THERE’S nothing better for the soul than a good horror game: enjoying a fear-induced adrenaline buzz is a delicious human instinct. Originally, that instinct would have evolved to keep us safe in a primal world in which dangers lurked around every corner, so in a way horror games offer a kind of benchmark indicating how much human civilisation has progressed over the millennia. Nowadays, we get our jump-scares not from dangerous predators threatening our existence, but from artfully modelled assemblages of pixels.