Three Horror Games To Keep An Eye On

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Guerilla Collective's Summer Game Fest-adjacent live stream revealed a slew of new and upcoming indie games. But among the Braid-like puzzle platformers and narrative adventures were several horror games worth keeping an eye on. Here's what stood out to us. 

Easily the highlight of today's stream, The Fridge is Red looks like what you might find if you went video game shopping in Hell. Heavily inspired by PlayStation 1 horror games – specifically Silent Hill – it tells the story of Frank, stuck in his basement staring for days at the titular red fridge. «Not only the fear of a terrible death keeps him in place, but also the hope of getting his daughter back,» the game's Steam page reads. 

The Fridge is Red is a collection of different horror stories – or «episodes.» In the trailer, we see terrifying waiting rooms, people frozen in place, items frozen in midair, church congregations full of glowing-eye patrons, and an elevator ostensibly sending us to the bowels of the underworld. At one point, in what's undoubtedly the trailer's most gruesome moment, an eye is gouged out with an elevator button. 

The game's low-poly aesthetic makes The Fridge is Red more unnerving. Because of the lack of detail, the brain fills in the blanks. What's rendered onscreen is nothing compared to what's in our minds.

While there's no release date yet, you can play The Fridge is Red now if you choose. A free demo is available on Steam. 

Maintaining that PS1 inspiration, Signalis also leans on low-poly aesthetics for its scares. Taking cue from Capcom's stable of horror games in the mid-to-late '90s, such as Resident Evil and Dino Crisis, and Squaresoft's Parasite Eve, you play as Elster, «a technician Replika searching for her lost partner and