Amazon beauty presents Vanity Diaries. Alone in the Dark Goes Gold Jun 10, Alone in the Dark Jul 11, New Alone in the Dark Announced Apr 14, Alone in the Dark delayed Aug 11, If the franchise truly is done, it at the very least made its mark on the genre. While the franchise seems to be going back to its roots, there was a period of time where entries in the series were far from survival horror.
Biohazard and the Resident Evil 2 remake served as a reminder of what the series could be. The first Dead Space had a great dynamic going between its sci-fi setting and survival horror atmosphere and gameplay.
Dead Space 3 suffered from what a lot of survival horror titles of the mid s onwards suffered from; it prioritized action over everything else. Whatever survival horror elements remained in the game took a backseat. One of the more modern series on this list, Outlast is a great example of modern survival horror.
The use of the first-person perspective perfectly sets up gamers for the various jump scares and atmospheric horror elements the games contain. With Outlast 3 in development, the Outlast games are proof that pure survival horror still sells and can manage to captivate gaming audiences if done correctly.
In a way, the Telltale Walking Dead games can be considered survival horror in the loosest of terms. But the incredibly linear nature of the games as well as the strong emphasis on story over anything else makes it kind of a coin flip. While the series did start off strong, things kind of got stale sometime after the second season.
Formulaic and repetitive, the focus on character driven narratives that once served as such a strong point of the games eventually made them feel stale. But gave it new life. The original Pathologic came out in and was a cult hit. Silent Hill, however, was not so lucky. After the release of Silent Hill: Downpour, the series was relegated to pachinko machines, with a revival attempt through Kojima's Silent Hills infamously axed by the publisher.
Outside of Resident Evil, the genre has seen very few true releases in the last decade. The downfall of the genre is simple: it fell victim to its own trappings. Horror has always been a niche genre; being afraid and stressed isn't exactly every gamer's idea of a relaxing night in.
This led to publishers looking to maximize profits by bringing in new players to their survival horror franchises, which was often done through an increased focus on action and combat instead of fear. This approach diluted what made series such as Silent Hill captivating in the first place.
Action and combat had always been elements of the games, but now they were the main focus. This is one of the reasons why Dead Space's revival is surprising. Dead Space launched in and garnered critical and commercial acclaim, and while the sequel also proved popular, the third entry in spelled doom for the franchise.
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