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Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC
PS4
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Initial release Aug. 15, 2017

Developers

Bloober Team

Genres

Action Adventure
Indie
Simulation

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This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

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The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

A dark and scary hallway in a dark and scary house. It's P.T.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Corridors

Halls of fame.

Jan. 10, 2024 Robert Purchese

Bloober Team working on new survival horror IP with Take-Two's Private Division

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Bloober Team working on new survival horror IP with Take-Two's Private Division

Not due before 2025.

Dec. 14, 2022 Matt Wales

It looks like dystopian sci-fi horror Observer could be getting a next-gen makeover

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It looks like dystopian sci-fi horror Observer could be getting a next-gen makeover

Observer System Redux revealed.

April 9, 2020 Matt Wales

It looks like Bloober Team is teasing a return to its sci-fi horror Observer

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It looks like Bloober Team is teasing a return to its sci-fi horror Observer

But is it a sequel or something else?

Jan. 23, 2020 Matt Wales

Observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare the next free games on Epic's store

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Observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare the next free games on Epic's store

Available later today.

Oct. 17, 2019 Matt Wales

The creepy corridors of video games

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The creepy corridors of video games

Horrordors of power.

Aug. 6, 2019 Ewan Wilson

Goodbye Rutger Hauer, it's such a shame you were only in two games

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Goodbye Rutger Hauer, it's such a shame you were only in two games

You could have helped us see things we wouldn't believe.

July 26, 2019 Robert Purchese

The weird and wonderful voids of video games

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The weird and wonderful voids of video games

Gazing into the abyss.

April 8, 2019 Andreas Inderwildi

Xbox's spooky new Game Pass offerings include Observer and Outlast

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Xbox's spooky new Game Pass offerings include Observer and Outlast

Plus Dead Island: Riptide and Hello Neighbor.

Oct. 22, 2018 Matt Wales

Brilliant memory-hacking sci-fi horror Observer is heading to Switch

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Brilliant memory-hacking sci-fi horror Observer is heading to Switch

Hauer bout that?

Sept. 3, 2018 Matt Wales

Layers of Fear is free on Steam and you can keep it forever

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Layers of Fear is free on Steam and you can keep it forever

Easely recommendable.

June 15, 2018 Robert Purchese

Observer and Layers of Fear dev's creepy new game is codenamed Project Méliès

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Observer and Layers of Fear dev's creepy new game is codenamed Project Méliès

By Georges!

March 8, 2018 Robert Purchese

The year in apocalypse

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The year in apocalypse

Looking back on 2017's dystopias and end-of-the-world tales.

Dec. 23, 2017 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Observer review

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Recommended | Observer review

Hauer of reckoning.

Aug. 19, 2017 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Layers of Fear dev's cyberpunk horror game Observer stars Rutger Hauer

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Layers of Fear dev's cyberpunk horror game Observer stars Rutger Hauer

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

July 19, 2017 Jeffrey Matulef

Observer is a game about going through people's apartments - and ransacking their minds

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Observer is a game about going through people's apartments - and ransacking their minds

Mind wide open.

June 26, 2017 Robert Purchese

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