9 Underrated Horror Games You Must Play Before You Die
6. Detention
What it is: Mixing side-scrolling adventure with slow-burn horror is a daring genre mix, one that Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games deftly pulled off with Detention. Students Wei Ching Ting and Fang Ray Shin are left stranded and alone at school after the onset of a storm floods the only exit. With fear and isolation creeping in, Wei goes looking for a phone to communicate the pair's predicament, leaving Shin to experience the nightmare to follow all on her lonesome.
Why it's scary: Something bigger than a kitchen knife is needed to cut through Detention's thick atmosphere. Such is its masterfully scored soundtrack and diegetic sound design that the weight of its sorrowful world can almost be felt on your own two shoulders. That, coupled with the game's setting in Red Candle's homeland during the 'White Terror' period and its direct contribution to Shin's sad story results in a heart-achingly tragic end.
Horror carries with it all kinds of supernatural connotations but in Detention's case, it's the cruelty of fate and love that make it a harrowingly dark experience.