The "Haunted PS1 Demo Disc" is not actually on a disc, nor does it contain any PS1 games. It's a collection of horror games reminiscent of the 90s, with low-resolution textures, tons of fog, and large polygons. This collection can haunt your PC right now, and it's free.

I got my hands on most of the demos, some of which seem to be more or less full demo versions, and it was a wild ride.

There were also the traditional "tour the creepy house in the dark" ones, one of which looks more like a 2010 horror game than a 90s one, although the house does have bees in it. I can't say much about the horror FPS "Killer Bees" because within 10 seconds of starting I was attacked by a swarm of bees. Bees deserve the name.

The first-person perspective seems to be the choice for many of the games, which range from old-fashioned first-person shooters to narrative adventures about recently convicted rats trying to get their hands on some cheese. In Tasty Ramen, on the other hand, a small ramen mascot tries to escape from a store while being hunted down by a small ramen mascot.

There are also several games that eschew horror altogether. For example, "Nekoyume" is available at ...... Well, I honestly don't know what's going on. I'm dreaming. There is a cat. I have no idea what is going on. But "Nekoyume" may be one of my favorites. One moment I'm in an empty modern city, then I'm hanging out in a tower with feline monks, then I bump into more little cats and I teleport to a field outside a castle. I have no idea where I'll end up next or what the cats are all about, but I can't wait to take another nap.

Since the games are all from different developers, there is a wide range of styles and interpretations of the PS1 aesthetic, some of which are truly amazing; Heartworm looks like Silent Hill, right down to the fog, but what struck me most was the above The most impressive was the demo of the open-world RPG "Dread Delusion," pictured above. Even without the rose-colored goggles of nostalgia, it was just amazing.

The themed anthologies seem like a good way to spotlight indie development projects that would normally be buried. There are a few new games that I didn't even know the names of before, but now there are a few new ones to keep an eye on.

Now you can get them for free at Itch.io, and there are links to each developer's page.