New Indie Horror Games That Take The Genre In Wild New Directions

The new horror games arriving from independent developers are becoming harder to group under one familiar formula. Recent releases range from a retro survival-horror adventure interrupted by live-action footage to a deckbuilding card battler about bargaining with demons, a folk-horror stealth story, and a cosmic nightmare experienced through a penguin's eyes. I find this latest wave of indie horror particularly interesting because so many of its experimental ideas affect the way the games actually play.