![]() ![]() Not to be confused with Simulacra by Kaigan Games, Prymordium’s Simulacrum puts you in the shoes of Abigail, a young woman who, after inheriting an apartment from her deceased mother, finds herself falling through a mysterious painting into a dark world full of monsters. So, you can always head on over to some of TGIMM’s previous video game roundups for more titles that fit this general idea. For what it’s worth, though, I do consider titles like, say, Slayaway Camp, Stories Untold, and pretty much every single RPG Maker horror game in this piece here to be perfectly at home in this category - these games I might classify as Horror Video Games That Look Old, But Aren’t. You may find a few games you would have expected to see in a roundup like this one absent here in those cases, it might be because I’ve mentioned them in previous roundups and opted to stick with titles I haven’t covered before this time round. Think, just makes it even more interesting. It might even, in some cases, refer to a feeling the game evokes. The game’s story or plot inspiration than the actual look of the game. Sometimes, though “retro-style” might refer more to Late ‘90s/early 2000s PlayStation 1 era, aka the Silent Hill era even To have been made in a different era - the ‘90s PC point-and-click era the ![]() Much of the time, the term refers to games that appear What “retro-style” means, though, varies - or at least, itĭoes for our purposes here. Why do these kinds of games do it for me in a way that more conventional titles don’t? I think it has something to do with an idea I’ve brought up time and time again here at TGIMM: For me, form matters as much as content does, and the cruder graphics and unconventional framing devices we see in so many video games designed to look like old games - even when they’re actually very new games - often deepen the storytelling for me in ways that stunningly rendered graphics may not. Although there’s certainly something to be said for the photorealistic appeal of games like Until Dawn and Resident Evil 7, I just can’t help but feel that, more often than not, retro-style horror video games are that much more interesting - especially when they’re recent releases that hearken back to older eras, rather than games from those older eras themselves. I’ve made no secret of my love of nostalgic horror, particularly when it comes to my gaming habits. Previously: Unconventional Indie Horror Video Games.
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