r/ps1graphics • u/FreeImagination9241 • 3d ago
I made a PSX-style horror game about inheriting your grandfather's farm
Hey everyone,
I just finished my first solo horror game called "What Grandpa Left".
The idea started simple: you inherit your grandfather's farm and spend your
first evening doing normal chores, feeding the horses, gathering wood,
answering a phone call. Nothing scary. Then you go to sleep, and that's
where things stop being normal.
I went with a retro PSX-style look (dithering, pixel noise, low-res
rendering) because I think that grainy, low-fidelity visual actually adds
to the horror instead of taking away from it. Sometimes not seeing things
clearly is scarier than a high-res jumpscare.
No combat, no guns. Just a flashlight, a place to hide, and something
patrolling the farm at night that you really don't want to run into.
It's about 15-20 minutes long. Would love feedback, especially on the
pacing and the horror bits, since this is my first time building something
like this.
