Scariest Games You've Ever Encountered

[shimyia]

Penumbra, Amnesia, Call of Cthulu and Minecraft alpha

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Resident Evil Code Veronica X

First level, a truck exploded and I shat my pants and turned off the PS2

 

[Rumpsteak]

Minecraft. I don't know what it is but that game just breeds a sense of paranoia that no other game I've played has managed. It's also quite adept with the jump scares.

 

[Doneeee]

One of my personal favorite scary games is Silent Hill. It set up the series trademarks with the grotesque monstrosities and feeling of isolation, but that's not what mainly scared me. It's the fact that you can't see 3 feet in front of you at any point in the game

 

[JasonKaotic]

Amnesia and Silent Hill 2 and 4 are the only games that have really scared me a lot. Silent Hill 1 had great moments (the two locker scares are just awesome), but for the most part it doesn't come close to those three. I haven't played Silent Hill 3 yet, but I'll assume that one's good too.

 

[Whateveralot]

For what I played; Return to Castle Wolfenstein 3d scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Also, more recently. Amnesia. I often quit the game just to calm down for a bit.

 

[lRookiel]

Penumbra overture is the only one of Frictionals titles I havn't completed yet because of that FUCKING DOG!

It's too scary

 

[Kazedarkwind]

really? no one thought the first Fear was scary? made me look over my shoulders for weeks, especially since i compute in a dark room alone all the time.

though admittedly i still have a hard time getting through amnesia

 

[II2]

Sure, a lot of the ones people have mentioned. Amnesia, Condemned, Theif 1/2, Silent Hill 1 & 2, STALKER (to a lesser extent Metro 2033) and parts of other games like Fallout, Half Life 2, etc...

But my personal favorite remains System Shock 2, for the creeps.


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[SonOfVoorhees]

Entering the Ancestral Tombs in Morrowind, especially late at night. Not so much scary as unnerving when you hear all the whispering and mutterings.

ClockTower 3 (i think) when you hiding from the scissor man and he is searching for you. If he finds you......giant scissors in the face. Game Over.

 

[octafish]

Sure, a lot of the ones people have mentioned. Amnesia, Condemned, Theif 1/2, Silent Hill 1 & 2, STALKER (to a lesser extent Metro 2033) and parts of other games like Fallout, Half Life 2, etc...

But my personal favorite remains System Shock 2, for the creeps.


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Indeed. It took way too long for SS2 to have been mentioned. The sound of the God damn Psi Monkeys still give me the creeps, to say nothing of the Midwives It's the simple Hybrid's "Hurry...RUN!" that stays with me though.

 

[lacktheknack]

I've been playing Silent Hill 2 and its been pretty scary so far. I've only just got to the hospital so I think the scarier stuff is yet to come

Oh, you haven't gone to the Historical Society yet?

Ah... ahaha... AHAHAHAA... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

 

[EvilMaggot]

AvP2. Marine campaign. That fucking motion tracker

Yeah I found that pretty scary too. But for some reason, the same campaign and motion tracker in AvP from 2010 was not scary at all.

That thing still haunts me to this day if i play that game.. just hearing the sound and finding out it was a cable.. T_T

 

[Jast]

Amnesia scared me pretty good. That was great. I played this one game called Scratches that scared me so much that at one point in the game it took a long time for me just open a door because I was certain something really scary would happen once I did...I like being scared in games! ^-^

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Fillies and Gentlecolts... I present to you, Fatal Frame!


You WILL shit your pants at 0:23. Keep some toilet paper handy.

If that isn't enough, watch this entire video without ever scrolling down or clicking ahead.

The girly screams scared me more than anything. I just don't see that as scary.

I'm sure it would be different if you were the one playing it. I was the same when I was watching my friend playing Condemned, didn't find it scary. After he handed me the pad however I was like "fuck this".

OT: First prize winner definitely goes to Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I've been standing in a wardrobe on it for a good few months now.

EDIT: Oh and I know this isn't a game but I just want to link it anyway. http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.

 

[EHKOS]

Condemned, Barts Department store, the jump scare with the locker the dead guy is in...it goes on and ON!

 

[Rheinmetall]

Project Zero by far! Also Friday The 13th and Resident Evil 2.

 

[Issurru]

For me, it's FEAR. But that's only because I play it on dark and stormy/creepy nights when I'm home alone. So it's honestly all my fault. I played it on a bright and shiny day and it didn't scare me at all. Never played amnesia though. Watched my friend play it and shriek and holler, it was hilarious. Especially when I gave him my noise canceling headphones and I snuck up behind him screamed and shook him. I swear to god that he shit himself a little, but he will never admit it

 

[Latenz1134]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I went in to it expecting to be terrifying, so any little noise I heard I stopped and hid