Late 90s and early 00s were the golden age of a very niche genre we called survival horror. This name, invented by the game that cemented the rules of the genre (or, technically, a subgenre of action adventure) – Resident Evil, got me excited every time I saw it pop up in a description of a game. But the more games tried do it, the more difference in “what survival horror is” appeared, until the genre as we knew it died. Today, every horror game seems to stick “survival horror” in it’s description, ignoring the fact that being a horror game and being a survival horror game is not the same thing. And yet, survival horror as we knew it still lives on, but not in the way you’d expect it to.