EDITED: Game is out now and here are all the details! Is anyone playing?

Pokémon GO took the world by storm. It introduced people to a new type of mobile gaming; getting up and walking around while your smartphone camera imposes images onto your screen in real time. I have to admit, while marketed as a children’s game, many adults (including myself) play Pokémon GO. A new, revolutionary game like this will inevitably inspire creative inception in other game developers. There is already one such game out and it is called Night Terrors. According to the title of the game, I doubt many Pokémon GO players under 12 years old will be playing.

Night Terrors was announced in May of 2015 and Pokémon GO was announced in September of that same year, so the horror model actually came first. Night Terrors, however, was an Indiegogo project that relied on donations. Pokémon GO was obviously a big studio announcement from Nintendo and Niantic. I’m sure that Pokémon GO releasing earlier than Night Terrors can only be better marketing for Novum Analytics, the developer of this ghostly new mobile game.

The premise of Night Terrors is pretty simple. While wearing headphones, you play the game at night with all the lights off and your phone projects ghostly images and spooky sounds all around you. The game can also “interfere” with your phone’s operating system, sending frightening texts and pictures. Here is the official synopsis of the game from Novum Analytics:

Night Terrors is a highly immersive, photorealistic, binaural, augmented reality survival horror game for mobile devices. Gameplay takes place at home, after dark, with the lights off and your headphones on.

This game is the stuff of nightmares! Lucky for me and all the horror fans reading this, we like nightmares. A good nightmare is like being in a horror movie, and this game is the equivalent of live action, virtual bad dreams – hence the title Night Terrors. So instead of handing out candy or trying to pop out from behind a curtain to scare unsuspecting children this Halloween, I’ll be running around my house playing this game… probably with an adult diaper on.