/vr/ - Retro Games

What are you playing today on Halloween?

It's October. Post spook wads.

What does /doom/ think of Happy Time Circus 1 and 2?

>>3551241
Unloved.
Happy Time Circus 2.

The DooM engine had some of the best horror wads/mods out there to offer. Here are a few that I believe everyone out there should try. I'll mention a few honors as well.

Unloved/Unloved 2 had THE thickest atmosphere that I had ever experienced in a video game. There is a hidden back story to the protagonist. Apparently the demons/monsters that you fight are the ones that you created in your head. This wad IMO is better than most of the current, if not all of the horror atmospheric games that are released today. It's so simple yet so brilliant.

Happy Times Circus 2 made me realize why people experience clownophobia. There is no music in this wad (Except for the whistling wind and scattering of dead leaves, which really adds to the overall creepy ambiance of the environment). You start out in a abandoned town (which look like it predates to the 1960's) and you explore each building, not knowing what the haunted town is going to throw at you next. There is a kind of "clown realm' that is merging with reality. A really cool concept that molds well with Steven Kings "IT".

Cold As Hell was deep and immense. You are a marine from the 1950's. Your mission is to investigate a cold war era base that stopped receiving contact with the U.S. army. You read notes and journals from various scientist and later discover who was behind the initial attack of the base.

Some honorable mentions are:

Mindfuck (still in development but looks promising)
Asylum of the Wretched
Ghoul's Forest series
Ao Oni Mansion
Cursed Maze
Realm of the Green Skull
and finally,
The City of the Damned

(screen shot from Happy Times Circus 2)