Why Games Like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Granny Are Successful at Delivering Frights

Horror is entirely subjective and while there may be elements of traditional horror tropes that most people find frightening, there are degrees to which certain subgenres will impact some more than others. This is no different in horror games, where the particular subgenre or perspective that a game is played from may have a significant impact on what fans think is scary. Resident Evil 7 may have been much scarier in VR than on an ordinary console, for example, but an indie game like Granny versus a AAA game like Silent Hill may have distinctions in fear from art direction and gameplay alone.