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I had to play SH3 with the lights on volume down and a gamefaqs faq up on my PC at all times. Probably spent most of the game paused reading the faq over and over. Very scary game still looks great today.

Dead Space is a close second that game was scary AF to me. Basically Event Horizon extended edition.

Scariest game i have ever play is Visage. That game has every type of horror you can imagine and it does it all perfectly.

No matter how much light you have, you never feel safe.

SH1 is bootleg AF Resident Evil & RE2 beat the shit of it.

SH2 is one of the best stories ive ever seen but theres a much creepier game called Fatal Frame that was way scarier than this.

DS2 i never played it Dead Space was enough lol ive watched playthroughs on youtube looks scary tho

Priere posted...

Scariest game i have ever play is Visage. That game has every type of horror you can imagine and it does it all perfectly.

No matter how much light you have, you never feel safe.

never heard of this what system is it when did it come out?

Nasty_Nitro posted...

DS2 i never played it Dead Space was enough lol ive watched playthroughs on youtube looks scary tho

Dead Space 2 isn't scary. It's the Aliens to Dead Space's Alien

Nasty_Nitro posted...

never heard of this what system is it when did it come out?

came out in 2018 in early access, but its fully done now.

Its on all modern systems and PC.

The jump scares in Dead Space are so predictable

PT's the scariest thing I ever played.

SH3's got one of the scariest parts of any game ever for me. The mirror room.

I only played Dead Space for the first time last year and was pretty shocked at how great it was. It kept the scares coming at a very impressive pace. They packed a ton of variety in there to keep you on your toes throughout. Most games are only scary for the first few hours because you grow numb to everything and get more comfortable with the combat and equipment. So Dead Space still causing some spooks hours into it was a nice surprise.

Dead Space was pretty scary when it first came out.

I don't really play a lot of scary games but the last one I played was Alien Isolation and I just couldn't continue with it. That is the scariest shit I've ever played.

Dead Space was alright. The horror was significantly mitigated by the fact that you are a fucking walking WMD.

AP3Brain posted...

Dead Space was pretty scary when it first came out.

I don't really play a lot of scary games but the last one I played was Alien Isolation and I just couldn't continue with it. That is the scariest shit I've ever played.

Dude same. Dead space is certainly scary. The remake makes it feel even more claustrophobic and dark too. But Alien Isolation is just really spooky. I think not being able to kill the Alien along with its really unique AI make it so much more scary. I couldnt finish it either. It was just too stressful

Alien Isolation is the only game I can recall just having to put down because I couldn't handle it. I don't do well with those "you are constantly being hunted" types of games.

The original Condemned: Criminal Origins scared the fucking shit out of me. I've had bum PTSD ever since.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Alien Isolation is the only game I can recall just having to put down because I couldn't handle it. I don't do well with those "you are constantly being hunted" types of games.

Same here. Only game where I said..."this shit just isn't worth it". The way it moved and the incredible atmosphere was just too much. I was so flippin' tense playing that game.

KanWan posted...

The second one did it for me, the first couple of levels are just absolutely insane in the atmosphere department

great games!!

Actually, yeah. Now that I think about it, the second might have freaked my shit even more. The whole part in the cabin was intense.

Gotta go with Super Meat Boy.

There's no more visceral experience than having your success undercut by a replay compiling all of your failed attempts into one horrific display of failure. A normal game would tell you've won. Super Meat Boy dares to ask "At what cost?" As your goal is pulled from your grasp by the villain and the manifestations of your past failures begin charging forward.

The levels are all conventional horror settings. A hospital, a factory, hell and more. Most games would try to limit the player to a slower movespeed and more weighted animations, but Super Meat Boy demonstrates that frenetic gameplay loops can be used to heighten the nerves and instil panic within even the most seasoned horror game veterans.

A single hit spells doom in Super Meat Boy and it's not shy about tormenting players who quickly grow fond of Super Meat Boy and find themselves relating to his emotional struggle. Painstakingly animated scenes weaving tales of tortured souls in an unforgiving world will be the least of your anxieties in this immersive experience.

GameGodOfAll posted...

PT's the scariest thing I ever played.

SH3's got one of the scariest parts of any game ever for me. The mirror room.

I only played Dead Space for the first time last year and was pretty shocked at how great it was. It kept the scares coming at a very impressive pace. They packed a ton of variety in there to keep you on your toes throughout. Most games are only scary for the first few hours because you grow numb to everything and get more comfortable with the combat and equipment. So Dead Space still causing some spooks hours into it was a nice surprise.

its the sounds yuck the sounds the monsters make is so gross and your weapons are so trash in that game. I love it

Dying Light is one of the scariest games I've played, especially when night time comes around. That game on VR would be nightmare fuel to the max.

I've played Dead Space, and Dying Light was way scarier in my opinion.

Fatal Frame is up there that shit had me freakin out. what is PT?

Silent Hill 3 needs a remake that game is so fucking gross and nasty looking. Backtracking in that game was awesome
cuz you knew some weird shit would be there when you had to return to a place everything keeps changing

Visage scarier than both imo. Its awesome graphics help tho. I had to play it with lights on and my bro and dog sitting next to me lol. But I'm a scaredy cat

The mirror room.

Kradek posted...

Dying Light is one of the scariest games I've played, especially when night time comes around. That game on VR would be nightmare fuel to the max.

I've played Dead Space, and Dying Light was way scarier in my opinion.

it was easy tho Dead Space was much harder

Alien isolation gave my brother nightmares. Which is why I still havent played it despite buying it on sale years ago

Tomb Raider 1 scared the shit out of me as a kid bad enough that i never finished it. Draw distance feels worse than SH1, enemies and traps that just *rush* you from the fog while you're in a disadvantaged position to fight back, the oppressive silence making everything a jumpscare. You go in thinking it's an action platformer but it's really the same survival horror gameplay as RE/SH.

The remake nerfed the hell out of that atmosphere

KanWan posted...

PT/Silent Hills is Hideo Kojimas take on the SH series. Its just a demo though, it was cancelled following Kojimas leave from Konami. Japanese horror tends to be more extreme and surreal and because its a short teaser, its all crammed in a short burst resulting in a pretty horrifying experience from start to finish.

It used to be available on the PS store, but it got taken down. I still have it downloaded fortunately but if the memory on my PS4 gets corrupted its gone forever.

Worth watching a play through of it since its pretty short though!!

Oh yeah ive seen that the creepy house that keeps changing as time passes yeah that was creepy

Nothing beats the insanity meter in Eternal Darkness ( O_o)

Nasty_Nitro posted...

it was easy tho Dead Space was much harder

I don't remember Dead Space being particularly hard.

The Witchs House deserves a mention here.

No, but there was something really unnerving about the abandoned empty otherworld mall in SH3. I did lose the most sleep trying to play through SH4. I'm not sure why though.

For me, the absolute scariest thing in a Silent Hill game was from the SH2 Born From a Wish scenario.

The attic. It just comes out of nowhere after all that tension building. Then right after you get to see this

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/6/7/AAFOjXAAEn8H.jpg
Dont know why i found that image so unsettling, but i did.

The most frightened I've ever been was in Subnautica.

Dead Space ain't scary.
If a game is designed to be scary it ain't.

Exploring cavern systems alone in Minecraft, now that's scary

Avirosb posted...

Dead Space ain't scary.
If a game is designed to be scary it ain't.

Exploring cavern systems alone in Minecraft, now that's scary

Thats also why the Forest Temple is a lot more unnerving than the Shadow Temple.

Avirosb posted...

Exploring cavern systems alone in Minecraft, now that's scary

Used to be even worse in the early days with the old monochrome lighting, hitscan aimbot skeletons, AI that didn't bother pathfinding safely off of high ledges, and non-stacking food.

flussence posted...

Tomb Raider 1 scared the shit out of me as a kid bad enough that i never finished it. Draw distance feels worse than SH1, enemies and traps that just *rush* you from the fog while you're in a disadvantaged position to fight back, the oppressive silence making everything a jumpscare. You go in thinking it's an action platformer but it's really the same survival horror gameplay as RE/SH.

The remake nerfed the hell out of that atmosphere

Yeah, I can't say a near total lack of music is "Good" design but boy howdy did it give the game atmosphere

Kradek posted...

I don't remember Dead Space being particularly hard.

It had weird puzzles and sometimes id just be like thats enough for today lol

wanderingshade posted...

No, but there was something really unnerving about the abandoned empty otherworld mall in SH3. I did lose the most sleep trying to play through SH4. I'm not sure why though.

SH3 had a weird way of portraying locations as if you are never alone and even the dirt and shadows felt alive. Damn the monsters the whole place just looked so damn dirty

Avirosb posted...

Dead Space ain't scary.
If a game is designed to be scary it ain't.

Exploring cavern systems alone in Minecraft, now that's scary

The caves in The Forest are scary

Resident Evil 7

luigi33 posted...

Resident Evil 7

Thats light work barely flinched.

Ehh. No games really scare me. Maybe some of the obscure PS1 horror games but even then come on.

Before you turn into Super Jesus at the end, the original Siren game is pretty high up there on the creepy scale. The remake one on the PS3 as well, tbh.

Outlast was the game that scared me the most.

Luigi's Mansion is scarier than Dead Space

Turbam posted...

Luigi's Mansion is scarier than Dead Space

Sir you are tweakin

Scariest games I've played are PT and Nosferatu. Although to be fair when I played Nosferatu I was like, 8 or something.