Five Video Games to Try: Horror, Love, and Pandemic

A roundup of five video games released in late October 2022, reviewed by Artribune. Butterfly Soup 2, a free visual novel by Brianna Lei for PC, Mac, and Linux, continues the stories of four queer Asian-American teenagers in 2009, exploring racism, gender identity, and sexuality. Hell is Others, by Yonder, Strelka Games, and A List Games for PC, is a multiplayer survival game set in Century City where players fight monsters and each other, inspired by Sartre's 'Hell is other people.' Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip, by Beautiful Glitch for PC, Mac, and Linux, is a cooperative party game about managing shared resources on a road trip with monsters. Paradise Marsh, by LazyEti with music by Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland) for PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X, is a walking simulator where players catch insects and amphibians in a musical marsh. The Plague Doctor of Wippra, by Electrocosmos (Alexander Leps) and Application Systems Heidelberg for PC, Mac, and Linux, is an adventure game set during a 16th-century plague in Wippra, Germany, drawing parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic.