Ghostbusters

Post-Launch Review

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PC)

Developer: Terminal Reality

Released: June 2009

Played: complete in 7h42m

About

Original Ghostbusters actors Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson reprise their roles in a new story set in the 1991, two years after the events of Ghostbusters II. The Ghostbusters are successful contractors for the City of New York - successful enough to be hiring. You're the new recruit brought on just in time for a major new paranormal event with ties to old foes Gozer and occultist architect Ivo Shandor. 

Kholat

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Kholat (PC)

Developer: IMGN.PRO

Released: June 2015

Played: complete in 3h48m

About

In February 1959, an experienced student expedition vanished on the mountain Kholat Syakhl in northern Russia, and were later found dead under strange and still unexplained circumstances (this is a real thing that happened). Years later, you explore the harsh mountain, attempting to piece together what happened to the expedition... But you're not alone, and there's more out there than just you and the dead.

SOMA

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SOMA (PC)

Developer: Frictional Games

Released: September 2015
Played: complete in 8h:42min

About

Simon Jarrett gets a brain scan to determine how to help him recover from a car crash. He wakes up a hundred years later, disoriented and alone, in a damaged underwater facility populated only by confused robots and strange hostile creatures. As Simon tries to discover what happened to him, to the people on the station, and to the rest of the world, he's forced to confront questions of who he is and what it means to be human.

The Evil Within

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The Evil Within (PC)

Developer: Tango Gameworks

Released: October 2014
Played: story complete in 13h

About

During a call to investigate a disturbance at Beacon Hill mental hospital, police detective Castellanos encounters a hostile, badly-burned man with incredible power. Castellanos finds himself trapped in a constantly-changing landscape full of monsters, gore, and dark memories. The detective sets out to find his missing colleagues, escape the twisted world trapping them, and stop the malevolent apparition in the white hood. 

The Walking Dead Season Two

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The Walking Dead Season Two (PC)

Developer: Telltale Games
Released: epidodic; December 2013 through August 2014
Played: complete in 8h:24min

About

After the events of season 1, Clementine ended up with Christa and Omid. The three travelled together for some time until bandits broke them up. Suddenly finding herself alone in the woods, Clementine encounters a new group of survivors - who, as it turns out, have problems of their own following them...

Betrayer

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Betrayer

Developer: Blackpowder Games

Released: March 2014

Played: complete in 5h:42min

About

You've washed up on shore in colonial Virginia in the 1600s. The colony is deserted; the only people you see are animalistic Spanish conquistadors who attack on sight and a mysterious woman in red who warns you away. As you explore you discover hints of a supernatural force, evil spirits, a shadow world, and the wraiths of the colonists who will slowly lead you to piece together what happened to the colony.

Among The Sleep

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Among The Sleep (PC)

Developer: Krillbite Studio

Released: May 2014

Played: complete in 97 minutes

About

It's your second birthday! Someone at the door wants to see you but mommy won't let them in. They left a present, though - a teddy bear! As you play with teddy you realize something is wrong in your house, and that night, mommy disappears. It's up to you to find her, but there's a scary monster following you...

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux (PC)

Developer: The Astronauts

Released: September 2014

Played: complete in 2h:48min

About

Paranormal investigator Paul Prospero has received a plea for help from Ethan Carter, a boy who gets carried away writing stories. As he tries to locate the boy, Prospero's investigation slowly reveals that Ethan woke up something he shouldn't have, something that slowly turned his family against him one by one...

Alien: Isolation

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Alien: Isolation (PC)

Developer: The Creative Assembly

Released: 7 October 2014

Played: story complete in 15h:30min

About

15 years after the disappearance of the Nostromo, Amanda Ripley is still trying to find out what happened to her mother. After all that time a real lead turns up on the remote decomissioned space station Sevastopol: the flight recorder from the Nostromo has been found. But that's not the only thing that's been found. Amanda barely manages to make it on to the severely damaged station to find it in lockdown, with half the population dead and the other half terrified of what's lurking in the shadows. Amanda will find out what happened to her mother, but not in the way she'd hoped...

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (PC)

Developer: Monolith Productions

Released: February 2009

Played: story complete in 5h:36min (replay)

About

Shortly before the ending of F.E.A.R., an SFOD team was sent to retrieve Genevieve Aristide, president of Armacham, because of her knowledge and involvement in Project Origin. But the team encounters heavy resistance, and Aristide subjects Becket to an experimental procedure to fight back against the now-released Alma. Using his newly-enhanced reflexes, Becket tries to find a way to stop Alma before she overwhelms him...

F.E.A.R.

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F.E.A.R. (PC)

Developer: Monolith Productions

Released: October 2005

Played: story complete in 6h:12min (replay)

About

The First Encounter Assault Recon unit - F.E.A.R. - has received their first assignment. Experimental psychic commander Paxton Fettel has gone rogue, taking control of a battalion of clone soldiers. The mission: take down Fettel to stop the soldiers. But it's not that simple. Fettel has an agenda, and it involves a dangerous research project that was shut down and covered up decades ago...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

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Condemned: Criminal Origins (XBox 360)

Developer: Monolith Productions

Released: November 2005 (XBox 360) / April 2006 (PC)

Played: complete in 7h:22min

About

FBI agent Ethan Thomas is in pursuit of a serial killer known as the Match Maker when the situation starts to get out of control. A strange force is killing the areas birds and driving people to violent crime, while a new threat hunts the same murderers as Ethan.

ZombiU

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ZombiU

Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier

Released: November 2012

Played: story complete in 12h:37min

About

During the zombie apocalypse in London, the Prepper pulls survivors off the street, instructing and preparing them for the difficult days ahead. As you scavenge supplies, the Prepper and a few other factions compete for your attention as they advance their agendas. To have any hope you'll have to make sure you're prepared and avoid getting cornered... but if you die, the next survivor will push forward.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Developer: GSC Game World

Released: October 2009 (CIS) / February 2010 (worldwide)

Played: complete in 13h:24min

About

Shortly after Strelok disabled the Brain Scorcher during the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, there's a rush to explore and exploit the centre of the mysterious and anomalous Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Military helicopters have gone missing during a scouting mission, and Major Alexander Degtyarev is sent in undercover as an independent stalker to identify the reason for the choppers' disappearance.

Slender: The Arrival

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Slender: The Arrival (PC)

Developer: Blue Isle Studios

Released: March 2013 (PC) / September 2014 (PSN/XBLA)

Played: complete in 1h:40min

About 

Lauren's friend Kate has gone missing, and Lauren visits the house to investigate. Inside, she finds scribbled drawings and warnings about a tall faceless man. It seems that Kate is still nearby, so Lauren rushes into the woods to find her friend, following a trail of clues. But something out there is following Lauren...

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs

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Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs

Developer: The Chinese Room

Released: September 2013

Played: complete in 3h18min

About

In the year 1899, Oswald Mandus wakes up in is bed, wracked with fever. He does not remember why his manor is empty, nor the cause of the shaking and the racket of the colossal machine beneath. Haunted by nebulous memories of an expedition to Mexico and a campaign against the corruption of the Empire, Mandus delves into the bowels of the machine and the horrors within to save his children.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Developer: Big Robot

Released: May 2014

Played: complete in 3h:19min; messed around for 30min in second world

About

The experiment has gone terribly wrong. You are trapped on a small archipelago until you can repair the machine by finding the pieces scattered across the islands. But you're not alone - robots patrol the islands, aiming to kill you before you can escape. You are being hunted.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Developer: Silicon Knights
Released: June 2002 (NA)
Played: story complete in 11h:3min

About

As the only living member of the family, Alex Roivas is called back to her grandfather's mansion after his death. Edward was horrifically murdered, but the police draw a blank, so Alex is determined to find out why her grandfather died. But as she searches the mansion for clues, she uncovers a millenia-old plot to plunge the world into eternal darkness...

Outlast

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Outlast
Developer: Red Barrels
Released: September 2013
Played: complete in 4h:24min

About

Freelance reporter Miles Usher receives an anonymous tip hinting that something strange is going on at the Murkoff Corporation's Mount Massive Asylum. Miles sets out to investigate, armed only with his digital camcorder, and quickly discovers that he's in over his head - trapped in the asylum with escaped inmates terrified of (or worshipping) a mysterious force.

Dead Space 3

Post-Launch Review

Dead Space 3 (PC)

Developer:Visceral Games
Released: February 2013
Played: story complete in 13h20min; Awakened DLC complete in1h15min

About

Some time after the events of Dead Space 2, the Unitologists are inciting rebellions all over the colonies to free the markers and start necromorph infestations. Isaac Clarke is pulled from an outbreak by Earthgov's last military unit, and they set out to find Ellie Langford's research team on Tau Volantis, an ice planet which appears to be the source of the marker signal and which may offer a way to end the necromorph threat for good.