Things you must avoid when creating horror games

This list was originally created by me and for me to create good horror games

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The list may grow up more if I discovered more not-to-do things

DO NOT:

• Make the game too dark
  • Dark means scary. Well, but if it's too dark, your game will end up being a 'dark screen simulator with random sounds' rather than a 'horror game'.
  • Sometimes you will needed to make your game to give the player to manually adjust the brightness as everyone has different types of monitors.
• Make the game predictable aka don't give players signs
  
  • This includes:
    
    • Always make the sound scary when there's enemy around, but stops when enemies are gone.
    • Always give jumpscares after scary sounds.
  • Doing this will make your player's tension not completely built up or for the worst case will make your game doesn't deserve to be called as a 'horror game' because your game is not scary at all.
• Always short stamina bar
  • Making the main character to only able to run for like only 3 seconds will just make the main player to lose it's spirit to win and eventually make your game not 'horror game' but 'frustrating game'
• Repetitive
  • This includes:
    
    • Always repetitive footsteps sound
      
    • Always repetitive objects