Games that Won't Leave the Dark

Summary by Krater

An exploration of horror indie games that combine scary concepts with golf, rats, or liminal office spaces, concluding with a look at Bramble: The Mountain King and White Shadows.

From the video

Answers: What are some lesser-known horror indie games and how do they use unexpected settings and genres?

• horror indie games
• Greener Grass Awaits
• Bonbon
• Limbo
• Little Nightmares
• Bramble: The Mountain King
• White Shadows
• The Exit 8

What it concludes

• Greener Grass Awaits brilliantly combines a golf game with a horror setting without losing the sense of one's own body.
• Bonbon leverages the fear of early childhood anxieties and domestic horror through a giant rat character.
• Bramble: The Mountain King brilliantly mixes Scandinavian folklore with deeply unsettling and harrowing imagery.
• White Shadows stands out for its immersive, sprawling industrial dystopia and surprisingly complex two-dimensional camera perspectives.