Jump scares?

[Anderson]

Will this game have jump scares or will it go for more subtle, disturbing, slowly creeping atmosphere as in Silent Hill/Amnesia: The Dark Descent?

[We Create Stuff]

Best way to show the kind of atmosphere and we're going for is this short gameplay video we released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3r8TJgpjE
During play test, some people giggled when Dave came to help, and others actually jumped in surprise. I wouldn't call this a jump scare though, we rarely have those.

[Anderson]

Originally posted by We Create Stuff:

Best way to show the kind of atmosphere and we're going for is this short gameplay video we released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3r8TJgpjE
During play test, some people giggled when Dave came to help, and others actually jumped in surprise. I wouldn't call this a jump scare though, we rarely have those.

Ok, thank you, that's helpful!

[plopnickel]

thanks, becouse i hate jumpscares

[Deepest Blue]

Originally posted by We Create Stuff:

Best way to show the kind of atmosphere and we're going for is this short gameplay video we released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3r8TJgpjE
During play test, some people giggled when Dave came to help, and others actually jumped in surprise. I wouldn't call this a jump scare though, we rarely have those.

yeah, uh... Dave definitely made me jump. but what really got me was mr tall dark and... creepy... just waltzing up to me while I was afk distracted and texting someone during the game. I LOVE the way this game keeps slipping things by me like changing numbers and paintings and furniture, and then goes and does something so startlingly in your face. genius.

[Metal Fish]

I love that this game dosen't use cheap jumpscares. Sure, the SFX will all the time make you stay awake and warry (although you become used to it) The game likes to mess you up in other ways, and sometimes it does so in a way you end up laughing, and thats amazing. the startle dosen't have to scare you all the time, just has to leave an impression.

[Crunchy Milk]

I remember one jumpscare I got, if it wasn't scripted, the timing was amazing.
Spoilers for a room in the apartment building(? Can't remember, it's been a while since I've played.)
In the secret room with some collectibles, on the way back with the sign that says something bad will happen on the way back. That made me anxious, not knowing if something was going to happen. Once I made it back though, I took a breath as I realized I was fine.
But then Rainbow came through the doorway and scared the crap out of me.

[Rezzman]

Originally posted by We Create Stuff:

Best way to show the kind of atmosphere and we're going for is this short gameplay video we released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3r8TJgpjE
During play test, some people giggled when Dave came to help, and others actually jumped in surprise. I wouldn't call this a jump scare though, we rarely have those.

That's good to know. Because jumpscares are the worst things ever. The cheapest kind of "scare" anyone can do. Which is also utterly problematic for many people who are very sensitive, similar to EPILEPSY! Only psychopaths like jumpscares because they have no sense of awareness anyway, and that's the only way they can feel something.

[Epigrammatic Kat]

Originally posted by Rezzman:

Only psychopaths like jumpscares because they have no sense of awareness anyway, and that's the only way they can feel something.

Way to take things too far, such that you come off as arrogant and presumptuous as gamers who are not sensitive to things like jumpscares or phobia triggers, and who go around calling all of US 'wimps who lack true appreciation for the horror genre.'

There is ample anecdotal and scientific evidence to say, categorically, that many people enjoy jumpscares - and they sure as hell are not all psychopaths. For that matter, not all people with psychopathic tendencies are emotionally numb, AND you can have a mental health issue causing you to feel emotionally numb without being even a bit psychopathic. You might as well be claiming that all people with autism are math savants or that all schizophrenics have hallucinations.

Even I, a person who grew up absolutely in love with horror but eventually had to drastically scale back my consumption because of the night terrors it can cause, like an occasional low-grade jumpscare. What I can't handle are repeated jumpscares or ones that are so jarring they linger in my brain for hours. Hence why, when I discovered "In Sound Mind," I then went searching for confirmation that it's not laden with jumpscares, a lot of gore/creep scenes, etc.

Just like we don't all have to like the same genres or the same styles of gameplay, we don't all have to have the same opinions on specific elements of a horror game. Some of us can like jumpscares and some of us can loathe them, without ANY of us making dismissive or nasty comments about anyone's mental health.