Today I would like to discuss about why survival games are so endearing to the video game community, especially the ones monsters/zombies chase you and you have to run and hide. Now if you go on youtube and search for any successful lets play youtube channels, they would at least have some kind of survival horror games in their video playlist, such as Amnesia:The Dark Descent, Outlast,or Limbo etc. Of course, their reactions are hysterical, but the question is “Why do people like to play these scary/high blood pressure causing games?” Well, to answer that question we need to jump into a time machine and go back to our childhoods, the time when we play tags or hide and seek with our friends. What is so fun about tag or hide and seek? It is not the person that is chasing or seeking, he wants to tag and find his friends so he can actually PLAY the game which is the most enjoyable and fun part; the part where you are hiding or being chased by someone else. All these places where you can hide, and you go under this desk, the seeker is walking slowly in front of you while you’re holding your breath trying not to make any sound is the most thrilling experience when you are a kid or even an adult. Now we are back in modern time, and we see these game developers uses these thrilling experience to implement into their games, also the reason why these games are so welcomed by gamers. It is all about the thrill. 
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