Bendy and the Ink Machine - How to Make an Indie Horror Game

How to make AAA horror game:

- Normal person with normal life.
- Oops, a thing happened, now is surrounded by [insert recognizable, popular denomination of scary fictional creatures here] and must escape alive.

See, anyone can play the Causal Reductionism Fallacy card to downplay anything. Hell, someone did that humorously for 3 popular games:

But to actually try and make a serious statement with it is laughable at best, pathetic at worst.

Not even a month since release and the entry's top comment predicing people hating the game just for being popular is already looking to become true.

Also, SCP Containment Breach is an indie horror game (inspired by something else, but what is not these days..?), and it does not fit the image's description in the slightest. In fact, quick, without googling it: name 2 other relatively popular indie horror games that fit the description besides FNaF and BatIM.

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