10 Surprisingly Good Indie Horror Video Games Of 2016

LRD: Oct 31

Nikson is a developer renowned for his Five Nights at Freddy’s fan takes, and everything started with a little game called The Joy of Creation, which was canceled after he got tired of it. Nevertheless, four months later a brand new Alpha version was released with the name of The Joy of Creation: Reborn. But do not let the fact that it includes animatronics spoil you such a cool title, because, believe you me, its content lives up to every portion of its strapping, eerie, blood-tingling syntax.

Basically Boogeyman and Slender compressed into a free-roam version of FNaF, it avails itself of all four classic characters by disposing them in different areas, enduing each one with unique patterns and behaviours, and establishing limited time to ensure an experience as short as acute. They aren’t only the really, really brutal jump scares, but the sense of absolute exposure and the harrowing thumps which precede eyes aglow and conked faces.

One of the best implications of it to be in early access is that it playfully harnesses the original’s lore without compromises. While the first challenges and the still obscure Story Mode demo are something like Scott Cawthon’s New Nightmare (the animatronics even have “Ignited” before their names, if you know what I mean), a recently launched Halloween Edition delved directly into an aspect of the main games. It’s just lovely.