The Lost Art of Survival Horror

Just like in books and films, atmosphere can play a big part in your gaming experience. Setting and ambiance play a big part in immersing a person into the game that they're playing. The games that take full advantage of this fact and play it to their advantage would be the sub-genre of Survival Horror. Just as it sounds, the basis for the survival horror genre is just that, to survive given the bleak circumstances that surround you. Take the earlier Resident Evil games as an example. More often than not, the game have you very limited resources and forced you to strategically navigate through it. Things tend to get a lot more tense for a player when they can't shoot their way through a scenario.