It’s hard to be objective about Murder House. I started playing a couple of nights ago, fairly late, and stopped like, thirty, forty minutes into the main section. To sleep. Only Murder House didn’t really end for me when I closed the Steam Deck; it fed right into my nightmares, and I was back inside that house, albeit with a different murderer.

It was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weird.

Some of that’s obviously down to how effective the game is at conjuring horror. The eponymous house, where a small film crew are doing a piece on the serial killer who once dwelled there, is brilliantly realised. The PS1 style graphics create a setting that feels appropriately hemmed in, grotty, and antagonistic. It brought me back to Rockstar's dark masterpiece, Manhunt, which likewise offered no refuge from its unrelenting brutality.

Part Resident Evil, part Silent Hill, and part just a whole lot of love for the slasher genre, Murder House achieves exactly what it needs to, even if I wasn't convinced by the closing sequences.

Still, it was a hell of a nightmare.

It’s hard to be objective about [i]Murder House[/i]. I started playing a couple of nights ago, fairly late, and stopped like, thirty, forty minutes into the main section. To sleep. Only [i]Murder House[/i] didn’t really end for me when I closed the Steam Deck; it fed right into my nightmares, and I was back inside that house, albeit with a different murderer. It was fucking [i]weird[/i]. Some of that’s obviously down to how effective the game is at conjuring horror. The eponymous house, where a small film crew are doing a piece on the serial killer who once dwelled there, is brilliantly realised. The PS1 style graphics create a setting that feels appropriately hemmed in, grotty, and antagonistic. It brought me back to Rockstar's dark masterpiece, [i]Manhunt[/i], which likewise offered no refuge from its unrelenting brutality. Part [i]Resident Evil[/i], part [i]Silent Hill[/i], and part just a whole lot of love for the slasher genre, [i]Murder House[/i] achieves exactly what it needs to, even if I wasn't convinced by the closing sequences. Still, it was a hell of a nightmare.