Some of the best horror games share something in common: and that is The ability to deliver a feeling of fright and unease upon pressing start on the title screen. There is truly something unique upon playing a horror themed game that gets you in a heart-racing and adrenaline-pumped frenzy, whether it’s guns a blazing, avoiding an overwhelming threat or puzzle solving.
Each game giving us the daunting task of finding solutions or ways to escape from the someone or something that lurks in the shadows; all hellbent in using their sinister schemes to take you out.
Luckily, there’s no shortage of video game titles designed to send you into a tailspin of terror. Be it games from the past or present ;The one thing they all share is that they’re designed to make you feel like anything could be lurking around the shadows with just a simple press of a button. This is why THIS stage of the Retro VGM Revival Hour has chosen the most haunting tracks from various horror themed games to get your blood pumping this Halloween season.
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Full track listing:
===========Game – Composer – Title – Company========
1.) The 7th Guest – George Alistair Sanger & David Sanger (for Skeletons In My Closet) – “Dolls Of Doom, Rain, Skeletons In My Closet (w/vocals by Kris McKay) & The Game (w/vocals by Robert Harrison),“ – April 1, 1993 – Trilobyte/Virgin Interactive Entertainment – Philips CD-i, MS DOS, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Mac OS X & Linux
2.) Resident Evil 3 (2020) – Saori Maeda, Masami Ueda, Ryo Koike, Takumi Saito & Azusa Kato – “The City of Ruin, Free from Fear, Fighting in the Flames, Laboratory & Surrounded by Terror“ – April 3, 2020 – Capcom – Windows PC, PS4 & Xbox One
3.) Mortal Shell – Simon Heath – “Deep Roots, Dark Father & Under a Broken Sun“ – August 18, 2020 – Cold Symmetry/Playstack – Windows PC, PS4 & Xbox One
4.) World of Horror – Pawel Kozminski – “Seaside Mystery, Seaside Combat & Home“ – Feb 20, 2020 – Pawel Kozminski/Ysbryd Games – mac OS, Windows PC, Linux, PS4 & Nintendo Switch
5.) Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Kevin Collier – “Intro“ – January 1, 1994 -Psygnosis – Commodore AMIGA
6.) Bendy and the Ink Machine – theMeatly – “Build Our Machine, The Searchers, Sammy Jam, Little Devil Darling & Drawn to darkness“ – February 10, 2017 – Kindly Beast/Rooster Teeth Games – Windows PC, macOS, Linux, PS4, Xbox One, Android, iOS & Nintendo Switch
7.) Castle of Terror – Neil Brennan – “The Village“ – 1984 – Beam Software/Melbourne House – Commodore 64 & ZX Spectrum
8.) Outlast – Samuel Laflamme – “First Chase, Male Ward Chase, Now My Son & Surgeon Attack“ – September 4, 2013 – Red Barrels – Windows PC, PS4, Xbox One, Android Linux, Mac OSX & Nintendo Switch
9.) Dead Space 2 – Jason Graves – “Padded Room With A View, Class Dismissed & War and Pieces“ – January 25, 2011 – Visceral Games/EA – WindowsPC, PS3 & Xbox 360
10.) Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion (Spooky’s House of Jumpscares) – Akuma Kira – “The House That Spooky Built (Main Theme), VIOLENT, Your Consenting Mind (Clean ver.) & A Smile Beneath Your Skin“ – October 24, 2014 – Lag Studios – Windows PC
11.) Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet – Philippe Vachey – “Path To The Calvary, Illsmouth Theme 1 & Welcome To Illsmouth“ – March 25, 1993 – Infogrames – MS-DOS, PC-98 Home computer & Linux
12.) Carrion – Cris Velasco – “Eternal Adversary, Appetite for Destruction & Attack of the Peacekeepers“ – July 23, 2020 – Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital – Windows PC, Xbox One, macOS, Linux & Nintendo Switch
13.) Alone in the Dark – Philippe Vachey – “In the Eye of the Storm, The Battle Against Evil, Gramophone Part 3 & Run for Your Life“ – 1992 – Infogrames – MS-DOS, PC-98 personal computer, FM Towns home computer, 3DO, Mac OS, RISC OS home computer & iOS
14.) OverBlood – Hiroaki Iwatani – “Earthquake Damage, Crisis & Last Fight“ – August 2, 1996 – Riverhillsoft/EA – Sony PlayStation
15.) Maid of Sker – Gareth Lumb & Tia Kalmaru – “Calon Lân (Pure Heart), Sanctuary, Relentless & Suo Gân (Welsh Lullaby)“ – July 28, 2020 – Wales Interactive – PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One & Windows PC
16.) Blair Witch – Arkadiusz Reikowski – “Prologue, The Scent & I Am Here But You’re Not“ – August 30, 2019 – Bloober Team/Lionsgate Games – Windows PC, Xbox One, PS4 & Nintendo Switch
17.) Agony – Jeroen Tel, Tim Wright & Martin Iveson – “High Score, The forest (Level 2) & Intro/opening“ – 1992 – Art & Magic/Psygnosis – Commodore AMIGA
18.) Conarium – Onur Şamlı & Oral Şamlı – “Antarctic Base Theme 1, Tension & Rememberance“ – June 6, 2017 – Zoetrope Interactive/Iceberg Interactive – Windows PC, Linux, macOS, PS4 & Xbox One
19.) Penumbra (Black Plague, Overture & Requiem) – Mikko Tarmia – “Penumbra theme, Overture Theme, Requiem Theme & Spider attack“ – March 8, 2007 – Frictional Games/Lexicon Entertainment – Windows PC, Linux & Mac OS X
