Tuesday, October 14

Tag: Horror

If you like being scared this is the place to be! Here is where you’ll find all the latest news and reviews for Horror games on Thumb Culture

Close To The Sun Review – Jump Scare Central
6Nov By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Close To The Sun Review – Jump Scare Central

Well, talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. I have been trying so hard for the best part of a year to find a horror game that suits my own personal problem-solving desires, while at the same time grips me with a solid storyline. Let me introduce you to Close To The Sun. If you have ever thought, “What I need is a good first-person, story-led horror with plenty of jump scares to see me through Halloween and beyond” – then look no further. It dropped on consoles on 29th October. The game is created by Wired Productions and takes inspiration from the likes of Bioshock with its art deco designs; showing signs reminiscent of other games such as Alien: Isolation where combat is not an option, your existence depends solely on your ability to survive. Close To The Sun is set in t...
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Into the Dead 2 Review – The Boring Dead
5Nov By TC Staff Writer2 Comments
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Into the Dead 2 Review – The Boring Dead

Lurching its way onto the Switch is Into the Dead 2, an auto-run, zombie survival game by PikPok, The game started life as a free to play the mobile game but has been resurrected as a full title. Gone are the microtransactions but still lingering is a horde of tropes that have plagued the zombie genre since The Walking Dead made its debut on AMC. Let's start with the story. You are Henry, a generic dude who crashes his truck and is trying to make his way home but wait the city is overrun by zombies! Okay, the story is weak but I can't imagine many people are looking at this game wanting a deep and engaging narrative. So let's move on. Gameplay As you'd expect, the aim of the game is to shoot or avoid zombies whilst automatically running from point A to point B. You can strafe left...
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Dollhouse – House of horror
2Oct By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
PlayStation Reviews

Dollhouse – House of horror

When finding out what game I want to review I always check out what kind of game it is. As someone who plays a lot of horrors and watches numerous horror films with minimal flinching I thought would I would take Dollhouse and put my horror gaming skills to the test. However, it was not like any other horror game I previously played! From the creators of many games including Ether One and Truck Driver, SOEDESCO have teamed up with Creazn Studio. They have released this wonderfully creepy psychological horror 1950's Hollywood film noir for us all to enjoy! it is available on all PS4, PC and Xbox One Gameplay You're an ex-detective called Marie, who has awoken in a location she does not know along with amnesia. The only thing you remember is the death of your daughter. You can hear a...
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GARAGE Review – Making the Switch That Little Bit More Bloody
9May By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
Switch Reviews

GARAGE Review – Making the Switch That Little Bit More Bloody

When you hear about games for the Nintendo Switch, you probably wouldn’t expect the description of GARAGE. An ex-drug dealer caught up in the middle of a brutal, demonic underground hell. Surrounded by dismemberment, deadly weapons, and drugs. Developed by the minds at Zombie Dynamic comes GARAGE, the latest title picked up by tinyBuild and exclusively available for the Nintendo Switch. It’s a gruesome story about an ex-drug dealer who finds himself waking up in the trunk of a car surrounded by rats, zombies, and all other manner of evil. Soon it becomes clear that these abysmal abominations were experiments created by an evil mind and you must uncover the mystery. Gameplay GARAGE is a top-down shooter with a dark theme in which you follow a linear path while progressing in the stor...
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The Bunker Review – Nuclear War Comes to Switch
9Apr By StuartNo Comments
Switch Reviews

The Bunker Review – Nuclear War Comes to Switch

The Bunker from Wales Interactive has hit the Nintendo Switch, does the conversion to the plucky handheld add anything to the game, or is it just a standard port? Lets take a look and find out. Gameplay The Bunker is a psychological horror live action interactive film. Wow what a mouthful. You control John, the last survivor in a nuclear bunker. Going about your daily routine, which included eating on the toilet.....not strange at all. This daily routine gets thrown into chaos when an alarm goes off. It is your task to sort out the bunker and carry on surviving. While exploring The Bunker you get given some flashbacks which include repressed childhood memories, giving you an insight into what has happened in the bunker prior to you taking control of John. While its a psychological...
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Review – Supernatural Sherlock
19Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
PC Reviews

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Review – Supernatural Sherlock

A handful of developers that used to be part of Developer, People Can Fly teamed up to create their own development studio, The Astronauts. These people created a title back in 2013 called, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, which eventually saw a Redux version arrive in 2015, with the game being remade in the Unreal Engine 4 rather than the previous, Unreal Engine 3. The game also landed on PS4 around this time, and as such it was exclusive to PC and PS4. However, fast forward to 2018 and the Xbox One version has arrived. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person mystery title in which players control a Detective with a supernatural ability -more on that soon- who is on a case to find a missing boy, Ethan Carter. As he wanders around a large map he stumbles across bodies of the kidna...
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Thumb Culture Retrospective – Prey
29Jan By StuartNo Comments
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Thumb Culture Retrospective – Prey

For gamers of a certain age, the names Shodan and Xerxes are likely to trigger the urge to smash the nearest computer with a wrench. Long before Amazon’s Alexa was around to remind us to buy toilet roll, the megalomaniacal Artificial Intelligence of System Shock and its sequel ran amok in deep space, causing sleepless nights and the occasional nervous twitch for the players who stood against them. Xerxes did not care about your bathroom essentials; Xerxes wanted to eject you from an airlock and laugh as you crystalized in space. Not only a masterclass in sci-fi survival horror and storytelling, the System Shock games are also the spiritual predecessor to games such as Bioshock, Alien Isolation and Bethesda Softworks’ 2017 blockbuster, Prey. To say that Prey’s creation has been influe...
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5 Horror Games That Deserve a PS4 Remaster
31Oct By John2 Comments
Retrogaming Corner

5 Horror Games That Deserve a PS4 Remaster

As we yet again approach the time of year filled with Pumpkins, Trick or Treat and Scary movies. In a year that has seen a number of classic games get a remastered treatment (such as Sonic, Crash, Yakuza etc.). I thought it would be fitting to look back at five of the classic PS1 horror titles that were maybe overlooked for a remaster, but certainly deserve one. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely more than 5 which deserve this treatment. So in no particular order lets get going with these classics that deserve a remaster Resident Evil 2 & 3 (Capcom) Ok, so Resident Evil is a pretty obvious choice. After all it's the godfather of the Zombie Apocalypse as far as games are concerned. Especially given the resurgence the franchise has seen with the release of 7. I've grouped ...
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The Invisible Hours Review – A Murderous Experience
26Oct By JohnNo Comments
PlayStation Reviews

The Invisible Hours Review – A Murderous Experience

I’m sure that everyone at some point has played the classic board game Cluedo (Clue for our USA readers). The game where you travel around a mansion looking for clues as to who committed the crime (Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick). Well, imagine if you could bring that into the 21st Century and experience it in VR? Tequila Works have in essence tried to do just that with The Invisible Hours. Have they succeeded? or have they committed their own brutal murder? (In the Developer Studio with the Computer Software.) Gameplay The Invisible Hours is a Murder Mystery Adventure game where you are a member of the audience so to speak, watching a Theatre production of ‘The Invisible Hours'. The outline of the play is that Nikola Tesla has invited a number of estranged guests...
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Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul PSVR – To Scare Or Not To Scare?
12Sep By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
PlayStation Reviews

Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul PSVR – To Scare Or Not To Scare?

Well I'm a huge horror movie fan so when I received Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul by VRWERX to review on my PSVR I think excited was an understatement. I could barely contain myself, the excitement for me was like being a kid at Christmas. So, let's not keep you waiting any longer for how my nerves fared in this my latest horror outing. Gameplay Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul has a lot of potential. You have a haunted house to explore. There's a creepy cellar there for you too. Things move and dart about in the shadows through your peripherals. This game can make you jump and trust me it will make you jump and probably scare you have to death. Unfortunately, this is where Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul stops being everything you want it to be. VRWERX bully you into using...
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