Intruded’s dark hallways and sinister soundtrack make it one of the more chilling Flash Game Friday entries.

Intruded

If you’ve spent even a single ominous evening with an old survival horror title, then you’re no doubt familiar with something far scarier than any of those games’ blocky baddies: the dreaded fixed camera perspective. Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill all integrated fixed camera perspectives that’d swoop, swerve, and switch up on you at a moment’s notice, almost always disorienting those playing and inducing a state of panic that made those terrifying titles that much scarier. Intruded, a third-person Flash game from indie developer A Small Game, not only re-introduces the idea of the fixed camera perspective, but bases itself almost entirely around it.

Playing as a “mysterious character” who’s found herself in “a hostile environment” (the game is rather light on context), you’re tasked with maneuvering fuzzy 3D environments under the constant watch of security cameras, navigating narrow walkways and dodging insta-death obstacles. The character, a masked woman, controls with the elegance of a humvee, but its her clunky, casual gait that makes Intruded such an interesting game. What should be a simple matter of walking from Point A to Point B is made pretty challenging, and, in all honesty, slightly stressful, thanks not only to the ever-shifting camera angles, but also to the game’s ominous, atmospheric soundtrack.

There are 24 “cams,” or stages, in total, and the whole thing shouldn’t take you longer than 30 minutes to beat, tops. Still, Intruded is a creepy, dread-inducing distraction that’ll certainly get under your skin. And kill a half-hour, to boot.

Estimated playtime: 30 minutes.

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