Final Fantasy 7might not be a horror game, but one breakout horror hit from 2024 takes a lot of inspiration from the classic RPG. Released in May after a clever marketing campaign that leaned on 90s-style ments, Crow Countrytakes things back to the PlayStation 1 era while carving out its own niche. As a survival horror title, it's been most heavily compared to games like the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill, a fair evaluation that nonetheless ignores the equally obvious connections to FF7 and fails to fully explain Crow Country's unique brand of charm. 6o463o

The creepy indie horror-survival game Crow Country has announced that it's coming to the Switch. The title was developed by SFB Games and launched on PC, PS5, and Xbox consoles in May 2024 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Now, Switch s will be able to experience the horrors firsthand.

From Silent Hill to Resident Evil, the legacy of survival horror games for the original PlayStation still looms large in the general gaming sphere. There's something in the straining efforts of early 3D that beautifully conveyed the uncanny, and even as the franchises that spawned from the era embrace technological leaps, plenty of smaller games have looked back in attempts to recapture that original feeling. Rarely, however, do any do it with the polish and imagination of Crow Country, a new title from SFB Games that might just deliver the whole package.