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![]() ![]() Together, they added up to a grand total of two official Alien licensed games-the exact number produced by The Dukes Of Hazzard within the same time frame. ![]() There was a requisite Pac-Man clone for the Atari 2600, sure, and an innovative, if largely forgotten, strategy title for home computers. In fact, Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror hybrid was barely registered by gaming at all, at least as far as the first half of the 1980s was concerned. ![]() Your character attacks automatically all you have to do is aim and survive as long as possible, which makes this game friendly even for the most casual gamers.Although the Alien franchise has cast a long and lingering shadow over the world of video games, it was never the lone xenomorph-lurking in the gloom above the Nostromo’s brightly lit corridors, picking its crew off one by one-that would shape the medium in the decades to come. But its gothic aesthetic and endless hordes of monsters make it a good choice for Halloween gaming. Vampire Survivors isn’t exactly a horror game, despite the name. Play if you want: Addictive action gameplay that isn’t actually scary. So no matter what kind of scares you want to get into this October, there’s a horror game waiting for you. ![]() We also made sure to include a diverse mix of games, spanning contemporary and classic, solo and multiplayer, competitive and cooperative, and more. With those scaredy-cats in mind, we’re rounding up games that fall everywhere on the spooky spectrum, from those that are simply horror-adjacent to games that might actually cause you to literally die, Ringu-style. Of course, even the horror-averse might want to dip a toe into the world of interactive scares this October. By immersing you in the action and putting you in charge of your own fate, horror games are often scarier than even the most intense horror movies. The approach of Halloween is getting us all in the mood for something spooky, and there’s no better way to feel the fright than with horror video games. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of the Developers ![]()
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