11) The Hum: Abductions

Aliens? It’s about time.

The Hum: Abductions sees the player take on the role of Holly Sanders, a single mother whose husband vanished several months ago. Over the course of the game, Holly will discover what happened to her husband and realize the worst is yet to come for her and her infant son.

It takes some cues from P.T., such as taking place mostly in one house, at night, and trying to figure out what really happened in the past. Of course, this time around its scientific alien abductions and not eldritch horror and ghost girls.

Basically, wander around your house. Your infant son has been put to bed and you can’t sleep. Then weird things start happening, because apparently alien invasions are functionally no different from a haunted house. Still, the game manages to be quite tense and frightening, as alien abductions really should be.

The game is part of a larger sci-fi universe created by Ariel Areas and expressed through writings and now video games, with more games and novels planned for release in the coming months.

It was a dark and stormy night…

Cute. No way anything bad could happen here, right? It’s a kid’s room.

At some point you have to wonder why you can’t unlock a door in your own house...