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Top 10 Best Strategy Board Games

May 4, 2016 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

Boardgames have a relaxing way of bringing people together, be it children, teenagers, or adults, all for the purpose of tabletop gaming. It’s an excellent experience that will create wonderful bonds between people… or damage them entirely. The competitive edge of boardgames is often overlooked due to the fact that it’s not often you see people competing viciously against each other.

However, there are some choices out there that will both pull on your mental resources and might actually bring out the competitive player in you. Here are the top 10 best strategy board games that you can enjoy with your friends one “uneventful” Friday night. They will be the best choices, provided you can still remain friends afterward, but here’s hoping there no sore losers around.

10. Small World

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You have to know a few titles of strategy board games by now. Think of Small World as the lively, more relaxed version of Risk. It pins players against each other as they attempt to conquer lands and gain coin depending on their race and magical beings. Small World is an excellent fantasy game, which will put your strategic mind at work. If you’re also into roleplaying, it will certainly add a bit of a fun twist to the already beautiful artwork.

9. Carcassonne

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This particular farming/strategy boardgame is gaining more and more fans every day. It’s perhaps one of the well-known titles on this list because it’s easy to play and you may engage in a “match” basically anywhere. Carcassonne is a good looking and unique representation of medieval fortifications and road thievery that will keep you entertained. You have to develop areas, draw in followers, creating cities and fields for yourself. Create the best territory, and you win the game. It has numerous clever extensions and near infinite re-playability. It’s also very easy to learn.

8. Gloom

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Strategy mixes with role-playing and story-telling abilities in Gloom. You know you’re in for a fun game where your main purpose is to kill off your own characters and make your friends’ characters happier. Each players gets a family of perpetually miserable people, along with cards that can either make them happier or more depressed. The purpose of the game is to create a story centered around each family, until you can ultimately kill them. Make them too sad, and they die. They die, and you win.

It’s a game based on points, where you have to think strategically which card will make your characters more miserable. And, which of them will make your opponent’s characters happier. It’s an incredibly fun game, especially if you create a story with the amusing cards. For example, literally dying of public humiliation.

7. Betrayal at House on The Hill

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It’s perhaps not the typical definition of what you think is “strategy”. You will not command dark forces meant to kill the other players and gradually eliminate them. Actually… you will. Betrayal at House on The Hill is an amazing example of how a co-op game can turn into a competition. The basics are simple: you and your friends enter a haunted house, each with your own character and their own traits. As you venture through the terrifying scenery, you uncover items, events, or omens.

Gather enough omens and it will be inevitable that you will launch the Haunt. When that happens, the game will force one of you to become “the betrayer”. That means that they will get special abilities, be it magical or minions, and they will be tasked to kill everyone else in the house. The rest have to band together to stop the betrayer, but it’s no easy task. You don’t know what abilities the Haunt gave them, and there are around 50 different scenarios, so there’s definite re-playability.

6. Sequence

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A card game, a boardgame, a team game, a strategy game, an easy game. Sequence can be played by many players or just one on one. It’s so simple and so engaging that one match will never be enough. The purpose of the game is to pay attention to the cards in your hand, the slots on the board, their positioning and how to create your lines. It’s essentially a boardgame version of tic-tac-toe that requires a little more strategy.

You have to carefully plan out your patterns and keep an eye out on the other team. It can become incredibly entertaining because you have to make sure you create opportunities for yourself and destroy them for others.

5. Dead of Winter

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One of the prettiest games on this list. Dead of Winter is immensely exciting, beautifully created, and has a bit of a “bluff” element to it. You and your friends are survivors, held up in a place you have fortified for yourself while zombies roam outside. Depending on one of the many scenarios you get, you need to survive for a different number of days. That means that you need go out into the winter night, surrounded by zombies, scavenging for food, medicine, or resources.

If you can last the attacks and acquire everything you need, you will win. However, you will get more people coming into the compound and they will require their needs met as well. Many mouths to feed. Not to mention the fact that one of the players might be a betrayer. So, besides the cold and zombies, one player might actually have to sabotage all of you in order to win the game. You better be a good liar and not let them know that’s your purpose, because you will get exiled otherwise. The betrayer needs to play as if they’re part of the team until it’s their time to strike.

4. Ticket to Ride: Europe

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A relatively simple game that involves a lot of strategy and perhaps a few silent alliances between players. You and your friends all construct railroads from one destination to another. Generally, the version of the game displaying the map of Europe is considered better, even though there are a few more options, such as the map of the United States. You receive cards with instructions that only you will see, and will be required to create routes from destination A to destination B.

In order to start building, you have to “buy” those trains with another set of cards you draw. However, other players might be interested in the same trains and in similar routes. If they play it smarter and have a bit more luck, they might just block off your road. So, block theirs first.

3. A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

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Quite possibly the most complicated one on this list. If you’ve seen the hit HBO series, you already know what to expect. The point of the game is to conquer all Westeros and get on that Iron Throne that every family in the land is vying for. Players will be the head of a major House, and they will need to handle their resources, as well as understand how to play their main characters. For example, the Lannisters will have iconic names such as Tywin or Jaime to use, each with their own set of skills.

The true point of the game, however, you might’ve already guessed it. Make alliances and then break them viciously. In the end, there’s only one ruler of Westeros, and you should sharpen your knife while shaking hands with the other.

2. Risk

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We’ve covered the prettiest, the most complicated, and now it’s time for the most popular. Risk has become one of the most well-known strategy boardgames in the world. Your luck at dice is mixed with strategic advancing. As it is in war, you need to know when to fight and when to run away from a battle that you cannot win. Of course, if you’re a wizard with dice, you might as well give it a shot.

You need to manage your troops, arrange them, acquire them, and complete goals faster than other players. And fight, of course. Risk truly sounds more complicated than it is, but it’s certainly one of the games that you will get better at with time. The veterans will likely crush the beginners, so never lose hope when you lose. Nobody became a general in a day.

1. Settlers of Catan

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An award-winning boardgame that will require you to negotiate your way into a win. It’s a tile-placing game that results in incredibly re-playability, especially if you purchase the extensions as well. The purpose is to create cities, armies, and earn points until you’re declared the winner. However, these are the mere “on paper” aspects of the game. The true fun is had in clever placing and reaping the benefits of someone else’s dice throw.

You have to build your cities, but you will never get all the resources by yourself. So, be prepared to negotiate and always remember that you’re all fighting for the same purpose. However, only one of you can ultimately win, and your bad trades might just be what helps your opponent be crowned the best settler of Catan.

10 Banned Cartoons Made For Children

April 20, 2016 By Vernon Gadson 1 Comment

We’ve entered an era where cartoons are slowly starting to have their social stigma removed. They’re not directed solely to children anymore, some concrete examples being South Park and Family Guy, which are, very much so, shows aimed at adults in the rightful sense. In other words, it’s never been both easier and harder to make it big in the cartoon industry.

Why the latter part? That’s because parents are paying attention to the content that their child is being exposed to more than ever, making sure that no harm, especially moral, could come out of it. And you know what? They really should because you won’t believe what the following 10 Banned Cartoons Made For Children were depicting.

#1 Pokemon

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While Pokemon itself wasn’t banned in its entirety (people would definitely riot), there was an episode that was, to put it euphemistically, very controversial. An episode called Electric Soldier Porygon was taken off Japanese televisions after 700 people, elderly and children alike, suddenly experiences seizures, vomiting, and loss of consciousness.

This was because of a particular scene where Pikachu creates an electric explosion, which depicted flashy transitions from the color red to blue. The episode was never broadcasted afterward, causing the show to go on hiatus for four months and authorities to take harsh precautions when they imported the cartoon to the USA.

#2 Dexter’s Laboratory

Considered to be one of the best products of Golden Era Cartoon Network, Dexter’s Laboratory was, as a whole, a show that delighted numerous children worldwide. However, creator Hanna-Barbera definitely made the poorest of choices when producing two particular episodes.

One of them, called Dial M for Monkey, was riddled with parodies of famous superheroes. Silver Spooner, the satirical version of Fantastic Four’s Silver Surfer, was basically a walking exhibition of homosexual stereotypes. It doesn’t end here, as the parody depiction of Hulk shocked everyone when he appeared on screen with a drinking problem.

The other episode, called Rude Removal, featured a pair of Dexter and DeeDee clones that offended everyone through cascades of obscene lines and swears. They were bleeped, but that clearly wasn’t good enough.

#3 Peppa Pig

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Peppa Pig is one of the hottest cartoons of the moment for little children. Unlike some of the entries on this list, there weren’t any immoral messages that got the episode Mister Skinnylegs banned. This actually happened because it aimed to teach children that spiders aren’t that terrifying and that we shouldn’t kill them.

It was a nice message and all… unless you’re an Australian. The episode was removed from Australian televisions because it encouraged kids to get close to spiders which, in Australia, are venomous enough to actually kill you.

#4 Talespin

What could possibly go wrong with a Disney spinoff cartoon series featuring the characters from The Jungle Book? In theory, nothing. Truth to be told, everything was fine until the airing of the cartoon’s final episode, Flying Dupes.

In this episode, Baloo transports a bomb via plane to a foreign country, in hopes that the bombing would cause a war to break out, which in turn would raise the profits of bomb producers. Everything that was wrong with this episode – terrorist message, bombs on planes, genocide, and war – ultimately and unsurprisingly got this episode banned permanently.

#5 Tiny Toons

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If you were expecting older Bugs Bunny to be the one to get himself banned, you were wrong. The cartoon featuring younger versions of popular Looney Tunes characters caught the eye of censors when it broadcasted one particular episode.

In One Beer, the underage characters find a bottle of beer, drink it, get drunk, and then steal a car and start driving around. To end on an even more disturbing note, the characters eventually drive the vehicle off a cliff and die. We’re sure that the “don’t drink and drive” message can wait a few more years, isn’t that right?

#6 Song of the South

An animated musical film produced in 1946 by Walt Disney, Song of the South really left viewers with a bitter aftertaste because of its depiction of master-slave relationships in post-Civil War Georgia. The cartoon showcases several slaves happily singing about their duties on the plantation and managed to offend, understandably, quite a lot of people through its idyllic imagery.

#7 Gargoyles

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Gargoyles was a critically acclaimed cartoon series that truly confirmed the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Wanting to raise some warning flags on the matter of gun control and violence, the episode Deadly Force dealt with this issue in a highly controversial way. When Broadway shoots Elisa by accident with a gun considered to be a toy, the latter is afterward showed lying in a pool of her own blood.

The episode was initially banned, then re-aired in a censored version, and finally re-released fully and unedited in the DVD form.

#8 Betty Boop

No, it wasn’t the iconic black-and-white era character that was banned, but the episode Ha! Ha! Ha! If the title wasn’t an immediate giveaway that something fishy was going on, know that the episode featured a bunch of inanimate objects cackling hysterically as a result of a laughing gas leak – gravestones included. It wasn’t morally ambiguous or anything, but it was creepy enough to make it look like something that nightmares are made of.

#9 Ren & Stimpy

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Ren & Stimpy was one of those cartoons aimed at children that managed to get away with inserting several controversial adult jokes – albeit, through constant fights with censors. One episode, however, Man’s Best Friend, stretched the humor beyond its limits. Depicting Ren brutally beating another character with an oar, the graphicness of this episode allegedly got the show’s writer fired.

#10 Cow & Chicken

Cow & Chicken was never a tame cartoon to begin with, featuring content that was, a lot of the time, questionable, at the very least. One particular episode, titled Buffalo Gals, drew a lot of gasps from parents and censors upon them realizing that it depicted lesbian subtext and plenty of slang terms for intercourse.

Quotes About Mistakes That Could Help You Do Better

April 15, 2016 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

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Isn’t humanity so perfectly beautiful in its imperfection? We all make mistakes. We know that. That doesn’t mean that all of us actually manage to accept this fact. A mistake is a razor with two sharp blades. In some instances, accepting that you’ve done something wrong can take a lot of effort and moving past your own ego. At the other extreme, there are people immensely affected even by the smallest of slip-ups, often feeling guilty about things that weren’t even their fault to begin with.

In all of these instances, the conclusion is the same – a mistake was made, and we need to move on from it. Here are some quotes about mistakes that speak of moving on, which teach us that regrets need to be put behind us and that all of this represents a necessary learning process.

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“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.” – Steve Maraboli

The most common thing that we struggle with whenever we make a mistake is the thought that it’s going to haunt us for the rest of our lives. Other people might be tempted to define us by our past (wrongly so, however) and it is up to us to change that. The moment we start believing ourselves that our mistakes are in the past, we can proceed to live in the present and build a new future.

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell

How are we supposed to know what good is without learning about evil first? How are we supposed to know what right is without knowing wrong? This is what we need to keep in mind when making mistakes. In a lot of the cases, these mistakes happen outside of our will. As we grow older, mistakes will be fewer and fewer, all thanks to the slip-ups of the past which we’ve learned from.

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“You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.” – Stella Adler

A very important quote about learning, it references to the fact that the process is directly linked to both success and failure. Acquiring knowledge about something involves facing both the good and the bad and, rather than suffering from our failures, we should instead get motivated.

“If you live life long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” – William Clinton

This quote talks about how mistakes can build us into better people, conditioning it to the fact that we should never give up no matter how many times we are faced with failure.

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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” – Neil Gaiman

A very beautiful quote, it’s a reflection of the perception that mistakes can be tied in with new experiences. In turn, new experiences mean living, which is defined by activity and not passivity.

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Samuel Levenson

Last but not least, we need to keep in mind that we aren’t the only ones who make mistakes. Those around us do too, and we owe them as much forgiveness as we are trying to give ourselves.

20 Cool Facts About Planets

April 14, 2016 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

The universe is a wildly mysterious place. Astronomers have been staring and studying it for centuries, and yet there are still so many things we do not know. One orbiter could bring new information to light any day. However, that does not mean we haven’t learned anything. NASA has been hard at work, along with many other scientists who have been struggling to unveil more of the universe’s mysteries. At the very least, those within our solar system.

They have been named after Roman gods, so their majesty and grandeur are all there. Here are 25 cool facts about planets within our very own solar system that you probably didn’t know. It’s an interesting world out there, beyond the boundaries of Earth. It’s a system full of odd contradictions, incredible facts, and etched in theories that we may never come to confirm.

However, before we move forward into the new age of technological advancement and further discovery, we need to know a few things could be potentially fascinating first. Keep in mind that we have included Pluto, even down its status has been downgraded from a ‘planet’ to a ‘dwarf planet’. We believe in Pluto.

#1 Mercury Is The Closest Planet To The Sun, But Not The Hottest

It’s the second planet closest to the sun instead, Venus, that takes that distinction. The average temperature of the celestial body named after the Roman goddess of love is 875^o Fahrenheit. Hot, hot, hot. That sizzling heat is enough to melt tin and lead. Mercury, on the other hand, has an average temperature of 800^o F. Still pretty warm out there too.

#2 Mercury Has Fickle And Extreme Temperatures

You need to pack a lot of things for a trip to Mercury if that were even possible. It ranges from incredibly high temperatures as previously mentioned, to dangerously low ones at night. The temperature plummets to freezing -275^o F, which represents the biggest swing from hot to cold in our solar system.

#3 There Is Ice On Mercury

It may be the closest planet to the sun, so you could be surprised to know that there’s ice on its surface. In fact, it’s a permanent presence in its shadowed craters, where the sunlight can never shine.

#4 Where Are The Moons?

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system without moons. And no one knows why.

#5 What’s That Smell?

Mercury likely smells. The planet’s atmosphere is too weak to hold onto any gas, but it does have the ability to hold on to any ions that cross its path. Mercury hangs on to the kind of things that Earth doesn’t because it does not have the fresh and life-sustaining oxygen of our home. Ions of magnesium, sodium, calcium and hydrogen sulphide linger. So, it likely smells awful.

#6 Wanted: Mars’ atmosphere

Scientists have well established that Mars had water once and a thicker atmosphere to support it. However, that atmosphere is now pretty much gone, and no one knows where it went. All scientists have are theories of its mysterious disappearance.

#7 Mars Has The Highest Highs and the Lowest Lows

While Mercury presents with that regarding temperatures, Mars holds that distinction from a geographical standpoint. The Red Planet hosts the biggest mountain in our solar system, Olympus Mons, which is around 17 miles high. That’s three times taller than Mount Everest. Mars also has the deepest and longest system of canyons, called Valles Marineris. They are between 5 to 6 miles deep and run for around 2,500 miles.

#8 Jupiter Is The MVP Of The Solar System

Due to its incredible gravitational pull and sheer size, Jupiter is an amazing asteroid catcher. In fact, scientists believed that it absorbs a lot of space junk, which ultimately keeps it away from Earth. Thanks, Jupiter!

#9 The Day Goes By Fast On Jupiter

The gas giant has incredibly short days, equal to 9 hours and 55 minutes on Earth. That’s basically a Sunday sleeping in on our planet.

#10 There’s a Giant Red Spot On Jupiter

Otherwise known as the Great Red Spot, this incredible feature of the planet not only hosts storms of unbelievable power, but it’s also massive, hence the name. You could fit Earth in there three times.

#11 The Age of Saturn’s rings

As fascinating as the rings are, no one knows how longs they’ve been there. Records date their presence back to the 1600s, but it is possible that they could’ve been around for billions of years. However, that has not been proven yet.

#12 The Stealthy Ring of Saturn

Everyone knows of the planet’s most famous feature. However, it appears that our attention has not been so intent on the rings as we liked it. Due the advancement in technology, scientists found another ring around Saturn in 2009. It’s very faint, even though its diameter is around 200 times bigger than Earth.

#13 Saturn Could Float On Water

If you found a tub big enough, Saturn could actually float on water due to its very small density. It’s the lightest planet in our solar system.

#14 Uranus is Crooked

It’s not just the planet that is often the punchline of many jokes. Uranus is also fascinating in its nature due to its weird tilt. In fact, the planet is so skewed that it’s almost orbiting the sun on its side. It’s believed that this occurs to due to a massive collision with an Earth-sized planet shortly after its formation. Or maybe it’s just tired.

#15 Seasons on Uranus Last Decades

We have learned from Game of Thrones that there are worlds where one season could last several years. That’s literally the case on Uranus. One season could last up to 20 years there.

#16 Out Of Sight, But Not Out Of Mind

Uranus and Neptune are the only two planets you cannot see from Earth with the use of a modest telescope or binoculars. Venus, on the other hand, is the easiest to spot because it’s the brightest.

#17 Neptune Has Its Own Storm Spot

Jupiter is not the only planet in our solar system with a spot filled with violent storms. Neptune has one too, even though it’s a lot darker and “smaller”. That just means it’s as big as Earth. Very tiny, indeed.

#18 Pluto Can Get Closer To The Sun

Even though it’s now called a dwarf planet, it does not mean that Pluto doesn’t still have some very exciting capabilities. Pluto was always known as the planet that was furthest away from the sun. However, that was not always the case. In fact, between September 1989 and February 1999, it jumped ahead of Neptune. For a full decade, Pluto’s orbit made it the second furthest planet away from the sun.

# 19 Pluto Is Smaller Than The USA

Perhaps this is a better explanation why it was downgraded from the status of planet. The longest distance across the U.S. is of around 2,900 miles from Maine to California. Pluto, on the other hand, has an estimated diameter of just 1,400 miles. Hence the demotion.

#20 Pluto Is Not At The Edge Of The Solar System

You may believe that because it’s the furthest away from the sun that it sits on the edge. However, the edge of the solar system is around 1,000 times farther away from the sun than Pluto. There’s plenty of space in between.

Best Horror Games You Should Try Right Now

April 11, 2016 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

Some would say it’s an acquired taste, but there’s just something unbelievably compelling about a good horror game. It goes beyond a movie by immersing you completely into the story. You never knew how much a game can affect you, how much you grow to care about the characters, and how much you want the mystery solved. But will they all survive?

There are several factors that would make a video game title qualify for a good quality experience. There are tremendous amounts of them out there, but here is a list of the best horror games you should try right now because the gaming community is still praising them. Their impact is still fresh on our mind, and we simply cannot wait for more. They get your heart pounding and your mind racing.

Outlast

Because who wouldn’t want to wander around a nearly destroyed asylum up in the mountains? Developed by Red Barrels Studio and released in 2013, Outlast is still on the tongue of horror game enthusiasts. And for good reason. The main point of this game is its utter tension and complete feeling of hopelessness because there is nothing you can do to fight back. That’s right, you go in, and then you have to hide or run.

The game isn’t shown through cutscenes or features complex character development. In fact, the entire story is told through discussions found within the asylum. You are in the shoes of a reporter, heading inside to investigate the odd occurrences in the building. By the time you realize that you’re in what was essentially a house of torture and experimentation, it’s too late. Not to mention the fact that you’re watching it all through the lens of your camera, all geared with creepy night vision.

Did we mention that among the crazed and weird patients hunting you down, you also have to worry about batteries? If you’ve already played it, fret not. Outlast 2 is coming this year, with a different character and different setting, but the same universe of this stealth horror game.

Until Dawn

Developer Supermassive Games was well aware of all the horror clichés. You have a bunch of high schoolers in an old mansion up in the cold mountains. And, of course, they are not alone. The beauty of this survival horror game is in its story and the fact that your sole job is to be quick. Do you hate the dumb and illogical choices characters makes in horror movies? Well, this is your chance to show what you would do in the situation.

Until Dawn is highly re-playable because your choices affect how the story ends. It depends on what you choose and how you decide each character’s fate. Will they all survive to the end? Or will they all die horribly due to bad choices that weren’t well thought out? And, yes, you can save them all, as long as you think it through. Even though it’s a PlayStation exclusive that was released in 2015, Until Dawn has an exceptional way of throwing horror clichés at you in a way that will still scare and excite you.

The story is captivating, and you will grow to care about the characters. It will make you want to try over and over again until you save them all. In fact, Until Dawn 2 could be on the way, probably with more twists and turns to come of this survival horror game.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Here, have some nightmares. Published by Scott Cawthon, this indie survival horror game really grabbed the attention of the gaming community. You may have seen many gamers on YouTube featuring their gameplay of this simple yet surprisingly creepy game. It was released recently, in January of this year, and has had around five different parts already published. There is simplicity in its beauty and entertainment value.

Five Nights at Freddy’s places the player in what is basically the worst job ever. Or a similar situation, depending on which one you choose. You are isolated in one room, with a few options around to turn on some dim lights and close doors. Why? Because there are toys or mascots, as innocent as that sounds, that come to life at night to kill you. All you have to do is survive. But you’ll have to watch creepy video cameras with your laptop and to listen for steps or heavy breathing.

SOMA

From the developers that brought you Amnesia and revolutionized the genre, SOMA really is a title you should try out. It’s not about being scared out of your mind, even though it has its fair share of that, but about the human condition itself. It makes you ponder, and think about various moral choices, along with quite a few depressing themes. Be it suicide or the harsh reality of humanity, SOMA is a rollercoaster of emotions that will leave you drained.

The game is a beautiful example that horror games can be smart and bring out more than just fear out of you. As you explore the underwater research facility that has been all but destroyed, you will encounter “living creatures”, puzzles, and a good amount of creepy moments that might have you pause the game for a mental break now and then. SOMA was released toward the end of 2015, and the gaming community is already asking for a sequel.

Layers of Fear

Freshly released in February of this year, Layers of Fear will take you on a creepy journey throughout your own house. It’s not a survival title nor is it stealth. Unlike others on this list, Layers of Fear is a psychological horror game done in a Dorian Gray-style. It’s all about the experience. The player is set in the shoes of a painter, battling a block of inspiration in the darkest ways possible. His masterpiece has not yet been completed, and let’s just say his mind is not all there.

You will venture through your own house, etched with horrid memories and watch your character’s descent into madness. The game has visually spectacular moments that will slowly build the painter’s past. There are mysteries to be solved of what happened to his family, and some terrifying truths you find out about yourself. It may not have received the greatest reviews, but it’s an interesting experience that is more about going through a creepy story than running for your life.

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