An incredibly intriquing series of games that stars young high schoolers as they investigate rumors of paranormal phenomenon as young people do in real life, and the rumors are often based on real life urban legends, and to make it really interesting, the cases that these young people investigate, often make them realise things about themselves, or involve themselves in some kind of way. And they’re incredibly well told stories that unlike a lot of other horror games, really nail… tension. These games can build up to a confrontation like it’s nobody’s business, to the point that there is rarely if ever, any actual supernatural happening appearing on screen, but you feel it. You’re right there with the people investigating, and as they get more and more tense, so do you, and that’s an incredible feat for games that are just glorified walking simulators. these almost 30 year old pieces of media, do things with storytelling in games that modern games could learn a lot from, and just experiencing them is an event and an incredibly immersive one. Unfortunately they’re in Japanese, they never really sold all that well to my knowledge, they’ve never received a fan translation, and the sort of creator of them, Suda51, is uninterested in localizing them or even releasing them on modern platforms for Japanese audiences, because according to him, they aren’t really his games as he was only brought into the project on the first one, well into development.