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Up to 90% off this bag full of tasty scares: Outlast, Clive Barker's Undying, Oxenfree, SOMA, Fran Bow, and more!






You are listening to a song that sounds like your grandma playing ping-pong with a gentleman stag. Suddenly, a distant noise of something breaking - or perhaps it's just the neighbor chopping down your favorite tree. But you live in the desert. It's all very confusing and disorienting until you check the calendar and realise it's almost Halloween! Time to put on your spooky face and go search the neighborhood for some scary good games going for up to 90% off. Time to go through <span class="bold">The Scary Door</span>.


Everyone you know is out here trick or treating, dressed up as something cool like the kids in Costume Quest. Be careful which houses you visit, though. Better avoid disturbing the disturbed Cat Lady downstairs, for starters. And that Last Door at the end of the road? It's strangely inviting, despite its ancient looks, but what are these eerie sounds coming from inside? Should you happen upon a wandering girl with a bag full of weird red candy, be so kind and help her find her cat. Poor Fran Bow has already been through enough.
This is one of these nights where your friends might try to drag you to some remote island with an abandoned military facility for some midnight mischief. If you want to feel Oxenfree for a while, feel free to join them, but better check if any of your buddies is possessed first, or you might end up stuck in a ghostly loop. Then again, you might not even make it there, not if you need to cross a Sunless Sea ruled by terrible Gods and odd creatures. Ah yes, this is definitely going to be a night to remember. Unless you decide to force some merciful Amnesia upon yourself, trying to dispel your Personal Nightmares. But why would you do that?






Enter <span class="bold">The Scary Door</span> and treat yourself to 30+ games that will give you the heebie-jeebies, including: SOMA, Clive Barker's Undying, Layers of Fear, Outlast, and so many others!
The promo will last until November 3, 3:59 AM UTC.
Not to sound like a broken record (sic ;p) but I can't but advise you to get Soma. If you are not allergic to deeply atmospheric and well voiced horror walking simulator, you SHOULD do that one.

Is Layers of Fear decent enough of an experience? I may be tempted by it.

Cheers,
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Random_Coffee: Clive Barker's Undying. Has anyone here played them?
I highly recommend it too for all same reasons other said :) (it's a game I love a lot !)

Well, I'm thinking of buying Deadly Premonition, but not sure at all... I'm really confused by all reviews I find :P
Post edited October 28, 2016 by Splatsch
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j0ekerr: The fact that the only thing GOG is making for Halloween is a normal Weeked Promo, makes me think the steam sale will be... underwhelming.

Majorly so!

I might be getting the vanishing of Ethan Carter. I'm not really into walking sims, but this one does have good critiques.
I found it decent. Nice to test your newest rig though.
Mm.. not even VTMB, DDungeon or VanHelsing.
Oh well, next!
Post edited October 28, 2016 by phaolo
Something I notice time and time again: GOG seems to be the only store who communicates the duration of promos only in news/forums posts, never on the individual game pages. So if a customer is looking for a specific game and discovers it's currently discounted, they won't know for how long unless they figure out what promo it is part of and read the according news post (and translate it to their own time zone).

Does anyone know if there's already a wishlist post for putting timestamps on individual gamepages during promos ("This offer is valid until ..."), and ideally displaying that according to the user's time zone, seeing as everything else is regionalized already? I don't know what keywords to look for in order to find such a post ... Not that I have very high hopes of GOG changing this anytime soon, but it's still weird for a business site as big as GOG to have such an outdated and inconvenient way to communicate such important things. Every keyseller does a better job of it ...
Post edited October 28, 2016 by Leroux
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Splatsch: Well, I'm thinking of buying Deadly Premonition, but not sure at all... I'm really confused by all reviews I find :P
Deadly Premonition is fantastic. The story is very interesting, and the humor is genuinely funny (I do sometimes laugh out loud while playing it). The soundtrack also has a haunting, enigmatic feel to it.

The problem is that the PC-version has a lot of problems. Most can be solved by installing DPfix, but it still crashes from time to time for me, and right now I can't progress because of this. I hope to get it solved, because I really love that game.
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gandalfnho: I recommend Clive Barker's Undying and Blood

Sadly the horror genre is dominated by adventures...
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Mr.Caine: In the past perhaps. Now I'd say horror adventures are a minority.
Yep, the majority of today's horror games are story-less note-collecting corridor jump-scare games.
In the slightly more complex versions you also need to turn various switches on or off.
These have very little to do with 'Adventure' gaming.

We get a few Adventure ones every now and then, like Fran Bow, but these are rare compared to the above.
I bought The Cat Lady and played it a bit.
Oh! what a scary!
Post edited October 28, 2016 by yoshino
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Zoidberg: Not to sound like a broken record (sic ;p) but I can't but advise you to get Soma. If you are not allergic to deeply atmospheric and well voiced horror walking simulator, you SHOULD do that one.

Is Layers of Fear decent enough of an experience? I may be tempted by it.

Cheers,
Not really, might be worth it playing together with a friend like I did the second time around.
Didn't really enjoy it by myself sadly.
The dlc is even worse. Couldn't even enjoy it together. :P
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Random_Coffee: Clive Barker's Undying. Has anyone here played them?
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Splatsch: I highly recommend it too for all same reasons other said :) (it's a game I love a lot !)

Well, I'm thinking of buying Deadly Premonition, but not sure at all... I'm really confused by all reviews I find :P
You'll be screwing around trying to fix crashes and stuff due to the port but it's a good game.
Post edited October 28, 2016 by omega64
"The Scary Door"? XD

Did Shaggy and Scooby come up with this promo?
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ciemnogrodzianin: I've just realized that Forgotten Realms and Dungeons&Dragons packages are lost for now :(

From Halloween Promo the only good old game is probably Sanitarium. Or, at least, the only one I would probably buy and check.
Just make sure you save early and save often.
Might not experience the same thing but I had constant crashes. The game took around an hour extra due to that.

General question:
Does Sunless Sea have an easy mode?
Post edited October 28, 2016 by omega64
Hmm, might be time to get Layers of Fear and Oxenfree at last.
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omega64: General question:
Does Sunless Sea have an easy mode?
Not exactly. You should expect to lose your first few captains pretty quickly. A frequently misunderstood aspect of the game is that you're building a dynasty (like The Guild or Crusader Kings) to eventually meet one of the win conditions, not looking for a win with a single captain like a traditional RPG. Each new captain gets to retain something from the preceding captain's gains, and eventually you'll hit a tipping point where your captains can survive much longer.

There's only "normal" and "hardcore".
Post edited October 28, 2016 by Luned
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Random_Coffee: I'm looking at getting Outlast and Clive Barker's Undying.
Adding my voice to the choir of the damned here by affirming that Undying is fantastic. Created when Barker was at his creative peak, and the range of horrors within really shows that.

Outlast is very professionally made. It suffers a bit from overblown writing, as many horror games do, but nowhere as badly as, say, Lone Survivor.
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omega64: General question:
Does Sunless Sea have an easy mode?
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Luned: Not exactly. You should expect to lose your first few captains pretty quickly. A frequently misunderstood aspect of the game is that you're building a dynasty (like The Guild or Crusader Kings) to eventually meet one of the win conditions, not looking for a win with a single captain like a traditional RPG. Each new captain gets to retain something from the preceding captain's gains, and eventually you'll hit a tipping point where your captains can survive much longer.

There's only "normal" and "hardcore".
Ah, it finally makes sense to me.
Thank you.