10 Most Terrifying Horror Video Games You've Never Played
2. Mundaun
Despite being another first-person, narrative-driven horror game with puzzles to solve, you won't play anything like Mundaun this year.
Unlike other titles, MWM Interactive's doesn't strive for photo-realism, but rather adopts a striking hand-drawn aesthetic - all harsh black outlines and sepia tones. It's a bit of a cliche to describe something as "hauntingly beautiful", but Mundaun's art direction absolutely is, making its already inspired setting of the isolated Swiss Alps feel even more alien and surreal to explore.
As for the plot, you play as a man visiting the titular village in order to pay respects to his recently-deceased grandfather. Once there though, he finds the town mostly abandoned, and his grandfather's cause of death seemingly being far more grisly and supernatural than initially relayed.
If you like folk horror, this is the game for you. Between the rustic, creepy villages and a plot that delves into faustian pacts and talking decapitated goat heads, Mundaun doesn't simply regurgitate the iconography and themes of that horror sub-genre, but evolves and subverts them for a gaming audience.