[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch My 50:50 didn't work out well and the audience decided to leave early so I'm all by my lonesome self. The host also does not respond and just sits there. I think he may have perished due to boredom. 😂😀

Yay!! It was a hard one. I wouldn't have had a clue what the answer was. Playing the game helped a lot.

[DoctorEldritch]

Originally Posted by DracoTarot

The host also does not respond and just sits there. I think he may have perished due to boredom. 😂😀

I thought I was the host? 🤔

[DoctorEldritch]

I should tag @Inyeon here, maybe he knows some words?

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13, @DracoTarot and @j7schultz I guess it's time for the next tier of hints, the added bits are in cursive. Let's see if they make any difference:



Down:
1. The final stage in the life cycle of mutated corpses reshaped by an extraterrestrial infection transmitted by the Markers.
2. This pencil hand-drawn black-and-white horror game is set in the Swiss Alps and uses local folklore.
3. This almighty malevolent being traps famous killers and survivors in endless deadly trials.
4. This game is set in an apartment with rooms that represent various years in the lives of the Du family shadowed by religious belief, and you can go from one time to another through the lobby.
6. The goal of this game is to identify the type of one of 24 possible ghosts haunting the specified site where the ghosts can listen in on player conversations.
7. This aristocrat used to be a member of a music band called "The Pallboys".
13. In this game you play as an artist working on his "magnum opus".
14. The giant metal ship vessel that houses the misadventures of Six who is on a quest to find some food.

Across:
5. The name of the monster created in Mount Massive Asylum in one of @DracoTarot favorite scary games.
8. A conglomerate that took up Umbrella's mantle.
9. In this game you get to copy consciousness while in the PATHOS-II facility overseen by Warden Unit (WAU) AI at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
10. You need to help eight young adults trapped here until they are rescued at dawn.
11. A cyberpunk game set in 2084 Kraków that allows you to follow Daniel Lazarski and dive deep into the minds of criminals with a device known as the Dream Eater.
12. A bestselling crime fiction author came to this town in an attempt to cure his writer's block and his wife got dragged into the lake by a mysterious force. At the end of October second game about him got released.
15. In this game you use corpses in a morgue to fight off demonic possession while assisting your boss Raymond.
16. The identity of a female monster that took Teddy, a gift from his father, from toddler David.
17. The hospital for mentally ill patients inhabited by demonic nurses in the town of Silent Hill.
18. The name of the night guard who gets 120 dollars for surviving 5 nights at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza filled with murderous automatons.
19. This space station is explored by Amanda Ripley as she searches for Nostromo's flight recorder.
20. This monster hunts you as you try to collect 8 pages.

[GoLLuM13]

Everything about number 12 reminds me of Alan Wake, but it doesn't fit 🤔

So I'll try 17 instead, is it "Brookhaven" ?

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 It is Brookhaven!

As for number 12, you guessed that bit right, but the question is asking not about what the name of the bestselling author is, but what town he came to with his wife.

[GoLLuM13]

@DoctorEldritch With this hint, my lantern is "Bright" to avoid the "Falls" 😜 I'll wait 5 hours before giving an answer 👀

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 I think it is fine now not to wait so long. Maybe we will manage to get it solved before October is over 😅

It is Bright Falls indeed!

[GoLLuM13]

In this case the 6 should be is "Phasmophobia" that one of my cousins used to play a lot.
And just a guess (not sure about the answer) the 15 could be (The) "Mortuary Assistant" 👀

[DoctorEldritch]

@GoLLuM13 Both of these are correct! That's 75% of the puzzle complete.