I was gonna say this. I got a decent ways into it, I got to the level where you play as the guy in the white lab coat waking up in a forest at night but I couldn't keep going. The game was too scary for me. It's honestly kind of absurd how much this game gets under my skin.
I'll never forget way back in the day, when the only way to play this game was to pirate it and get a shitty asiatic translation patch. That, combined with the incredible atmosphere, made it feel like a cursed forgotten game you'd find hidden in someone's attic.
This game had some really, really good ideas. The maps weren't built for chases, but it really wanted that janitor to chase you around. Hell one of the areas was just two dead end hallways until you got the stairway key making you literally nearly always cornered during a chase.
swat 4 actually. not that it's that scary, but it keeps you way more focused and immersed than anything else i ever played, and the dark levels really do it for me
When I suddenly got shot at by someone I couldn't see after hours of not meeting another soul in DayZ. The most real fight or flight response I've ever had in my 28 years of life
A fricking Roblox game called Rainbow Friends.
Not exactly "Scary" because it's one of those "WHAT IF CUTE THING BUT SCARY?" games.
Sound design and tension are the thing
First time I played Silent Hill 1. The otherworld becomes a fricking Detroit simulator when you don't know how good it is to turn your flashlight off. The aggro never ends. It never fricking ends.
not the scariest as a whole since it's more of an action game, but in The Evil Within that chapter inside the mansion where Ruvik somewhat randomly appears and starts teleporting next to you. The way he walks and kills you if he just touches you and all the randomness is pure anxiety kino
>The Forest
there are other games that have startled me more, but nothing has spooked me fricking solid like chopping down a tree in the woods and having to look around to make sure nobody is watching
Splatterhouse for arcade really fricked up my little sister, she loved watching me play but would be too scared to sleep by herself, had to share the bed countless times
I guess the first Siren. It was just too obtuse, dark and oppressive for my preteen heart. Although it's hard to beat Fatal Frame 2 at night.
Fatal Frames are so comfy to play at night.
The Siren games are relics of a different era.
[Spoiler for a 20 year old game]
I was gonna say this. I got a decent ways into it, I got to the level where you play as the guy in the white lab coat waking up in a forest at night but I couldn't keep going. The game was too scary for me. It's honestly kind of absurd how much this game gets under my skin.
Amnesia TDD if it has to be a dedicated horror game. But if it doesn't, nothing beats the true horror of Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
PT on VR. Never saw much of it before besides images posted on here
Quake 4
Morrowind when I was 8.
for me it was turok
I saw someone playing it as a kid and it made me scared of dinosaurs
The duke nukem game where the light turns off in the building you enter
Witch's House
stalker soc
Visage
Villager with chainsaw in RE4
I'll never forget way back in the day, when the only way to play this game was to pirate it and get a shitty asiatic translation patch. That, combined with the incredible atmosphere, made it feel like a cursed forgotten game you'd find hidden in someone's attic.
I really wanted to get into this but these run-and-hide games just do not keep me entertained
This game had some really, really good ideas. The maps weren't built for chases, but it really wanted that janitor to chase you around. Hell one of the areas was just two dead end hallways until you got the stairway key making you literally nearly always cornered during a chase.
Nightmare House 2 as I remember had some pretty clever scares built into the subtitles.
look at my horse
super mario 64
Alien Isolation VR
Driving while drunk as frick
You're not really in a position to know fear at that point.
Driving and then forgetting how to drive at 2am because your'e tired.
Now that is scary.
>forgetting how to drive at 2am because your'e tired
This sounds moronic.
Easy to say when you never leave your room.
swat 4 actually. not that it's that scary, but it keeps you way more focused and immersed than anything else i ever played, and the dark levels really do it for me
When I suddenly got shot at by someone I couldn't see after hours of not meeting another soul in DayZ. The most real fight or flight response I've ever had in my 28 years of life
have a nice day.
Darkwood is nightmare inducing.
Hmmmmmmmmm
Unironically SCP-087. No loud noises, no gore, no chase sequences, just pure suspense building and sheer dread.
five nights at freddy's
the first one, the first time i played it
nothing else has had me be tense for so long
>this game made zoomers piss in their pants
Always funny.
A fricking Roblox game called Rainbow Friends.
Not exactly "Scary" because it's one of those "WHAT IF CUTE THING BUT SCARY?" games.
Sound design and tension are the thing
the spooky stuff... is all le mental illness...
Worst kind of spooks if ya ask me.
First time I played Silent Hill 1. The otherworld becomes a fricking Detroit simulator when you don't know how good it is to turn your flashlight off. The aggro never ends. It never fricking ends.
jump scares aside doom 3 had the creepiest environment games today still cant seem to pin down https://youtu.be/OQAd-HHdf1c?t=643
Silent Hill 4
*giggles*
What game is this from ?
Bioshock
Hypothetically, a game made by Nariomarudarkside
not the scariest as a whole since it's more of an action game, but in The Evil Within that chapter inside the mansion where Ruvik somewhat randomly appears and starts teleporting next to you. The way he walks and kills you if he just touches you and all the randomness is pure anxiety kino
Afraid Of Monsters: Director's Cut.
easily darkwood
>The Forest
there are other games that have startled me more, but nothing has spooked me fricking solid like chopping down a tree in the woods and having to look around to make sure nobody is watching
Alone in the dark the new nightmare scared the living shit out of me as a kid
Outer Wilds.
Yes I'm serious.
Iron Lung
I audibly screamed when I tried to photograph the final mark.
It's just so well executed I doubt there's anyone who would genuinely dislike the game.
Splatterhouse for arcade really fricked up my little sister, she loved watching me play but would be too scared to sleep by herself, had to share the bed countless times
Amnesia I guess, probably just mostly due to the fact I played it before I became the jaded old butthole I am now.