Anthology Of The Killer

BB’s nightmare unfolds across nine strange, compact horror-comedy adventures where the ordinary turns aggressively uncanny. Call centers, apartment blocks, waterparks, museums, small-town shops, and staged entertainment venues become gateways to a larger mystery surrounding an elusive killer. Anthology Of The Killer thrives on a deliberately off-kilter mood: it is funny in the way a bad dream can be funny, then suddenly unsettling when a joke reveals something rotten underneath. Rather than chasing conventional scares, it builds dread through peculiar dialogue, hostile architecture, strange objects, and the persistent sense that nobody is explaining the whole story.

Players guide BB through surreal environments, searching rooms, talking to oddball characters, following clues, and pushing through the bizarre logic of each episode’s central predicament. The games favor exploration and narrative discovery over reflex-heavy action, with mysteries involving missing people, cursed local culture, suspicious institutions, and spaces that conceal worlds behind their walls. Each chapter stands on its own as a short experimental adventure, while recurring locations, figures, and details gradually connect them into a wider story. The collection’s central launcher makes moving between all nine entries straightforward, and added controller support helps the experience feel more unified than tracking down the original releases individually.

What stands out is the confidence of its handmade weirdness. Thecatamites’ writing and design have the loose, unpredictable energy familiar to players of Space Funeral or Goblet Grotto, while Tommy Tone’s music and A. Degen’s art give every scene a grimy, theatrical personality. Expect ugly-pretty dioramas, deadpan absurdity, obscure lore, and imagery that sticks in the mind long after an episode ends; bonus rooms and the included zine reward players who enjoy digging into a fictional world’s side material. Fans of Yume Nikki, Hylics, or experimental point-and-click horror should find plenty to love, especially if they value atmosphere and strange storytelling over clean answers or traditional genre structure.