The ten best Puppet Comb horror games. These are the titles that will give you nightmares

Retro is in. Indie horror games in the manner of American slashers from the 80s flooded the market. Numerous well-known gamers in multi-hour streams entertain their audience by playing analog horror games. It seems that in this digital age, people look back more and more fondly on the days of VHS.

In the context of indie horror games, it must be emphasized that the independent developer Puppet Combo is behind it. now he has an enviable constellation of classics. Puppet Combo, formerly known as Pig Farmer Games, is a video game development studio.

Its creator is Benedetto “Ben” Cocuzza, who ‘doctored’ games based on horror films from the 1980s. If you are interested in what kind of games they are, the best answer is provided by the description of their website.

– Puppet Combo is the home of sleazeballs, bloodthirsties, lunatics, slashers and maniacs – it says on the cover. If you’re interested in independent horror movies and if you’re tired of sterile and polished mainstream titles, check out the ten best games from Puppet Comb’s catalog.

1. Nun Massacre

Realistically, the list has to start with this classic that launched Puppet Combo to unprecedented heights. Originally developed as a sequel to ‘Power Drill Massacre’ (more on that later), but later inspired by the 2018 horror film ‘The Nun’, this claustrophobic horror will keep you awake long after you finish the game.

Although not available on Steam, you can purchase it from the official Puppet Comb website for $4.95. How dedicated the developer is to its audience is best illustrated by the fact that a novel (yes, a novel about the game) was released in 2021, which brings you new details about the bloodthirsty sister. The game is available for both Android and iOS.

As for the game itself, the action takes place in an abandoned boarding school run by nuns on top of a hill in the middle of a night storm. As in most Puppet Combo games, the game he must explore ​​numerous rooms and corridors, solve puzzles and collect items to unlock other parts of the boarding school, all while being chased by a bloodthirsty abbess.

In order to avoid časna, he playsč must sneak and hide under the bed in the maze of rooms and corridors. Certainly the scariest segment of the game is the sound that časna makes while hunting you.

Serious fans of the production know a creepy secret. Allegedly, the sound that the car is making is actually a recording of the American woman Ruth Price screaming, who called the police after someone broke into her house.

The great news for anyone who decides to play Nun Massacre is that the game has five different endings that depend on the decisions the player makes. brings. So once you finish the game, start from the beginning because new details and bloodlust are waiting for you.

2. Murder House

Somehow it seems that in this game Puppet Combo has given itself more freedom. Instead of the usual running around the rooms in an abandoned and smell-covered house, in this game various interiors and exteriors await you.

The game begins on Easter 1985, where the game controls a boy named Justin, who is accidentally locked in a shopping center with a vicious serial killer called the ‘Easter Ripper’.

After the tragic end of wandering around the shopping center, the game puts you three years later in the shoes of a young journalist Emma who, together with producer Gary, reporter Dan and cameraman Tom, goes to make a report on a house that is believed to belong to Easter Ripper.

The game features fixed third-person camera angles that can sometimes make you dizzy. Such a way of reviewing the game additionally creates tension and nervousness in the game. The game is available on Steam for ten dollars.

3. The Night Ripper

As soon as you start playing, it is clear to you that the game is inspired by the 1982 slasher The New York Ripper. The game follows Rachel, a young girl who returns home after dinner in the city that never sleeps.

Here again, Puppet Combo has moved away from its traditional setting and unlike other games that are set in a closed space, The Night Ripper offers a backdrop of the metropolis and takes you through the streets of New York. Follow Rachel as she searches for the coins she needs to call her roommate to unlock her apartment door while the Night Ripper is hot on her heels.

The game is not available on Steam, but you must join the Puppet Combo Patreon to play it.

4. Babysitter Bloodbath

The game was originally an adaptation of John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film ‘Noć witch’, but several names and models were changed due to royalties, resulting in Babysitter Bloodbath.

The game follows a young nanny, Sarah, who takes care of Billy while his rich parents are out on a date, a classic American suburban tale. The problem is that at the same time the killer Neokalus Burr escaped from the mental hospital.

To pass the time, Sarah calls her boyfriend Jack. After a while Sarah and Jack are making noise in the back garden. The killer quickly kills Jack and the electricity goes out in the house.

Then the game turns into a cat and mouse hunt and Sarah has to find a way to save herself and Billy before the psychopath gets hold of them. As well as Nun Massacre and Babysitter Bloodbath got its own print edition. If the game itself is not enough for you, feel free to read the novel published by Puppet Combo.

5. Night Watch

Although it is overshadowed by Fears to Fanthom’s ‘Ironbark Lookout’, Puppet Combo’s version of the forest rendering will certainly not disappoint you. The game follows a park ranger named Jim who is assigned the duty of guarding atop a tower in the middle of Poconos Public Park.

Although at times it is a ‘slow burner’, the game has its moments. The aim of the game is to helpć watch the public park from the top of the watchtower with binoculars and report illegal camping.

Jim’s task is to advise and rescue mountaineers in trouble and especially to make sure that they don’t reach a fire in the dense forest. The game gets interesting when Jim hears someone’s moaning and howling over the radio.

Things start to get weird when the old computer that Jim has to enter intervention data on starts displaying encrypted messages and someone smashes the window with a rock.

The game has three different endings that again depend on your actions. Destroy them all because one is scarier than the other.

6. Stay out of the House

When Night Shift was released in 2018, it left an impression of incompleteness and emptiness. The good news is that Puppet Comb also realized this, so in 2022 they released the mega popular ‘Stay out of the House’. Those who have played Night Shift are familiar with the beginning of the game.

At the beginning, you work the night shift at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. The beginning is actually quite slow, but don’t give up because the end of the prologue brings a very good jump scare.

After the prologue, the game is a bit of a sandbox and gives you plenty of room to explore the farm that belongs to the serial killer. This is not a common occurrence in Puppet Combo games, which rarely give you free time to explore.

Basically, the main part of the game is located in the killer’s house, which is obviously inspired by Leatherface. Your task is to escape from the house and if possible save the other trapped poor people.

The game is available on Steam for 12.49 euros.

7. Power Drill Massacre

This title and Night Watch share the same antagonist. It’s a killer with a drill. Tjeralica from 1987 describes him as a person of slender build, imposingly tall between 185 cm and 195 cm. He is between 35 and 48 years old. He wears a dirty, white one-piece suit and sows fear with a drill.

The killer is mentally retarded, it is assumed that he is intellectually at the level of a five-year-old child, but that did not prevent him from killing dozens of unfortunate people who accidentally got in his way.

In the game, you play as Meghan, who had a car accident with her boyfriend Jeff in 1987. Jeff is trapped in the car, so Meghan has to urgently find help.

Megan accidentally stumbles upon the factory and decides to find someone there. Immediately upon entering, the door locks behind her and she realizes that she is trapped. Meghan must find a way out of a neglected and claustrophobic factory that echoes with screams and the sounds of a drill.

8. The Glass Staircase

In the game, you play as four girls Helen, Betty, Dorothy and Margaret who are trapped in the mansion of a deranged doctor. The game is a slow burner at the beginning and your mission is to do housework in exchange for freedom.

But the first three girls disappear, and now it’s up to Margaret to escape however she knows how. Unlike other Puppet Combo games in which the protagonist is condemned to eternal escape, here the game offers a firearm that definitely makes playing easier.

The house is owned by dr. Edward Sullivan, a World War I veteran. After returning from the war, Sullivan begins to experience symptoms of PTSD.

Sullivan loses his mind and surgically revives the dead in an unsuccessful attempt to offer God a sacrifice.

9.  Buzz-Saw Blood House

In the game, you control teenage girls who are trying to escape through a maze of corridors while being chased by a psychopath with a chainsaw. The plot is set in the late 90s.

Especially disturbing is the fact that your escape from the psychopath is broadcast via cameras on the dark web. In the game, you can see the comments of the patients all the time, who enjoy your suffering and even give advice to the killer.

10. Feed Me Billy

This title completely stands out from the others. Namely, unlike other Puppet Combo games in which you are in the perspective of the victim, here you have the chance to try yourself as the one who haunts.

The game follows Billy, a sect member who is told by a surreal huge mouth in the room that he has to feed them. And so you are put in the shoes of a serial killer who kills innocent people in a state of hypnagogia.