What is the Darkest Game you've played?

[Dr Namgge]

Resident Evil 2.

Dark games aren't my thing really. Never really taken to horror films, or survival horror games.

 

[Anaryl]

Trying to remember. I think Diablo 1 was dark than II. The soundtrack the ambience, and nothing at the time really came close to that kinda moodiness.

I would agree in theme it's really difficult to go past Planescape Torment. A zombie used as a signpost, and Ravel ... fuck man.

There was one game that scared the fucking hell out of me, trying to remember it's damn name...

 

[BIGB0SS]

Obscure I & II and Castlevania 64

 

[AizenTheAzure]

Fatal Frame - atmosphere
Bioshock - atmosphere mostly
Dead Space - Excellent sound design.
Portal - Sense of dread. The first time you find one of the rooms with the blood and writing on the walls you're like, "whoa, wtf, totally unexpected".
Silent Hill - obvious.
Half Life 2 - Impending dread, and the segments that are mostly monster related, like Ravenholm, the noise the fast ones make, ughh.

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl is probably the darkest game I have ever played. And it also is the best game I have ever played.

LIYAH!! Wut about TF2?

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Splinter Cell.

A torch or even some night vision goggles would of been nice. Instead I had to ramp the brightness and gamma way up in most sections.

Um, am I missing something here? Because NVG and thermal googles are like Fishers main tools as I remember it. At least in the 4 SC games I have. (And I even bought Double Agent for PS2, PS3 and PC to find a version that didn't suck. No dice.)

On topic, I find The Darkness to be a very dark game, both litterally but also thematically. No need to go into further detail as posters upstream have already done so.

 

[Woodsey]

Splinter Cell.

A torch or even some night vision goggles would of been nice. Instead I had to ramp the brightness and gamma way up in most sections.

Um, am I missing something here? Because NVG and thermal googles are like Fishers main tools as I remember it. At least in the 4 SC games I have. (And I even bought Double Agent for PS2, PS3 and PC to find a version that didn't suck. No dice.)

On topic, I find The Darkness to be a very dark game, both litterally but also thematically. No need to go into further detail as posters upstream have already done so.

Mate I was joking :L

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Splinter Cell.

A torch or even some night vision goggles would of been nice. Instead I had to ramp the brightness and gamma way up in most sections.

Um, am I missing something here? Because NVG and thermal googles are like Fishers main tools as I remember it. At least in the 4 SC games I have. (And I even bought Double Agent for PS2, PS3 and PC to find a version that didn't suck. No dice.)

On topic, I find The Darkness to be a very dark game, both litterally but also thematically. No need to go into further detail as posters upstream have already done so.

Mate I was joking :L

Good. I'm glad. I did mention I might have been missing something. In any case, silly me! My point about DA still stands though.

 

[Maeshone]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but there's a free point'n'click horror game called "The White Chamber" which is severly messed up...

Link is here, if you wanna try it out, just check the downloads section. I can definately recommend it.
http://www.studiotrophis.com/site/projects/thewhitechamber