Fear to tread
Happy skeleton war month, ya filty animals! This week on the Electronic Wireless Show we talk about dread, as in, the thing Matthew feels when confronted with glistening food, or when he knows he has to record apodcastwith us. We talk about some cracking scary games, going a bit down the beaten track and away from our normal path of least resistance (talking aboutRed Dead Redemption 2and BioWare games). We also have some spooky recommendations for you to spice up your Halloween! Plus, it’s Nate turn to produce a Cavern Of Lies. More like Cavern Of Jump Scares! And we coin a couple of new euphemisms you’re sure to work into your every day language.
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Music is by Jack de Quidt.
LinksNate is the first person to mentionAlien: Isolation, the gentleman’s choice. But space-alien games come thick and fast, as we also make time to talkPrey, andDead Space.
I’ve been playing and reviewingSaturnalia, a unique horror game that is well good (my review went live just now).
I also find it very scary when places are empty but shouldn’t be. See:Firewatch,Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture,Old Gods Rising.
Matthew brings up Ravenholme fromHalf Life 2, wherein many people are shambling about with a raw roast chicken stuck on their head (you can hear the headcrab zombie reversed audiohere, but it’s quite horrible.
I hard second his suggestion ofStories Untoldas well, a well cool analogue horror anthology.
Nate recommends a horrible submarine-based horror game calledIron Lung.
Recommendationsthis week are the found-footage/documentary horror filmLake Mungo, extremely bleak horror filmPossum(avoid if you don’t like puppets or spiders), andGregBroDudeManreacting in chill ways to creepy things.
