nice! i'd like to know of your film tastes as well. added.

The psychological horror tag is bloated. Definitionally it's designed to include just about anything that affects the player on a purely psychological basis. This also (unfortunately) includes jumpscares and jumpscare relying scare systems/mechanics.

I understand that this is not everyone's cup of tea though and I can't say I'm the biggest fan of it myself since I treasure horror games a lot more for their narratives and atmospheres they bring to the table rather than anything else. Pure shock value and scariness of games (pretty subjective as it is) are a thing of the past for me as nothing really gets under my skin like how it used to anymore.

Not that this is a complaint, it's just something I've happened to observe and learn about myself along this journey...

I think a distinction we could make for this need and help us separate between them is to have psychological horror be used to describe two different approaches in how they aim to meet that label's criteria.

1. Psychological horror story telling, that's designed around primarily messing with the character/s in said story psychologically. Less directed at the player controlling the character/s,

2. Psychological horror. Anything and everything directly targeting the player controlling the character/s.

The wording could definitely use some reworking, but the general idea's there. Maybe "third-person psychological horror" and "first-person psychological horror" who knows.

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