https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdVaUTlzoQ
Lots of new mascot horror games have been coming out lately, and not many of them are succeeding. Why is it that unlike games like Garten of Banban, these ne

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/15k571j/les_i_hate_the_term_mascot_horror/
Mascot horror is horror that takes something that is friendly or benign looking and usually aimed at children and turns that into the main focus of the horror. In all the examples you listed, the horror icon is clearly horror. Like no one is going to look at Jigsaw's puppet and say that's just a normal kids toy.

https://www.thegamer.com/best-mascot-horror-games/
There is a self-awareness in the genre of mascot horror that has many of the games in it poking fun at both themselves and the trend of dark theories about kid's media. Two Star Game's Choo-Choo Charles is no exception. The titular character is an evil spider train that's spoofing Thomas the Tank Engine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/1cjy108/is_mascot_horror_good_or_bad/
I do feel like after garten of banban released, that was the last straw for alot of developers, hence why so many mascot horror games have been released/teased that actually look scary. So i feel like decent mascot horror has definitely been on the rise after the "sanitisation" of 2021. But there's still some cashgrab trash still out there

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MascotHorror
Mascot Horror is still a genre primarily associated with video games, especially indie ones. However, the success of the genre has inspired works in other mediums to emulate the style of typical Mascot Horror games. Certain Analog Horror series can be considered an extension of Mascot Horror, primarily those either directly based on or inspired

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/1bazys4/the_senseless_war_of_mascot_horror_games/
The senseless war of mascot horror games. In 2014, the game Five Nights At Freddy's came out and until today it is the father of mascot horror. However, games like Bendy and the Ink Machine, Poppy Playtime and Garten of Banban came out that people now have divided opinions. For instance, there are FNAF fans that hate Bendy, Poppy and Garten.

https://uhsarrow.org/28273/opinion/the-five-nights-at-freddys-movie-mascot-horror-on-the-big-screen/
October 30, 2023. Blumhouse Productions. Five Nights at Freddy's Movie Poster. Back in 2015, a failed indie game developer received a review on his latest game, saying his characters were "creepy, and animatronic like". That marks the beginning of, objectively, the single largest horror franchise in the game industry: Five Nights at

https://gamerant.com/best-horror-game-mascots/
2 Freddy Fazbear - Five Nights At Freddy's. Five Nights at Freddy's took the world of gaming by storm. Scott Cawthorn couldn't possibly imagine the heights of the cultural importance his fun

https://screenrant.com/poppy-playtimes-huggy-wuggy-scariest-horror-mascots-video-games-movies/
Freddie Freaker is an incredibly obscure animatronic mascot for L.A. Toys back in 1987. It really proves that year was a bad time all around to be an animatronics fan, "Bite of '87" notwithstanding. Freddie Freaker was used to advertise a hotline where kids could "talk to Freddie Freaker", only to be met with weird cartoon sounds.

https://www.thegamer.com/horror-game-iconic-mascots/
Freddy Fazbear is the mascot of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe. In the original game, Freddy appears as the antagonist, terrorizing the security guard at nighttime. He is an animatronic bear that becomes violent after the sun sets, attacking any people on the premises. Freddy's importance has led him to

https://glitchwave.com/games/genre/mascot-horror/
Mascot horror gained traction following the popularity of Five Nights at Freddy's (2014) and its animatronic cast of characters, which were successful in large part due to coverage from producers of Let's Plays on YouTube. The demographic makeup of these Let's Players' viewers combined with the theme's use of bright and cartoon-like characters

https://deadtalknews.com/2023/06/09/top-five-influential-mascot-horror-games/
Some have gore and lore while others don't take it too far by just creating something creepy with a straightforward storyline. So, here are the top five most influential mascot horror games. 5. Bendy and the Ink Machine. Bendy and the Ink Machine is about cartoon characters coming to life. One of the creators behind it, Joey, is messing with

https://glitchwave.com/charts/top/game/all-time/g:mascot-horror/
Shipwrecked 64. 2022. 3D platformer creepypasta surrealism mascot horror third-person puzzle platformer postmodernism graphic adventure. 20. 3.31. 8 ratings. Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2. 2023. virtual reality robot surveillance mascot horror.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/12jpdpu/for_the_people_into_mascot_horror_games_why_do/
r/TwoBestFriendsPlay. r/TwoBestFriendsPlay. •. [deleted] For the people into Mascot Horror games. Why do people hate this Banban game? I watched ManlyBadassHero play them and they seem like your run of the mill mascot horror, it doesn't seem any different from the many harmless others before it. Why this one is getting so controversial?

https://collider.com/shameless-most-shocking-storylines-ranked/
1 A Shameless Thanksgiving. Image via Showtime. This storyline was one of the most jarring and horrifying moments in the entire series. Monica ( Chloe Webb ), who was struggling with the

https://screenrant.com/shameless-characters-with-most-least-shame/
Frank Gallagher. Frank's children are only as shameless as they are because they follow his example. In fact, he encourages it, like when he congratulates Carl on joining the "family business". For Frank, shamelessness is survival, but it's also a lifestyle he's proud of.

https://www.gamespress.com/MUZY-is-a-new-horror-mascot-game-and-it-looks-horrifying
Europe, 2023 - Mascot Bro Studio, a publishing studio have now officially announced MUZY, a horror survival game where it takes in an abandoned toy factory where you have to solve puzzle and investigate why the MUZY toys all of a sudden turned evil. MUZY is a scary horror game where you are uncovering secrets behind a well known, and what

https://glitchwave.com/charts/popular/game/2023/g:mascot-horror/
Captain Warrington's Play Maze. 19 oct. mascot horror. 1 / 1. With Sonemic Charts, you can build a chart based on anything you want. Choose any combination of genres, influences, styles, moods, locations, languages, years, and much more! You can save your custom charts so that you can revisit them over time. Try it by pressing the "Build chart

https://www.reddit.com/r/BendyAndTheInkMachine/comments/1da5dlb/bendy_is_easily_one_of_the_best_mascot_horror/
Poppy playtime should not be down there! Chapter 3 is the best indie horror game ever made. Poppy Playtime is, like, peak Mascot horror. 124 votes, 70 comments. 60K subscribers in the BendyAndTheInkMachine community. This is a subreddit dedicated to indie horror puzzler Bendy and the….

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2504480/discussions/0/6893400404688016391/?ctp=3
Normally I don't like mascot horror games. I never even played any FNAF games, just saw Markiplier play them, and already thought they were getting old when FNAF was still new, to say nothing of the others that started cropping up like Poppy (Though I did like the concept of My Friendly Neighborhood a lot, probably because it wasn't really your typical "killer mascot" type game and you could

https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/amber-rose-trump-rnc-2024-speaker-republican-national-convention.html
In the comment, Rose insinuates that Biden doesn't care about Black people, states that Trump "supports the most reasonable compromise on abortion"—it is unclear whether Rose still holds

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/1bcexuq/scott_doesnt_own_the_mascot_horror_genre_of/
FNaF has started the mascot horror genre and if that's a good or bad thing is up to opinions but I feel like some people are missing the point whenever someone mentions FNaF rip offs (that are not fan games), people say that Scott doesn't own mascot horror genre and possessed animatronics, which is obviously true, but it doesn't mean some games aren't taking these ideas (with very minimal

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/1b1s8x8/we_can_continue_discussing_which_horror_mascot/
You got most of it right, except Poppy. The company doesn't harvest souls, in-fact, from what we currently know, there doesn't appear to be any supernatural element in the story. The Toys are morbid scientific experiments, created by transferring human organs (such as brain and spinal cord) and subsequently consciousness to the Toy body.