Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? – Issue 654
A reader shares their weekend gaming plans, reflecting on how a first horror game drew them through fear, frustration and hope. Writing a journal about each session and discussing its details with people who had finished it helped deepen their appreciation of the story.
They have since played Dredge and returned to survivor games, praising Vampire Survivors for getting them back into gaming after months away. This weekend they plan to play a squad-based zombie shooter, enjoying its weapons and team mechanic, while considering Call of Cthulhu and Still Wakes the Deep after Silent Hill 2 left them drained.
- A first horror game made a strong emotional impression.
- Journalling and discussion enriched the experience.
- A squad-based zombie shooter is on this weekend’s playlist.
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Gaming weekends can involve very different experiences, from story-led horror to action games built around surviving waves of enemies. Horror games often use tension and unsettling settings to draw players into a narrative, while survival games focus on staying alive against repeated threats.
The reader describes how keeping notes and discussing a completed game with others helped them follow its story. Their plans also touch on the range of horror games available, including Call of Cthulhu and Still Wakes the Deep, as well as a squad-based zombie shooter where players work together.