Slender is a prime example of this, and is more related to our topic today than, say, Five Nights at Freddy’s due to the similarity in what’s happened here.
However, this also boosts the popularity of the games they play, and the characters within them. From there the character was used and evolved a few times, until the game was made, and subsequently picked up by let’s players who, as we know, largely rely on horror games to create those clippable moments of instant fear that boosts their popularity. This wasn’t the first appearance of the character, with the entity dating back to 2009 with an image editing competition on the Something Awful forums. Back in 2012 a game released that you may know about called Slender.
It’s National VCR Day today, and we wanted to celebrate it by looking at an emerging horror subgenre that is permeating the Indie Gaming community.
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