{"id":92497,"date":"2026-10-13T06:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92497"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:24:58","slug":"tim-burton-horror-lives-in-weird-steam-adventure-that-reminds-me-of-the-creepiest-2010s-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92497","title":{"rendered":"Tim Burton Horror Lives In Weird Steam Adventure That Reminds Me Of The Creepiest 2010s Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ss_7e81727ac477d552bc8bcd3e252cf761efe56139.1920x1080.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2012 belonged to Slender Man. I was easily terrified by creepy, early 2010s computer games like Slender: The Eight Pages, but I couldn&#8217;t resist their special blend of unicorn blood and twee. Recently, I&#8217;ve been missing the pink bittersweetness of the Tim Burton-style horror games made in those years, like Fran Bow and Alice: Madness Returns, so the inaugural Cozy After Dark Showcase has arrived with a new trailer for Hell Is Other People at just the right time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teaser from indie developer Miss Self Destruct describes Hell Is Other People&#8211;named for the famous Jean-Paul Sartre quote about being trapped in other people&#8217;s perceptions of you&#8211;as &#8220;a psychological horror about social anxiety.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its little girl protagonist has onyx eyes and hair that goes nearly down to her fingertips, so she looks a bit overgrown, like she might have washed up on some riverbank. Otherwise, she seems normal, with a thin mattress to curl on top of every night like any other lonely child. But that&#8217;s not what her mother thinks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cozy After Dark 2026 | Cozy Games With a Dark Side\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7VJ07UqoUyI?start=3530&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;See what I have to deal with?&#8221; Mother says as our little girl stares politely at a party tray of frosted cupcakes. Hell Is Other People&#8217;s Steam description explains that you won&#8217;t collect items in your inventory, but social skills, so the girl responds to her mother&#8217;s snide comment with Guilt&#8211;but it isn&#8217;t impactful. She becomes paranoid, making lines of dialogue seem to jumble and melt together as the girl explains, &#8220;When I feel bad, people become so hard to read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll have to manage these shifting tides of emotion by consulting your notebook for how <em>normal<\/em> people behave. Initially, I was drawn to the pretty Gothic caricature of Hell Is Other People, black cats with sharp syringe teeth and patterned arsenic wallpaper, but now I&#8217;m feeling understood by it as a true social survival game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I myself was a strange girl with long hair that blew around on the swingsets, I was much like the Hell Is Other People protagonist; I was desperate for my parents to understand me, and I couldn&#8217;t understand why they didn&#8217;t try. My only solace in those years was Tim Burton&#8217;s corpse bride and monsters like Slender Man&#8211;outcasts. It can be pleasant to give up and call yourself a freak, exist among freaks. So I&#8217;m excited for the gloomy nostalgia Hell Is Other People brings me when it&#8217;s out sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/tim-burton-horror-lives-in-weird-steam-adventure-that-reminds-me-of-the-creepiest-2010s-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2012 belonged to Slender Man. 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