#indie horror games

[mocharaycookie]

this specific garten of banban texture/quote is something i would expect to see in a 2018 edgy undertale au comic dub made by four band kids with iphone microphones. this is uwu fandom humor. this is the government psyop of indie horror games

[restingcorpse]

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[horrorvisuals]

Incident at Grove Lake

A private investigator receives top-secret files and a tape from an Area 51 worker and decides to take a look at the footage.

It's a PSX-style horror adventure game based on alien abduction accounts throughout history.

It takes about 20 minutes to finish. As someone who is particularly interested in even the smallest possibility of extraterrestrial life, I enjoyed this a lot. Very well made.

 Check it out here: https://toothandclaw.itch.io/incident-at-grove-lake

[clocktowerr]

THE PATH Tale of Tales 2009

[474lyse]

[c0nnecti0n-l0st]

He’ll squeeze you until you pop!

[eshbaal]

Halloween is almost upon us! And so are SPOOKY GAMES!!

Everyone come watch as I draw a couple of characters from some indie horror games I have enjoyed this year!

And here are the drawings!!

[susiephone]

Ginger + The Girl in Red in "The Path"

[harrowedworld]

What if vampires used recruitment posters?

Please like and reblog.

[hostess-of-horror]

I've been binge-watching some indie horror games...

Specifically, Amanda the Adventurer and Poppy Playtime.

But I want to talk about Amanda because I have made a theory based on the lore behind it.

[Major Spoiler Warning! Plus, I will be delving into some disturbing or at least unsettling subject matter! If you feel uneasy or don't want to be spoiled, please do not proceed!]

Amanda the Adventurer is the creepy yet tragic tale of a man who had big dreams of bringing joy to local children. Still, he and his adopted daughter were manipulated by the higher-ups of a greedy corporation, which ultimately resulted in cursed VHS tapes that we the player have to solve.

Now, this interesting tidbit of lore seems pretty vague but straightforward, right? Well, it could be if there wasn't a spindly eldritch demon that attacks us when we don't do what Amanda says or mess up any of the puzzles.

We can all understand how Hameln, the corporation that got the rights to the TV show, took advantage of Rebecca Colton, the actress who played Amanda, but there's something that had been bothering me...

Why demons?

Why is Amanda the Adventurer demonic, and what were (or is) Hameln's true intentions? What was happening behind the scenes during the recording session in one of the secret tapes found in the game?

I may not have a concrete theory on this, but I have come up with two possibilities:

The CEO of Hameln struggled to get the corporation back on its feet so much that they made a deal with the Devil to do so but with a hefty cost.

Hameln, somehow, discovered that it was scientifically possible to use demonic energy from Hell and convert it into everyday objects, such as TVs (think of the video game, DOOM).

I do believe that these two theories can be one and the same, either the CEO makes the deal with the Devil and gains very strong yet evil powers or science had evolved into discovering the presence of Hell that Hameln decided to use it to their advantage. Either way, it's all fucked up.

In the recording session tape, we can hear Rebecca saying these words: "Bye yell. Bye yell. Bye yell... Pie man. Pie man. Pie man... Baa Lamb. Baa Lamb."

These words are not just some random words for Rebecca to exercise her voice with... They are the Infernal names of demons used in Satanic rituals.

"Bye Yell" is Bael, the first of the Ars Goetia and Head of the Infernal Power

"Pie Man" is Paimon, the 9th Pillar of the Ars Goetia and the Spirit of Arts, Music, and Punishment.

"Baa Lamb" is Balaam, the Hebrew devil of avarice and greed.

Hameln is tricking Rebbeca into summoning extremely powerful demons to make way for Amanda the Adventurer's "dynamic voice reaction." In other words, they're using the combination of advanced technology and Satanic rituals to create the most interactive kid's show ever to exist.

But that's not the end of it! No, it gets much worse...

In the very first secret tape we find in the game, there's a home video of a mother trying to get her daughter, Lauren downstairs for her birthday treat. But Lauren remains unresponsive, her eyes glued to Amanda the Adventurer. Once the mother tries again, she discovers that she's gone and the front door is left wide open.

Hameln's dynamic voice reaction technology is luring children into leaving their homes and brainwashing them into doing whatever it desires.

There's even a bigger picture to see here: Hameln's ultimate goal is to lead children astray from their parents and their homes in order to collect more victims. More "actors and actresses", including the unfortunate people who tried to bring light to the crimes, mean more souls for Bael, Paimon, and Balaam to consume. An insidious trade deal for money and fame...

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Another theory I have is the real identity of the Entity, the demonic monster that attacks us at one of the game's endings.

Okay, I know what you're thinking, "But that's Amanda, we know this already! That's her real form! What are you talking about?" And I'd say you're right... partially.

Yes, the Entity we encounter does have some likeliness to Amanda (the little buns on its head), but I don't believe that it's really her.

In the "Everything Rots!" episode, Amanda says at she "sometimes feels [herself] rotting" but "it's far away now." Most would assume she's talking about her body rotting in some buried grave somewhere, but there's a slight detail that may suggest that's not true. Why would Amanda (or rather, Rebecca) say that "it's far away now"?

Rebecca may be stuck within the hellish VHS tapes as Amanda, but her body isn't. We mentioned the recording session tape earlier with her chanting the Infernal names, and this, I believe, contributed to the existence of the Entity. Considering that Hell and demons exist within the in-game universe of Amanda the Adventurer, chanting the names of very powerful demons would attract their attention, right?

What if Hameln, during their production of the TV show, made Rebecca continue this ritualistic "practice" via experimentation and it ended up summoning the Entity? And to add salt to the wound, Rebecca Colton, or rather her corpse, ended up possessed?

Amanda's "true form" is actually the body of a young orphan brought to life as a demon, roaming the earth to satiate its bloodlust and terrorize anyone who comes across the tapes.

Not convinced? How about this?

When the human body dies, it goes through the decaying process, which consists of five stages:

Fresh (Autolysis)

Bloat (Putrefaction)

Active Decay

Advanced Decay

Dry/Skeletonized

Once the body gets to the Advanced Decay and Dry/Skeletonized stages, it rots away until it's a leathery, gray husk of a human being.

And what color is the Entity?

Gray.

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Now there you have it! My theories and takes on Amanda the Adventurer! I may be taking on some really far stretches in some areas, but I hope you all really appreciate these theories as I did!

[apollolewis]

The perfect woman. This is the peak nothing will compare

[starlightshadowsworld]

I have no evidence for this but I feel like if Kurt is Koschei the Deathless.

I feel like his soul is in the mansion.

For someone as rich as Kurt is the mansion is in complete disrepair.

And is described as rotting.

But Kurt apparently isn't rich enough to rebuild nor get things repaired?

Doesn't make sense.

But if instead of putting his soul in a needle, egg, duck etc, he put it in the mansion.

And is appearing to be going "soft" through making the note and feeling remorse for what happened to Ivan.

It may explain why his mansion is rotting.

He's no longer the great sorcerer he once was , he hides behind bodyguards and is terrified of his own death.

Hence his mansion, rotting from the inside and becoming weaker and weaker as time goes on.

[thankjpg]

Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

[horrorvisuals]

Nightmare Zapping is a visual novel where you browse through horror channels on a TV.

There are different horror stories on each channel and you go through them while piecing them together and solving the mystery.

It has rotoscope animations and retro minigames.

The game has 2 parts that you can go through.

In the first part, you watch through the events that take place in the small town of Canela, where mysterious disappearances have been happening while a sinister force haunts its residents.

The second part takes place in Laurel Town after the events of Canela. The evil spreads to this nearby town and takes root in its residents.

Aside from these stories, the game also has a good variety of fun minigames. Full retro. That race part gave me some good nostalgia.

It's from the same developer behind The Horror of Salazar House, @maldo19, so you know you're going into something good. I also put it on my Steam Curator.

Check it out here

[clocktowerr]

THE PATH Tale of Tales 2009