When it comes to side-scrolling action shooters, most people will probably think of Contra, but me? I have the fondest memories of sinking quarters into a Metal Slug arcade machine, or playing through the anthology on my PS2.

The survival genre has seen everything from underwater alien oceans to forests filled with terrifying mutants on PS4, but there’s always room to improve on the formula. Stranded Deep, a new survival title for PS4, comes to us from a small studio that took the time to finish porting the game to console after their publisher went under.

Psychological horror is a tough nut to crack, because the human psyche is vast and varied. What’s scary to some may not be that bad to others, and while trauma is universal, some themes speak more to one person than another as well. Indeed, mental or psychological anguish is something we’ve all experienced, but the experience is never quite the same.