Curated playlist
Video games about demons
- Silent Hill 3Silent Hill 3 dropped onto PlayStation 2 shelves in May 2003, and from its first moments it placed a 17-year-old girl named Heather Mason in a nightmare she could not wake from. She was trapped in a derelict amusement park, killed by a…
- Quake (video game)Quake is a 1996 first-person shooter from id Software, and on the day it launched, only one member of the entire development team came into the office to upload the files. That person was John Romero, who had fought harder than anyone to…
- Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of the fifth Blight, a moment when the monstrous Darkspawn threaten to swarm the surface world for only the fifth time in all of recorded history. Players step into this crisis not as a predetermined…
- Silent Hill 2Silent Hill 2 opens with James Sunderland standing at a roadside rest stop, staring into a fog-covered valley. He has received a letter from his wife, Mary. The problem is that Mary has been dead for three years. That premise alone tells…
- Doom (1993 video game)Doom, released on the 10th of December 1993, crashed a university's network before most people had even heard of it. At midnight, after thirty straight hours of testing, the five-person team at id Software uploaded the first episode to an…
- Mortal KombatMortal Kombat arrived in arcades in August 1992, and within months it had become one of the most debated video games in American history. Four people built it: Ed Boon handling the programming, John Tobias on art and story, John Vogel on…
- Devil May CryDevil May Cry began life as a mistake. Hideki Kamiya was developing a new entry in the Resident Evil series when his prototype drifted so far from survival horror that Capcom decided it had no business being a Resident Evil game at all.…
- Diablo (series)Diablo, the Lord of Terror, sold more than a million copies in the single year of 1997, before most people had even heard of the dungeon crawler genre. The series he anchors has since moved nearly 100 million copies worldwide, a figure…
- Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 puts a demon-summoning app in your pocket. Developed and published by Sega, this mobile role-playing game arrived in January 2018, first reaching Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau before eventually…
- TekkenTekken began not as a fighting game, but as an internal experiment at Namco to test how well a studio could animate 3D character models. That experiment, launched in 1994, became one of the most commercially successful fighting game…
- Dead by DaylightDead by Daylight puts four Survivors in the woods against one Killer, all of them serving a hostile presence the game calls the Entity. Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian studio behind it, built its entire design around that imbalance.…
- Silent Hill fSilent Hill f opens in Ebisugaoka, a fictional 1960s Japanese town, where fog rolls in carrying red spider lilies that kill on contact. In its first day of sale on the 25th of September 2025, the game moved over one million copies. That…
- Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a murder. Before the player sees a single street of the fog-choked town, they watch Murphy Pendleton kill Patrick Napier in a prison shower, a man identified as a child molester and murderer. It is a deeply…
- Diablo IVDiablo IV crossed one billion dollars in total revenue by September 2024, making it one of the fastest commercial rises in the history of its genre. But the road to that milestone was anything but smooth. The game's original concept,…
- Diablo ImmortalDiablo Immortal arrived on the 2nd of June 2022, and within a single week it had become the biggest launch in the Diablo franchise's history. By the end of July, thirty million people had downloaded it. Yet at the very same moment, the PC…