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BANNED TAPES

VHS found footage horror experience. You have purchased a box of VHS tapes and now you have to select those tapes on which horrifying, violent, shocking events take place.

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March 28, 2025
1 year and 127 days ago
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Positive39 reviews92.3%

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About the Game

You're a filmmaker and you recently purchased a box of VHS tapes at a flea market.

Now you need to look through them and select tapes on which occur supernatural, violent, inexplicable scenes, in general everything that can interest the viewer.

Features:

  • Simple intuitive gameplay.

  • Creepy atmosphere in the best traditions of such movies as Skinamarink, V/H/S and others.

  • Short horror packed experience. Play Time 30-60 minutes

Gameplay:

You watch different tapes and decide which ones to keep for your movie, if you choose tapes on which nothing happens, you will lose, but you also need to not overlook interesting tapes with mystical, violent or other kind of interesting scenes.