So I've just played a video game called Slender which is currently in a (late?) beta version. Quite a simple idea for what is essentially a suspense-horror. Just wander round a forest and pick up 8 pages located within it. You have no weapons, only a flashlight and you need to avoid looking at or get caught by "the slender man" who is also out there somewhere. The flashlight has limited batteries and as you pick up pages it also gets darker and foggier out there.
Here's the trailer
The game is free to download and play for both Mac and PC and currently quite small at around 50Mb.
There's currently talk of a source mod for this (which will obviously be released through Steam if/when it arrives), so I decided to download the current version of the game and take a look to see whether it might be of interest later..
I found wandering through the forest for a half hour or so quite boring as there's no obvious clue where to go to look for pages (although you'll get some ideas of what you might want to look out for once you find a few), but the game does have the potential to make you seriously hit the ceiling and wonder where you left your nerves should you get caught. So from my point of view some potential if they perhaps add some back-story and make the wandering less tedious/more obvious.
Why not download a copy and see what you think?
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