I'm looking for games like Resident Evil here mainly

eehh it doesnt look that scary

steam and itch io aren't really helping me

also Serial Experiments Lain is a horror anime about the Internet that I LOVE but I feel like a lot of Internet horror was heavily inspired by it lol

I think the movie I Saw The TV Glow is the PERFECT blend of creepypasta aesthetics while also having a deep complex, nuanced story as mentioned above, even if the "horror" is kinda mild and it plays out more as a drama

true, tbh internet horror doesn't appeal to me even with stuff like the backrooms

when it comes to horror, I'm more into psychological horror stuff like The Shining, Possession, Omori, The Lighthouse, Antichrist, stuff where the horror comes from the deep, complex relationships between characters

sorry for all this rambling yeah I've just been thinking about why I've never gotten along with internet horror despite being a huge fan of the horror genre

and another issue I have is so much Internet horror is just constant blood and screaming and scary images, I dunno I like my horror stuff more paced out evenly, I like when horror stuff actually takes time to flesh out characters, y'know? it actually grounds the scares and makes them more impactful

that and also most of it misses the point of the tropes the utilise

like, analog horror, it's meant to be a subgenre of found footage, right? but most analog horror just feels like a sequence of random spooky images slapped together with a vhs filter and the actual story is decided upon after

kind of empathy because you aren't actually experiencing said events, you have to puzzle together them.

it's weird cause I normally love abstract storytelling, but the kind of abstract storytelling most Internet horror utilises just ends up robbing it of any kind of emotional depth

been thinking about it a bit more, I think I've figured out just why I've never liked this style of storytelling

it's just too damn cryptic and hard to decipher to the point it robs the actual events of any kind of real emotional impact, stories that should be heavy and serious are robbed of any-

I think it's part of an overall trend of people treating fiction like sports games and not.. yknow, works of art. people judge things based on how THEY wanted the story to go and not on the actual quality

that's valid the artstyle is incredible 😭 my issue isn't with the game no it's great it's just I can't really get into it cause of how my brain processes things idk I can't really go through something unless it feels like I'm progressing towards something

yeah, but the lack of structure honestly makes it hard for me to get into, it's a shame as I do love cosmic and profound stories like that but I just I dunno I feel aimless for me a game has to strike a balance of feeling like I know what I'm meant to do without constantly holding my hand

the issue with games like fnaf and slender is they're made to scare... and that's it, like, I feel like I get nothing out of playing them.

the difference is though, Amnesia is a genuinely good game, it has a very well written story with a satisfying conclusion that it tells in a coherent way, leaving the finer details to easter eggs, and beyond the stealth, there's an emphasis on physics and inventory puzzles that are fun to do!

I'm pretty sure it's Amnesia that started the trend of horror let's plays, and games like fnaf and slender came after made specifically for them

makes sense, I've never liked internet horror/creepypasta stuff, I dunno a lot of it just feels too detached from any kind of rationality to the point it doesn't scare me

and I've always kinda hated horror games that were never made to actually be played for fun, but to have content made of them

the biggest issue of fnaf is I just feel nothing out of playing it, the story isn't told in any engaging or coherent way within the actual games, there's no satisfying payoff to make the genuine chore that is the gameplay worth it, nothing unique happens, it's just... eh.