You’ll take turns inhabiting different characters from an ensemble cast – this one stars Paul “Dennis Pennis” Kaye and Jessie Buckley – progress via an effective blend of organic exploration and scripted sequences, and encounter quick-time events (QTEs) where you’ll have to hit the right button at the right time to survive. If you’ve played any of the previous Dark Pictures games then the way you progress through The Devil in Me will feel comfortably familiar. And whilst it lacks the spooky potency of its predecessors – this is the least terrifying Dark Pictures release thus far, for me anyways – discovering the trapdoors, body chutes, gas chambers, and sliding walls hidden away in this modern day Murder Castle is an absolute joy for any horror or true crime fan. So far, the horror series has been focussed chiefly, if not quite exclusively, on supernatural stories, but The Devil in Me – Holmes’ own words, allegedly – takes a delicious detour into serial killer land. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me. Little wonder, then, that it’s the premise for survival horror The Devil in Me, the latest installment of Supermassive Games‘ thrilling horror anthology, The Dark Pictures. Again, it’s not clear how much of it was real – much of Holmes’ story seems to have been speculation at best, and fabrication at worst – but it sure makes for one hell of a tale. Have you come across him before? Widely touted (incorrectly, I think, but let’s go with it) as America’s first serial killer, HH Holmes was a fraudster, philanderer, and murderer who lives on in infamy by way of his deliciously devilish “Murder Castle”, a funhouse with the same sliding walls and trick mirrors, only they led not to hilarity but to gas chambers and dead ends.
No one other than serial killer Henry Howard Holmes. READ MORE: Best horror games: what’s the best horror you can play in 2022?.We know that funhouses are fun for no one. We know that no place adorned with the sadistic smile of a dead-eyed clown can be a good one. You, me, and about eleventy gazillion Dean Koontz novels have smelt the faint desperation lying beneath sweet scents of cotton candy, though. They want you to think that nothing bad can ever happen there, but we know better. Do you like funhouses? Those cheesy traveling fairground attractions with the wobbly mirrors and sliding walls? Blasting out cheery music and plastered in faded primary colors, they want you to think that they’re super fun places for all the family.
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