My 2012 belonged to Slender Man. I was easily terrified by creepy, early 2010s computer games like Slender: The Eight Pages, but I couldn’t resist their special blend of unicorn blood and twee. Recently, I’ve been missing the pink bittersweetness of the Tim Burton-style horror games made in those years, like Fran Bow and Alice: Madness Returns, so the inaugural Cozy After Dark Showcase has arrived with a new trailer for Hell Is Other People at just the right time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teaser from indie developer Miss Self Destruct describes Hell Is Other People–named for the famous Jean-Paul Sartre quote about being trapped in other people’s perceptions of you–as “a psychological horror about social anxiety.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Its little girl protagonist has onyx eyes and hair that goes nearly down to her fingertips, so she looks a bit overgrown, like she might have washed up on some riverbank. Otherwise, she seems normal, with a thin mattress to curl on top of every night like any other lonely child. But that’s not what her mother thinks.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/7VJ07UqoUyI?si=UM_03yezg2sQ1YA-&t=3530<\/p>\n
“See what I have to deal with?” Mother says as our little girl stares politely at a party tray of frosted cupcakes.<\/p>\n