I think with games like Slay the Princess and Mouthwashing mark the start of a new era for indie horror. Where the mascot genre is dying down and more engaging and challenging works can be successful. - ThreadSky

wildcherrybun.bsky.social • 97 days ago

I think with games like Slay the Princess and Mouthwashing mark the start of a new era for indie horror.
Where the mascot genre is dying down and more engaging and challenging works can be successful.

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qrowrose.bsky.social•96 days ago

I really hope so, I've only played the demo for STP but I think between those, Faith, and Security Booth that horror games are doing more creative applications and interactions with how we engage with horror, while still telling fun, often deeply affecting tales.

Sorry for the rant lol

fgwwolf.bsky.social•96 days ago

Slay the princess isn’t really horror, you just have to save a misunderstood girl

legendotcom.bsky.social•96 days ago

I love horror that is actually scary and not a big red guy with a dumb face [you know who im looking at]

Mouthwashing and STP are some of the best horror games I have ever seen so if we get more of stuff that's as cool as that i would be HYPED

misfitmovies.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’m really enjoying Inscryption 😊

wildcherrybun.bsky.social•96 days ago

Inscryption is also very good and I honestly just forgot to mention it!

misfitmovies.bsky.social•96 days ago

Mouthwash looks bang on too 👍😊

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

Also, I think a lot of the kids who were super into mascot horror are growing out of it and are looking for something different & less commercialized + not sequeled to death.

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

StP & MW feel like the kinds of games a teen would get into when they hit the stage where their empathy & self-awareness really start developing & they get really interested in psych horror & stories about How Relationships Work, esp. thornier, unhealthier, & more contradictory “grownup” relations.

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

Although maybe this is just me projecting my own development as a horror game fan onto this. 😆 But as somebody who got obsessed with the original Silent Hill 2 as a teen, imo there’s a specific developmental window where young horror fans start craving deeper, higher quality stories.

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

As somebody who was also a massive fan of Rule of Rose at that age, it makes me so happy to see what looks like the beginning of a new golden age of tiny indie horror games who aren’t afraid to get ambitious with their writing. Looking forward to seeing which games change this gen’s brain chemistry!

exxzackly.bsky.social•97 days ago

I sure hope so, because both of those games are phenomenal 😁

iknowadamseats.bsky.social•96 days ago

GOD I HOPE SO.

Nothing against all the mascot stuff but I am so ready for something else to happen.

das-boog.bsky.social•96 days ago

I certainly hope so, I'm a little burnt out on horror that has to be child-accessable. Its good that it exists, but I'm ready for something else to dominate the space

karla-fae.bsky.social•96 days ago

The urge to make a mascot horror game where they aren't the even the monster who kill you, it's just some other guy.

gh0stofearth.bsky.social•96 days ago

Mouthwashing became a fast favorite of mine. Mascot horror always seemed lazy to me anyway.

fddgacbya.bsky.social•96 days ago

What is meant by "mascot genre"?

wildcherrybun.bsky.social•96 days ago

Mascot horror is a sub-genre of horror incuding things ranging from Five Nights at Freddy's to Garten of Ban Ban.
While not bad in and of itself, Mascot Horror has been flooding the indie horror scene for years and its nice that we're getting more varied indie horror games

buttertoto.bsky.social•96 days ago

The first five nights at Freddy’s is good but given everyone started to make mascot horror it dampened all of those games. It’s very refreshing having something different from those games and slay the princess and mouthwashing being really good just helps even more

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

It suffered from sequilitis, the same affliction that hits horror films that get super popular and then slowly loses what made the original interesting as it gets bogged down in the contradictory Lore™️ of a zillion sequels made by a zillion different writers & directors.

buttertoto.bsky.social•96 days ago

If something works it’s easy profit I guess to just milk it till it dies instead of taking risks

mistywings.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’ve not had the chance to play Mouthwashing yet, but I’ve played Slay the Princess extensively and I absolutely wouldn’t complain if more horror games moved in that direction!

golvio.bsky.social•96 days ago

Honestly, I hope this encourages VNs in general + any other game that features “choice-based endings” to get a little more ambitious with their branching paths. Ever since Umineko, I feel like there’s this market for VN genre fiction that’s hilariously untapped b/c people assume VN = dating sim.

chrisdoofur.bsky.social•96 days ago

Slay the princess is by far my favorite horror game

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