Finally a true survival horror game to play for Halloween creep-out enjoyment. Unexpectedly it is for the iPad and not a console game. Previously horror games for iPad were limited to hidden object puzzles like Psychic Detective or Haunted Manor. Dark Meadow rides upon the incomparable Unreal Engine for iPad.

Even though it crashes fairly often on the original16G iPad running iOS 5, it runs like a bat straight out of hell on the new iPad2. It’s resource heavy, similarly to Infinity Blade, one of many things that it has in common with the hack and slash fighter, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Take the gorgeously gruesome graphics that resemble Infinity Blade, banged together with the horrid Alchemilla hospital and some of the sound cues from the original Silent Hill, and you’ve got a spooky stew there.

You wake up sideways in this madhouse, and need to escape it. You fight off very well rendered enemies that range from goat headed baphomets, to winged phalus flap-heads, to gooey, fleshy jabbas. A few ghosts, specters and other diaphanous beings haunt you. You aren’t defenseless either, but what I wouldn’t do for a trusty fireball to chuck at some of these beastly baddies. Read more »