The scary parts of Swamp Sim Horror are exactly what you'd expect: forced scares when Shrek's face fills the screen combined with very loud sounds. In other games, you might have to collect pages from a diary, for example, but in Swamp Sim Horror, you have to pick onions. The game is very similar to other games of this type: you begin in a dark forest, and you have to collect eight objects while the terrifying creature lurks around. As if that isn't ridiculous enough, as you try to escape, you have to listen to his monologues about onions. Swamp Sim Horror is a first-person 'slender game.' In it, instead of running away from Slender Man or other terrifying creatures, you have to run away from Shrek.