His favorite type of peculiar or obscure games were generally the ones that fell within the survival horror genre, especially games that mined a Lovecraftian vein and that tended to include some type of sanity meter in their gameplay mechanics: to name just a few, there was Eternal Darkness: Sanity???s Requiem, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.