What's your thoughts about Mascot Horror?

[Artman2004]

Mascot horror is a game genre most known for its, well, mascots. More specifically, icons of childhood nostalgia (animatronic, puppets, cartoons, etc.) that have been turned evil by various means. They usually take place in some dilapidated place associated with said icon (pizzeria, cartoon studio, toy factory, etc.) which also contains some uber-dark secret. Oh yeah, and they're ungodly popular with kids. The most popular examples are Five Nights At Freddy's, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of Banban.

 

I'm curious to hear what you think.

[Monocled]

Conceptually its awesome, Like other kinds of nostalgia horror. But most of it is hilariously bad.

[DoomTheDarkAgesfan07]

never cared for it. wasn't my thing imo

[Austrian Oak]

If it bleeds, we can kill it. 

[whybmonotacrab]

Same as any horror, depends on the execution. It's not something that scares me though, so I'm more drawn to darkly comedic takes of it than stuff trying to be outright scary.