My Friendly Neighborhood

For a fraidy-cat, I play a surprising amount of horror games. I suppose that I do actually enjoy a spooky and frightening situation as a source of tension, but I’m just bad at handling fear when it comes around.

- Erin McAllister

Publisher: DreadXP

Developer: Evan Szymanski, John Szymanski

Genre: Action, Adventure

Release Date: TBA

Platform: PC

That’s why I prefer horror in games and books! This way, the horror only really exists while I’m engaging with them, and as soon as I’ve stopped interacting with one such work, I can allow my anxiety to relax. The same cannot be said of a film, where I may find myself trapped in a dark theatre where pausing is impossible, and running away would just disturb the experience for other movie-goers. So, when I heard about My Friendly Neighborhood, a little indie horror title that claims to deliver on “solid scares” as opposed to gore fests, I knew that I had to give its demo a shot. Just…maybe not with the lights off.