Spooky's Playground

      Hide and Seek with Noah was definitely not what I expected it to be. I knew it was a "horror" game, but it went a horror route that I didn't expect. In this game, you have to help Noah's mom, best friend, and teacher find where the mischievous little bunny is hiding in various scenarios. However, the game takes a dark turn when it turns into an analog horror, which a choice; hide or seek. I won't spoil anything for you, but let's just say if you choose to seek, it takes you down a dark path full of abuse, murder, and kidnapping. It uses FMV (Full Motion Video), which absolutely adds to the raw fear that this simple little game was able to inflict on myself. The feeling of dread and unease that I felt during this felt so strong, as if I was witnessing something I shouldn't be. It had moments where I couldn't help but hold my breath. It takes a lot to make me feel uneasy, but this game was able to accomplish that. Don't let the colors fool you,...

      Terrarium is a PC game that was recently released on January 10th, 2025. I came across this game on the Cozy Gamer group on Facebook. I instantly fell in love with the graphics, style, and premise of the game.  In this game, you decorate different bottle terrariums. That's it. Super simple. I LOVE games like that and have made several terrariums in my life, but now I get to enjoy doing them virtually! You get 8 slots to create with, and unlock several additional items as you play.     While making terrariums in real life is an amazing experience, it can get pricey at times. I've made one out of a Pokeball, one with flowers I've dried, and several different terrariums for when I raised Isopods and now for my 3 Hermit Crabs.       As I said, they can get expensive to make, especially if it comes to involving real critters. This game is an amazing alternative to pricey terrariums, with a price tag of only $3.99! Better yet, Terrarium ...

     Stray Cats in a Cozy Town is a super cute hidden item game where your goal is to find all the kitties hidden around town. You can also search for water buckets to make sure the cats all stay hydrated. This game took me about an hours to complete (there's ALOT of cats).      This game is free to play on STEAM, but does have a paid DLC called Night Lights, where all the proceeds go to helping stray cats. The DLC is about $2.00, so for skipping Starbucks for even just 1 day, you can help a stray kitty AND get a absolutely adorable game! Overall, this game may not have much to it, with being a find it game, but it is a treasured addition to the hidden cats game genre! There are so many hidden cat games out there that it has become its own full genre now. Most are free to play, with paid DLCs or additional content. It's a genre that I hadn't been 100% sold on at the start, but the more I've been playing them, the more they have grown on me, especially when ...

  https://shawcat.itch.io/sketchy-individuals My husband and I came across this game when we saw it pop up in a YouTube video. We watched through the first level before we both realized we wanted to play it. It strongly reminded me of the game Fingered, which I've reviewed in an earlier post. In this game, you play as a police sketch artist, tasked with drawing the criminals described by their victims. Don't worry, there's no actual drawing involved haha. You go through each description, picking the option that best fits with what the victim says, then looking at the line up to best match your drawing. There are 10 levels, each progressively getting harder and harder. What bothered me the most was that it didn't tell you if you got the person right or wrong at the end of each level. At the end of the game, you find out how many you got wrong and how many you got right. The whole playthrough took me about 15 - 20 minutes in total, so relatively short, but lots of fun! Th...

  Broken Shell is a game with a to-be-determined release date. You play as Mr. Hermit Crab, following the story of him and his wife, Mrs. Hermit Crab. The story begins with the couple meeting in a little coral field, when you accidentally crack your beloved wife's shell. She's very upset, but you are able to make her feel better by giving her a flower. From there you solve puzzles to progress the story, helping other adorable characters along the way. One of my favorite characters was Blob fish! The art style is what originally drew me in. I'm a sucker for cutesy, colorful artwork like the devs used for this game. I searched for hermit crab games, because my husband and I adopted 3 precious hermit crabs yesterday. Wyn, Riv'n, and Vesper and we are absolutely in love with them! Since they're my gaming buddies, I wanted to play a game that was about hermit crabs. Unfortunately, there's not very many hermit crab games, but with Broken Shell coming out, I can...

Hi everyone, you don’t know who I am, but I am Vaytorra Kierst’s fiancé, and she’s been struggling keeping up with the 31 days of spooks, so I’m going to try and help out. I chose to play The WereCleaner; it’s a short game where you’re a janitor who works at an office building with your trusty water sprayer and vacuum to clean up messes. Rent is due soon, so you’re working extra. But what’s this? You have to work mandatory unpaid overtime at night. Doesn’t seem too bad, but did I mention you’re a werewolf? While running around cleaning, you have to now avoid the other workers at night. If caught, you go into a bloodthirsty rampage and kill them. You now can pick up or eat the body. By eating it, you make a mess and have to clean it up. You do have a timer for each level, so don’t slack too much. Also, Daryl, the security guard, knows something is up if it’s an animal or a beast in the office. He doesn’t know it’s you, but he’s determined to find out. The game consists of seven levels, ...

Hey guys, I'm so sorry I missed so many days... Things have been crazy with family birthdays, bridal shower, a new job, and more. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up after this post!  9th - Cooking Mama https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470028 Cooking Mama is known world wide and is an amazing game based around cooking. Well, this version is a little different. This Cooking Mama game has a dark twist where you're preparing a turkey and gravey. This game was created by PETA, so that should say something about the content. Personally, I liked this game. I was first introduced to it when I saw Jacksepticeye play it. Some parts of it were more difficult, especially with the timer, but overall, it's a nice little homage to the Cooking Mama franchise. 10th - Little Bus Ride of Horror https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/443368 So my dumb brain thought that this was a game. I was wrong. Turns out it is actually a little comic book. I already had it written into the plan ...

 I'm sorry for the multiple days combined. Like I said before, this month is full of lots of chaos and changes, but I will hit 31 days, they may just not be separate. Thanks for understanding! Alright, so I was excited to play this game. It looked really spooky and kinda reminded me of analog horror. However, my hopes and dreams for what this game would be were dashed when they brought in the blob.....Well, this blob was apparently voiced by Ash-Plays, and oh my gosh, it ended up being awful. It went from a game that spooked me a little bit, to a game that I couldn't wait to end. There is an epilepsy warning given, and rightfully so. I ended up walk inga way from this game with a pounding headache. I'll like the game below, but take my advice... skip this one! https://linsonlime.itch.io/antipathy That Night in the Rain is a very short horror point and click, with absolutely adorable graphics. You play as a little girl who is supposed to wait in her parent's car while th...

  Hey guys! Welcome to day 4 of our 31 Days of Spooks! Today's game is a short horror survey game called Please Answer Carefully. It was a short, simple, and yet creepy game made in 24 hours. The front screen says that it takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete, but it's closer to 5 minutes or less. I think my playthrough took about 4 minutes, but I also read pretty fast.  The game does come with a content warning about being themed around a stalker. Rather than jump scares, this game uses audio to unsettle the players. Personally, I think that audio scares are creepier than jump scares. There's just something about the way that the audio hits. It's unsettling, and unnerving to say the least. Speaking of spooks, this game also uses forced typing. If you don't know, forced typing is when the game allows you to type, but the text it wants is already programmed into it. For example, this game asked me to tell them I miss them, I tried to type no, but it changed the text to w...

 Sorry for missing yesterday's post, I had a severe migraine and was unable to complete the post. However, that means you get two today! The first one is a game titled Torchure. Enjoy! Torchure Torchure is a first person dungeon game on itch.io, made for the Wowie Jam 3.0 in 2021. In this game your goal is to find a crystal skull. Easy, right? NOPE! This game was so frustrating! I enjoyed it, but it was frustrating. There were no instructions on how to play the game, which I thought was odd, but it's straightforward enough that you don't really have to worry much about it. The game is very dark, and not in the themes. This game is literally almost pitch black, with the exception of the lantern your character carries. However, the game slowly gets more lit up, but only when your character dies... and it's very easy to die. Each time your character dies, the spot where they died is marked with a skeleton, but also the lantern they had been carrying. This leads to more and...

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/555580 Hey guys! Sorry for the long hiatus. Things have been crazy with wedding planning and moving and everything. However, I figured out a great way to give you guys content and game while dealing with the changes of life! Welcome to day 1 of spooks, a month long event where I review a different horror game every day for you guys. It could be mobile, steam, epic, browser, etc. These reviews will still be relatively short, and if I can provide a link to them I will. Today's game is titled Old Girl. I'm not quite sure why the game is called Old Girl, but nevertheless, it made for a nice time killer. Available on Newgrounds, this point-and-click game follows an unnamed protagonist who is in search for their girlfriend Jane. You arrive at a creepy bus stop and have to walk to the nearby town that your girlfriend was last seen in. You run into some pretty creepy characters (who have amazing voice acting that's kinda creepy) who may or may...

      This game is adorable! Margo is a free point-and-click game available for free on STEAM. The whole game takes about 30 minutes to complete in the first run through. Any playthrough after that is fairly quick to get through, taking only 10-15 minutes to complete.     You play as Margo, a girl living on another planet who is dealing with the emotions behind her dearest friend leaving, but also the emotions with battling to tell her friend how she really feels about her. You continue along after dropping your dog off to spend one last night with your friend, meeting several interesting characters on your way to the library. The whole time, you can't help but think about your friend.     The game is very simple and not very long, with some puzzles, but I recommend playing through at least twice. I played a second time, simply to get an achievement I missed the first time and found so many little details and items I had initially missed. ...

      Hope Lake is a point-and-click adventure about a mystery surrounding the disappearances of girls from the boarding school, several years after the school had been abandoned and the girls grown up. The untimely death of the Governess plays a key role in finding out the mystery of the missing girls. You play as Detective Kelly Wells, who is determined to figure out what is going on.     I personally LOVED this game. Normally I don't enjoy hidden item games, but the way they use that mixed with how they also include puzzles and mystery makes for a great game. Some of the puzzles were easy, some had mild difficulty, and then there were 2-3 that I needed help on. Thankfully my boyfriend is better at certain puzzles than I am and was able to help me with those extra difficult ones.     I really enjoyed the storyline as well. It took twists and turns that I wasn't expecting and built up the world to make a very immersive fo...

     I was randomly browsing the app store when I decided to look up the Rusty Lake games. Unbeknownst to me, the makers of Rusty Lake had also made a few other games that are considered to be part of the Cube Escape Collection. I was pleasantly surprised, as I had heard of the Rusty Lake games before, but never played any of them.       This review took me so long, because I wanted to review the collection as a whole, since that's how I got it on the app store, hence why the sections are just quick snippets of review. The Cube Escape Collection is 100% free and fun for anyone who loves creepy escape games with beautiful art! You begin with Seasons and then follow the story cube by cube from there! It's absolutely incredible both in style and gameplay.     This review is based on my experience with the sections, so some other players may find certain more difficult or easier than I did. Seasons     Seaso...