If ever a game made absolutely no sense, it’s Dark Meadow. I guess you have to expect that from pretty much any game that finds your character suddenly awakening in a derelict hospital with no memory of who he is or why he’s there but with a keen knowledge of sword combat. The hospital is haunted, of course, and you have to fight numerous monsters along your way with weapons you buy from…someone…with gold that just happens to be lying around in bags.

Halloween (or, as that billboard explained back in my Ohio college town, Satan’s Feast Day) is almost upon us, and that means it’s time for some good scares. iDevice owners will be pleased to know that Phosphor Games Studio is happy to deliver them with the newly released The Dark Meadow. Using the Unreal Engine 3, The Deark Meadow delivers an adventure through a “nightmare fairytale world” filled with creatures bent on your destruction.

The Path is a unique title. It is based on the idea of the classic children’s tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Your goal is to take the many girls you have to play with on the path to grandmothers house, and stay on the path. In an interesting twist, if you follow the rules of the game, you will fail, and play a very boring game. Your real job is to explore the game’s world by wandering through the woods and seeing what can be found, and there is a lot to be found. A series of dessicated ruins dot the land.

Over the past few years, I’ve become a huge fan of horror games. In horror games, I become the character in trouble. I see what he sees. I control his reactions. I make the decisions. I can get into it on a personal level, and the latest game I’ve gotten into is Amnesia: The Dark Descent, from Frictional Games. If it’s scares you want, Amnesia will provide them, rest assured. It may let you down in a couple of other areas, but it’s a complete success as a horror game.

Frictional Games has announced that Amnesia: The Dark Descent—a first-person horror game with a focus on immersion—is now available for instant download. Unlike most horror games that toss a few scares around a whole lot of action, Amnesia instead focuses on story and atmosphere. I’ve been playing this game for a week now, and I can say the tension and scares come quickly and frequently.

Swedish game developer Frictional Games announced late last week that Amnesia: The Dark Descent has gone gold, and will ship on the 8th of September. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a first person horror game with a focus on immersion. Frictional Games feels they have taken a giant leap forward compared to their previous titles: the Penumbra series.

Searching for a decent Mac games these days may be a dark decent of its own, but Fricitional Games, creators of the Penumbra series, wants to make it even scarier. Today, the company is offering gamers their first look at actual in-game footage from their brand new horror game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, due in August for the Mac, PC and Linux. They’re pre-orders now, and if they hit 2,000 by May 31st, the game will get extra content.

Frictional Games has announced a re-release of their Penumbra Series for Mac and Linux. All three Penumbra games—Overture, Black Plague and the Requiem expansion—will be available tomorrow as a single download with a single installer. Even better, on launch weekend (July 17th-19th), Mac and Linux users can get all three games for $5.