the ripples of untimely deaths affect the branches of a family tree, and feels like a deeply personal insight into death of every kind. Nothing is shied away from to do with the topic - whether it be missing children, harrowing accidents, or suicide, and each is handled with the utmost wholesome care.

What Remains of Edith Finch won't scare you silly, but it will leave a lasting impression far worth enduring its relentlessly unsettling atmosphere for.

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