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Don’t let Organ Trail’s simple graphics fool you – it WILL challenge you.

Greetings, gamers of the night! Let's dive further into the creepy crevice of horror games, for that dose of interactive horror!

Organ Trail (PC, MAC, iOS)
Although its deceptively simple premise as Oregon Trail with zombies and the rather simplistic graphics may cause some to avoid this title, thinking of it as a $1 distraction, Organ Trail is in fact a rather brilliant survival strategy game, its mechanics going beyond the classic education title it parodies. Faced with surviving the harsh world of a zombie apocalypse, you and your compatriots must navigate through treacherous roads and various trading posts manned by survivors, fighting bandits and blizzards. The game's brilliantly minimalist soundtrack adds a real feeling of horror and emotion, and will suck you into this bleak, bleak world.

Cryostasis (PC)
Set aboard a shipwrecked Russian icebreaker, dead in the middle of winter, the player must explore the origin of the mysterious circumstances behind's the ship's disaster and find out just what the hell turned the crew members into grotesque creatures. Much like Condemned, the first-person survival horror game favours using fists over half-broken firearms that litter the ship, and forces you to find sources of heat to keep your bearings. Combined with the “Mental Echo” mechanic, which allows you to save the lives of certain dead crew members by time-travelling into their minds at the time of their deaths, Cryostasis is strange, terrifying and exhilarating.

Hitman Contracts (PS2, Xbox, PC)
Reputed as being some of the most original and frustrating stealth action series, the third entry, Hitman: Contracts sheds the cool, spy-like world-traveller tone set by the two previous games, Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman: Silent Assassin, opting for a dark, rainy set of story missions told as a flashback hallucination of a mortally wounded Agent 47. Contracts is easily the darkest entry of the five-game series, with some disturbingly gore-filled missions (one even taking place during a fetish party set inside a slaughterhouse) and creepy, creepy Easter eggs. This game will disgust and revolt, yet you will feel compelled to play on.

Heart of Darkness (PlayStation)
While not exactly a horror game, Heart of Darkness is nevertheless one of the most disturbing E-rated 2D platformers on the PlayStation. Don't let the cartoonish characters and graphics fool you; your character, a 10-year-old boy trying to find his lost dog in a mysterious jungle, will die in some brutal and graphic ways. You'll wonder just how the hell this game managed to get marketed as a title for kids.

Eternal Darkness (GameCube)
Good luck finding this game for a reasonable price, but if you do, it's well worth your time. ED was a landmark title, not just as a launch game for the GameCube, but as the first M-rated game released by Nintendo. Featuring gameplay set along multiple time periods, the game is infamous for its many ways it outright messes with the player, in various fourth-wall breaking ways. While I won't spoil how that happens, of course, it's sure to keep you on your toes.

Look out for:

Routine (PC)(TBA)
Routine is an upcoming first-person horror game set aboard a moonbase. Featuring strong '80s sci-fi aesthetics, the game looks amazing already, promising challenging gameplay, atmospheric horror and even a permadeath mode.