Artist for Inspiration

With the gaming industry developing as fast as it is more and more developers are pushing the boat out with different styles and settings, often using artists from throughout history as inspiration. There's really no limit, with games such as Psychonauts and Super Hot using unusual art styles that were never around in games just 15 years ago.

I was going to use Salvador Dali's work as inspiration, but finding games that used effects similar to is was near impossible, so I settled on Francis Bacon an artist that made some really macabre paintings. There are so many horror games that use characters similar to Bacon's work, such as The Amnesia Series, Penumbra, and Outlast.

His odd style of work is present in many psychological horrors, and since its one of my favorite game genres I'll have more than enough information going into this. There is a game called Layers of Fear in which you play as a failing artist surrounded by eerie paintings that resemble his work, if the developers didn't take inspiration from Bacon then I'll be surprised.