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mascot horror

mascot horror noun: a subgenre of survival horror, popularized in the mid-2010s, based around children's toys, or characters from children's media ("mascots").

Noun

mascot horror (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of survival horror, popularized in the mid-2010s, based around children's toys, or characters from children's media ("mascots").
    • [masteroftrolls1; chat message:] why do games like granny and baldie's^([sic]) basics get popular
      [YuB; spoken:] Uh, me and my friend John have a theory that it's mascot horror, basically all the games that do well right now—with kids anyways—are the ones that have a mascot: Bendy and the Ink...2018 June 11, YuB [pseudonym; Dylan Parker Russell], masteroftrolls1, 2:30:39 from the start, in am i cool yet? (splatoon 2), via YouTube
    • 본 연구의 목적은 ‘마스코트 호러’ 장르와 기존 공포 게임과의 차별성을 캐릭터 디자인의 매력, 공포 요소를 통해 알아내는 것에 있다.2024 April, Kyeong-Seok Seo, Dong-Lyeor Lee, “Analysis of Character Designs Elements in Mascot Horror Genre Game”, in Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems, volume 19, number 2...

Questions about mascot horror

What does mascot horror mean?
Mascot horror means a subgenre of survival horror, popularized in the mid-2010s, based around children's toys, or characters from children's media ("mascots").
What part of speech is mascot horror?
Mascot horror is a noun.

Words near mascot horror in the dictionary

  1. mascons
  2. Mascord
  3. Mascorro
  4. Mascorros
  5. mascot
  6. mascot horror
  7. Mascote
  8. mascoted
  9. Mascotes
  10. mascoting
  11. mascotism

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