Content creator spotlight: Liln
Liln makes horror gaming content: long streams, uploads, and shorts built around games that are often weird, small, or easy to miss, especially the kind of indie horror stuff that can get buried on itch.io in five minutes if nobody gives it a real shot.
On his YouTube About page he says the aim is to play every horror game out there. Which means he’s played some of the best, and some of the worst (Including mine). While he has played some of the big ones like Poppy’s Playtime and Slender: The Arrival, his real bread and butter is the smaller indie horror stuff. While some are unique, wierd, amazing, or just straight up ASS. He plays them with so much joyous energy it’s hard not to enjoy any game.
That is what makes him stand out to me. He brings a lot of energy to every video and livestream, but he does not treat smaller games like disposable filler between bigger releases. There is something genuinely beautiful about the way he gives even tiny horror games so much room to breathe, like they deserve the same attention as some massive 10/10 classic. A lot of creators will load up an indie horror game just to laugh at it for ten minutes and move on. Liln will squeeze blood from a stone and have fun doing it.
He’s even played a few of my games before. He did not just dabble with them feither. He put in the time to find alternate endings (which already goes above and beyond), and he even found Cole lurking in places the internet may never know about.
That is also why clips like this are funny to me. He is not just skimming through and tossing out empty praise. Even when he jokes about rating one of my games “5 stars because… depression,” it still comes from somebody who actually spent time with it.
He is also very good at pushing through brutal scares even when he is clearly not enjoying the experience in the moment. Some horror creators fold the second a game gets too intense. Liln will keep going, tank the scare, and see what is around the next corner so the rest of us do not have to.
Where to find him?
His Twitch which you can find him live, check out his stream timer to find out when he’s going live next.
You can also find him on his YouTube channel which has full sessions and Horror Shorts featuring short clips and compilations pulled from longer livestreams and videos.
Closing thoughts
If you like horror and you are sick of the same five games getting all the oxygen, he is one of the best creators I have found for digging up stuff you would otherwise never hear about. More importantly, he gives those games a real chance, and that makes all the difference.