The Fear of Hearing Your Own Footsteps in Horror Games
Most of the time, players barely notice footsteps in games.
They’re background noise. Functional sound design. Proof that movement is happening. Your brain filters them out almost immediately because they aren’t emotionally important.
Horror games change that relationship completely.
At some point, you stop hearing footsteps as harmless feedback.
You start hearing them as...
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