2D horror action games?

[RAGilmour]

Curious if there's many new independent games like this or ones from the past I haven't heard of yet.

Castlevania series
Ghosts N Goblins/Ghouls series, Demon's Crest
Splatterhouse series
Altered Beast
Mystic Defender
Chakan

[elektrolurch]

Define horror........just the theme? Or survival/horror?
2D indie "horror" games i can think of right now:
Home, scary and excellent example of how gameplay can change narration.
Limbo, esp at the beginning scary,later becomes to puzzely for my liking.
Lakeview Cabin,it's a Flash game but it is SO awesome. Just play it. without reading to much about it.

[RAGilmour]

I guess just the sort of monstery stuff with typical horror settings. But go broader than that if you really want to.

[derboo]

Well, there's all those Castlevania clones. 8 Eyes, Vampire Master of Darkness, Rusty and so on...

A bit garbage, but very fitting is Horror Zombies from the Crypt: www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-horrorzombies.htm

Ghost House by Sega: www.hardcoregaming101.net/ghosthouse/ghosthouse.htm

Kung Fu Kid is also technically horror, as you fight Chinese vampires/zombies most of the time: www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragonwang/dragonwang.htm#kungfukid

Majyuuou: www.hardcoregaming101.net/majyuuou/majyuuou.htm

Recently there's been Amazing Princess Sarah: www.hardcoregaming101.net/amazingprincesssarah/amazingprincesssarah.htm

BloodRayne Betrayal: www.hardcoregaming101.net/terminalreality/bloodraynelicense.htm#bloodraynebetrayal

Odallus: The Dark Call is currently in development, but judging from the backer betas (and the developer's track record - they made the excellent Oniken), it's gonna be pretty good.

Another indie I can think of is Blood of the Werewolf, but the five minutes I've played, it didn't seem very good.

[moran]

Werewolf
Frankenstein
Dr. Chaos

[TheChosen]

For something much older, there's Forbidden Forest and its sequel, Beyond Forbidden Forest, for C64.

[Joseph Joestar]

Oct 23, 2014 10:38:02 GMT -5 TheChosen said:

For something much older, there's Forbidden Forest and its sequel, Beyond Forbidden Forest, for C64.

Damn you for bringing those up!

Dangerous Dave was definitely horror themed (and had the splatter-iffic death animations).

[derboo]

And Halloween Harry. Also, Nosferatu for SNES.

[sogetsu]

Surprisinly, noone brought up Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Other titles that I can think of:

Youkai Kurabu
Monster in My Pocket
Monster Party

[chronotigger65]

DeCapAttack www.hardcoregaming101.net/victokai/victokai2.htm
There's some side scrollers based on the Addams Family on various systems.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (SNES)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (SNES)
Friday the 13th (nes)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (nes)
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns (nes)
Holy Diver (nes) www.hardcoregaming101.net/holydiver/holydiver.htm
Wolf Child has you playing a guy who is a werewolf but the setting is more sci-fi I think.

[strizzuth]

Clocktower?

[Terrifying]

I was just about to mention Majyuuou, but it's already done. Really great, dark action game.

There's also SETA's Musya, which is subtitled "The Classic Japanese Tale of Horror" for the SFC/SNES...

[RAGilmour]

Thanks guys.

[Garamoth]

Black Knight Sword?

[Gendo Ikari]

Among recent horror-themed games Blood of the Werewolf springs to my mind