My “favourite” death scenes this year, then, have been the ones that make me worry. Though dying in a horror game isn’t any more real or consequential than it is in any other kind of game, your fear is.
But death is harder to ignore in the context of a horror game, which, if successful, will let fear bother you in real life, reaching out from the black “YOU DIED” screen the way fog slouches out of a forest’s boundaries.
