Stairs

Horror games are great when they manage to envision gruesome events about monsters, supernatural happenings and so on. However, you get the most chills down your spine when you know that what you’re playing is based on real events told by actual people.

That is what Stairs is about, creating and adapting stories that are told to be real and delivering them in the form of a spooky and tense first-person horror game.

Set out to investigate a simple event, only to find out an evil truth

The team behind Stairs took this project seriously and you can easily see that in the details. But most importantly, you can feel it in the atmosphere. Stairs manages to create and immerse you into a dark world that makes you uneasy form the very first steps.

You play as a reporter who sets off to discover what happened to three people and in doing so, his trail of clues leads him to an abandoned factory. Not long before he enters the site, you get a bad feeling and things become really strange once you notice that your digital camera can see things that are not there.

A horror game that dives into your mind and feasts

Stairs starts off in the casual horror manner but it does that thing that all games from this genre should do, it scares you with what you don’t know rather than have you run from devils and ghouls. It slightly offers small chunks of the story but no particular fact for you to use, this way your mind turns on itself and any future event is felt with greater intensity.

The moments of blood smeared warnings that creep you out do come and they are wonderfully executed by using some well thought out tricks. Stairs will get to you.

The kind of game you have to keep an eye on

Stairs still has a long way to go before it will be able to cause some nightmares. There are several design features that need touching up but overall, the gameplay is solid and horror-wise, delivery is excellent.