2. Man of Medan
Best Dark Pictures Anthology Games
Man of Medan kicked off The Dark Pictures Anthology series and it did a serviceable job. It had a tough act to follow, though, as it was similar to Until Dawn, a popular horror game from Supermassive, but clearly didn’t have the same budget. Man of Medan is a lot shorter and not as polished as Until Dawn is.
That’s kind of the point of The Dark Pictures to be fair, though. They are budget titles designed to be shorter so Supermassive Games can crank them out faster.
Across the board Man of Medan is just a better game than Little Hope. It follows a group of young adults that are on a diving trip that goes horribly wrong and find themselves aboard a haunted ghost ship. It has an interesting plot that slowly unravels and gives you plenty of opportunities to feel smart and figure it out if you’re paying close attention to the clues scattered throughout the game.
The story comes to a satisfying conclusion and goes out with quite a few climactic moments for each of the surviving members of the cast. And finally, while it’s not free of jump scares, it relies on it far less than Little Hope, and instead is just actually creepy at its best moments.
