The survival horror genre has evolved significantly over the last 30 years. Alone in the Dark (1992) was a pioneer of the genre, implementing many of the aspects that are common place in the most popular survival horror games.
Players explore an environment with minimal direction, solve puzzles, and are relatively powerless against the host of threats that lurk in the dark, all ideas that would develop in the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill games, though in quite different directions. In
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