This week’s free game: ‘Slender’
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This week, we're traveling down the horrifying path of Slender in a search for eight pieces of paper that will leave you quaking at night. Click on the image below to download this 2012 release that IGN called "pure horror." The game contains some violent undertones and should be played by adults.
In Slender: The Eight Pages, you're tasked with tracking down the eponymous scraps of paper that give you clues about the lore of Slender Man, the faceless, suited individual who's lurking around the corner and will creep up on you, causing instant death if you're not careful. Slender Man becomes more bold in his pursuit as you collect the pages, forcing you to use your sprint capability and the battery life of your flashlight wisely.
Go inside the blog to learn about the follow-up to The Eight Pages, and the controversy surrounding the game's main villain.
Slender: The Eight Pages was designed as a beta for Windows and Mac OSX by Mark Hadley for Parsec Productions. Hadley was inspired by the Internet web series Marble Hornets, a found-footage video blog that builds upon the myth of Slender Man, according to an interview he gave to Level Save. The Slender Man meme was created through a Something Awful forum project in June 2009 asking users to submit photos altered to include supernatural elements.
Multiple violent attacks by teenagers have been linked to the lore of the meme, including a stabbing by two girls in Wisconsin in May 2014 and a Florida girl setting fire to her home in December.
