The spookiest night of the year is fast approaching: Halloween. This festival, so widespread in Anglo-Saxon countries, has gradually established itself in our country, and it is already common to see people in disguise and children asking for candy from door to door.
Horror movies are a classic you can’t miss on this day, but being afraid with video games is just as effective and we also enter the story, perhaps in a more immersive way by directly controlling the characters. And if we turn off the lights and put on headphones, the experience is perfect.
In this article we recommend Nine iPhone and iPad games to have a terrifically fun Halloween in the “comfort and safety” of your sofa or bed.
Very little nightmares
Little Nightmares was one of the surprises of 2017 and its recent sequel, released in 2021, also didn’t disappoint gamers looking for a puzzle-oriented title with a goofy scary atmosphere.
Very Little Nightmares (6.99 dollars) es a prequel developed for mobile devices in which we will have to help the girl in the yellow raincoat to escape from a hostile house full of dangers. To do this, we must complete puzzles without allowing difficult enemies to get their hands on us.
The Death Road in Canada
There has been a zombie apocalypse and you have to recruit people to explore towns and fight hordes of enemies. This is the premise of Death Road to Canada (14.99 dollars), a simulator car trip in which we engage a road adventure to continue.
This simulator has a peculiarity, and it is that is randomly generated, so each game played will be different from the previous one: places, events, appearances of survivors … everything is “random”. It supports four player multiplayer on the same screen.
Layers of fear
A recent classic for streamers and video content creators when they want to have a scary time with their community. Layers of Fear (9.99 dollars) is a first-person horror game set in a decadent 19th century in which we will take control of a painter with severe mental illness seeking to create a masterpieceBut he did not count on paranormal phenomena, visions and other dangers.
Death by Daylight Mobile
Have you ever wanted to put yourself in the shoes of slasher movie killers the most iconic of all time? Dead by Daylight Mobile (free, with in-app purchases) helps meet this goal.
In this title asymmetric online multiplayer there are two sides: the murderer and the survivors. Four people must repair five generators to power the exit gates and escape the Entity realms without the assassin looking for them. Leatherface, Ghostface, Michael Myers, Freddy Kruegger, the Pig of Saw or Pinhead are waiting for you (additional licensed characters can only be purchased with real money).
School: white day
The school: White Day (6.99 dollars) es una adaptation of the horror classic released on PC in 2001, a well-known title in South Korea that crossed borders and became popular in countries like the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom.
In White Day, we’ll take control of Hui-min, a student stuck in the institute with other classmates late at night. The Yeondu Institute is full of urban myths and legends in the form of possessed janitors, ghosts with mysterious pasts, and all manner of dangers and fears.
Offer in-app purchases to unlock additional outfits.
Lost inside
Is there a more spooky place than a haunted madhouse full of monsters? In Lost Within (3.99 dollars) you will have to face a legendary assassin who prowls the abandoned lodges without dying trying.
Research and create improvised weapons, use stealth tactics go unnoticed or run when the going gets tough and you can’t defend yourself. One of the best titles of 2015 on the App Store that stands out for its graphics and visual effects.
Forgotten memories
Finalist at the Video Game CVA with nominations for Best Audio and Original Music, Best Indie Game and Best Game for iOS, Forgotten Memories (4.99 dollars) puts us in the shoes of Rose Hawkins, a miners squad inspector looking for a missing girl named Eden.
Rose wakes up in an abandoned asylum not knowing how she got there, and finds herself inadvertently trapped in a terrifyingly mysterious tragedy. This is a classic mechanical survival horror with a deep narrative and a setting that contributes to the atmosphere of psychological terror.
City of Radiation and Chernobyl Escape
If you are interested in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Radiation City (the first part) and Escape from Chernobyl (the continuation) invites you to visit the abandoned and desolate town of Pripyat , which has been recreated in great detail, to experience an incredible story and try to save the person you love.
The titles present an open world full of dangers and anomalies, with hungry predators and subhuman creatures. Look for resources in buildings at key points of the city: the Polissya hotel, the cultural center, the Prometheus cinema, the swimming pool and all the deserted buildings.
Both sets can be purchased with Radiation Island in a pack that costs 7.99 dollars. If they were purchased separately, the price would rise to almost 13 dollars. Additionally, Radiation City and Escape from Chernobyl are playable on Apple TV: Horror on the big screen!
Detention
We end with Detention (4.99 dollars), a survival horror heavily influenced by Taiwanese and East Asian culture with references to Taoism and Buddhism. It is based on the strictly Taiwanese martial regime of the 1960s.
With a simple point-and-click system, the player controls characters who venture into a school plunged into dangerous supernatural forces to uncover the truth.
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