Slender: The Eight Pages

Title: Slender: The Eight Pages

Developers: Parsec Productions

Platforms: Windows, Mac

Official Premise: Slender is a short, experimental horror game in which you must travel into a dark woods at night with a simple goal: find 8 pages that are scattered across the woods. But as you are looking for them, you are being stalked by an entity that grows more persistent and relentless as each page is collected, an entity that you cannot even look at for long, let alone fight. Your only hope is to collect all 8 pages before it catches you…

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I've known about Slender: The Eight Pages for a long time now, but it wasn't until I played it myself that I realized just how much of a masterpiece it really is. The game itself is incredibly straightforward. You're stuck in a big, dense forest looking for eight notes, pages written by someone else. The forest is incredibly dark, though, and with only a flashlight to light your way, it'll take a steeled heart to achieve that goal. The game itself doesn't actually have a story, but it doesn't need it. The sounds, the 'stalking' monster, and the setting are all perfectly balanced, making this more horrifying and scary than most modern-day horror games. I found no fault with this game and, if you enjoy games that scare you, this is probably the best one out there. (It is definitely better than FNAF.)