#excavation of hobs barrow

[konekoryuugamine]

Looking for a good scare but overwhelmed by the amount of horror games that promise big but leave you feeling flat? Need something that gives you chills for less than the price of a AAA title? Then look no further. In this article, we take a look at 15 of the most recent horror games that will leave you screaming for more!

[tawnyfool]

Games I Played | 2023 & some fav quotes Games I Played | 2022

[noelle666]

I'm just gonna post it here because sometimes you need good voice acting. And cats. :)

[merrinla]

Spent my Halloween playing The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. An atmospheric point-and-click quest about the horrors of the isolated British outback with ancient superstitions and paranormal phenomena. Besides, the main character is voiced by Samantha Béart and in some scenes you can hear Dave Jones. Karlach and Halsin crossed paths again. What else do I need?

P.S. I belive Dave mentioned this review on Neil's stream 😆

[sidequestzone]

Sidequest's Favorite Cozy Horror Games for Weenies

Once again, October is upon us, heralding all things eerie and ominous: the wind whistling through barren trees on a rainy night; gourds, both ornamental and eaten; bony, oversized lawn ornamentation from a beloved multinational home improvement/lawn and garden center; a preponderance of frightful films, books, and games; and more. Continue reading Untitled

[isbergillustration]

I played The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and I loved it a normal regular amount. Ft. my largely unhelpful puzzle notes.

[sassylich]

the streaming hiatus is over folks, i am BACK tonight playing the excavation of hob's barrow!! come join me in victorian england to solve mysteries!

starting in 5 minutes!! ✨🔎

[coffinchoker]

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

[yetihideout]

A great kitty in The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

[marshvlovestv]

Nobody has played The Rewinder but I made this post for Lady Ying specifically. She has lived in my head rent-free for almost a year. She's female, elderly, married, a POC, and living in ancient China, bucking every single autistic stereotype and yet she's the most autistic of them all. Bitch just loves rocks shaped like animals

I've also been replaying Hob's Barrow with the dev commentary on and was sorely disappointed by how little they had to say about best boy Henry Long.

[anartificialsatellite]

So I can't play a lot of video games because anything 3D where the camera moves around a lot with the player character makes me very motion sick pretty quickly. I used to be able to play these sorts of games, but as I've gotten older it's gotten worse and I haven't been able to for a few years now. (I thought finally getting glasses would fix it and it does kind of help, but not enough.) This sucks because it does mean that I miss out on a lot of games, but it also has forced me to broaden my horizons and try games I might not have found otherwise.

One of the places where this becomes more of a problem for me is the horror/thriller genres - I think there's especially a tendency to rely on 3D first and third person perspective (and especially first person) in games that are meant to be scary or creepy or whathaveyou, because when you limit the player's field of view it's not difficult to make them feel trapped and uneasy, and it lends itself well to jumpscares.

...Which makes it all the more impressive, imo, when a game that doesn't use that still succeeds at building that sort of atmosphere and immersion. So!

Here's three of my favorite scary/spooky/creepy atmospheric games without a 3D first or third person perspective:

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

This point-and-click adventure game has 2D pixel graphics, an excellent soundtrack, and a fascinating and compelling folk horror mystery at its center. Antiquarian Thomasina Bateman travels to an isolated English town on the moors to pursue research for her book on the barrows of England, and (as one usually does in this genre) discovers something strange and sinister lurking beneath the surface. I finished this game in about 2 sessions, by which I mean I've got 10 hours of playtime on it and the only reason it wasn't one session was because I had to stop and do normal human things. (I found this game because I'm a fan of one of the publisher's other titles, The Shivah, a kind of weird and super short detective style adventure game whose main character is a bitter, depressed rabbi, and I really recommend that one as well.)

Oxenfree

Not really horror, I guess, but definitely a supernatural thriller? We'll go with that. Another adventure game, this time one where your choices affect the story. The main character is Alex, a teenage girl who, along with some friends and some non-friends, is spending the night on an island that was once home to an old military base. Using a radio, you unintentionally open a portal and find yourself facing the supernatural effects of a decades old naval disaster. The art is gorgeous, the music is absolutely tits, and there's some really cool gameplay mechanics, as well. I'm also a sucker for spooky radio shit, so when I came across this game I was all over it.

It's got a sequel, Oxenfree II: LOST SIGNALS, which is a similar style game set on a nearby island some time after the events of the first game, and I also super recommend that one, too.

FAITH

I'll start with a caveat for this one: I've only played Chapter 1, because when I first bought and played it that was the only part that was out. I can't speak for any of the rest of this game, and annoyingly, it looks like you can't buy Chapter 1 by itself anymore.

In this retro-styled game you play as a priest returning to the site of a failed exorcism, so if demonic posession and that kind of Catholic religious horror isn't your bag this game probably won't be either, but even as someone who is not Christian, I super enjoyed it. It features 8-bit graphics that remind me of Atari and some old DOS adventure games I haven't played in almost two decades, as well as some truly creepy rotoscoped pixel art. The sound is just as old school as the art and is used to deeply unsettling effect, and I was continuously impressed by how the dev managed to make such a creepy game in this style.

If you've got any others, please share them with me! I absolutely love this kind of thing and am always happy to add more to my "to play" list.

[fictionz]

Looking at my favorite recent games... I might have a type.

[ardate]

Also seeing end of year, 3-5 shows/movies/games/etc. you've saw this year that you recommend?

Brain kinda dry at remembering which movies I discovered this year specifically, so here's three videogames I know for sure I did, that I Very Much recommend to everyone:

Inscryption. A card game in a horror atmosphere (but no big horrors or jumpscares or anything) There are no words to express the incredible craft and originality of this game. Going in blind is 1000% recommended because the discovery is so very enjoyable, and if I could I'd wipe my mind to discover it again.

Dredge. A fishing game sounds lovely doesn't it - how about a fishing game set in early 20th century, tied to lovecraft inspired lore? This collection of islands has more stories to tell than you'd expect at first glance... Get your gear fisherman and get out there, but be careful after dark.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. ...Well, okay, I realize my three recommendations (and most played games according to Steam) are all horror-adjacent games. But hear me out. If you like intriguing mysteries around old english folklore, with masterfully written, well-rounded characters, all of that in a charming point & click pixel art game reminiscent of classic LucasArt masterpieces, then PLEASE give it a try. It's a game I'll hold dear to my heart for a long time.

[hedgerowdevil]

The finest £10 I've spent so far this year has been on The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, a brilliant and evocative point-and-click folk horror game. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure we need another Wicker Man replica, where enlightened city folk arrive in an isolated rural community of amiable and dotty locals and become the unwitting victim of a malevolent plot, etc., but I'll make an exception for this one because it's so beautifully executed and, well, eerie.

[hardcore-gaming-101]

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

After a short break in activity after Unavowed (though some studio members assisting on projects by other studios), Wadjet Eye has become active again with the publication of two horror games in the early 2020s. Neither is exactly what you would expect. The first of them, Strangeland, was made by the Primordia developers and was a very abstract and artistic game about personal tragedy the developers dealt with in their lives. The other, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, is a folk era, eldritch horror story that has influences even older than Lovecraft.

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[naidje]

Elephant girl plays The Excavation of Hob's Barrow - Part 2 (VOD)