The horror Gaming genre has developed a lot in recent decades and has adopted many different forms. Horror games have gone from simple text-based adventures to survival horror horror horror horror action games and a whole amount in between. This constant evolution has meant that the definition of a horror game is rather loose, but usually it runs out on every game that focuses primarily on frightening the player through uncanny surroundings, intensive music, creepy monster design or any combination of the three.
A unique type of horror game that has continued to have popularity in the past ten years is “sweet” horror. These games will often have the eerie environments, intensive music and creepy monsters from standard horror games, but their general aesthetics differs quite tonally from their contemporaries, with cute character models and bright lighting that faces the dark atmosphere. If everything is planned, 2025 could be a fairly big year for these cute horror games.
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2025 could accommodate a few sweet horror games
The midnight walk
Currently discontinued for a version on May 8, 2025, The midnight walk is a horror adventure game from the first person in a Tim Burton-like world of terribly sweet monsters. From some of the same developers as 2021s come Randomly lostPresent The midnight walk has a similar homemade aesthetics, with all their environments and monsters made of clay in the real world and the stop-motion animations of the game have created.
Fans last seen The midnight walk In the February state of Sony, in which his pronounced aesthetics made a strong impression on many observations. For those who want to be completely immersed in The midnight walkThe handmade horror, the game will also be available in VR for those who play on PlayStation 5 and PC.
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May 8, 2025
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Teen // Violence
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Moonhood
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Fast travel games
Small nightmares 3
The Small nightmares Series was a pioneer for the “cute” horror game subgenre, and although the series changed the owner, it looks like the upcoming entry is being continued its strong inheritance. Tarsier Studios (the team behind it in 2021 Small nightmares 1 And 2) announced that it would move out of the series because it was acquired by the Embracer Group a few years earlier.
Editor Bandai Namco kept the rights to the Small nightmares Series follows the split and quickly turned to Supermassive games (from Until dawn And Dark pictures anthology Fame) a third episode in the renowned cute horror series. Small nightmares 3 was first shown by Gamescom Opening Night Live Ceremony in 2023, where it turned out that the sequel to the series with a 2-player cooperia, a premiere for the series.
Small nightmares 3 was originally planned for a publication of 2024, but was promoted to 2025 in May last year. This release window 2025 is still available at the time of writing. For super massive it will not be easy to meet the expectations of the fans, but from the film material published so far, it seems as if it had been Small nightmares 3 Is in good hands.
Reanimal
Something that could throw a wrench into the works of super massive is that Tarsier Studios is currently developing a spiritual successor Small nightmaresOne that also contains 2-player co-op. Titled ReanimalThe next game from Tarsier offers a very similar aesthetics as the studio's earlier work, albeit a visually darker one.
With Reanimal After it was only officially announced in August 2024, it is unlikely that it will be released this year. But even if it Reanimal does not appear The midnight walk And Small nightmares 3 Sweet horror fans will be happy to be happy in 2025.
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Tarsier Studios
