Limbo definitely works as a horror game in the same sense that Dark Souls works as one. You're a lone wanderer in an oppressive world where everything is trying to murder you. In Limbo you're just an insect gazing up from the bottom of the food chain where you reside. It's not exactly the jumpscare fear for your safety kind of horror but it doesn't need to be. I do think the game kind of loses what makes it good towards the 3rd act though where the puzzles just because a loose assortment of physics puzzles but the first 2/3rds of the game are incredibly memorable.
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