This small-format free horror game lets you examine an ancient artifact that holds a dark secret.

I have no archeology experience or knowledge, but I bet archaeologists really love their job (for the most part). They analyze and discover wonderful artifacts and educate us on the histories of forgotten civilizations. It's like a dream, I mean. But I wonder what it's like for archaeologists to discover and study something they shouldn't have; something that has a disturbing secret; maybe a curse. The pint-sized horror game The Children Of Clay explores this idea, and I want more of it, please.

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The Substance star Margaret Qualley will star in the Longlegs producer's new horror film

Margaret Qualley had several exciting roles in 2024, but nothing compared to body horror The substance. As the film received critical acclaim, Qualley couldn't stay away from the genre for too long and secured another role. According to the deadline, Margaret Qualley will collaborate with Long legs producer Dan Kagan for the upcoming psychological horror … Read more

Static Horror is Paper Please, but you're a lighthouse keeper surrounded by Lovecraftian monsters

I've often thought that being a lighthouse keeper would be a good second career, but mostly because it would give me endless time to write in my head (and finish Baldur's Gate 3). Unfortunately, you won't have much time to write in Static Dread. The world is ending, the oceans are teeming with untold biofauna, and as the sole surviving lighthouse keeper, it's your job to separate ships filled with haunted horrors from ships full of people in need of rescue from haunted horrors.

Judging by the trailer below, it looks like it's similar to playing the border guard in Papers, Please, but less political and more poignant. You make interrogations over the radio, run your finger across a clipboard, and decide whether to turn on the lights or beg the coast guard to send the ship back to hell. There is a line of dialogue in the trailer that I personally think is extremely unreliable. “It's draining my team!” shouts a self-described ship captain. “Please send help! God…” Look “dude”, no real human being can say “Oh God” in an emergency. Even the British don't say “Oh my God” in an emergency. That's what you say when someone tells you that pizza-flavored chips are back on sale at Aldis.

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