You’ll explore twisted and bizarre environments, collect various items to solve puzzles and guide Susan’s decisions via dialogue choices with other characters. The Cat Lady, despite its complex themes around mental health and serious tone, is surprisingly simple to play.

Soon after, she reawakens in a mysterious world, only to be greeted by someone called The Queen of Maggots who instructs her to remove five ‘parasites’ from the world so that she may finally find peace. Less than a minute into The Cat Lady, you find out the main character, a lonely 40-year old woman named Susan Ashworth, has committed suicide. Much like Eternal Darkness, IMSCARED brings its unique style of horror outside of itself - a truly cursed game. It plays with your mind in other ways too: your browser might suddenly open, landing on a spooky YouTube video elsewhere, HTML web documents appear in another folder, showing a map and the supposed exit to the area you’re in, but can you trust it? It even goes as far as requiring you to delete in-game documents to progress through certain moments. Once caught, White Face triggers a crash back to your desktop and in its wake, a folder containing a text document appears on screen, taunting your failure. As you creep through IMSCARED’s low-res environments, finding keys and attempting to escape the nightmare you’re currently in, an entity known as White Face stalks your every move.

exe boundaries and carries the scares into the real world. IMSCARED: A Pixelated Nightmare is the only game on this list that breaks through its.

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