Every year the video games industry sees a massive new lineup of games release across various platforms. We have our award winners, sequels to major franchises, and much more. But here’s a list of three unique titles that might have flown under the radar in 2024.
1. Fear the Spotlight
The first on our list is Fear the Spotlight which was developed by Cozy Game Pals. It is a title that is available on the PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, bringing the PlayStation 1 era aesthetics. The game is a low-poly horror game where two teen girls attempt to communicate with the dead in their school library, which causes things to take the turn for the worse.
While a school is already scary at night, the darkness has you creep around in the place of education. Fear of the Spotlight is a very clear call back to the classic survival horror games of the 90s, bringing elements of stealth and puzzle solving.
2. Phoenix Springs
Phoenix Springs dropped a couple of months ago with a very unique art style in a relatively unpopular genre of video games. This game is a point and click game, which has some very interesting mechanics. It plays like a stylized detective noir mystery game where the goal of the protagonist is to find her brother.
This game released on PC via Steam and has the player collect concepts and conversations rather than physical objects. These ideas are then used in the game’s world to help progress the story. It is totally worth checking out for its weird new wave animation, but the mechanics add a refreshing depth to the genre.
3. Slitterhead
The last entry on our list is an action adventure game called Slitterhead. The presentation seems quite similar to Silent Hill with a third person perspective. But fans of that series will be happy to know that the creator of the original Silent Hill Keiichiro Toyama is behind this game as well.
But despite its old school horror inspiration, the graphics and mechanics are more modern. Your character can possess a human bodies and interesting weapons to combat gory monsters “Slitterheads”. The game is based on the former Kowloon Walled City and has inspiration from popular mangas/animes like Gantz, Parasyte, and Tokyo Ghoul.
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