Horror games were everywhere at Gamescom last month, including not just Resident Evil and Silent Hill but other more obscure and unexpected delights.

Following the demise of E3, this year’s Gamescom took up the mantle of the world’s biggest video games show with aplomb, setting new records for attendance – over 357,000 people passed through its giant, labyrinthine halls – and boasting over 1,500 exhibitors.

Not only that but over 72 million people viewed its Opening Night Live curtain raiser online. And one aspect of that show would surely have struck everyone: there are an awful lot of blockbusting horror games on the way.

I got to play many of these at the show itself, since most of them are out this year or early next. After so much forlorn hope of a survival horror renaissance it no

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