Game releases come at us fast and furious as the new year begins, culminating in a slew of high profile games around the holiday season....

I’m a bit wary of tactics games, especially when they represent a franchise that decidedly does not have such mechanics.

Clock Tower is a visually stunning game. It relied on extremely detailed 2D Graphics. The results are still impressive to this day

At the time of Friday the 13th’s release, I can’t think of another game I played that had you fighting the end boss from the very beginning.

The biggest shame of Koudelka is that its relatively rare. If you want to play it you have to find an original copy, and they are expensive

Playing Phasmophobia can be legitimately intense, and that’s probably why so many players are drawn to it. It’s also wildly unpredictable.

While The Thing is hard to play these days, there will be a remake coming out in the next few weeks.

Uninvited is a game unlike a lot of the others I covered in this series recently: it can be genuinely scary.

I’ve been covering some pretty well known games, so I wanted to change it up a bit with Nocturne. This game is a deep cut for many.

The 7th Guest was one of the first games to utilize CD-ROM technology to the max. Its popularity helped cement CD-ROM as the future of games

Released during the era of Sewer Shark and Night Trap, Dracula Unleashed can be considered those games’ forgotten cousin.

This isn’t really a “horror” game so much as it’s a horror themed fighting game. It’s not meant to scare you. But come on! It’s

Maniac Mansion plays on horror tropes from silver screen monster movie clichés. It’s more of a comedy than a horror game...

This is probably the most important retro horror game that you’ve never heard of.

Roberta Williams is a name more people should know. She was responsible for the very first graphics in a computer game. Seriously.

Alone in the Dark is called the granddaddy of survival horror–and for good reason–it was “first” in a lot of ways.

Ah yes, I’m writing about a classic 3DO horror first person shooter and it’s not Killing Time? What’s going on?

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is held to high esteem – and regardless of how you feel about it, it’s a story you can't easily forget.

Mechwarrior 5: Clans brings a new perspective and many other new things to the franchise - so what did we think? Find out in our full review

This year we’re putting together a list of 31 Retro Horror games. Games that have come from dead console generations, back to haunt us....