Dementium: The Ward launched on Steam just in time for this week's Scream Fest, with a 40% discount that's got to be pretty tempting for anyone who enjoyed the horror game nearly 20 years ago on the Nintendo DS. One Steam reviewer calls Dementium "a bit like Silent Hill crossed with Doom 3," before zeroing in on an even more specific comparison: "Afraid of Monsters crossed with Doom 3, for those of you who have dabbled in Half-life horror mods."
Dementium may not be an all-timer horror game, but it was a bit clever, a bit different, and seeing it pop up on Steam got me thinking about just how many games developed for the Nintendo DS fit that description. And equally, how few are playable anywhere but the DS, even 15 years after Nintendo stopped making new handhelds.
