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The Scary World of Viral YouTube Horror Games

Back in the PlayStation days we all had Resident Evil PS1 and Silent Hill PS1 to play and talk about in terms of viral video games. The most viral videos of the week didn’t exist, maybe even the concept of funny viral videos or scary viral videos didn’t exist either. But then all of a sudden, YouTube happened, and then the biggest let’s play channels kicked off into the stratosphere with a horror game playthrough. JackSepticEye horror games and Markiplier horror games compilation videos and walkthrough videos went massive and caused a new surge of the best indie games of all time, or in some cases the worst indie games of all time, to come up into the spotlight - which leads us to today’s Caddy video. Amnesia the Dark Descent reaction videos and Amnesia walkthrough videos showing Amnesia the Dark Descent gameplay were one of the first indie horror games to go viral from PewDiePie and every other giant streamer, and eventually this lead to Amnesia the Dark Descent review videos and then

English
  • Originally Aired October 31, 2023
  • Runtime 70 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created November 1, 2023 by
    KellyAesop
  • Modified November 1, 2023 by
    KellyAesop