Nun Massacre is a stealth/survival-horror game wherein a homicidal nun stalks you within a labyrinthian, dilapidated Catholic boarding school whilst you search for clues pertaining to your sick daughter who was a pupil there. Night of the Nun… aka Nun Massacre Puppet Combo

With spooky season descending on us more rapidly than yet another Squid Game tweet, being the brave boy that I am (my GP can confirm this), I tasked myself to play a smörgåsbord of these PS1 horror games.Ĭonsider this scare-based mine selflessly canaried. But whilst pixel-games seem to generally occupy the “wholesome adventure” market of video games, it seems that the recent slew of PS1-style video games released over the last few years have remained singularly in the purview of, what I would call, the “unsettling horror” market. We’re talking polygons, VHS filters, and pixelated JPEGS on faces. Therefore, it would only make sense that around 24 years since the release of the original PlayStation, those future indie game developers who were born in the late 80s would then have an urge to release a smattering of PS1-aesthetic video games. Those who were born in the early 80s and spent their adolescence playing on Gameboys only to became indie video game developers roughly 24 years later suddenly had a compulsion to pump out games like Stardew Valley, To The Moon, Terraria, and Celeste.īasically, if it didn’t involve cutesy sprites and text boxes that beeped each letter as it appeared onscreen then the Steam Store™ and ol’ Gabe didn’t want it. If you recall throughout the 2010s, you couldn’t move for all the pixel-art indie games that abounded. Whether we’re talking about music, fashion or, as we’ll soon discuss, video games, it is fittingly cliché to notice that, after a sufficient length of time has passed since a certain style was in vogue or - to borrow a gaming term - “meta”, that style returns with the second wind of nostalgia propelling its sales (pun intentional and proud of it). There’s a strange circularity when it comes to trends.

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