Curated playlist
Video games set in psychiatric hospitals
- Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins was rewritten in one week after its first version became a dark comedy.
- Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
- Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
- BioShock InfiniteBioShock Infinite sends its hero to a city that floats among the clouds above America in 1912. Irrational Games developed it and 2K published it in 2013, and it is a first-person shooter that leans hard on story. The hero is Booker DeWitt,…
- Batman: Arkham AsylumBatman: Arkham Asylum, the 2009 game from Rocksteady Studios, once kept a single developer busy for two years on one garment, Batman's cape. Eidos president Ian Livingstone said the job involved more than 700 animations and sound effects,…
- Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
- Dementium: The WardKonami turned down Dementium: The Ward when it was pitched as a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS.
- Wolfenstein: The New OrderWolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 first-person shooter made by the studio MachineGames, and it first reached the public as three still images with one caption: 1960. Nothing else was explained. The number gave no hint of the story,…
- Alan WakeAlan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game from the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment, published by Microsoft Game Studios. Its hero is a bestselling crime novelist whose wife vanishes during a vacation in Bright Falls, a small fictional…
- Until DawnUntil Dawn is a 2015 horror game in which eight young adults must outlast one terrible night on Blackwood Mountain. Partway through the evening, two of them reach a radio tower and get a reply. It is not the reply they wanted. A storm…