Slender: The Arrival borrows the horror gaming convention of arming you with nothing but a flashlight and the ability to run. In fact, this first chapter is slowly paced, and while I expected something to happen, nothing ever did - until the scream. “Screw the road,” I thought, and headed straight through the forest towards the house. I could see some lights through the forest, but the road seemed to take a round about route to the house. Pausing the game tells me that my objective is to get to Kate’s house. Okay, this seems like it’s setting up some atmosphere. I walked around aimlessly for a second, as some creepy drumbeats started to play and the sky began to darken. However, I know that graphics don’t determine if a game is good or not, so I bravely pressed forward. The first thing I noticed was that the graphics failed to impress at all. You are next to a car that is blocked from going any further down a forest road, so naturally you must walk. He is moderately different for everyone and in every story. But this is also the internet, which is fleeting, and the relevancy of this creepy figure is being questioned by some.

Created in 2009 almost by accident, the internet latched onto this creepy looming figure and have subsequently imagined up a character who’s origins are now just an amalgamation of internet fiction. The Slender Man, or Slenderman as he may be known, has been a bit of a horror enigma for the past half of a decade. There’s a tall man standing right outside my window a tall, slender, faceless man - yet he is still watching.

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