Horror Stories: Social Problems hides its dread inside a very ordinary week
A PSX-styled horror game about a man rebuilding his life, a job at the corner shop, and the woman called ALISA who may change everything.
By Nell Brannigan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The most frightening room in the screenshots for Horror Stories: Social Problems is a cramped flat with a pizza box on the coffee table. A floor lamp throws a warm cone over a green sofa, an old CRT glows in the corner, and somebody has hung a framed poster on the wall. Nothing is wrong with it. That is exactly the problem, because the game YarFunnyStar is making is about how much can go wrong underneath a room like that. A life simulation with something in the walls The premise, in the developer's own description, is a man who has decided to get his life back on track. He finds a job at a...