It is not enough that you must deal with the ‘Gatherers’, but even the darkness is out to get you. This makes every encounter with the ‘Gatherers’ tense, as you are completely helpless. When you stumble upon these deformed creatures, your options are to run or get gutted. It isn’t the first game to play this way, but it did do a great deal to popularize it. The castle is bursting at the seams with monsters, yet the player has no way to fight back. Amnesia’s greatest strength is making the player feel truly helpless. Unsurprisingly, he has no memory of how he ended up there, but must now escape from the terrors within. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) starts with your character waking up in a castle. Let’s start with a game that just managed to sneak into this decade. To celebrate the star of a new decade of gaming, let us look back and celebrate the most brilliant, influential, and downright spooky games that came out of the past 10 years. With the rise of streaming, gaming, and “Let’s play” (videos of people playing through games) on YouTube, the genre has surged in popularity. It has been a strong decade for horror games. As we enter a new decade of horror gaming and await the next great spine-chilling adventure, we look back on the past ten year’s most terrifying titles.

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