No candy harvest or fancy dress party: with the health crisis and the curfew, Halloween will not be very festive this year.

So, since you have to spend the evening at home, why not take out your console for a game of video games?

Europe 1 recommends three titles that will give you some chills.

We would almost forget it with the sanitary context but it's Halloween on Saturday night!

Usually a festive moment for young and old.

Except that, Covid and curfew oblige, it is impossible for the children to go out in disguise to go and claim candy from the neighbors.

No more fancy dress evening with friends, no cinema show at midnight to scare yourself off ... Fortunately, to treat yourself anyway a few chills, there are still video games, the perfect hobby when you stay at home.

Alone or with friends, Europe 1 has selected three perfect games for a Halloween party.

Turn on your computer or your console but turn off the light ... 

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Luigi's Mansion 3

, for funny thrills

We start with a game for children: the essential

Luigi's Mansion 3

!

Released in 2019, it is one of the best games on the Nintendo Switch.

The story is quite simple: Luigi, Mario, Peach and their friends spend their vacation in a hotel.

But no luck: he's haunted!

Only not to be captured by King Boo, Luigi will have to save his comrades by ridding the hotel of rather funny ghosts, using ... a vacuum cleaner.

Thanks to a somewhat mad scientist, our cowardly hero is also supported by his slimy double, Gooigi.

Luigi's Mansion 3

 is a success at all levels: visually very rich, served by a clever gameplay and an atmosphere that is both frightening and fun, the game is savored throughout the fifteen hours of the adventure.

Each floor of the hotel has its own universe (Egyptian desert, cinema set, tropical jungle, etc.) so that you never get bored.

Ideal for children (it is playable from 7 years old), it will amuse parents just as much.

Perfect for a confined family night out with a bundle of candy and a lighted pumpkin! 

Little Nightmares

, to experience a child's nightmare

Forget the nice ghosts of 

Luigi's Mansion

, this time we move on to the disturbing monsters of 

Little Nightmares

.

If you missed it when it was released in 2017, this Halloween night is your chance to catch up with this hyper original game from 2017 (available on PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch).

We play Six, a 9-year-old girl dressed in a yellow raincoat.

Trapped on a strange boat, we will have to help her escape while avoiding the huge and misshapen human beings who inhabit the place.

The girl has no power, you can't fight.

So you have to hide at the right time, crawl under tables, climb on shelves, etc ... 

Little Nightmares

stands out from other games in the genre with a splendid artistic direction.

With first a scary atmosphere, rooms more gloomy than each other and monsters that can appear at any time.

The butcher with his big knife, the disjointed dolls, the library plunged into darkness: jolts guaranteed!

The game can be scary (it is forbidden for people under 16) but it is not violent.

There is an ethereal side: the boat and its occupants seem to have come straight out of a dream, or rather a child's nightmare.

In spirit,

Little Nightmares

 recalls at times the films of Tim Burton.

Little Hope

, for a night of terror

We end with a horror game, a real one: 

Little Hope

, the second episode of a recent license called

The Dark Pictures Anthology

.

After

Man of Medan

, a terrifying first essay released in 2019, the recipe remains the same: a narrator tells you the beginning of a story that you will then experience for yourself ... This time, we have the right to a story of witchcraft.

Five friends find themselves trapped in the ghost town of Little Hope.

City in which, in 1692, many women accused of witchcraft were burned, drowned and tortured ... 

There, clearly, we are in pure horror, sensitive souls refrain ... The heroes that we embody face a curse that will not give them gifts.

We alternate between the horrible witch hunt of the 17th century and the fate of the five unfortunate in the present.

Objective: to understand what happened 300 years ago in order to hope to survive.

And all the salt in the game are the choices you have to make regularly.

For example, at one point two of the hero's friends are in danger.

You can only save one and this choice will have consequences for the rest.

Little Hope

is very cinematic, inspired by

slasher

, those films in which a group of young people are pursued by a psychopathic killer or a demonic creature. In general, there is one death per quarter of an hour, it does not fit in the lace ... There, it's the same! Be careful, the game is realistic and the violence is sometimes brutally depicted. We are really put in the shoes of the heroes, we tremble for them. And at the same time, you have to stay lucid to try to make the right choices. Easier said than done when being chased by angry witches ...