Horror Games: An Ironic Beauty | An Analysis on the Horror Game Genre
Channel: The Arsenal
Date: 2021-11-10

Greetings! This video essay is a general analysis of the Horror Game genre. Using multiple Horror games ranging from many settings, we'll be looking at how they change and play mind games on the player. I'll provide the list of games I've played over the last 2 years while making this video as well. As stated at the end of the video, I want to try to make more videos like this focusing on certain games individually to look into their narrative story-telling whether that's through dialogue, design, sound, etc. Let me know what you think!

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EDIT (8/3/2022): Removed a mistake claiming that Alone in the Dark (1992) was the first horror game. That belongs to Haunted House in 1982.

Timestamps:
Prelude - 0:00
Intro Montage (Jumpscares Present) - 1:47
Defining Horror - 3:06
Art Design - 5:35
Art Design: Lighting - 11:32
Sound - 15:10
Sound: Music - 21:28
Gameplay - 26:49
Jumpscares: 34:30
Conclusion: 47:47
Outro: 51:00

Video Games that were used in this project:
Alien: Isolation (2014)
Alone in the Dark (1992)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010)
Condemned: Criminal Origins (2006)
Cry of Fear (2013)
Dead Space (2008)
Dead Space 2 (2011)
F.E.A.R. (2005) + Extraction Point DLC
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (2009)
F.E.A.R. 3 (2011)
Five Nights At Freddy's (2014)
Layers of Fear (2016)
Nightmare House 2 (2005+2010)
Outlast (2013)
Penumbra (2007)
Phasmophobia (2020)
Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
Slender Man (2012)

Some games were cut from the final project, maybe I'll return to them in an individual analysis.

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