Horror Adventure

Wikipedia: "Starting with the release of Resident Evil 4 in 2005, the [survival horror] genre began to incorporate more features from action games and more traditional first person and third-person shooter games. This has led game journalists to question whether long-standing survival horror franchises and more recent franchises have abandoned the genre and moved into a distinct genre often referred to as 'action horror.'[1][2][3][4] James Stephanie Sterling suggests that the genre lost its core gameplay when it improved the combat interface, thus shifting the gameplay away from hiding and running towards direct combat.[5] Leigh Alexander argues that this represents a shift towards more Western horror aesthetics, which emphasize action and gore rather than the psychological experience of Japanese horror.[6]"

In its marketing, Fort Solis is described as a "horror adventure" game, and I like this descriptor even more than "action horror" due to its capaciousness. Horror adventure covers the many modalities of horror post-Resident Evil 4, helping formalize the relationships between different franchises that often have quite divergent mechanical affordances and genre trappings.

    flowchart TD;

      APTI(["A Plague Tale: Innocence"])
      APTR(["A Plague Tale: Requiem"])

      UDR(["Until Dawn Remake"])

      RE(["Resident Evil"])
      RER(["Resident Evil Remake"])
      REZ(["Resident Evil Zero"])
      RE4(["Resident Evil 4"])
      RE5(["Resident Evil 5"])
      RE6(["Resident Evil 6"])
      RE2R(["Resident Evil 2 Remake"])
      REOC(["Resident Evil Origins Collection"])
      RE3R(["Resident Evil 3 Remake"])
      RE4R(["Resident Evil 4 Remake"])

      DG(["Days Gone"])
      DGR(["Days Gone Remastered"])

      M(["The Medium"])
      SH2R(["Silent Hill 2 Remake"])
      CTND(["Cronos: The New Dawn"])

      DS(["Dead Space"])
      DS2(["Dead Space 2"])
      DS3(["Dead Space 3"])
      DSR(["Dead Space Remake"])

      AITD(["Alone in the Dark"])
      AITDNN(["Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare"])
      AITD2008(["Alone in the Dark: Inferno"])
      AITDR(["Alone in the Dark"])

      FS(["Fort Solis"])

      TLOU(["The Last of Us"])
      TLOUR(["The Last of Us Remastered"])
      TLOUII(["The Last of Us Part II"])
      TLOUI(["The Last of Us Part I"])
      TLOUIIR(["The Last of Us Part II Remastered"])

      SHF(["Silent Hill f"])

      AW(["Alan Wake"])
      C(["Control"])
      AWII(["Alan Wake II"])
      C2(["Control 2"])

      TCP(["The Callisto Protocol"])

      UD(["Until Dawn"])
      DPAMM(["The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan"])
      DPALH(["The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope"])
      DPAHA(["The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes"])
      Q(["The Quarry"])
      DPATDM(["The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me"])
      CFS(["The Casting of Frank Stone"])
      D8020(["Directive 8020"])

      TEW(["The Evil Within"])
      TEW2(["The Evil Within 2"])

      SH(["Silent Hill"])
      SH2(["Silent Hill 2"])
      SH3(["Silent Hill 3"])
      SHO(["Silent Hill: Origins"])
      SHH(["Silent Hill: Homecoming"])
      SHD(["Silent Hill: Downpour"])

      SWH(["Sweet Home"])

      subgraph "Sweet Home"
        SWH
      end

      subgraph "Alone in the Dark"
        AITD -.-> AITDNN --> AITD2008 --> AITDR
      end

      subgraph "Resident Evil"
        RE -.-> RER --> REZ --> RE4 --> RE5 --> RE6 --> REOC --> RE2R --> RE3R --> RE4R
      end

      subgraph "Silent Hill"
        SH --> SH2 --> SH3 --> SHO --> SHH --> SHD --> SHF
      end

      subgraph Supermassive
        UD --> DPAMM --> DPALH --> DPAHA --> Q --> DPATDM --> CFS --> D8020
        UD -.-> UDR
      end

      SWH -.-> RE
      SWH -.-> UD
      AITD -.-> RE
      RE -.-> SH
      RE4 -.-> SHH
      RE4 -.-> TEW
      RE4 -.-> AITD2008
      RE4 -.-> TLOU
      RE2R -.-> AITDR
      RE2R -.-> SH2R
      RE4R -.-> CTND
      SH2 -.-> AW
      SH2 -.-> M

      subgraph "The Evil Within"
        TEW --> TEW2
      end

      subgraph Remedy
      AW --> C --> AWII --> C2
      end

      subgraph "Bloober Team"
      M --> SH2R --> CTND
      end

      subgraph "Naughty Dog"
      TLOU --> TLOUR --> TLOUII --> TLOUI --> TLOUIIR
      end

      TLOU -.-> APTI
      TLOU -.-> DG
      TLOUII -.-> RE4R
      TLOUII -.-> AWII
      TLOUII -.-> SH2R

      subgraph "Asobo Studio"
        APTI --> APTR
      end

      subgraph "Bend Studio"
        DG --> DGR
      end

      subgraph "Visceral Games"
        DS --> DS2 --> DS3
        DS -.-> DSR
      end

      DS3 -.-> FS
      DS3 -.-> TCP
      DSR -.-> D8020

      subgraph "The Callisto Protocol"
        TCP
      end

      subgraph "FortSolis"
        FS
      end