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'80s horror series (including, interestingly, the ones that rip off that style like Stranger Things) also all suffer from this.
Ironically, the series that avoids this is, of all things, FNAF, to the point it blew up into an entire ecosystem. But FNAF is a game- a simple one, at that- that relies on abusing a fundamental quirk of human biology [re: a thing that screams at you and gets all up in your face when you lose] as the main tension driver (and everything else is pseudo-ARG for people who actually want to engage with it).
Episodics tend to avoid this, but they have different problems, which leads to the Half-Life 2/3 problem.
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