>>5545129>craft an improvised and interesting assortment of weaponsI wonder did you ever play Dead Space 3? Because in that game you can combine any of the iconic weapons, eg you can make a flamethrower revolver or a sawblade plasma rifle etc, the game was still fun and the shooting still engaging but the horror atmosphere was completely lost (also it is mostly set on an ice planet colony, it was sort of like The Thing but I felt they missed out on the sci-fi tension the level environments were not as good as on the spaceship). Dead Space 1 is my favourite of the entire series it was amazing for its time (that integrated HUD projected from the suit was very cool back in 2008).
As mentioned, I feel the modern game that most closely resembles Dead Space tense horror atmosphere is Alien Isolation, I think that can be recreated in a text or ttrpg format versus pure focus on shooting or customising guns. There is one level which I remember vividly, it is the reactor room level (this screenshot cannot really capture the sheer atmosphere of it). You are in a nearly pitch black cavernous chamber, and there are sporadic flashes of lightning arcs crashing around you illuminating the vast hollow darkness and vaulted reactor columns. It was an incredible piece of level design.
