“Paranormal: The House” – A Creepy Procedural Experience!

If you’ve never heard of Paranormal, it’s an indie game that first appeared in late-2012 and was advertised as a “procedurally-generated horror experience.” Another way they described it was as a “random haunting” game. Basically, the scenario was that you were a guy who felt that there was something other-worldly going on at his house and decided to film it in that “found footage” sort of way, and each playthrough would vary a bit because the events that happened would be selected at random, encouraging replayability.

Since its initial release, the game has been overhauled rather extensively. In late-2014, an upgraded version was released that contained two new “tapes” (or Chapters) to add to the game: Paranormal: The Room and Paranormal: The Town.

This video here is a complete playthrough of Paranormal: The House and ends with what I think is the “good ending.”

Please let me know if you enjoy this, because if you do I would be happy to record the other two chapters! 🙂

Jessica Brown

Retro Games and Technology Editor. She'll beat pretty much every Mega Man game without breaking a sweat.

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