![]() ![]() In fact, a sequel was in the works but eventually was canceled. That being said, not much seemed to happen after that. If we look back to 2002’s The Thing video game, that was considered a success selling over 1 million copies. ![]() Is there room for the genre to grow? Sure, like anything it just needs someone to take a leap. And the ‘world’ of Annihilation feels like a place you could draw inspiration from. That’s exactly what cosmic horror should do. Yet there is something about the shimmer that makes you uncomfortable and you don’t necessarily know why. ![]() It has the terror, it has action, it has a world of awe and beauty. Maybe not exactly Annihilation, but something similar. With that in mind, the next step could be a video game. I very much enjoyed it and the general consensus is it was a good film that maybe some didn’t get at first. That’s not to say it wasn’t a good film, quite the contrary. Yes, it didn’t get a cinema release, but I think that’s because it didn’t have the mass appeal. Additionally, it also adapted fairly successfully to film. The reason I mention Annihilation so much is that it’s succeeded as a great example of cosmic horror writing. Let’s be honest, whilst I would personally like to see more cosmic horror breakthrough, I’m not sure the demand is really there. Not just in terms of successfully adapting something from words to a visual representation. Personally, I think that for any games to start to excel at cosmic horror we’re going to need them to be more prevalent in film and television. Much of what’s said is transferable to video games. There is a great video that talks about how cosmic horror is hard to make for films. A video game version of something akin to Annihilation would be fantastic to explore. But I’d love to play more games set in a near or distant future with cosmic themes. Moons of Madness is the only game I can think of that’s in space and is cosmic horror. What appears to be lacking is futuristic science fiction. But I’m enjoying exploring the genre and would like to see more of it in video games. I’m no authority on cosmic horror in any shape or form. Cosmic Horror video games also seem to mostly be within a story-driven adventure or mystery games rather than shooters or RPG’s. Which is why many existing games touch on those tales for the material. However, there are already many tales from HP Lovecraft to drawn upon for inspiration. Creating a video game around something new and unique that is “beyond our comprehension” must be a difficult task. ![]() It’s not too surprising either when you consider it. But even those aren’t particularly well known. Amnesia, The Sinking City, and Call of Cthulhu are probably the most prominent titles. When doing a little digging to see what kind of games there were that could be classed as cosmic horror, the overwhelming majority were Lovecraft related. And how I’d not actually played many, or even noticed many. It got me thinking about video games within the genre. But there are hundreds of other literary examples you could choose from. If you want somewhere to start reading cosmic horror I’d recommend it. Furthermore, it’s packed full of weird mysterious fantastical entities and thoughts that hooked me from start to finish. It’s a wonderfully written story, totally unsettling and strangely scary. The horror goes beyond being scared of something killing us like many horror films.Īnnihilation just so happens to be one of my favourite books. It scares us because we can’t understand it. Shapes we think we can see, but then constantly change to something our mind can’t make sense of. The whole concept of cosmic horror is difficult to imagine and that’s the point. Additionally, such films as Event Horizon, The Mist, and Annihilation – some of which were originally books, are also part of the genre. Many Lovecraftian stories sit comfortably within the genre. It’s described as “the fear and awe we feel when confronted by phenomena beyond our comprehension, whose scope extends beyond the narrow field of human affairs and boasts of cosmic significance”. If you’re not familiar with what cosmic horror is. Not because I’ve just got into it, more so that I’ve recently found out that’s what some of the books and films I like are referred to as. I’ve recently discovered that I’m actually a fairly big fan of cosmic horror. ![]()
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