Game & Movie Aesthetics

| Games Aesthetics on Twitter | Steam Curator | | YouTube | Linktree with stuff like my Bluesky | I like taking screenshots of games and movies! I also enjoy writing reviews for my Steam Curator page and creating mods for games.

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The Silent Cartographer: Evolved mod for Halo: CE (created by the SPV3 Dev Team)

Very impressive reimagining of Halo: CE's best level, this time with multiple paths, secrets, and a lot of areas that felt very Halo 2-inspired. I loved it, took me nearly 2 hours to beat it with a friend.

(also sorry I haven't posted in a while...)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945040447

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Carmageddon: Rogue Shift (2026, 34BigThings)

I've been really enjoying this spin-off despite it not sharing much in common with previous Carmageddons, other than featuring cars that smash into each other and some of those cars being inspired by ones from the old games.

It's a fun mix of vehicular combat racing and a roguelite. It reminds me a lot of Full Auto, the Xbox 360/PS3 game from 2006, and the movie Death Race with Jason Statham.

My only gripes so far are the lack of multiplayer and that the handling is a bit rough specifically with the first car, the others just suffer from oversteering.

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Anthem (2019-2026, BioWare Edmonton/Austin)

Revisited it over the last few days to say goodbye since the servers are shutting down today. It's such a shame since the core gameplay is so good, flying around in a game has never felt better.

So much potential wasted by abandoning it.

Thankfully there's some people (The Fort's Forge) working on hopefully creating a server emulator, maybe after that modders will finish what BioWare couldn't.

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The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Jiggies of Time (2020, ROMhack by Mark Kurko)

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Banjo-Kazooie: How the Gruntch Stole Christmas (2021, ROMhack by Mark Kurko)

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Thief: The Dark Project (1998, Looking Glass Games)

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ROUTINE (2025, Lunar Software)

I am so, so glad this ended up being worth the 13 year wait! Highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of Alien: Isolation. It's a contender for my GOTY, my only complaint is that I want more.

I so badly want an actual model of the IC robot (hopefully with a voicebox), such an adorable little guy.

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PRAGMATA Sketchbook demo (2025, Capcom)

I loved the demo so much I beat it 4 times in a row. Day one buy for me now.

Felt kinda like Dead Space (without the horror) mixed with a little bit of The Surge (mostly the setting of the first one, which I love), and I really liked the hacking minigame part of the combat.

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VIRUS (1999) Directed by John Bruno Cinematography by David Eggby

It flopped hard and was panned by everyone, even Jamie Lee Curtis has said it's one of her worst films, but I'll never understand the hate. I rewatch it every few years and always enjoy it. It's a fun movie, the creature designs and special effects are top notch and I love horror films where they're stuck on a large ship like this with no help in sight (Ghost Ship is another favorite of mine).

Also how can JLC say this is a "piece of shit" and one of her worst movies when Halloween: Resurrection exists?

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Horror Globes (2020, islaOliva Games)

Happy Halloween! Don't get sick from eating too much candy tonight. 🎃

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Some Halloween-themed shots of Abiotic Factor, my favorite game of 2024.

Here's some of my older screenshots of this lovely game: https://www.tumblr.com/akelaphobia/752046433569472512/game-movie-aesthetics

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Illbleed 🎟️️

“Illbleed is full of dead bodies. More than a hundred visitors die in this park EVERYDAY”

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(Sega - Dreamcast - 2001)

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Painkiller (2025, Anshar Studios)

It's more of a spin-off than a direct successor to the originals but I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's a co-op FPS that plays a lot like if you mixed the newer DOOMs + Left 4 Dead with the aesthetics and weapons of the original Painkiller.

If anyone is interested I wrote a Steam review for it here: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Akelaphobia/recommended/2300120

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Ground Zero demo (2025, Malformation Games)

Phenomenal demo! It's pretty long too. If you like classic survival horror games with fixed camera angles then I highly recommend giving it a whirl (and disable modern controls).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2340130/Ground_Zero/

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Star Wars Outlaws (2024, Massive Entertainment)

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Silly Polly Beast demo (2025, AnjiGames)

Fantastic demo, this'll be a day one buy when it comes out sometime next month. The demo is still on Steam if you wanna give it a whirl:

Silly Polly Beast on Steam

An otherworldly, story-driven shooter with aggressive gunfights and terrifying monsters awaits you. This is the story of a girl who, by the

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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010, Io-Interactive A/S)

Happy 15th birthday to a favorite of mine. I hope one day Io-Interactive will remember this IP exists and give us a third game.

Here's my previous set of screenshots:

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💬 3  🔁 22  ❤️ 49 · Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010, Io-Interactive A/S) (Fragile Alliance mode) This has one of my favorite aesthetics ever