REMinal

REMinal is a horror game that I think does a really good job making a simple house feel completely wrong. I am exploring this huge endlessly generated building where the rooms do not behave normally and paths do not always lead where I expect them to. The whole place feels familiar at first, but the longer I stay there the more uncomfortable it becomes. I like that the game does not need a massive open world or complicated story to make exploration interesting. The house itself is the main mystery, and I never quite know what I am going to find around the next corner. The strange layout is easily my favourite part. The game uses procedural generation and non Euclidean ideas so I can walk through rooms that connect in ways they really should not. I might think I am heading back towards an area I already know, only to end up somewhere completely different. That makes navigation feel like part of the horror instead of just something I have to deal with between scares. I am also collecting different objects along the way, and some of them help with survival while others have stranger uses connected to the world and whatever is living inside it. The survival systems give me more to th…