Resident Evil 7 already gave horror fans a suspenseful start to the new year, but that’s not the only game coming down the pike with a high fright factor. Combing through the list of upcoming releases, we found a surprising variety of horror games coming to home consoles, PCs, and virtual reality platforms in 2017. In addition to the normal parade of haunted house simulations, you can look forward to science-fiction tinged horror, a journey to hell, a game based on alleged real-world ghost encounters, and, if you’re deranged enough, even taking the role of an iconic killer to hunt down other players. Here are the most promising concepts we’re most eager to experience.
P.A.M.E.L.A.
Platform: PC
Release: February
Anyone who has played video games over the last few decades knows utopias are doomed from the moment they get off the ground. The latest to crumble is Eden, a once-vibrant complex built on top of the ocean rather than underneath it. Awaking from a cryosleep under the directive of Eden’s Cortana-like A.I., Pamela, players must scavenge high-tech resources to survive as they uncover the extinction level event that doomed or disfigured most of the city’s inhabitants.
Routine
Platform: Rift, PC
Release: March
Originally announced in 2012, this first-person horror game set on a retro-futuristic moonbase is finally nearing release. Armed with only a utility tech device, players enter a long-abandoned lunar outpost to determine what happened to the scientists. Killer robots, randomized threats, and the threat of permadeath try to make each encounter riveting, forcing players to either stand their ground or flee. With no HUD or health bars cluttering up the screen, the game is dripping with atmosphere undoubtedly influenced by films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien. Lunar Software is also bringing this fright fest to Rift, but we have no information on whether the game will eventually make it to consoles.
Friday the 13th: The Game
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Release: Early 2017
Following in the footsteps of last year’s surprise hit Dead by Daylight, this asymmetrical multiplayer game captures the terror and tension of its 1980s namesake. Up to seven players take the role of Camp Crystal Lake counselors, while one stalks the campground as the unrelenting masked killer Jason Voorhees. With supernatural hearing abilities and the ability to teleport around the map in an instant, Jason won’t be easy to escape. The counselors must use misdirection and get a bit of luck to avoid a bloody demise and either escape the camp or stay alive until the timer runs out. The multiplayer mode is coming out soon, but Gun Media and IllFonic plan to add a single-player campaign later in the year as well.
Agony
Platform: PC
Release: Spring
This first-person survival horror game skips the circumstances of your death and drops you straight into the cataclysmic depths of hell. Unlike Doom, you don’t have a BFG to fend off the grotesque demons wandering this ghastly hellscape, which based on the early trailers makes id’s shooter look like Disneyland. MadMind Studio casts players as a tormented soul with no memory if its past. By possessing the tortured and deformed monstrosities in this realm of madness, you must journey through blood, flesh, and flame to find the mythical Red Goddess. Only she knows how to escape. Like many of the games on this list, Agony is also coming to VR.
Visage
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Release: Spring
One of two games looking to fill the vacuum when Konami unceremoniously canceled the highly anticipated Hideo Kojima/Guillermo Del Toro collaboration P.T. (seriously, what were they thinking?), Visage transports players to a large, maze-like house where many families died in brutal fashion. Players relive memory fragments of those who perished here while developer SadSquare Studio uses every trick from the modern haunted house film playbook to get you to jump or feel that deep, toe-curling sense of dread. Randomized paranormal encounters should make each playthrough feel different, and the player must avoid going insane to learn why this house is cursed. SadSquare also has plans to bring Visage to VR platforms.
What Remains of Edith Finch
Platform: PS4, PC
Release: Spring
Giant Sparrow’s first release after Unfinished Swan isn’t the type of game to make you jump out of your seat in fright, but fits on this list nonetheless for its morbid theme and haunting atmosphere. This adventure game is constructed like a series of short stories about the cursed Finch family, each of which ends in death. The last remaining member of the family, Edith walks through the drafty, decaying family estate, eager to learn why so many of her kin met such strange demises.
Read on to see the rest of the year's scheduled horror releases.
from www.GameInformer.com - The Feed http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/01/26/13-spooky-horror-games-coming-in-2017.aspx
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