Scariest Game Ever Made

[Akalistos]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Dead Space.

To me, it was a perfect combination of action and horror.

[sub] Okay, maybe a little heavy on the horror. [/sub]

I didn't find dead space to really be horror. Sure, it startled you occasionally but that's not scary. I was startled when a june bug was in my shoe. Not quite horror.

I'm gonna go with System Shock 2 on this one.

Yea, I guess your right, I just guess I'll just-

OMG! NECROMORPH!

See? Pretty damn scary, huh?

Abort. fail. retry.

I never had a scare moment in that game. It like i knew what would pop up and when. Example: everytime you complete a task. Maybe it's because i'm a veteran in those sort of game, but the atmosphere wasn't there. Resident Evil 2 on the other hand. It totally make me freak out a bunch of time.

Remember the morgue? Yeah, there a key there. You enter, and as soon as it load you pressed the AIM button. Your fingers is twitching. You know that's the most likely place to find zombies. Ain't that right? Not a sound, not a moan, not a move. You proceed with caution around the gurneys place there in a hurry. The key in the left side of the room, near the "meat lockers". You get there. Nothing. You pick up the key. Nothing. You proceed to the door. As soon as you make a step, the "meat lockers" open and the zombies slowly start pouring out. The once peaceful occupant of the gurney start rising, and you realize that the game made you do the worst thing you could ever do: Lock yourself in the morgue during a zombie outbreak. Don't you just love it?

Edit: Caption for the pic; Change, you got Change? Come on help a guy out will ya?

 

[DethVanXan]

I dunno, the last level on Thief 3?

The only other option I've got is System Shock 2.

omg... the last level in thief 3 scared me alot also the pagon level. For a game that I dont believe was supposed to be scary, got quite scary. (also the orphan house)

Shalbridge cradle. That level alone is what prevented me from playing through that game a second time. I didn't want to go through that again.
The guy who designed that level also designed several levels for Bioshock. That guy's good.

 

[Souplex]

Luigi's mansion is the greatest horror masterpiece of all time.

 

[Akalistos]

Luigi's mansion is the greatest horror masterpiece of all time.

Really?... How?

 

[rees263]

Dead Space and Resident Evil 2.

I think Bioshock was pretty spooky too b/c of the atmosphere and splicers just freak me out. If there were splicers in the area you were in you could hear them all talking and ready to jump out at you. That mixed with the sounds from the concession machines was really freaky, IMO.

I hear you on Bioshock. The first time I played that I was pretty freaked out (especially because I wasn't very good to start with) and the whole game was just so immersive.

Definitely agree with the freaky vending machines too. As if clowns weren't scary enough they make clown machines that sit there mocking you while you get murdered by a big daddy. Scary shit!

I'm not really very good with horror on the whole, so any game with even a hint of it I almost crap my pants. It does make for absolutely amazing gaming experiences though. I spent most of my first RE4 playthrough jumping at every noise - particularly at the beginning with the ominous music I found it scary enough. Of course having played it a few times now it doesn't scare me at all. It's a shame because I have a feeling that the reason I didn't find RE5 scary was because it was so similar to RE4. Or maybe it just wasn't scary...

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Aliens vs Predator on the Jaguar. Scary as shit on that first go with the dark room.

 

[The Eggplant]

For me, one single level has outdone most entire horror games: Shalebridge Cradle, in Thief III. Dear God, that place gave me nightmares.

 

[Plurralbles]

I would say Eternal Darkness, but geeze, I dont' think I played it at the right time because it seemed tired to me. Maybe all hte scares were spoiled for me. maybe it's just not that scary, maybe the graphics created a break in the 4th wall so i couldn't get into it.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, while not the scariest, was really fucking horrifying.

What stands out in my mind is when you piece by piece discover the fate of a newly moved in cheerleader on the team who got drugged, raped by the entire football team, then left out in the snow, dead.

You're right, that WHOLE game is horrifying (cause it sucked ass) to this day I think the scariest game is the first Silent Hill, they need to do a proper remake (which would just be updated graphics) actually you know what? They don't need one, it's just that good.

Also does anyone know the game I'm trying to think of? It seemed pretty scary, I saw a trailer for it on it's website (it hasn't come out yet) It's a PC game and you're this guy in some kind of dark castle and you hear this scream and as you go to check it out you see this monster in the room with blood all over the floor. You have no weapons at all so you gotta hide in things and not die, anyways the monster chases after you but you go into a room and hide in a wardrobe

 

[theSovietConnection]

Bioshock had a great atmosphere, I always felt tense while playing that game. The last game to truely terrify me though was Echo Night: Beyond.


EDIT: I'll also throw in that song as one of the creepiest songs I have heard, right after the Dead Space variation of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

 

[ArmorArmadillo]

Silent Hill 2...mainly because the monsters were probably the least scary thing in the game, it's that it forces you to confront really horrifying environments in order to move forward, getting slowly needled in the brain by sounds and sights that make you feel like you danger is ABOUT to occur...not to mention that the incredibly human struggles of James, Eddie, and Angela are infinitely more real than any monster.

That, and the monsters themselves were supposedly corporeal manifestations of their 'issues', like the nurses and mannequin-leg-things being a representation of James's repressed sexual desires - or something along those lines?

Yeah...it was like being tormented by your own sexual frustrations. Although being able to beat your own mental baggage to death is kind of cathartic...maybe Silent Hill 2 was actually a lost level of Psychonauts.

 

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

For me, its been Penumbra: Overture.
I've only gotten the tiniest bit in it so far, but the setting and all the sounds have me terrified.
More so than any other scary game I've played.

I'm peeing myself just thinking of it.

 

[sirkai007]

System shock 2 or F.E.A.R. Those two games have made me shout obscenities and fire wildly at shadows more than any other games.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

I'll throw another vote to penumbra. Because I haven't finished it yet. The first dog howl? had to quit the game. The 2nd spider encounters? quit again. Thinking about trying a 3rd time.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Also does anyone know the game I'm trying to think of? It seemed pretty scary, I saw a trailer for it on it's website (it hasn't come out yet) It's a PC game and you're this guy in some kind of dark castle and you hear this scream and as you go to check it out you see this monster in the room with blood all over the floor. You have no weapons at all so you gotta hide in things and not die, anyways the monster chases after you but you go into a room and hide in a wardrobe

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Made by the Penumbra people.
http://www.amnesiagame.com/#main

 

[LadyRhian]

I'm gong real old-school, but 7th Guest genuinely creeped me out, and the ending to the sequel, 11th Hour, was pretty creepy, too. If you haven't played, the overarching plot of 11th hour is that you're a guy going into the haunted mansion of the first game to rescue your TV News Reporter girlfriend, who has disappeared. During the game, you discover that three friends went into the house 20 years ago. One died, one wound up pregnant, and the third got pregnant and had an abortion, and ended up being paralyzed from the waist down in a wheelchair.

At the end of the game, you have to choose who to rescue: your girlfriend, the wild-child daughter of the girl who stayed pregnant, or the girl in the wheelchair.

Ending 1- Wild Child:

Ending 2- Your girlfriend:

Ending 3: Paralyzed girl:

That first one gave me nightmares. For weeks. Augh!

 

[AstylahAthrys]

For me, one single level has outdone most entire horror games: Shalebridge Cradle, in Thief III. Dear God, that place gave me nightmares.

This is so true. I showed this level to a friend of mine who was staying the night and she didn't sleep after I showed her it. This friend is also big on horror movies and barely gets nightmares from them. That whole series makes me jump out of my skin at certain points, especially the Hammerhaunts. I was just in the catacombs under the Mechanist Seminary in Thief II and saw one and ran away like a little girl... which I kind of am considering I'm only 5 feet tall. Bad analogy aside, Thief's creepiness rocks and that is why I love it.

 

[Gardenia]

The Suffering Prison is Hell


It wasn't the monsters in it, or the jump scares that were the most disturbing. It was the scenes where you saw the flash backs of the protaginist's family.

The PC version was made available as freeware if anyone wants it. Plus the x Box version is backwards compatible with the 360.

http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/09/25/download-the-suffering-full-free-game/

Yoink! I am so grabbing this.
OT: System shock 2 had had me absolutely terrified back in 1999. I still hear SHODAN in the dark sometimes.

 

[Jast]

Reading through alot of the games listed on this thread I never even found remotely scary. Shoot I think I've numbed my senses.

The scariest game that I have played would have to be Scratches. Ashameably it took me like an hour to muster up the courage to open a door.