A journalist with a camcorder walks into a Colorado asylum and spends the rest of the game running away from its patients through night-vision green. Free on PlayStation Plus in early 2014, it became the next reaction-video horror after Amnesia, and the record notes the batteries running out was the true villain.
The record notes there is no fighting, that the camera's night vision drains batteries you find in drawers, and that a very large man called Chris Walker turns up whenever a corridor feels safe.
PlayStation 4, February 2014: a new console with few games and this one free, so every new owner played it and most of them filmed themselves doing so. The record dates the second wave from there.
I remember the library, the sound of the door, and deciding that I did not need to see how the game ended. Years later I watched someone else finish it and felt this was the right call.
Correction: Red Barrels was not a big studio. It was a handful of people who had left Ubisoft and Naughty Dog, working in Montreal, and the game's budget was small enough that the free giveaway was a gamble.
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