A mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Nightmare House 2 is a free, horror-themed first-person-shooter game, and the direct successor of the first classic horror map pack "Nightmare House". Nightmare House 2 is based on the Source Engine by Valve. The story resumes with the player lost and confused in a hospital known as "Never Lose Hope". With no understanding of how you came to be there, there's only a vague memory of the mysterious, haunting girl from Nightmare House. Soon it will be difficult to determine between a dream and reality. How long will it take you to realize that escape is not an option?
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one of the best horror mods for Half-Life 2, great atmosphere and presentation, it's really ambitious especially for an mod, I always constantly surprised by the level of quality here, Source Engine is an different beast.
the scares are honestly the best part, they don't rely on cheap jumpscares or anything like that but through the game's enviroment, it constantly plays with the player by messing with the flashlight or your character suddently getting damaged, it's essential to get you panicked while playing, my favorite section was in Chapter 5 with the mannequins.
has some really nice combat setpieces as well, the gunplay is the same as in HL2 so it works great, enemies are fun to fight and there is just enough combat to be enjoyable.
overall an solid horror/action game, worth playing it if you are looking towards an scary atmosphere and fun gameplay, lasts 1:30 to 2 hours.
the scares are honestly the best part, they don't rely on cheap jumpscares or anything like that but through the game's enviroment, it constantly plays with the player by messing with the flashlight or your character suddently getting damaged, it's essential to get you panicked while playing, my favorite section was in Chapter 5 with the mannequins.
has some really nice combat setpieces as well, the gunplay is the same as in HL2 so it works great, enemies are fun to fight and there is just enough combat to be enjoyable.
overall an solid horror/action game, worth playing it if you are looking towards an scary atmosphere and fun gameplay, lasts 1:30 to 2 hours.
One of the best mods for any video game I've ever played.
Felt like revisiting an old childhood fav standalone Source mod!
Nightmare House 2 is very clearly inspired by F.E.A.R. Not by the genre-redefining gunplay, mind you; but by the practically infamous aniemic horror segments it insists on hitting you with. You’d think setting to focus your game around those segments would be a downright disaster - nobody sees those parts of F.E.A.R. as its hard sell, but Nightmare House 2 kind of adopts this jovial haunted house ride approach. It is so densely packed with spectacle. Unique, snappy little sequences and spooky flourishes around practically every corner, finding new ways to disarm the player with scares that are oftentimes hilariously blunt, and occasionally wildly forward-thinking (for 2010) or subtle. All the while, never resorting to audio jumpscares! God I kind of love it. Granted, it’s never scary in the genuinely affecting sense, but I am utterly endeared by its desperately eager-to-please sensibility of packing the short runtime to the gills with as much as it can get away with while maintaining a decent sense of pace.
This could be some element of nostalgia talking here, but I really do think that the modern-day torrential downpouring of self-serious and utterly miserable horror indies that blast through the Itch/Steam pipeline could learn a thing or two from what Nightmare House 2 has going for it. It will make you laugh & it will make you laugh & it will make u think.
Nightmare House 2 is very clearly inspired by F.E.A.R. Not by the genre-redefining gunplay, mind you; but by the practically infamous aniemic horror segments it insists on hitting you with. You’d think setting to focus your game around those segments would be a downright disaster - nobody sees those parts of F.E.A.R. as its hard sell, but Nightmare House 2 kind of adopts this jovial haunted house ride approach. It is so densely packed with spectacle. Unique, snappy little sequences and spooky flourishes around practically every corner, finding new ways to disarm the player with scares that are oftentimes hilariously blunt, and occasionally wildly forward-thinking (for 2010) or subtle. All the while, never resorting to audio jumpscares! God I kind of love it. Granted, it’s never scary in the genuinely affecting sense, but I am utterly endeared by its desperately eager-to-please sensibility of packing the short runtime to the gills with as much as it can get away with while maintaining a decent sense of pace.
This could be some element of nostalgia talking here, but I really do think that the modern-day torrential downpouring of self-serious and utterly miserable horror indies that blast through the Itch/Steam pipeline could learn a thing or two from what Nightmare House 2 has going for it. It will make you laugh & it will make you laugh & it will make u think.
Truly a masterpiece among short indie games.
Nightmare House 2 is the sequel to a short Garry's Mod map (if I recall correctly, and which is also included as a selectable prologue chapter, but enhanced) and is a nice short horror game, that reminds me of F.E.A.R.!
The player awakens in a seemingly abandoned hospital, only guided by a doctor named Romero. On your way you get to meet the ghost of Emily, whom at first seems to be a threat but as it turns out, she is helping you, as long as you're helping her. Also, you get to meet a small group of S.W.A.T. units searching through the area, only to learn that they search for Romero and that he is the real evil master mind behind everything that happened in the prequel as well as this game.
For an indie game running on the source engine, the graphics are actually pretty good. The soundtrack is also a real banger. Most of the tracks are quite atmospheric and give off a somewhat creepy or menacing vibe, but my favorite track has to be the final boss theme, as you're about to destroy the machine that Romero uses to suppress Emily, whom he killed. It starts off as some slow epic trance piece, but the further you get in the battle, the faster and more hopeful it becomes.
If you're looking for a quick horror game, that is around 1 1/2 hours long, that's your game!
Nightmare House 2 is the sequel to a short Garry's Mod map (if I recall correctly, and which is also included as a selectable prologue chapter, but enhanced) and is a nice short horror game, that reminds me of F.E.A.R.!
The player awakens in a seemingly abandoned hospital, only guided by a doctor named Romero. On your way you get to meet the ghost of Emily, whom at first seems to be a threat but as it turns out, she is helping you, as long as you're helping her. Also, you get to meet a small group of S.W.A.T. units searching through the area, only to learn that they search for Romero and that he is the real evil master mind behind everything that happened in the prequel as well as this game.
For an indie game running on the source engine, the graphics are actually pretty good. The soundtrack is also a real banger. Most of the tracks are quite atmospheric and give off a somewhat creepy or menacing vibe, but my favorite track has to be the final boss theme, as you're about to destroy the machine that Romero uses to suppress Emily, whom he killed. It starts off as some slow epic trance piece, but the further you get in the battle, the faster and more hopeful it becomes.
If you're looking for a quick horror game, that is around 1 1/2 hours long, that's your game!