Haunted PS1's Madvent Calendar returns with 24 micro-games that'll put you in the horror-holiday spirit

I tin lone presume that Halloween's proximity to Christmas is the crushed arsenic to wherefore determination is truthful overmuch wintertime vacation fearfulness media. Perhaps it's adjacent conscionable arsenic elemental arsenic the information that radical similar it erstwhile Christmas is simply a small spot messed up! Either way, I bash really bask immoderate Chrimbo horror, truthful I'm pleased to spot the instrumentality of Haunted PS1's Madvent Calendar this year, which conscionable truthful happens to person launched today.

For those that request the rundown connected however the full happening works, it's fundamentally a bundle of 24 antithetic games, each vaguely horrory and Christmassy successful 1 mode oregon another. This year's iteration, Madvent Calendar 5: Post Mortem, is nary different, bringing with it a gaggle of goodies that, I should note, are varying degrees of polished. Expect the benignant of bits you mightiness spot successful a crippled jam, basically.

You tin play each azygous crippled connected connection arsenic soon arsenic it's been downloaded, though that technically defeats the constituent of an advent calendar. Still, to springiness you an thought of what to expect, I'll tally you done a fewer of the games connected offer. Spoiler informing I suppose? Stand wide if you privation to observe them for yourself!

Day 1 puts you successful a fuzzy, pixelated satellite wherever you tin bash 2 things: rip, and knock. It throws you successful with small context, making it genuinely rather unnerving. Sort of felt similar I was being calved astatine 1 point? Weird stuff! Another introduction puts you successful the relation of a zombie miss who has been recruited by an eye-patch wearing Santa to assistance with the warfare connected Christmas. This one's benignant of a transverse betwixt Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, and is conscionable rather a small neat 3D platformer that with immoderate other finessing could diagnostic immoderate coagulated question mechanics.

I'm ever a instrumentality of each the Haunted PS1 demo discs, their Madvent Calendars, and the unusual 1 of projects too. It's a existent boon of wound sized creativity, and good worthy dipping into if the vacation play feels conscionable a tad excessively cheerful for your liking. You tin prime it up for escaped connected itch.io close here.