#Halloween games

[publishinggoblin]

What We Possess

What We Possess: A Ghostly Story Telling Game by Publishing Goblin — Kickstarter

On October 30th, What We Possess is coming to Kickstarter.

This Ghost Story Telling Game is a gm-less experience for 2-7 players. Players are given their method of death, a location they're trapped in, and a gathering of mortal and inanimate vessels in their space. They then take turns setting scenes for the living vessels, creating a story for the space, ultimately trying to uncover the mystery at the center of their story.

As players feel they've uncovered something about the mystery, they gain Clue cards that help them find details in the story, until they ultimately solve the mystery.

Games typically take 1-2 hours, and at the end, players are invited to share what happened to their ghost, and the vessels still in the space.

A meditation on life and death, an improv game, a story telling experience, What We Possess is, as your ghosts will find, what you make of it.

Also tagged in here is the 2nd Edition of ZOETROPE, the time travel card-based role playing game, available as a pledge tier and add-on. If you think What We Possess sounds delightful but maybe a bit too somber, ZOETROPE has all your time travel shenanigans covered!

What We Possess: A Ghostly Story Telling Game by Publishing Goblin — Kickstarter

[aurelim]

Among the Haunted Release!!

Happy Halloween everyone! For the past few weeks, I have been working on a collaboration with @albywritesfiction (who is one of the best people I have ever worked with; they have helped me so much with proofreading, coding, and looking for images 🥺 thank you so much!!) to make a game for Halloween.

The game has been submitted to ECTOCOMP English version (Le Grand Guignol) and Cozy Halloween Jam, so go check it out!

And so, Aurie and Alby bring you...

Being a single parent is never easy, especially when you have two kids to raise. You also live in a haunted house, where the supernatural inhabit the same space as the place you are meant to call home. Both of these factors equal chaos, which leads you to the present.

It is Halloween. Live through the spooky day on 13 Hallows Lane and decide what you will do when the sun begins to set and trick-or-treat goers fill the sidewalks.

What will you do? Decorate your house? Play some pranks on poor trick-o-treaters with help from the ghosts within your walls? Attend to your children to make sure they do not tell anyone that your house is haunted? The choice is yours!

​​Warning: this game has mentions of blood, ghosts, spiders and clowns, as well as disturbing themes. Please proceed with caution.

🎃 FEATURES

Mainly a linear game with some route differences based on your choices. Are they good? Are they bad? Who knows.

Choose your first name, your children's names (a boy and girl), and what they call you! However, you are locked in a preset personality, so you cannot change how you react to situations.

Live through your first Halloween at your haunted house, which is full of kind monsters and creatures you never thought existed until you met them.

Encounter strange things in your neighborhood.

🍭 CREDITS

Thanks to @writing-prompt-s for the following prompt: "You live in a very haunted house, but it’s not that bad. The voices in the basement remind you of your laundry and tell you to check the boiler, the rat size talking spider keeps the pests away and is a pretty good therapist, and the victorian ghost children are great friends with your kids."

Special thanks as well to Ash, author of Inner Demons, for some UI inspiration from her Twine/Sugarcube 2 Template (especially for the button CSS!)

And of course, thank you so much to Alby for helping with editing, coding, and helping me with advice! AtH couldn't have asked for a better guardian spirit ;)

All images came from Unsplash and were found by Alby. Banner and game cover made on Canva.

Check out the game here: GAME!

[michelada12]

IndieRPG’s Halloween Edition 🎃

Crowscare by arcadekitten

Game where you help Ryo prepare for the upcoming Harvest fest.

A Treat & Some Tricks by THarvestBrains

Game where you play a nice game of hiding & seek before going trick or treating.

Good Luck Seducing an Ace Witch by Agata Sain

You are barista that gets captured by a witch. Now you must befriend her before you become part of her potion.

Too Impatient by Lynis

Game where you lack patience to survive hell and your new demon friend keeps calling you lame.

Blackout by FRESH

Help a amnesiac Marilyn explore a haunted house.

Jake’s Halloween Night by DreamBones

Help Jake get ready for an epic Halloween party. Also, there’s candy everywhere.

Goodbye, Doggy by Picogram

Help this good doggo help it’s family to move on. I’m not crying your crying.

Pumpkin Eater by thugzilladev

Visual novel where your brother now has a pumpkin head and mom is not going crazy she is just fulfilling her duties as a mother who loves her children.

Pumpkin Panic by Bilalaika

Plant some crops, make friends, and built a very cool boat in this nice farming game.

Oh Terry! By Vimi

You are a vampire that just wants to get a drink, but some dude just keeps being annoying with his cheese puffs.

[mika-no-sekai-blog]

Halloween

Happy Halloween! Welcome to a reading game. How to play: It should be easy. Just read this start and then choose a character to continue the story with. I hope you will like it.

You twisted around in front of the tall mirror checking up your costume from every possible angle, making sure it's perfect. Satisfied with the result, you grinned. You leaned forward to make sure your makeup and hair match the same level of perfection. Everything was exactly as you imagined it.

You looked at the clock. It was almost time to go. You were invited to a great Halloween party which you were looking forward since you got the invitation. However your mate was still in the bathroom. You gave him another 5 minutes, but when he didn't come out, you decided to knock on the door.

"Love? Are you ready? We should go." You listened carefully, but no answer. To be honest it was too quiet inside and that made you worry. "Love?" You slowly pushed the door open. You froze in the doorway in surprise, mouth hanging open.

Azriel

Cassian

Lucien

[savage-flirtation]

[quinnhpm]

DON'T LOOK - The Scary-Storytelling Game Where Fear Keeps You Alive

It's all for fun. None of the stories are real. You don't talk about what is really there in the shadows. Not in the shadows beyond the campfire, and not in the closet behind you, and certainly not growing on the ceiling above your head. There's nothing there. And even if there was, you wouldn't know what It is, because you have never looked at It. You can't know what It is.

Don't Look is a simple game that supplements any ghost story. all you need are a few friends, a mirror or camera, your own scary stories or the interactive ones in the zine, and 13 easy rules. the game comes with two zines: The Game, a rulebook, and The Tales, a collection of 3 interactive scary stories.

get the physical zines

get the digital version

[sidheilustra]

The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023 Is Funding The Future of Queer Art It's that time of year again, and that means it's time to break out the campfire stories! The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle returns for 2023 with over 100 projects from over 80 folks from around the globe, ranging from the spooky to the spoopy and sometimes the downright unnerving! In this bundle, you will find... - 83 Digital Games (with 2 separated translated builds) - 22 Physical Games - 7 Books/Zines - 3 Comics - 3 Audio Dramas Please note that of the above projects, 15 of them contain subject matter that is considered NSFW in nature. Those interested in purchasing the bundle should be aged 18 years old or over. The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle is a mutual aid bundle directly benefiting queer indie developers, authors, and artists, with all sales split evenly among participants who have opted in to receive funds for their work. For the price of one AAA title, you can help fund the future of queer art by supporting these creators and discovering titles you won't find anywhere else. 🎃 FAQ 🎃 What is the Queer Halloween Stories Bundle? The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle is a grassroots indie media bundle that hopes to bring attention to the underground world of queer horror and other Halloween-adjacent art while financially supporting the folks behind these projects. How much does it cost? There are two versions of the bundle, the $60 Fright Edition and the $10+ Treat Edition. Both versions of the bundle contain the same content, though we encourage potential buyers to purchase the $60 Fright Edition if it would not jeopardize their personal financial situation in order to maximize support for our participating developers. Who are the organizers? The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle is spearheaded by tofurocks/Project Ensō with the assistance of Drazillion and Dulcia Games. Who drew the promotional art? Candy the Cyclops was originally designed by inkymaw. This year's main promotional art was drawn by Isla of milk+ visual, with logowork by Madi of Sad Ghost Studios. Alternate pixel promotional art was drawn by Quinn K. 🎃 Reblogs are appreciated! $60 Fright Edition $10+ Treat Edition

[posthumanwanderings]

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The House of the Dead 💀 (AM1 - Sega Model 2 - 1997)

[thathalloweenyfeeling]

Halloween Toys, 2023

[caffeinautilus]

It's that time of the year again!

[albywritesfiction]

Among the Haunted: Behind the Scenes

Hi everyone!

@aurelim and I had a great time making Among the Haunted these past few weeks, as evidenced by the following screenshots:

We also talked about other things aside from AtH 😄 Here's us talking about the map bot from Five Nights at Freddy's:

We also had the revelation of Aurie's true nature ...

... as well as the birth of my new nickname

It was, indeed, a downward spiral of ghost references

There were a lot more, but these were some of our favorite moments 😊

Hope you all had as much fun going through this behind-the-scenes post as we did making Among the Haunted, and Happy Halloween!

[inestheunicorn]

A Big Project Reveal!! I began working on this Autumn Oracle game at the end of August mostly for fun, but it was turning out so nice that I decided to simply make it a real thing for you guys ♥ I'm so happy to launch it just in time for Halloween!! 🎃

This is a printable Card Oracle game, which means you'll also have a good time printing and cutting the board, cards and deck box ♥ The game comes with 10 Illustrated Cards, a cosy Board with different fields to reveal the future, and a Box to keep your cards safe and organized.

Besides all these goodies, you also get a Game Guide to understand the meanings of the cards on each field and additional spreads. This way you can enjoy the cards with or without the board ♥

You can find this game and a lot more Halloween cuties here:

https://etsy.com/shop/inestheunicorn

Have fun and happy spooky time! 🎃

[naaattie]

dayum blacky, nice jacket, where'd ya get that shit?

[goostiebee]

🎃WELCOME TO GOOST'S MONTH OF SPOOKS!🎃 An entire month where we will play horror games, along with some friends!

🪦Here lies Bee, Goostie...let's put her to rest 🎂Celebrate my bday with me on the 6th! I have a surprise for you myself~ 🧟And we'll be taking out some zombies with some friends of mine!

Won't you join us? I promise it'll be tons of fun!

[demeruart]

I’m really excited to announce the new Visual Novel I’m working on with a couple of my friends for the Spooktober 2023 game jam!

I wanted to introduce you to the characters because I love them all so much. I’m working on the art, programming, and the UI design.

[fridge-reviews]

Dread X Collection

Developer: DreadXP Publisher: DreadXP Rrp: £5.19 (Steam) £5.58 (Itch.io) £5.99 (Epic) Released: 26th May 2020 Available on: Itch.io, Steam and Epic

The Dread X Collection is a compilation of ten horror themed games that were created in seven days. The games were all created with the prompt of PT (the game PT as well the technical term, Playable Teaser). Many of the contributors to the collection are names you may recognise such as David Szymanski (the creator of Dusk). In later Dread X Collections (because it has now become a series) some of these games have become more developed and brought out as independent titles that you may recognise. It should be noted that there are a few things that should be kept in mind with these games; 1 - They're all very short experiences. 2 - Due to the speed they were created in they are going to be rough around the edges and even have a few glitches etc. 3 - Again, due to the speed of development they aren't going to be the prettiest games.

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The Pay is Nice

Developer: Odd Breeze

This was the first game I played in the collection and for me this game didn't really strike me like some of the others would do later. The thing is I can see the germ of a great game inside it, there was an air of mystery going on and it left me wanting answers. Sadly those are answers I doubt I'll ever get.

The game uses an old Resident Evil style, fixed camera angle which helps heighten the tension and sense of paranoia the game clearly wants to give the player. Sadly, as I said at the beginning of this review, the game didn't grab me and part of that was a because of the way it ended, it just felt very unsatisfying.

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Don't Go Out

Developer: Secret Cow Level

Yet again another game with a nugget of something great, a turn based game where you use resources in the form of cards to achieve the only goal that matters, surviving the night. You may succeed in doing this through clever positioning or perhaps you sacrifice a friend to give the rest of the party a chance. It doesn't matter how you do it as long as you survive to see another day.

You get as many actions in a turn as you have characters out, you start with only one but eventually the cards you get in your hand will reveal other characters to put out on to the field. Thankfully, playing a card doesn't cost an action so you can run and then play a card (or visa versa). At the end of each of your turns the enemies will take their turn and the countdown ticks on. You just need to have at least one party member alive by the time the countdown gets to zero.

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Hand of Doom

Developer: Torple Dook

This is one of those games that I mentioned that has (or will do) go on to be its own release. Based on what I played here I'll definitely be picking it up. This is an old school dungeon delver (such as the Wizardry series) where the [A] and [D] keys are used to slowly turn rather than strafe. One of the things that makes this game so interesting to me is the spell casting. You do this by using four buttons on the right side of the screen, each button representing a portion of an incantation.

This is yet another one of those games where I didn't ever feel actually scared by this game, but I can see that there is definite potential for it to be very scary, as it stands in this form though its more just creepy. Honestly the full release of this looks like it'll be a ton of fun. It's now officially on my wishlist.

Edit: In the time between of writing this review and posting it, I have now purchased the full game.

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Carthanc

Developer: Scythe Dev Team

Indiana Jones in space if it were a FPS without any weapons. That sentence pretty much covers this game for a descriptor. I'm going to be a bit charitable here and just say that this game was... frustrating. At no point did I find myself scared not even jump scared, what I mostly felt was annoyance mostly because of the enemies in this. They scream, constantly and its not scary it just causes my ears to hurt. It's also frustrating because there are several puzzles that require some fairly precise first person platforming, all the while this screaming thing is following relentlessly.

I truly hope they never make a full game of this, because I'd envitably end up picking it up and having to suffer through it all over again.

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Shatter

Developer: Lovely Hellplace

I loved this game! It's not the prettiest thing to look at but that adds to the charm and its clear the developers were intending on a Playstation one look to the game. A style that I think they achieved with flying colours. Its a nice mix of cyberpunk and horror, kinda reminded me of Silent Hill in some ways.

This game was haunting and the story had me wanting more... sadly I'm not sure that'll ever happen but I live in hope.

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Rotgut

Developer: Showrunner Productions

Quality was always going to be a questionable affair when it came to this collection, that was expected. But this game was POINTLESS. You just walk down an overly long tunnel hit a wall and then have to turn around and go back, that's it. Nothing happens.

I hated this, it was a waste of my time.

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Summer Night

Developer: Airdorf

At the start this game gives the advise that its best experienced in the dark and with headphones on and I totally agree. Sound is a huge part of this game. Sadly I can't tell you much about it because its quite a short one and only has room for a single twist and I'd hate to ruin that. What I will say is that there is more than meets the eye here.

Playing this game has convinced me that I need to play Airdorfs game Faith, I've been umming and arring about it for a while but now I'm convinced. As for this game, I love it, it terrified me!

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Mr Bucket Told Me To

Developer: Strange Scaffold This one is quite interesting because unlike the rest it has multiple endings, they aren't all that different from each other but still way more than I expected. The basic jist of this game is to stay alive four nights and you die if any meter reaches zero and you go to sleep.

Personally I didn't find this particularly scary, but I can see the core horror 'concept' that they were trying to achieve. Not bad honestly.

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Outsiders

Developer: Mahelyk

Timeloops games have become popular of late, but this one was made before it became the mechanic du jour. Though I'd argue this game is more cyclical than an actual timeloop. This is the game that is closest to being like PT, but even then that's only in the most surface level of ways.

This game really had me on edge many times and really had me getting a bit paranoid. I definitely will be checking out Mahelyk's other work.

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The Pony Factory

Developer: David Szymanski

The Pony Factory is a horror themed first person shooter by David Szymanski (the creator of the game Dusk). I must admit I love the B movie style of this game which captures the essence of horror while not actually being scary.

For the most part the game is in black and white which adds to the overall atmosphere. On the whole its a great little game, I kinda wish he'd do more with it but that's doubtful.

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