Spooky Station (v2020.02.23)

Nine compact horror games share a single ticket at a station where every platform leads to a different kind of fright. Spooky Station is an indie anthology built around variety rather than one long campaign, shifting from goofy ghostly chaos to stranger, more unsettling scenarios. Its nine included games—Spooky Cooking, Tower of 100 Floors, Wishing Sarah, Cosmic Rain, Thursday the 12th, Worship Demon, Curse Bringer, Killing Moon, and Spookids—cover several styles while keeping a playful Halloween spirit. The result feels like an arcade cabinet stuffed with cursed cartridges: brief, unpredictable, and ideal for players who enjoy hopping between ideas.

Each entry asks for a different skill set, so the appeal lies in learning a fresh ruleset instead of mastering a single system for hours. Arena-brawler action puts players into close-range supernatural scraps, while the shoot ’em up emphasizes positioning and surviving hostile patterns. Rogue-like elements bring repeat-run tension and the possibility of failure-driven experimentation, whereas the text-adventure format slows the pace down for choice-based storytelling and imagination. Other games lean into simple arcade challenges, making the package easy to sample in short sessions without demanding a major time commitment.

Variety is Spooky Station’s strongest feature: it treats horror less as one fixed genre and more as a flexible theme that can support comedy, action, dread, and oddball minigame energy. The anthology format also makes it forgiving if one particular mode does not click, since another may offer exactly the kind of experience you want. Don’t expect the depth of a full-scale roguelike, brawler, or narrative horror release; these are smaller experiments designed to make a quick impression. Players who enjoy retro-styled indie collections, game jams, and Halloween curiosities will get the most out of it, while genre veterans may appreciate the rapid shifts in pace more than any individual game’s longevity.