There are now 10 video games based on the Evil Dead series, not counting the Ash games featured in such as Dead By Daylight and Poker Night 2. That’s a good number, although the Alien series has outdone it, especially counting the Alien vs. games. . There were four Blair Witch games, each developed by a different studio, and even Texas Chainsaw Massacre was made into an Atari 2600 game back in 1983. Meanwhile, several attempts to make Hellraiser games before release were scrapped, including one in Duke Nukem’s Build a single engine in the same engine as Wolfenstein-3D. It hardly seems fair.
What is a horror movie that could make a great video game?
These are our answers, plus some of ours forum.
Wes Finlon, Senior Editor: Follow. Imagine a kind of life simulation game like Bully. You are a teenager, you go to school, and you choose whether your character will study in the evening or go on dates in the old town square. But at any time, an NPC can actually be a terrifying and indomitable force of nature to tear your damn head off. You can stave off death by romance and sleeping with other people around town, but when you hear about the horrific murders they’ve committed on the news, you’ll know your number is coming.
This game would probably be awesome. Fabulous movie though.
Chris Livingston, Producer Features: The march of the penguins. Let me finish. Yes, it is a beautiful film about the triumph of life in very adverse circumstances, and it ends with a heart-warming scene of all the adorable little penguins whose parents fought like hell to protect and provide for them. But then you just think… Wait, these little penguins will grow up and have to endure everything we just saw their parents endure: months of starvation, near-freezing to death, fits of whales, the loss of a group of their children, and the sheer torment and unrelenting misery of Try to survive in the coldest place on earth. This is unsatisfactory. This is a damned horror story! The lives of those penguins are horrific.
But there has to be a game about penguins, because they are cute.
Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor: Host. An epidemic horror movie in which scary things happen in a video call was guaranteed, but it wasn’t guaranteed to be good or even watchable, so I think we did well with Host. It’s 57 racy minutes, and it does all the things you’d expect a Zoom horror story to do. (There is good use of automatic face detection, as seen in the trailer.)
I think the game will work. Phantom computer interfaces (Her Story, Emily is Away, Duskers, Pony Island, etc.), and Five Nights at Freddy’s prove that a game mostly about watching scary things on screens is viable. You may want excellent spatial sound so the video call looks like a video call, but the steps sound like it’s behind you.
Morgan Park, writer: Is A Quiet Place a horror movie? I’m never sure about these things, but let’s say they are. I think you can make a very good third person survival game out of the first movie if you really go for the “don’t make a sound” thing. I imagine tense moments of grocery store looting while trying not to stand on broken glass or knock on a tin can. It’s probably a wild ride story, so don’t spend 10 hours locked up on the same farm as Jim Halpert’s family. Ideally, it would be more stealth than action, like the original Splinter Cell series.
Jodi MacGregor, Weekend/AU Editor: I mentioned several Hellraiser games that started but never came to the fore because that’s what I’d like to see finally achieve. Solve puzzle boxes, hunt down extra dimensional BDSM demons, and take a trip to the labyrinth hell they call home. What do you not like?
DXCHASE: Human centipede. You have to lure people into your lab, sew them together, and send them to fight for you.
Sarfan: The Underworld series deserves a solid game adaptation. Maybe it’s not pure horror, but it definitely has many elements. The first movie was modified on PS2, but you don’t want to play it… The series has huge potential in many different genres, whether it’s RPG, FPS or even strategy. It’s strange that no one decided to make a good game set in this universe. Masquerade Vampire: Bloodlines will finally have a strong competitor.
Brian Burrow: I’m not a horror guy, but has anyone made Frankenstein for PC? I’m only aware of some console fighters from about 30 years ago. You can build your monster with a limited number of parts, for example, 20 – with a certain few required, such as the head and legs. The rest is up to you – you want 8 arms, go for it!
Once you have your blueprint, you must hunt down and kill the people in the area, bring them back to the dungeon you won in the PC Gamer competition, and pull out your trusty and rusty post to get their input on Le Grande project.
The different missions you send the monster to will need very different formats – cutters? – So there will be a lot of reconfiguration and modification required.
flashn00b: Is The Purge a horror movie? I guess if you don’t count the second and fourth movies, maybe?
I feel like for a game based on The Purge to work, you have to be a life sim, rule builder, open world survival vehicle and third person shooter all in one. Life simulation because the key to a successful purge is to earn the trust of the right people, build bases because you’ll have a home and neighborhood to defend, and unlock a world-class survival boat because you’ll need to leave your safety. A house to search for a city turned into a war zone, third person shooting because all crimes will be legal for the next 12 hours.
I think if risk/reward should be a thing for the life simulation part of the purge game, they could also present an option to commit crimes outside of purge, even though the Founding Fathers of America would take even petty crimes quite seriously.