Atmospheric games. What're your recommendations for anyone?

arc@css · 1 Sep 2017 at 21:48

An oldie, but some of the Quake custom maps available right now are brilliant. There's plenty of Lovecraftian influences in there.

Simon O'Callaghan makes some particularly good maps.

Surfer · 2 Sep 2017 at 08:35

Witcher 3. Nothing beats it's windswept forests. In a league of it's own...

smogsy · 2 Sep 2017 at 08:43

last day of june by creators of brothers

K1LLSW1TCH · 2 Sep 2017 at 08:48

Definitely Alan Wake, play it in the dark with some headphones on.

CapitalOne · 2 Sep 2017 at 08:53

cheesyboy · 2 Sep 2017 at 09:00

LIMBO
Spate
Never Alone
FEAR

smogsy · 2 Sep 2017 at 09:17

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Definitely Alan Wake, play it in the dark with some headphones on.

was going to back to this the otherday,

does it still hold up as a good game all this time later?, dont want to kill my last thoughts of it?

K1LLSW1TCH · 2 Sep 2017 at 10:44

smogsy said:
was going to back to this the otherday,

does it still hold up as a good game all this time later?, dont want to kill my last thoughts of it?

Yeah it's still fab, still has that creepy Twin Peaks / Twilight Zone style atmosphere and in my opinion the graphics are still fairly pretty.

padcontrol · 2 Sep 2017 at 13:21

As some have mentioned Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. Fantastic game, made by a small indie company.

Nate75 · 2 Sep 2017 at 13:50

Not played it yet, gonna grab for Xmas...

However Nier:Automata looks pretty atmospheric

KNiVES · 2 Sep 2017 at 13:57

padcontrol said:
As some have mentioned Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. Fantastic game, made by a small indie company.

Ninja Theory is not an indie studio by any stretch of the imagination, they are a major console developer with millions in publishing dollars.

padcontrol · 2 Sep 2017 at 16:26

KNiVES said:
Ninja Theory is not an indie studio by any stretch of the imagination, they are a major console developer with millions in publishing dollars.

My bad, this is true. I should have mentioned when making this game it was proposed as an 'Independent AAA title', so what you would expect of a high end AAA title, only more focused and on a much tighter and smaller budget.

Fishbait · 13 Sep 2017 at 14:41

Looks like the incoming game Debris may be another for the list.

Apparently there's a demo, but not been able to find it.

Turns out Debris has four different endings. Released today.

Devrij · 13 Sep 2017 at 15:30

Senua's Sacrifice is very atmospheric, and is a stunning game graphically.

Hiijinx · 13 Sep 2017 at 17:34

Bioshock and Witcher 1 are the only ones that I've played that springs to mind.

Alan Wake would have been up there but I detested the whole nightmare element which, I know is basically the whole game but during its build up and hype, I was expecting a fully open world town to investigate at my own leisure.

Azer · 13 Sep 2017 at 21:50

DEFCON

Really eerie music, a counterpoint to the emotionless 1980s "Wargames" GUI.

Fishbait · 15 Sep 2017 at 14:39

Another for the list.
Osiris: New Dawn.

Only a little atmospheric in outside world (although not far into game yet) but inside the mine is definitely atmospheric.

Fishbait · 29 Sep 2017 at 15:26

Looks like Agony could be on the list too.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY2ekLvLoJhkjk_ic5GZeRA/videos

Scorn too.

Fishbait · 29 Sep 2017 at 15:26

CapitalOne said:
SOMA

Good news. Frictional Games have 80% of their staff working on their next release

strumpusplunket · 29 Sep 2017 at 15:41

KNiVES said:
Dark Souls 1 has atmospheric environments with minimal storytelling. It has that gnarly, worn-in desolate feel that the sequels lack.

Yes, the first Dark Souls did nail that desolate atmospheric feeling exceptionally well. Such a well-crafted world, which really nailed that ubiquitous feeling of despair and decay.

Praise the Sun!

I'd definitely also second System Shock 2 as one of the most atmospheric games of all times.

Also the original Resident Evil. That may have been the first time I felt haunted by a game's atmopshere.