Whereas survival horror games trade on creeping dread and genuine jump scares, multiplayer horror games often veer toward the comical. They reveal our actual shamefully limited capacity to step into a survivor's bloodied shoes and face a creature from the darkest depths of the human imagination. Scroll through viral videos of Dead by Daylight, Demonologist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Outlast Trials, and you'll find players throwing their friends to the wolves, cries of joy harmonizing with shrieks of rage.
