Slender: The Eight Pages

Slender: The Eight Pages is an indie survival horror game played by Ian and Anthony in Gametime with Smosh and later by Mari and Olivia in Gametime w/ Smosh Games. A full version of this game was released a year after this one titled Slender: The Arrival.

Information
Slender: The Eight Pages is a freeware indie-developed first-person survival horror video game released in June 2012 as a beta for Microsoft Windows and OS X, utilizing the Unity engine. Developed by Mark J. Hadley, the game is based on the quasi-folklore meme figure known as the Slender Man, who is depicted as a tall man wearing all black with a white, featureless face. The character is known for the ominous abduction of countless children in dark mysterious settings, such as deep forests and abandoned buildings.

The objective of the game is to collect 8 pages throughout the map, which is a forested area surrounded by a fence with various structures and buildings in it. The player has a flashlight that can be turned on or off, and can sprint, but will get exhausted after too long. The more pages the player collects, the more aggressive Slender Man will become, until he catches and kills the player, or the player manages to collect all 8 pages.

Reception
Some publications noted the effectiveness of the game's minimalist horror approach, contrasting it with many action-based survival horror games of the time period, such as the latest Resident Evil titles. The official website crashed after too many people tried to download the game, leading to subsequent mirror downloads on Reddit and later MediaFire.