Happy October y'all! Don't burn yourselves out on projects such as these by attempting to keep momentum going! It's okay to take a break and come back when you find that passion again!
This isn't directed at anyone, this is just me making myself feel less bad. But it's October! And October deserves some horror games, don't you think? This year, submitted for your approval, are two games that have two things in common but with wildly different executions. One will get a pretty decent write-up, the other will get a quick and dirty rundown full of hot takes and things that jump out at me.
The former you might've heard of, the latter probably not. Those things are: 1: they are all centered around playing as child characters or at least place a heavy importance on playing as children. So let's begin with the latter game, the one that's going to be hard and fast. I first came across it around the year or the real early s, at the latest, back when I was still an occasional viewer of the tabletop chan.
I saw the name, I saw the pitch, I downloaded it out of curiosity and then deleted it in disgust when I dug into it a bit. This game is called KidWorld and boy howdy, it took me until to track down a PDF of it and read it and it still kinda disgusts me. Remember how I said this was a horror game? Well, KidWorld positions itself as a survival horror game but it's very much a pure horror game.
IDA is Hoodoo Blues is pretty interesting and has kernels of ideas that I enjoyed. I'll let the official content warning this book actually comes with speak for itself. God I hate this though. It's accurate and it warns against pretty much everything bad in the book but it looks like shit. To go into basic detail, a plague has ravaged the world that has resulted swathes of adults dying in droves.
