What's your favorite Stephen King-esque game?

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#1  Edited By sanghelle56
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I can give a list of them, or what I think counts:

- Death Stranding. Definitely.

- Detroit: Becoming Human. That is, if he saw certain non-humans in a positive and heavy light more often. Not sure what his stance is on androids but this game has the character development often seen in his novels.

- Death Road To Canada.

- Heavy Rain.

- Bioshock: Infinite.

- The Binding of Isaac.

- Shadow of the Colossus.

- Where The Water Tastes Like Wine. Even though King probably wouldn't go for the skeleton protag - again, he's pretty old school over the concept of a monster - this game just screams his name all over it.

Anything else? I wouldn't quite say most story rich games qualify, and ones like Beyond Good and Evil and Mass Effect can't 'cause of the genres. He has a very particular style.

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#2 deactivated-63d1ad7651984
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Alan Wake

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#3 RSM-HQ
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A confusing question.

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#4 lamprey263
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Alan Wake definitely takes the cake for Stephen King inspired.

Been playing Zombie Army 4 and I noticed when interacting with typewriters that a random King references appear like "all work and no play..." or "I am your biggest fan", among others.

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#5 uninspiredcup
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@RSM-HQ said:

A confusing question.

Yep, don't get it.

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#6 Archangel3371
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I would say that Alan Wake definitely fits that bill nicely.

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#7 timothygarc
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I'm also thinking about Alan Wake