Yomawari: Night Alone
A night wandering dark and dangerous streets is a sure-fire recipe for horror, but what if you were wandering them as an innocent child?
Such is the premise of Yomawari: Night Alone, a horror game where you wander through streets haunted by all sorts of malevolent forces as a girl out to find her lost dog. Whereas she’s cute as a button, and the world itself is normal and unassuming, the terrors out to get her as she explores are anything but.
Shapeless poltergeists, Warped manifestations of dread and so much more will stop at nothing to drag her away and are willing to chase the protagonist to the ends of the Earth if that’s what it takes to capture her.
It’s hard to focus on this fact, though, when the game starts off so unassumingly. Players are trained to focus on the protagonist, an adorable young girl with a big bow in her hair who waddles around in search of her adorable little dog.
Needless to say, this game has lured in more than a few players with its cuter elements, only for them to be sidewinded by the horror elements. Fortunately, there’s still a great game waiting for players as a result, and a payoff to the blend of styles worth seeing for oneself.
