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encouraging you to completely disrespect it”.6 Nonetheless, even disregarding cul- tural and religious taboos means learning about them and knowing how they are implemented in everyday life in Indonesia. In addition, particularly for someone like me who knows very little about life in Indonesia, one of the game’s strongest points is the rich and detailed depiction not of the supernatural, but of the ordinary. The time I spent observing the kitchen of the haunted house simply to see how a typi- cal Indonesian kitchen is organized or carefully examining every single band poster in “my” dorm room provided some of my most immersive experiences during the game. From time to time these banalities made me forget all about the supernatural hauntings I was meant to uncover. Yet if Pamali taught me anything, it is that these are exactly the moments when one should be scared. Bibliography Audish, Michael, 2019, Review: Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror, Gold-Plated Games, 15 October, https://goldplatedgames.com/2019/10/15/review-pamali-indonesian-folklore-horror/ [accessed 11 December 2019]. Green, Holly, 2019, Pamali Offers a Refreshing International Spin on Point and Click Horror, Paste Maga- zine, 11 January, https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/pamali-offers-a-refreshing-inter- national-spin-on-p.html [accessed 11 December 2019]. Trattner, Kathrin, 2019, Interview with Mira Wardhaningsih from StoryTale Studios on the Indonesian Horror Game Pamali, gamevironments 11, 117–126. 6 Green 2019. Game Review: Pamali: Indian Folklore Horror | 171www.jrfm.eu 2019, 6/1, 166–171