All articles tagged with #survival horror
This week in gaming features the major release Pathologic 3, a psychological horror game where you have 12 days to save a town from a plague, along with several other new titles including DuneCrawl, StarRupture, Past Fate, Ancient Farm, and Shadows of Soldiers, offering a variety of genres from survival horror to MMORPG and tactical shooter. The week also coincides with CES, which may limit gaming time.
The article highlights several anticipated games for 2026, including lesser-known titles like The Sinking City 2, Phantom Blade Zero, Mortal Shell II, The Dark Rites of Arkham, and Wolfhound, emphasizing their unique styles and potential impact on their genres, from survival horror to pixel art adventures and Metroidvania action.
Cronos: The New Dawn, a challenging survival horror game, will add an easy difficulty mode called Temporal Diver Mode in early 2026 via a free update, making the game more accessible and less stressful for players focusing on the story. The game currently features three difficulty modes, with the hardest unlockable after completing the main campaign.
Epic Games Store is offering Sorry We’re Closed, a retro-style survival horror game, for free as part of its holiday giveaway, available for a limited time, featuring puzzle solving, exploration, and reality-shifting mechanics.
Silent Hill f was the big winner at The Horror Game Awards 2025, taking home four awards including Game of the Year, and was recognized for its performance, narrative, and technical achievements, marking a significant success for the game and NeoBard's survival horror hit.
The Florist is an upcoming PS5 horror game by Unclear Games, set for 2026, that combines fixed camera angles reminiscent of PS1 survival horror with vibrant, unsettling visuals and a unique artistic style, focusing on puzzles, enemies, and a mysterious storyline in a colorful town.
Resident Evil 9, titled Requiem, aims to return to its horror roots, swinging the series away from the action focus of Resident Evil Village and closer to the horror style of Resident Evil 2, with developers expressing uncertainty about what truly scares them anymore but committed to increasing the horror elements in the game.
The article shares 11 essential tips for playing Silent Hill f, emphasizing the importance of managing inventory, investing in stamina and sanity, strategic combat, and thorough exploration to enhance survival and enjoyment in this psychologically intense horror game.
Cronos: The New Dawn, a survival horror game by Bloober Team, has been released on Switch 2 with a new launch trailer showcasing gameplay and mechanics. The game features dual timelines, a blend of horror influences, and positive early impressions on performance and visuals. Fans of horror and survival games might find it worth checking out.
At Gamescom 2025, the standout game for Jez Corden was 'Cronos: The New Dawn' by Bloober Team, a survival horror title inspired by classics like Resident Evil and Dead Space, set in a bleak, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic Poland. The game features strategic combat, atmospheric storytelling, and a mysterious narrative involving space-time anomalies and societal collapse, with a release scheduled for September 5, 2025, on multiple platforms. Despite past criticisms, Bloober Team has impressed with this ambitious horror experience.
The article reviews a demo of Hellraiser: Revival, highlighting its intense violence, horror elements, and gameplay that resembles Resident Evil, with a focus on its disturbing visuals, tense encounters, and a mix of combat and puzzles, though it raises concerns about its reliance on gore and action over innovation.
Resident Evil 9 continues the series' tradition of using a relentless stalker enemy to evoke fear, with the latest demo highlighting a claustrophobic environment and survival horror elements reminiscent of Alien: Isolation, showcasing Capcom's ongoing innovation within the franchise's formula.
Silent Hill F shifts from traditional survival horror to a more action-oriented approach to attract new players, set in 1960s Japan and following high school student Shimizu Hinako, with the aim of diversifying the series and appealing to a broader audience.
Silent Hill F will feature multiple endings and a New Game Plus mode, allowing players to explore different story outcomes and gameplay variations in subsequent playthroughs, with previews indicating it will be a strong addition to the franchise.
Bloober Team released 35 minutes of gameplay for their upcoming survival horror game Cronos: The New Dawn, showcasing impressive dark atmosphere and creature design, with the game set to launch on October 15, 2025, for multiple platforms including PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and on Switch 2 in September 2025.