This spooky video game will give Twitch streamers nightmares | Creative Bloq

With Halloween coming up, we’ve been revisiting on the best indie horror games of 2025. But it’s also fun to see what interesting ideas that come out of Halloween game jams with potential for development into something bigger. One developer has made a proof of concept in which you play as a streamer hunting for ghosts in a forest. The problem is that you can’t see the ghouls; only the simulated chat can see them. You have to use their comments to try to find what’s lurking in the shadows. You can’t see the ghosts, but chat can. from r/IndieDev Bits By Brandon’s aptly named Live Scream was made using Godot Engine (see our pick of the best game development software). It’s a very short game for now and with fairly basic art, but over on Reddit people think the idea has viral potential. It’s not the first horror game with a simulated live chat mechanic. There was Restreamed and FeedVid, but the haunted forest setting seems perfect for this idea, and brings a found-footage Blair Witch vibe to it. The chat is fully simulated, which the developer says this was done “haphazardly” since it was a game jam game.
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