Fear, disgust, horror and panic. These strong emotions are an essential part of who we are. And while some try to avoid them at all cost, we know that gamers with strong nerves are absolutely thrilled to experience them while playing!
For the latter, we’ve prepared something special. Are you ready for your blood to freeze? For your hair to curl and your skin riddled with goosebumps? Regarding your answer, prepare for it, because
Scorn - an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry and one of the most anticipated games of 2022 is available now on GOG.
But you didn’t expect us to stop there, did you? Alongside
Scorn, we are launching our special
Gore Weekend sale packed with more than 60 titles (and that’s not counting DLC, Bundles and various editions) that will keep you up all night during this weekend. This promotion lasts until October 17th, 10 PM UTC.
Before you deep dive into the ocean of fear and horror of those titles, let’s explore what is the cause of the terror we feel while playing them. We’ve chosen 7 themes that can be found in the
Gore Weekend that we believe are truly frightening.
1.
F.E.A.R and its paranormal activities
We fear what we do not understand. Sometimes it is not a blood splash and flesh ripping images that makes us want to crawl under the bed and hide. Often it is more this tingling sense of unseen danger, feeling that we can be hurt but can’t quite comprehend how and by what. Great examples of that can be experienced in cult series of first-person horror shooters F.E.A.R - most notably original
F.E.A.R and
F.E.A.R 2.Paranormal and mysterious massacres, supernatural menaces, secret experiments, dark pasts and a sense of constant, hidden danger breathing on our necks - it's all there, and it's absolutely awesome! F.E.A.R became a sensation not without a reason, and now you can remind yourself or experience for the first time why with a special -85% discount on
F.E.A.R Platinum and -75% on
F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin + Reborn.2.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent and falling into madness
The last remaining memories fade away into darkness. Your mind is a mess and only a feeling of being hunted remains. You must escape. Awake... You stumble through the narrow corridors as the distant cry is heard. It is getting closer. Explore... A sound of dragging feet? Or is your mind playing tricks on you? Experience... Something emerges out of the darkness. It's approaching. Fast. Survive... Did all of it happen? Or was it just my twisted imagination?
Slowly losing your mind while being trapped in an unknown hostile environment sounds like one of the worst nightmares… or one of the best horror game experiences if we are talking about
Amnesia: The Dark Descent!
A true phenomenon of a game, where as you explore the eerie pathways, you'll take part in the main character’s most troubled memories. The horror doesn't just come from the outside, but from the inside as well. This first person survival horror launches you into a disturbing odyssey, exploring dark corners of the human psyche. A game about immersion, discovery, and living through a nightmare and an experience that will chill you to the core. Can’t go wrong with that, especially on a
-80% sale.3.
Outlast series with mental asylums and murdering cults
If abandoned asylum, brimming with deranged patients and the mutilated corpses of the staff that previously worked there, aren’t places that scares you, we truly don’t know what does. But if you throw a schizoaffective priest and a bizarre, enormous creature roaming the place into the mix, you got yourself an original
Outlast game! And if that's not enough how about investigating the murder of a young pregnant woman and discovering that a self-proclaimed prophet is hunting another woman thinking that she is about to born the antichrist? Now that my friends would be the terrifying story of the sequel
Outlast 2. Jump in the skin of journalists experiencing all of this, as all available entries in this first-person survival horror series are now -85%.
4.
POSTAL and being a murderous psychopath
Now this one has a little twist, because WE are the ones that should be feared. It all started with The Dude and his incredible quest to buy some milk. Then, hilarity ensued. Fighting cops, setting people aflame, desecrating everything and everyone and unleashing overall mindless mayhem is
POSTAL’s bread and butter.
Both
POSTAL 2 and
POSTAL 4: No Regerts are satirical, outrageous and comedic open world (or semi-open in the case of the POSTAL 2) first person shooters where being a murderous jackass with obvious serious mental problems is its core. And while these games are insanely fun to play, we had to put them on the list because imagine being one of those poor NPCs. There’s no doubt that a person as crazy as the main character is very scary.
5.
Dying Light with terrifying nights full of zombies
Fear of the dark is no joke and probably one of the most encountered in human psychology. In the dark, our visual sense vanishes, and we are unable to detect who or what is around us. And what’s one of the most common horror themes in pop culture? That’s right, brain-eating, limbless, rotting zombies.
When you combine those two the results can be absolutely horrifying and a great example of that is the Night Time mechanism in
Dying Light. The whole world of this action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic city devastated by a mysterious virus and flesh-hungry zombies is dark and keeps you on the edge. But it’s the Night Time that really gives us the creeps.
As a namesake feature to
Dying Light, Night is a time period ingame which naturally sees city of Harran become very dark, very quiet (regarding ambient noise, not including noises made by the infected) and given the night-only infected that come out in the open, makes all outside areas of the city far more dangerous than the daytime. If you are brave enough you can try your luck and see how long you can survive with a -75% discount on
Definitive Edition.6.
Vampyr with guess what…
Vampires! But it’s more complicated that only being a blood-sucking, nocturnal creature that feeds on other people’s body fluids (but it does sound disgusting and scary). In
Vampyr you are newly-turned Jonathan Reid. A doctor, who must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. What’s really terrifying in this RPG horror is the idea of being the bearer of the curse that now consumes the blood of those he vowed to heal. The inner struggle of embracing or fighting the monster within and the weight of living with the consequences of our decisions (not mentioning all the unholy powers that we use).
Whether you decide to save London or doom it, you can now do it with a
-80% discount.7.
Scorn with nightmares beyond human comprehension
And it all comes down to this.
Scorn design around the idea of being isolated and lost inside a dream-like world filled with different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion within an unsettling environment that is a character itself is absolutely terrifying.
You will experience extreme immersion being aware of the character’s body and movement while interacting with the world in a realistic way. From the uncomfortably crunchy, squishy gore and mist-filled locations, through weapons that snap and squelch with uncomfortable aplomb during use, to the enemies themselves that either lack a face entirely or resemble horrendously massive, shambling phalluses -
Scorn’s visual style is delightfully horrible and sleep murdering.
This first-person biopunk survival horror adventure is heavily inspired by the grimly surrealist works of Swiss artist H.R. Giger and Polish dystopian painter Zdzisław Beksiński. And that means the games’ extreme violence, blood and gore (including mutilation and torture) will merge with nightmarish, disturbing, puzzle-like imaginary.
If you truly think you got what it takes to tackle this title, get it now on GOG with -10% discount on both
Standard and
Deluxe Edition. This deal lasts until November 1st, 2 PM UTC.
And if you wanna play it after seeing some of its horrors, check out our
Twitch Channel on Sunday, October 16th, 5 PM UTC, where DarkSaber2k will stream
Scorn showing its dark beauty.
