Dread X Collection / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- The full version of The Hunt's trailer song: Hunters is a pretty good banger with amazing chords and tunes courtesy of The Living Tombstone with great raps from Dan Bull, Schäffer The Darklord & Izzy Deluxe.
- Uktena 64 has a pretty great OST filled with nice bops and also a few suspenseful pieces.
Base-Breaking Character: The 4th Dread X Collection has a few.
- Artemis. Some fans like her snarkiness and how she's a voiced female protagonist, while some think she talks too much and some of the things she says usually don't fit too well concerning the current situation.
- Brother Silence from Black Relic. Either you love the fact that he's a Villain Protagonist, or you just find the reveal out of nowhere and makes little to no sense.
Best Known for the Fanservice: Chances are a few people have learned of the 2nd Dread X Collection because of one particular game: Sucker For Love. It's a parody and still a Lovecraftian horror game at heart, but does prominently feature a Cute Monster Girl Cthulhumanoid.
Broken Base: The twist of Brother Silence being a Villain Protagonist in Black Relic has a split people whom have played the game. Some think it's an a surprising twist and puts an interesting spin on the game, while others think it's out of nowhere and doesn't make any sense.
Catharsis Factor: HUNSVOTTI is built on this, it's basically a playable Finnish version of Carrie and is as good as it sounds. The protagonist is mercilessly bullied and shunned by an entire village just for being different (they're the only villager with black hair)^*. But once the young protagonist finishes the ritual to find their "true love", they are visited by Perkele himself, who gifts the protagonist powerful Psychic Mind over Matter powers. Telling him to enact his vengeance upon the townsfolk, taking in all the horrible things the townspeople have been doing to the kid, the player is now more than inclined to oblige, violently murdering every single villager. Anyone who can relate to being viciously bullied before can find the game to be very cathartic when they get to that point.
Complete Monster:
- 2's The Toy Shop: The Shop Keeper is a member of a group of gigantic aliens who took over the Earth, brainwashing and killing large portions of humanity and reducing them to sapient "toys". Taking the most active role in torturing the remaining humans, the Shop Keeper kidnaps several people and turns them into its "Toy Soldiers", whom it uses to track down and kill the rebels. Torturing any sapient robot it sees, the Shop Keeper also tends to devour some people that remain in its sight for too long. The Shop Keeper uses a brain implant to turn the protagonist into its latest Toy Soldier, causing the latter to see the rebels as infected feral beings and slaughter the entire resistance, to the delight of the Shop Keeper.
- The Hunt's Black Relic: Brother Silence is the last member of the cursed family line of Templars who have taken an oath of silence. Growing sick of the curse and deciding to get rid of it, Brother Silence kidnapped the grandson of Village Elder McGarth and brutally killed him, solely to drive the boy's father and grandfather mad and have them lead the pagan cult in attacking and slaughtering the entire Holy Order. Killing off the entire pagan cult as well, including Elder McGarth and his son, to use their blood in his ritual, also breaking his oath by speaking for the first time, Brother Silence allows the vile Nephilim to possess him, planning to unleash his wrath upon the world.
- 5:
  - The Book of Blood: The Blood Mage is a mysterious being with great magic power, who was imprisoned in a Pocket Dimension by a group of other mages. Desiring to get free, the Blood Mage arranged for people to find the book, while possessing other people to act as "demons" and having them to attack and drain the blood out of their victims. Tricking people who found the book that they must complete the ritual, described in the book, to get rid of "the demon", the Blood Mage caused many people to get killed by his "demons", before the latest person who found the book managed to complete the ritual and free him. After this, the Blood Mage sarcastically thanked him for it and stabbed him to death to use his blood to bring about "The Second Flood" upon the world.
  - Gallerie: The Curator, who calls itself A.C. Justin, is an otherworldly being who, upon finding its way to Earth, became obsessed with art and decided to create it in the most "natural" manner. Kidnapping many people, including infants, the Curator tortured them, tearing off their skin, dismembering them to use their blood, organs and bones to create paintings and statues. Trapping numerous souls of its victims in a state of eternal suffering, where they are trapped in its gallery unable to do anything about their situation, the Curator turned some of its victims into feral monsters, torturing and killing Julie, the latest worker in its gallery, and then trying to turn Alex Cardinal into its latest "masterpiece".
  - Rotten Stigma: Gallagher is a leader of a cult that worshipped the dark god Aoduk. Hoping to become completely immortal by asking Aoduk to put all the knowledge of the universe in him, Gallagher lured 12 children to Gallagher Sports Center, while also kidnapping several more people, and started to experiment on them, mutilating them while they were still alive, recording every moment to sell, and afterwards presenting their dead bodies to Aoduk, who turned them into feral mutated monsters. Trapping his wife in a "cocoon" in the bathroom for cheating on him, Gallagher offers a prize to anyone who enters the bathroom and kills her, as she helplessly cries.
  - We Never Left: Michael Krieger is an emotionally unstable programmer with a gigantic ego. Dreaming of creating "the greatest horror game of all times", Michael hated his coworkers at the video game company for not sharing his "vision" and calling him "creepy". Growing more and more obsessed with his game, to the point of lashing out at his psychiatrist, Dr. Miller, stalking her afterwards and then killing her and her husband, Michael started a killing spree, brutally murdering at least 5 more people and his own cat, solely to use their corpses as props for his "magnum opus". Arranging for his cousin to go to his house and investigate his "disappearance", Michael manipulated him into playing through his games, after which he killed him and mutilated his body.
Fridge Brilliance: In REACTOR, aside from the Robo Romance implications, L.O.L.A. happens to be a field therapist AI there to look after the worker during his time on the planet. So of course he's gonna have to stay in that field of work if she's going to be able to look after him.
Funny Moments: Certain entries in the series are humorous:
- Uktena 64 gives us Jebediah (voiced by MrKRAVIN) a Fearless Fool redneck hunter with a hilarious voice and some pretty ridiculous commentary to the woodland apocalypse he hunts through.
  - The reason Jebediah decided to take the job? He had nothing else better to do because his channel was demonitized.
  - His comments when taking pictures could give Frank West a run for his money.
Jeb while taking a picture of someone or something's corpse: Pog!
Popular with Furries: While not widespread or overtly popular, there's a decent amount of Funny Animal fans for Ln'eta from Sucker For Love, due to being a surprisingly beautiful, curvy and adorable Cthulhumanoid.
Signature Scene: Squirrel Stapler and Sucker for Love are arguably regarded as the most memorable games from the second collection. The former for both its loading screen and when God finally comes, and the latter for being a pretty wacky yet still creepy Dating Sim involving Lovecraftian Old Gods. Both of these games would even end up getting expanded later on into their own releases.

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