Which Mascot Horror Game Is The Worst?

I mean they censored Vanny’s KNIFE. Or her jumpscare. Now she just “dances” with you for all eternity. And that’s supposed to be scary. The purpose of her design is to make an antithesis of “friendly looking character doing creepy stuff” but you barely see her because for some GOD UNKNOWN REASON she gives you THE TRIPS if you’re 6 meters close.

If you want the opinion of someone who did play the Bendy games, you should and they’re great. I might call them, along with the first four FNAF (or three considering how anxiogenic the fourth one), a good starting point if you are interested in horror games. Classic FNAF and the Bendy games are part of the starter pack for horror game players. But, the biggest complaint I have for the Bendy games are the performance, why they are so keen on resources. Even if I have a good enough computer (the strongest on my market in Christmas 2019), I had trouble running them, something I don’t have with other games like Minecraft with shaders. So, if all you have is a laptop, classic FNAF should be your pick. But, if your computer is strong enough, then the Bendy games should be your pick.

My tier list of these games Rainbow Friends – The absolute worse – It’s a goofy ahh Roblox game for kids, while Roblox can be an insanely good platform to make friends or learn to code, this game throws everything away, The Intruder, DOORS, It Lurks we’re all so scary yet this game is basically a Poppy Playtime ripoff for kids. Ultimate Custom Night – Is this mascot horror? – I love Ultimate Custom Night, but I’m mad that this is apparently considered mascot horror, It’s More of a strategy game, the jumpscares are not scary and don’t even seem to try to BE SCARY, but if this is trying to be scary, it sucks, which I don’t think it is. Hello Neighbor – It was good but it changed for worse – DAGAMES’s Hello Neighbor song “GET OUT” is better then the final game! It turned out to be horrible and overdone with books and everything, but it used to be something good originally, it’s just sad how it turned out. Poppy Playtime – Will be nostalgic in a few years – EnchantedMOB and ZAMination have evolved from previous controversies, seriously, Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 actually scared me, I suck at games like these so Bunzo caught me off guard, and the Whack-A-Wuggy felt very stressful for me, while you could absolutely break the game, it is a terrifying game for me, and Chapter 1 is a good test demo. Security Breach – Not scary, but good – It’s an amazing game! Sure it gets repetitive but all and all I think it did what it wanted to, sure it’s absolutely broken and lacks the things fans wanted but to me, it’s good in it’s own way, there is a problem, it is NOT scary at all, most of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex is very bright and cheerful, and most of the jumpscares look very goofy, but all and all, the daycare and the glamrock Endo part did destroy me since I was pretty scared, but so far, the game was good.

Man i really hope one day you try BATIM and BATDR, they are good, specialy the last one ! It also could make you hate more Poopy Pootime lookin how they literaly ripedoff it. Also, dont look up the devs and there history. Its a hell hole. Worst devs. Also maybe you can try Tattletail 🙂 its a mascot horror from 2016.

17:29 I have multiple favourites, but I’ll note the ones I love, Cuphead, Undertale, Sonic Mania, FNaF, Choo Choo Charles And Bendy, But On The Other Hand, Games I Despise, Garten Of BanBan, Garten Of BanBan 2, Garten of BanBan 3, Garten of BanBan 4 & Rainbow Friends. You can tell I like indie games.

to save some time I’ll write down the 100% objective fnaf game tier list S: fnaf1, fnaf2, fnaf4, fnaf world, ucn A:fnaf 6, help wanted B:fnaf sb ruin C:fnaf sb D:fnaf ar, fury’s rage, freddy in space 2 E:fnaf sl F:fnaf 3 the reason why sl is above 3 is because at least fnaf sl was fun for the first 2 playthroughs, fnaf 3 has just as good of a story but there’s no gameplay other than just pressing 2 buttons on cameras until a timer runs out

Honestly I really love poppy playtime. The graphics are high quality the voice acting is top notch especially for Mommy Long Legs in chapter 2, the story is interesting enough the gameplay is for the most part unique and the puzzles are difficult and fun. I can understand saying it isn’t scary, but I can say for the majority of people who played had a few scares throughout chapter 1 & 2. Though I agree those god awful Lankybox articles can burn in hell

I heard that Poppy playtime was actually made to attack someone making a similar game because they didn’t sign a contract to assist making cringey Minecraft articles after seeing that the contract said that they couldn’t post in their own YouTube website and they’re just made a handful good Minecraft animations for fun

The Henry Stickmin Collection is the best game ever made and if you don’t agree you’re wrong. tbh I really liked FNaF 4 and their nightmare forms. They’re very interesting designs, and it was a tentatively different take on the series/formula of the series before it was changed entirely. I can’t say I enjoyed the Halloween DLC, but FNaF 4 was the scariest, in my opinion. FNaF 3 has some of my favorite lore and Springtrap was an amazing character. It’s a shame he was never utilized properly after that. And I will never get over the atrocity that is FNaF: SB. I liked the concept/character of the Daycare Attendant and the potential of the mall. I think what would have done the game WAY better was if it was set multiple years AFTER Freddy collapsed on stage and the mall closed due to children’s deaths, and replace Burntrap with Vanny as the main villain.

I like hello neighbor more as a sandbox game. And I like the overall story going on behind the scenes. But I can tell why most people hate it. It is always so broken and the developers keep making stupid choices. The most solid stuff about hello neighbor has to be content outside of the games like the books or the animated series. I feel like the developers always have good ideas but execute them poorly. I almost feel like they became too popular before they had enough competent skills. Like popularity grew faster than their actual skills as small indie devs into this big franchise.

Also the creators of poppy playtime made a person go into a FUCKING PSYCHOLOGICAL HOSPITAL by bullying uim and threatening him and whatnot. And they did that just cause he didnt agree to make animations with them on a connected website which he wouldnt get all of the money from and woukd have to give up on his website.

you know what could a interesting idea? Is kind of a reversed mascot horror. You instead play as an adorable marketable character (which for some reason i imagine him as a fluffy kobold) that was meant to entertain children, then you accidently find youself on the place that created you and discovered that while you where made to spread happiness and joy the place where you came from is a nightmarish hellscape with violence,mutants,slavery,flesh montrosities and even more dark stuff.

This whole thing stunk the moment I saw it. Sloppy an uninspired level design, extremely NFT-esc characters, discord integration, and of course; Multi-chapter releases. Seriously people, stop making NEW games for each chapter. Just have it all in one engine so you can fix all your garbage at the same time.

I know that you didn’t wanted to talk about Sparky in the comments, but I need to say this. I did some digging about the devs working on Clapperheads, and I found out that some of them worked on the Hello Neighbor IP, and almost all of their games have game design problems similar to Spark Marky. Which is, like, almost some sorts of Pharaoh’s level of game curse.

I remember playing the demo for this thing from Itchio and getting turned off by just how boring the game was and how hard they were pushing their discord for the “code words” sprinkled throughout the game that I did not in fact find and maybe something about lore? Idk, my memories are hazy since it was a couple years back and after getting stuck I dropped it and deleted the files off my pc. Glad to see they’re still pushing to artificially inflate their discord

my cat likes to twitch-kick his hind leg like he’s a horse. He does this primarily when there’s a breeze or draft that touches his bum. He also goes ‘borl’ instead of ‘meow’, we named him Conan because of his joyless expression and wild hair. He took to my dad the way dads take to dogs, the two have a similar expression when perusal football. Pure. Stoic. Focus.

I like the idea of having to go “outside” the game to solve puzzles, but instead of discord they could have made it a welcome to the game kind of situation, where the game itself contains the plot and also a virtual desktop or something like that that you have to transverse to continue, that way you don’t have to exit out every few minutes and break immersion

Got an orange tabby named Lucky i picked up as a kitten from a farm and he has ALL the traits of a orange cat that doesnt have a hold of the universal brain cell xD My 2nd cat i got from my moving neighbour, Lilly, i think shes a mix cause she looks like a tabby but her fur is really fluffy. Shes the sweetest thing around ❤

I heard a lot of good ideas from this article, and I saw a lot of lost potential. First of all, I love the idea of multiple monsters using the same suit, but in execution… Why? Why that suit in particular, why does the suit even look like that. It looks so jarring compared to the rest of the game. The sci-fi SCP style labs don’t fit with the bright pink peanut look of the mascot, and again, WHY are they using that suit? It would be cool if these were some unimaginable horror that could only be contained in these specialized suits, acting as a sort of straight jacket to keep them from harming themselves or others. I’m picturing some old tattered rags clinging onto this amorphous shape that could be any monster. Picture this. The facility has several monsters locked away, sealed inside three suits that all look exactly identical. One day, one of these monsters manages to break free of their restraints, and kills the other creatures. Now, you need to find out which one survived because tactics that could stop some monsters may only embolden whatever is chasing you. The suit isn’t some happy mascot, it’s a mess of mangled metal and cloth, a bulky metal mask hiding the monster’s true face. But in that large hunk of metal, you see eyes and a mouth, an unintentional design that our brain recognizes thanks to paradollia. Buried under the sparking wires of the mask, you can almost make out a large toothy grin.

sparky Marky actually has kind of an interesting concept if it did it properly and if it added actual ARG elements that were completely optional and didn’t try and force you to join their discord just to finish the game and if the game actually made Sparky Marky a threat then this could have been great I hope other mascot horror games try something similar but do it right instead of this half cooked way

never had acat but in my previous neighborhood around before i was in the 3rd grade there was this orange stray that used to roam the neighborhood, it was actually pretty healthy as far as strays go(its pretty commoon around here) one day I just left a bowl of milk out for it(cant remember if it was a he or a she) and it drank it, did it again the next time it came over and again until it became a habit of little me and to the point where the cat would just lie down and stay in the front yard area fro a while after having its milk break and would allow younger me to pet it eventually we moved out of that neighborhood and i never saw it again

I wonder how this could work if Sparky Marky was a good game. I could vibe with the design, because the Eye design looked pretty cool, but the rest of the design is so bland yet jarringly colorful- and there could be so much more done. ALSO CHANGE THE NAME. For the whole, “you need discord to play!” Id instead have a Oneshot/DDLC or Simulacra type thing where you have to look at files or there’s a In Game app that you have to look through to help solve puzzles. I’d also definitely change the name, and maybe even the idea of it being generic “Childrens Mascot.” I want something new, like a Technology Company’s Mascot, seeing as how there’s a very Digital theme.

Fantastic article about a game I’d never be normally aware of. Love the new Emotes/ Sona PNGs. Love Tim’s PaRappa ‘Fit. (Cat Talk) I’ve got one cat whose name is simply “Kitty”, she was a stray who we picked up one day, and she’s been chilling with us for 14-ish years. She’s pretty chill unless she wants food/attention, in which case she’ll sit on our laps and digs her claws into our thighs. Shockingly good with strangers.

16:30 Little John saved for 10 years to buy a 0.01 inch apartment in New York. He had to weld himself to the door to Nat fall. He got tired of this and wanted to expand. For this he used galvanised square steel, using screws he borrowed from his aunt; utilising eco friendly wood veneers that can last up to 10,000 years

I like the idea of monstrous entities being sealed inside of some containment suit that they can control to an extent, but Sparky’s execution of it definitely leaves something to be desired. Just look at Puppet and Lefty from FNaF, the idea is out there. And I don’t have a cat, just a dog, currently up to a bulldog.

This game reminds me of how the DCEU felt like the creators were skipping major bits of what made the genre work to play catch-up to the bigger players? Like, this game feels like it wanted to get to the “FNaF: Security Breach” and “Project: Playtime” points of the mascot horror genre, without even having a starting game to base itself off of.

Finding out that this was being made by the same devs working on Zoochosis, a horror game that I’m actually looking forward to, was probably the biggest plot twist of the entire Sparky Marky franchise. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem like the use of AI voices isn’t present in Zoochosis as far as the promotional material is concerned, so at least they fixed that problem.

Awesome recommendation from my for you page! I remember seeing Markiplier playing the second game (likely out of obligation since his name is Mark) and him vaguely enjoying it but feeling it was pretty bare bones. Nice to get a deep dive on it from a new creator! Also, love the concept and model for your website!

I think the idea of integrating a discord or some other app is a unique take on how mascot horrors have some stupid gimmick (grab pack, the drone, etc). But I feel like there should be more to it than “find a command on the wall and do it on discord”. It also really needs to be done right because it only feels like a hash in to promote their server than an actual unique gimmick.

Funny thing about the discord issue is that there is a right way of incorperating social media into a game. I can’t say for sure, as I’m yet to play it. But I heard it from someone on Discord. In a fan game called Pokemon Xenoverse, there’s a gym which requires you to use the leader’s instagram page to get through it. There is an actual instagram page for it that you can use. But they made sure to make it also available in game! So even if/when instagram shuts down or the page gets taken down, at least you can still complete the gym without looking it up

I currently have a tuxedo cat my sister named Sohcahtoa after a math concept. She was relatively chill for a couple years until she suddenly started acting temperamental and sometimes aggressive out of nowhere and now I’m one of the few humans in the household she seems to really like. I seem to have that effect on cats. Maybe my introverted behavior makes them see me as another cat. She mostly hangs out upstairs to avoid the dogs and seems to appreciate that I’m usually nearby since my room is also up there.

I don’t have any cats at the moment but I do have a leopard gecko name Little Man. He’s likes to climb a lot even though he’s not one of the species of geckos that can stick to surfaces and any time I go to go to hold him when he’s not in the mood he makes a sad deflated chirping noise at me (lizards aren’t the most interesting pets but they do still have quirky personalities).

There is a game that does horror, stress, gimmicks, and a need for observation quite well. It is Lobotomy Corporation, a roguelike game where you manage a SCP-esque facility full of monsters. Each monster has certain rules attached – for example, Shy hides behind a board with multiple faces. By having an employee enter at a certain time, you can different levels of hurt and energy from the work. Due to the roguelike nature of the game, your facility can be manageable or utterly disastrous depending on what critters you get. The baby, for example, has a roulette wheel where you must feed it employees. Failure to do so will result in everything going terribly wrong. Each thing you add to your facility must be studied, else you won’t be able to handle the dangers to come. It is a metal game, which I very much recommend. Be warned, however, that it is difficult and lengthy, to the point of feeling quite grindy. That actually fits the narrative, but still…yeah, probably the weakest point of the game is the time required. To sum up: unlike Sparky, LobCorp embraces and fully uses the ideas it presents to the player.

I remember seeing some of Sparky, and for some reason I had been misremembering it as a really out of place section of BanBan. That’s how forgettable the game was, it had gotten filed as something else XD ANYWHOOZIT, kitties! I have two, Mistress Nyx and Sir Asterius. They are respectively 5 and 3 years old, Asterius turning 4 in August. Both were shelter adoptions, and FIV+, requiring them to be indoor only cats. Our home already had a lot of cat accomodations because our last kitty lived to the age of 19 before passing, so we asked the shelter “Who has the least chance of getting adopted? Who has been here the longest?” And that’s how we found our current kitties– both adopted when they were around 2 years old, about a year apart. Miss Nyx Chose Me at the shelter when I offered my hand and she turned her body sideways to lean her entire weight into my palm for neck scritches. Asterius chose my hubby when he offered a finger to sniff and Asterius shoved his head against the rest of his hand to demand pets Right Meow. She’d been there 20 days, he’d been there 88 days. Both have seemed quite pleased with their new lives, tho they do squabble with eachother time to time. I’m working hard to keep them happy and healthy, and work closely with my vet to make further improvements to their enviroment, and check new ideas I get to that end to ensure they would be Effective and Feasible.

This was a really great article! Can’t believe I just found your website today. If you see this, I have a quick question (if you don’t mind me asking) – Who did your character branding for your avatar art in the article? I really like the style of it, and was wondering if the artist is available to commission. If you don’t see this, that’s okay, but I hope you know you’re doing a great job and look forward to seeing more from you. 🙂

Well, since you asked… I have three cats. The first was born under the bedroom window of someone my dad worked with,and all the kittens were distributed amongst the staff. He’s a bit neurotic and a total scardy cat– he will hide under a bed at the sound of the doorbell, a knock, the vacuum, the presence of strangers… He’s a gray, bengal patterned boy named Elliot. The second we got from a shelter after we moved. When we first got Elliot, we had another cat who had sadly passed a few years prior. The combination sent Elliot into some major anxiety, and he was licking himself raw. We figured he needed another cat to lick. They usually get along, but she can be a bit of a butt, which often results in him playing a bit too rough and pulling out her fur/hirting her a little (nothing serious, though). She is a goofball and a spaz, and her absolute favorite things in the world are food and laser pointers. I can get her to spin in circles chasing a “fairy.” She’s a tuxedo cat, the only member of our household with short little legs, but a long body, named Zelda. Our third and final cat used to be one of our neighbor’s barn cats, but is now living a very happy retirement with us. He does not have even the slightest trace of your typical barn cat personality. My parents did some investigating and think he might be a Nebelung– a rare off-shoot of the Russian blue that is basically the perfect lap cat. Out of them all, he is the one who has the most fun playing, even though it took him a little bit to figure out how.

I remember SuperHorrorBros playing both available chapters back when the Discord links were still active. I dunno if chapter 2 was edited later on or if it had alternate endings cause instead of escaping into the woods Mike managed to get an ending were the doctor stayed in the facility & Susie trapped her cause the doctor said something that made it seem like Susie thinks the doctor will betray the facility or something.(Forgot fully what it was cause it’s been a while & I don’t feel like checking again) I apparently didn’t notice the AI voices cause I thought Susie was meant to be an AI character, the doctor was an annoyed facility worker that seems to be use to weird shit(or inexperienced voice actress or someone that had no idea what was meant to happen) while the other guy was over acting. I probably should have realized something was off especially since there was a article I watched about a stupid nft scam “game” that needed a shit ton of people for it to “work” that used AI voices. Yeah this thing was a trainwreck, with luck & having seen the new game’s trailer I hope they learned from this.

I remember perusal Insym playing this and he complained about it. You know your game is bad, when Insym, the cool dude of horror who can see the value and good even in the most generic horror games like Phasmo or I’m on Observation Duty clones doesn’t like it. Tbf he’s getting more and more critical these days but still.

I had no idea that the QR code monster led to the discord because for some reason it just never occurred to me that it would lead anywhere but the fact that it leads to the discord is?? Kind of gross? I dunno maybe it’s just me. but it feels like a missed opportunity when it could lead to a monster entry in a database or something that actually adds to the game experience instead of something that tricks you into a discord sever.

My cat’s name is Melody. She got her name because she was crying when my fiance brought her home as a surprise for me. As soon as she set Melody down next to me on the bed, the little sweetheart stopped crying and fell asleep in my arm. It’s like she somehow knew that she was meant to be my kitty! 😸

I originally just talked about my cat because of the end. As an artist I’ve been told that I’ll have to make work I don’t care about to be secsesful, but I know that will make a bad product. This is an excellent case study for that point. I’d never though Zoocosis would have been made by the same people. It’s a miracle how much of a difference passion can make. I have a cat! Her name is Optamis Feline, yes it’s a pun. She’s 10 years old, and has her own personal box in the kitchen on a table. That table has the pet food bags, and her food and water dish on them. We call it her table, and her box. A stool that came with it is also there to help her climb up. She used to hunt mice and rats before I moved, but now sleeps on my desk chair. I love Optamis.

I heard about Sparky in a similar way you did; seeing Markiplier uploaded a article on it, and, like you said as well, I didn’t watch his playthrough of the game fully either. Hearing what you said about how the developers were never passionate about creating Sparky really surprised me too. I agree with what you said on how game devs should work on what they want to make rather than on what they think will pull in a fan base. I commonly tell others that if there’s something they aren’t passionate about/aren’t enjoying doing then they should reevaluate what they’re doing and if they should continue, potentially by revamping it in a way they like, or just start on something new. I did the same thing last year when I looked at the content I was creating and I do enjoy the way I make it now rather than how I use to go about it. Reguardless, this was an interesting game to learn about and, as always, I look forward to seeing what you do next.

Forgot this existed, makes so much more sense why now. My Cats are: Pepsi, as of writing this she is 17 and was a fluffy tennis ball that decided to run inside when my father opened the door thinking she was one of my other cats, we’re still unsure how. Snoopy, she is 12 and a prissy little monster, she was thrown at my mother when she made a half hearted threat that she’d steal her if they don’t properly keep tabs on her since she kept following my mother. Tinker, he is 12 and is an absolute sweetheart despite being easily the biggest of the cats, he was taken from his mother while he was too young and dumped, found him stuck in a cardboard box under a bush. Slinky, he is 12 and is the latest addition, he’s been hanging around since he was a feral kitten but got along with the others and behaved generally well, only a few years ago did we manage to actually catch and desex him and he decided that the inside cat life is more his style.

Yoooo that zoo game looks really cool though. My cat is a little old man who still thinks he is a kitten. He refuses to drink from anywhere but the bathroom sink and will sit on it and demand that one of us turn it on for him to drink…. even if it’s on sometimes. He is also going through a wrasslin’ phase lately so my roommate made him a long pillow to attack so he will stop going after our feet. It’s very cute because when he’s done attacking the pillow he just lays there hugging it. He also meows like a kitten. He has recently taken up sleeping in doorways though like the bathroom doorway because he has no self-preservation instinct.