How do we fix horror games?

replace the characters by cute anime girls, and have them be chased by a pervert

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They were always shit and a niche. Sure, some happened to be popular. Like Silent Hill. But the problem even with the best horror games is the gameplay. Maybe Silent Hill's atmosphere is a good one, and I still remember the dark side of the school. It was unnerving. As going from room to room pressing X to look at things. Because that's, apparently, on par with solving riddles and horrible combat, enough to make a good gameplay example. Even OK gameplay, like in Slender-like games, rely on the same trick over and over. Horror games are not good as games. They will not become popular in the near future, and that leaves less possibilities for the right market to grow. We need to increase the demand for stiff like Silent Hills. It is there, but nothing's done, still. It's all experimentation, but whileit leads to no great revelations, no fixing can be done.