The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio Horror Journaling Game
The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio is a solo horror journaling game with a soundtrack. It's about a local radio show in the surrounding area of Akron, Ohio that was heard across the state before it happened. DJ Mike from 106.6 The Brink was doing his late night show when something strange took over, causing a terrible event to befall its listeners.
You are playing one of the listeners who was working the late night shift. You are documenting your work in a journal while hearing DJ Mike undergo his transformation into something beyond this realm. This game uses a soundtrack for you to listen to while you journal and answer prompts.
The major themes of this game are parasocial relationships and hypervisibility within a small fanbase.
The content warnings for this game include:
- Natural horror
- Body horror
- Psychological horror
- Parasocial relationships
- Listening to someone’s boundaries being pushed via sexual harassment and other forms of harassment
- Listening to someone transform into something other than human
- Squelching sounds that are reminiscent of bugs
Throughout the game, you will be listening to the soundtrack and answering the questions presented to you in the book as your character when the songs play. Click here for more info about the game!
Banana Chan
Banana Chan is a Cantonese Canadian horror game designer and screenwriter living in Seattle. She is also the owner of the publishing company, Read/Write Memory. Her most notable work has been on Forgery, Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition and Chucky: The Board Game. She won Dicebreaker Awards' Game Designer of the Year 2022 and 2 Silver ENnie Awards in 2022.
