jumpscared by a corpse

I tried to replay Return of the Obra Dinn last night, which turned out to be a bad idea. I knew that the game was creepy - I've 100%-ed it before, hanging out with my brother on break - but I forgot just how *awful* the music cues and the screen transitions made me feel. Like, even though I know that the inspector is safe the entire time, every time a memory occurred I felt exactly the same as when a monster attacked me in a game like Amnesia, or when a scissor-clone jumped out in Us.

Interestingly, I feel the same way playing Gone Home, another walking-sim mystery type game with bad vibes and zero actual danger.

I don't know why my brain reacts so badly to suspenseful environments like that, but twenty minutes of gameplay freaked me out enough to keep me up until 1AM.

Maybe I just shouldn't play those games.