Lost in Vivo is the best (worst) horror game nobody knows
What makes a game scary? Good graphics? Correctly placed jumpscares? Or does the whole thing depend on your own taste? I could discuss this topic for hours, but I could also show you Lost in Vivo: a game that might not only be able to scare you – but be seriously gruesome.
It’s a quiet evening, the sun is red-orange on the horizon and is slowly bleeding over the world while you go for a walk with your dog: It almost seems as if you can meet man’s best friend on a leash and the eternal path in front of you nothing to do with anything. Then – and of course it has to be then give – if your dog smells something interesting and storms into the sewer via an entrance on the street: he is gone. All shouting is useless, so you have to jump over your shadow and climb after it. Down, down, into the darkness.
The premise in Lost in Vivo is to find your dog. What makes you grin knowingly when you know the game – such a simple, banal reason becomes you lead straight to hell. Lost in Vivo is a four-hour horror game developed by a person who KIRA, and based on films like Jacob’s Ladder and games like Silent Hill 2.
If you have the Comments on Steam Asks, Lost in Vivo is a game that most closely resembles Silent Hill 2: A claustrophobic masterpiece with PS2 graphics, but in a first-person view and equipped with psychological tricks that will push you to your limits: There are narrow, surreal pipes that you crawl through while the music roars ungraciously. There are disgusting monsters to shoot at, eternal dark corridors, and a dog barking in the distance. But is that really still your dog? Or something else?
Get pleasure? Here’s the trailer for Lost in Vivo:
Lost in Vivo is the best horror game after Silent Hill 2 if you ask me
… and almost nobody knows it. Why after Silent Hill 2? Because it is obviously a love letter to games of the time, to games that combine psychological horror with pixel splatter, games that use their own graphics to be even more scary. Lost in Vivo doesn’t have hyper-realistic graphics, so be prepared: it doesn’t look like PT or Resident Evil 8, but neither does it. I do believe that the world and surroundings are at play with these graphics make it even stranger, even more inhuman – but see for yourself.
If you are interested in horror games, I recommend that you take a look at the indie sector from time to time: Lost in Vivo is a pearl that stands out without question, but there are good horror games from indie developers for every taste, if you know where to look. (Psst: Itch.io.)
And the good thing about it: Most of them cost either nothing or less than twenty euros. You can find Lost in Vivo on Steam or Itch.io for 9.99 euros. Not really a lot of money for this horror experience.
I have a few more recommendations for you here, if you like this kind of horror:
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