With this year’s Fatal Frame being kind of a wash, it felt fortunate that I stumbled across DreadOut, a low key horror game by the small Indonesian developers Digital Happiness, with heavy influences to the series. The transplant of Fatal Frame’s signature mechanic from a traditional Japanese setting into an Indonesian one, had my attention. Could the efforts of a smaller team translate the atmosphere of Fatal Frame to Indonesia? I’ll tell you once my hands stop shaking long enough to write this.
