Dead Space

A silent protagonist works best for a game properly designed around visual and environmental storytelling... especially with the haunted spaceship setting.
In space they can't hear you scream but in your room... you sure can.

I will forever hate EA for killing this franchise during its peak for their own greed, Dead space original is still one of the goated games of the horror genre. Isaac doesn't speak in this game which makes it much more darker and relevant to his growing inner grief and dementia. Isaac in first game dont need no dialogues but just his ground shaking stomp and his deadly plasma cutter.

I MISSED THIS GAME SO MUCH!!!

When i was younger my older brother had Dead Space on the XBOX 360 and being young at the time, i really wanted to play it. when i actually started playing i remember getting so freaked out by the scene when you look out the window and it's just a guard getting impaled by a Necromorph, that scene freaked me out so much i couldn't play it for a LONG time. Now that im a little older, i started playing this game myself...im still scared but i beat the game and i now have Dead Space 2, 3, and the Remake

Still a 100/10 after all these years <3

Awesome game. Much better than the remake. Just don't turn off vsync until you get past the first door, cuz you'll get stuck if it's off at that point

This game was ahead of it's time and it shows. Awesome atmospheric horror game!

while i still prefer the remake because of its voice acting and character/lore expansion, this game still holds up extremely well. it’s hard to believe that it’s nearly 18 years old.

Ignore the remake and play this on Deck instead on highest settings.
Camera with right stick is sub par on default (game's vertical cam axis has a higher sensitivity and higher dead zone than horizontal, and I just remembered this being critiqued already when it was released back in the days), but setting right stick to joystick mouse with a 100% sensitivity works much better, since the game treats mouse input linear on both axes. You'll lose right stick push for the objective guide line then (initially), but that functionality is still available by pushing right track pad, which I personally find to be even more comfortable.
Seems to be capped to 60FPS internally even though there's a 90Hz resolution setting, but that's fine.
Deck's (OLED) brightness set to 50% and brightness in game set to lowest recreates the original dark experience.