This horror game looks like Silent Hill, but it doesn't get what made it scary

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We got to see a ton of great games at The Game Awards, with some heavy hitters coming out of the blue. We were spoilt for choice. 

However, as a fan of scares, I did notice a lack of horror games present, that is, until I saw the trailer for the survival and psychological horror game Post Trauma. In this, we can see a gentleman navigate what seems to be a forgotten and decaying subway system. Through this journey, there are cosmically horrific entities; tentacle monsters stuck on walls, blood-filled hallways, and some kind of flesh-covered vegetation. 

There’s also a playable demo available on itch.io, with a more recent demo hopefully coming to Steam very soon. The demo I looked at was the older itch.io one, and while there are definitely threads that match the horror seen in the trailer, I felt there was something missing. Don’t get me wrong, it’s no walk in the park, but it also doesn’t seem to be as scary as it should be. 

If you need to get your steps up, this is the game for you. The itch.io demo contained a hell of a lot of walking. Slowly stumbling around a strange and abandoned subway is unnerving, but the lack of abnormal and terrifying encounters made me feel like a lost tourist rather than someone trapped in a horror game. 

Post Trauma left me wondering if I was too stupid to get scared in psychological horror

The monsters that inhabit this underground space were either sadly shy or made for being whacked over the head with an axe. Either way, I never felt threatened by them. There were also bloody pentagrams or mannequins that felt like they should do more. Taking something out of a decrepit hand surrounded by a pentagram lost its horror when I figured out they were glorified shelves.

However, it wasn’t all bad.