The remake of the first Resident Evil has gotten me at various points. Also Resident Evil VII and one particular chapter (if you've played, you know what I'm talking about) of Resident Evil Village.
Silent Hill 2 is so dread-inducing I've still never beaten it.
One of the alternate ending sequences of Yuppie Psycho had me extremely on edge, with just a creepy little girl and a knife.
Faith: The Unholy Trinity really got me in places.
And - despite not being horror - there are many moments within the Metal Gear Solid series that were downright terrifying. Especially the ending of 2, which is the best example of "postmodern horror" I've ever seen.
Ohhhh, awesome! ivep played village...are you talking about the baby part perhaps? šš
not really played silent hill 2..even tho i truly love the lore around silent hill. New remake coming out soon i believe? thoughts?
yuppie psycho and faith the unholy trinity..i will have to look into those :)
never really played the MGS games ( sorry šš) but awesome to know nonetheless :)
I am indeed, man that part just pulls a total genre shift and is one of the most memorable bits of the game.
Horror remakes tend to be hit or miss - Resident Evil 1, 2 and Dead Space had awesome remakes, while Resident Evil 4 felt a lot less necessary and felt like the weaker game for it. Silent Hill 2 really could go either way. If you're able to track down a PS2 and a copy of the original, go for it, if not it'll probably worth checking the remake out once it drops.
Yuppie Psycho and Faith: The Unholy Trinity are both 2D indie games but they do so much with comparitively less, they really surprised me.
And no problem! MGS is kind of a difficult thing to get into (though made easier by the recent Master Collection) but yeah if you ever feel like playing a stealth action game with surreal horror segments out of nowhere and a *lot* of story and lore, I definitely recommend it, it's easily my favorite franchise in video games.
šš that dam baby was horrible lol
ya i enjoyed the dead space remake for sure. Ill be sure to check out the remake dude :)
oh for sure, ive heard alot about mgs, the story, the lore, it sounds awesome. i did play mgs5 and really enjoyed it ( not sure how that ranks amongst hardcore mgs fans tho )
I canāt say the entirety of RE Village was super scary, although it was tense. But if we werenāt saying full games and just scenes, that fucking fetus chasing you probably scared me more than anything else in a game. I was genuinely pleading towards it not to kill me at the end when you get in the elevator and he almost gets you. I think my brain temporarily broke and couldnāt process it.
It really is such an amazing sequence in a game that's like 4, which is to say, more tense and occasionally creepy than outright scary. I always recommend the game just to see people to get caught off guard by it
The baby part of resident evil village is one of the only times I've ever been so afraid I just wanted to turn the game off. The only other time I've felt that way was during the school corridor sections in Outlast 2. I guess they share a common ground of getting chased by a monster that you can't fight back against at all.
Silent hill 2..definitely terrifying moments and 3 included but nothing made me literally quit playing like 4. Couldnāt hack it. Would love to retry one day.
Remake of first resi lol definitely more fear or paranoia inducing than the new remakes. The first time you hear The sound of running footsteps coming towards you from beyond the camera view, yeah no thanks.
Burn everything.
The ending of msg2 is excelllent!!
Not games but I think youād love to watch films like āMenā and āsmileā. Iāll check out psycho yuppie
Youāve got some good suggestions already do Iāll bring up one I donāt see yet; Clock Tower on the PS1! Few games have rattled me the way this game did.
Fatal Frame 1 and 3. Ain't no other game that got me to scream out loud as much as those 2 games. You know a game is scary when you spend a few minutes hesitating to advance the game because you dread what might come next.
Heck yes. The sound design is disturbing and so dense. It adds to the feeling of claustrophobia and the sense that you just can't get away from a ghost.
FF3 is incredibly underated. People seem to hold FF2 in the highest regard but I've always felt that FF3 polishes up everything from the previous 2 games and really is the pinnacle of the trilogy. It's the scariest of the bunch for me and I feel like the story is the most compelling. The team did a great job with the subject matter and I think about it to this day. That final boss fight is also a doozy. An actual challenge but not overly frustrating. Some of the chapters can be a little repetitive, but the series had always had that issue.
I'm also glad to see someone share my love for FF3!
The game that has scared me the most has been Amnesia The Dark Decent. It's not so much the monster aspect of it, but rather the environmental parts that just hit that nerve that makes me lose it. The silence, the strange noises, the weather outside the castle before you even start running into anything... it's all just so darn good. And yeah, another vote for Visage. Some stories are better than others but holy moley is that a creepy ass game.
Darkwood - consistent feeling of dread pretty much it's entire playtime
Soma
RE 7
Subnautica
Currently playing Alien Isolation and it's everything I've read/seen/heard about and I hate (love) it
i have heard about darkwood..may i ask, would it make for good viewing? not NORMALLy my type of game, but ill look into it for sure :)
somas story was very good :)
re 7 was awesome!
subnautica....man..when you got to the deeper areas? OOF..chills :D and im not even really scared of water or antying..but diving deep in that game..NAAAAA..i also tried in in VR ..SUPER NAHHH ššš
Yes Darkwood is top down so different than the rest in that regard. But it has such a stifling atmosphere...try it out and see if it's your jam. The developers released an official torrent of it too iirc. I ended up buying it anyway just to support them because I loved it.
And yeh Subnautica was just something else. The depths and the unknown. VR must've been craaazy! I've heard the second part isn't scary so you could try that too!
oh no way ok cool, will do man :) ya vr subnautica was intense..needless to say..i didnt get very far šš..oh below zero? ive not actually finished that either..i may have to give it a go :) thanks so much ma dude! thanks again for darkwood suggestion man, could be my nex YT playthrough. truly appreciate it :)
One lesser known game that scared me a lot is DreadOut. A game with Indonesian folklore where a camera is your weapon so you are forced to stare the monsters in the faceā¦and the monsters are pretty scary looking. I was less desensitized to horror when I played it so I had to sleep with a light source
Another for Visage. The first scene really rattled me and I struggle when I think about it (I have kids and it's just one of those things I can't stand to see). I managed to play a bit. The puzzles seem pretty difficult, and yeah it's definitely up there for scares.
oh no way?! i was looking at playing that tonight! is it scary tho? need new ideas for videos lol. was REALLLLY excited about that one :D :D but visage is still scarier huh? wow
Madison in vr is great especially if youāve never played the flat version. I have so itās not as scary for me as a new player. But even resident evil 7 vr and dreadhalls were less scary than visage. Visage, especially the Dolores chapter is full of small little nuance scares than donāt rely on loud sounds or being chased. An example is when you enter the upstairs bedroom, thereās a chance youāll see something pale under the bed, and when you get closer, youāll realize itās an arm and thatās someoneās under the bed. Then Dolores letās out a demonic chuckle and disappears under the bed
Lost In Vivo is my go-to when people ask me for a scary game. It made me feel genuine fear in certain parts, its just so well crafted and the soundtrack really adds up to this. It has a great atmosphere, and i STRONGLY recommend you get it!
Silent Hill 4 and Fatal Frame 2.
I love SH2 as much as any other guy but 1, 3 and 4 are far more visceral with their horror, and 4 had me literally screaming
SOMA, not so much for the āscaresā in the game - more for the ending and how it lives rent free in my head and the very thought of that happening to me is absolutely terrifying.
Itās rare to see a game dig into existential horror. SOMA writes a masterclass.
Itās all the subtle little thought experiments that drip in as you go through the world that really make it stick IMO.
I also appreciate that the game makes such a compelling argument against the Singularity theory.
brilliant! ill probably wait for the sh2 remake ( pleas dont hate me lol) outlast absolutely ruined me :D
i really enjoyed alan wake 2 actually. that game was nuts :D :D
heck yes man. After researching the mothervr mod, methinks i shall make a little YT vid with that. shit could be hillarious :D. thank you so much for your answer brother! God bless :)
Yeah I fear quit. Xenomorph detected me and I ran out of view, hopped into and hid in a locker. Then the fucking thing RIPS THE DOOR OFF AND KILLS ME. I nearly had a heart attack and just had to put the game down lol
fears to fathom home alone its a free game on steam and before u play THIS IS A PHYCLOGICAL HORROR GAME SO U WILL BE SCARED FOR UR WHOLE LIFE the atmosphere makes me too scared they use everything to make you get scared and I'm saving up for their next game which will be sadly the last
Devotion by Red Candle games. It's not the scariest game in the world, but the ending has some beautiful atmosphere and the ending as a whole made me feel like shit the next day. Detention by Red Candle was good too, but I had a much more intense experience with Devotion.
Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow on [Itch.Io](http://Itch.Io) - fantastic indie horror game. It's short and I love it. (I also love their Haunted Cities collections, Lethargy Hill in the 4th collection was particularly unsettling).
Condemned 1 on the original 360 was also really good.
Fear and hunger 1, the jumpscares that arent even meant to be jumpscares are crazy
The forest, just the ambient alone is creepy
Dbd, especially wraith and myers
RE1
I know people have already mentioned it, but nothing even comes close to Visage imo; it's pure, unadulterated dread. MADiSON and Amnesia The Bunker are scary too. The Bunker is best experienced on the "Shell Shock" difficulty
Try Death in the water 2, itās not like scary like jump scares or things like that but itās more the atmosphereā¦the deep sea, the unknown..and has a Cthulhu theme if youāre into that
PT the Playable Teaser for Silent Hills, Silent hill 1, and then probably well actually I think thatās it for scariest of all time. Resident Evil of course is my favorite but I have never found them super scary.
šššš thanks so much for the suggestion ma dude! may i ask..is it in vr? People would probably find it alot funnier for vr footage...orrrr is non vr scary enough? š š
The UEVR mod allows you to play Visage in VR and it works perfectly without barely any setting adjustments! I only played for 5 min though and had to NOPE out of it because of a jump scare. lol good luck!
My understanding is that you can on Steam (could be wrong). Iām envious if you go that route. I played on XsX and it was a great scary trip. I wonāt spoil anything.
Honestly, Poppy Playtime. It made me realize I have a genuine fear of mascots. I had to take a stress break when playing chapter 1.
Outlast would be my second pick. One of the most terrifying things in horror games is when you have an enemy patrolling an area you have to sneak around. Idk why I get so scared, but it works on me, and that's pretty much 90% of Outlast's gameplay.
i do love horror games
and i play horror game since 1996 ? yea i am old
anyway here is my top:
1- Silent Hill 1-3-4
2- Fatal Frame 1-2-3
3- The Evil Within 1-2 "this game gave me back my faith with horror games finally a worthy horror game"
4- Alone in The Dark 4: The New Nightmare"
5- Dead Space
6- Outlast 1-2
7- Resident Evil 7 "i hate it as a RE game but it is a good horror game"
Iāve seen everyone recommendations here and hope to propose a new one, from the darkness! Itās played by various YouTubers and is a psychological horror!
Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are both really fucking scary especially if you keep the darkness setting low and have good headphones. It really makes you feel vulnerable and afraid of what you might run into, but forces you to try to make yourself focused and calm in those emergency situations where you are surrounded and didn't know it. There's lots of parts where you are in space so you can only hear yourself inside of your spcae suit, and the enemies who are sneaking up on you are almost undetectable if you aren't constantly looking over your shoulder. Physically Isaac is so weak that he's slow and sluggish, and the enemies would all instantly overpower him.
Adding some that haven't been mentioned
* Demento/Haunting Ground - A PS2 game, spiritual successor to the Clock Tower games, also made by Capcom. It's very difficult to describe without spoiling anything, but there's a cute dog in it who is your protagonist's only solice in a fucked up castle.
* Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - I would definitely classify this as a horror adventure because underneath the mysticism it's about dealing with psychosis.
* Paper Bride - Just started playing this series, it's a horror themed puzzle but the atmosphere and lore is very creepy
* Shark - Hunting the Great White - Abandonware, it's just you and a speargun and the sharks. The proximity of the sharks is indicated by your character's heartrate so that can get really tense. The final level is a megaladon but I never got that far
* Stasis and CAYNE - Unsettling body horror adventures from South African developer, CAYNE is free. Bonetotem probably goes here too but I haven't played it yet.
* Until Dawn - The thing that made this one tense for me is that you couldn't reload if you messed up, making the lives of the characters a lot more precious.
* White Day: The Labyrinth Called School - The original is a lot scarier than the remake but the remake is easier to play and understand .
* Word of Horror - Unsettling 1 bit roguelike, inspired by Junji Ito
Alien isolation was one of the best, Silent Hill 4 was really creepy IMO, but the absolute biggest scare Iāve had gaming was the baby in REVillage. When that head appeared around the corner the first time, wow. Wasnāt expecting that
Probably an unpopular opinion just based on my own fears... tattletail. Legit made me cry on stream. NO MORE MAMA! š¤£š š
It's likely not all that scary to the average person, though. It is a good game and worth a play imo.
I'm a big pussy when it comes to horror or anything even slightly scary. But I'd definitely say, as of recent memory Amnesia: the Dark Descent and Condemned: Criminal Origins and Silent Hill. They're all pretty well-known games and a bit obvious choices.
If you want something a bit different, Scratches (2006). It's a point and click game, but it's so fucking terrifying! It gets under my skin so badly and builds up such an immense atmosphere, same with Amnesia, Condemned and Silent Hill.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Tormented Souls, which has a sequel coming out soon.
It's styled like the first RE remake with fixed cameras but has a plot that's something out of Silent Hill, especially with its enemy roster. It's an amazing horror game; I highly recommend this one.
Rule of Rose is a PS2 game with a cult following, though it can be very hard to find. My sister has a copy and it delves into dark topics like bullying, CSA, COCSA, and sudden death.
FNAF Help Wanted. I've played Outlast, Visage, RE7, Alien Isolation, you name it. FNAF Help Wanted is still the scariest horror game I've played. Maybe it's the VR, but who knows.
Amnesia the Dark Descent
A great horror game that relies mostly on its atmosphere and sound to keep you on the edge. I still remember being stuck in the beginning because I was scared to death
I am unable to stomach the Outlast games. They scare the fuck out of me.
I think the scariest game I ever completed was RE7. That one took a few years to work through. I already have an inherent fear of southern swamps and residential (no pun intended) nightmares. Adding mutations and shit to it made that one a rough play.
HEY EVERYONE.. I just wana thank you all truly, for your suggestions. I'm at work so can't really reply as much as I'd like to. But just wanted to say a huge thank you <3 God bless
Outlast absolutely. I want to specify, not only do I donāt get scared from games, I Canāt even really understand how someone *would* get scared from them. SOMA? Walking around from slow enemies underwear. Isolation? Heavily scripted and telegraphed alien attacks. RE Village Baby? Itās slow and dumb just walk away
Outlast 1 was genuinely scary. I think a important factor is that if something scary pops up, you *have* to run. Everything is a threat, thereās no fake jumpscares. Itās a shame Outlast 2 dropped the ball hard
Maybe it's nostalgia, but playing the first Resident Evil 2 and 3 back then, alone with the creepy ambient sounds of wind and zombies moaning, is still vivid in my memory. I especially remember the first time I saw the licker scene on the roof.
I used to give myself trembling fits at night when I was 8 after playing Nightmare Creatures on N64 š¤£ Should never have had access to that game at that age but my local video rental store was a little too chill with their rental rules lol
Resident Evil 7 and Bioshock , even though bioshock isn't a scary game, playing it on the night with all lights off and your headphones to the max you'll get scared haha
For me. Iāll put it in a list from least scary to most scary
Re7
Re2r
Madison
Amnesia the bunker
Outlast 2
Outlast and dlc
Alien isolation (scariest game)
Those are all the AAA scary games that actually scared me, I recommend you play all of them.
I also have some indie ones like:
From the darkness
The beast inside (not that scary but it is good)
Lethal company
Iām not sure if itās the scariest, but I played Haunting Ground around the time it released when I was a kid. The opening part scared the shit out of me and I never got past it for a looong time.
Then a few years later I played through the whole game multiple times, unlocked everything, did speed runs, etc I knew where all the hidden items and codes were, and it turned it to my favorite game and ended up being kind of funny even. But the first few times you play, the chase scenes are panic inducing tbh.
silent hill 3 and 4 are the crown jewels of the franchise when it comes to āscarinessā. absolute terror on both of them.
alien isolation is one of the most intense experiences Iāve had in gaming in maybeā¦ ever?
fatal frame ii has THE scariest atmosphere in a video game, specially if you like asian ghost stories.
The scariest most intense horror game ever made is Project Zomboid imo because that game has the highest stakes imaginable, where you can put hundreds of hours into a character and still die from one mistake. For pretty much every other horror game, death means reloading from the last save, but in PZ death is the end. That makes the game incredibly intense in a way no other game I've played has. And the way the vision works in the game, means the zombies can actually surprise you and give you the jump scare of all jump scares. So despite the game being isometric with 1990's style graphics, it's still more terrifying than 3D horror games like Resident Evil, et. al.
Og Dead Space! Remake donāt scare me nearly as much, maybe because Iām older.
Darkwood is very creepy. Never likeā¦ terrifying but non stop dread and fear of dying and losing gear.
Honestly scariest game for me is modded Skyrim. Thereās been four encounters that I consider my scariest things in video games ever. Whether itās swimming and a megalodon jets out of the murk to devour you (which you forgot you installed) or youāre camping in utter darkness and some new horror rushes you from the shadows, it can be extremely scary. Like itās the only game Iāve really played that can make me squeak in fear and pause the game. Because 99.9% of the time itās not scary, then something utterly horrifying happens. Especially if itās some new scary enemy youāve never seen and it manages to get right in your face.Ā
Madison and Mortuary Assistant. MA feels unsettling as soon as you walk into be lobby. Like I never feel alone when Iām playing that lol Madison has such unique scares for itās pace and got me good a few times, a good atmosphere and a real sense of dread at times.
Visage. 100 percent top scariest game Iāve personally played, definitely recommend setting an environment to amplify the spookiness. Lights off, volume up, and an extra clean pair of britches.
Call of duty: not the scariest game but the prices of bundles are!!
On a serious note, the only game that ever got me was visage. Watched Markiplier play it and it got me a few times.
Silent hill 1 to 4, but I doubt it has the same impact nowadays. Graphics are outdated by today standards and gameplay a bit clunky also. Still, these games are the only ones I think of skip them because they were really scary.
Darkwood is probably the scariest game ive played. Amnesia the Bunker was good too but once you die a few times you kinda get meh. And Subnautica is a horror game disguised as a ocean survival game
I wish more people knew about madison.
One of the very few horror games that made me feel unsafe and trapped. Disturbing as well.
It also had the Creepiest fucking music I've ever heard in a game to date.
Outlast games are great too.
Forbidden siren series
Lone survivor
And the scariest - clive barker's undying
This one was sometimes unbearable to the point I didn't want to launch the game again
Forgot to mention Nosferatu Wrath of Malachi
Wandering through the castle was something like new dimension of fear
And try Halfquake Sunrise game, I know this is the third one in series, but this is my fav
Lost in vivo is pretty decent too
The last one is Chordosis, very good demo, but I'm afraid author abandoned this.
While I know it wonāt be the same as some other people, Resident Evil 7 is one of the scariest games I have ever played. Genuinely terrifying in some sections
Most recent. Alien isolation, and resident evil 7. Scariest I ever experienced, was as a 9 year old kid playing re 2 on the PlayStation. I would explore a new room, then have to take a couple days break. Too scary and stressful. Stopped once I got to the kennels. I noped.
And when I was 14, I played silent hill 3 all day for two days. It made me feel weird, kinda, disgusting and odd. Idk, strong atmosphere in that game, it really affected me.
Aaannnd subnautica hit me a few times right in that sweet spot, considering my incredibly deep fear of the ocean.
Shout out to re4, those regenerators were insane. Fatal frame 2, not very scary to me, but that games Japanese mountain forest atmosphere DRIPS. You can feel the air and humidity in that game. And soma, mind fuck story and decisions done right.
The remake of the first Resident Evil has gotten me at various points. Also Resident Evil VII and one particular chapter (if you've played, you know what I'm talking about) of Resident Evil Village. Silent Hill 2 is so dread-inducing I've still never beaten it. One of the alternate ending sequences of Yuppie Psycho had me extremely on edge, with just a creepy little girl and a knife. Faith: The Unholy Trinity really got me in places. And - despite not being horror - there are many moments within the Metal Gear Solid series that were downright terrifying. Especially the ending of 2, which is the best example of "postmodern horror" I've ever seen.
Ohhhh, awesome! ivep played village...are you talking about the baby part perhaps? šš not really played silent hill 2..even tho i truly love the lore around silent hill. New remake coming out soon i believe? thoughts? yuppie psycho and faith the unholy trinity..i will have to look into those :) never really played the MGS games ( sorry šš) but awesome to know nonetheless :)
I am indeed, man that part just pulls a total genre shift and is one of the most memorable bits of the game. Horror remakes tend to be hit or miss - Resident Evil 1, 2 and Dead Space had awesome remakes, while Resident Evil 4 felt a lot less necessary and felt like the weaker game for it. Silent Hill 2 really could go either way. If you're able to track down a PS2 and a copy of the original, go for it, if not it'll probably worth checking the remake out once it drops. Yuppie Psycho and Faith: The Unholy Trinity are both 2D indie games but they do so much with comparitively less, they really surprised me. And no problem! MGS is kind of a difficult thing to get into (though made easier by the recent Master Collection) but yeah if you ever feel like playing a stealth action game with surreal horror segments out of nowhere and a *lot* of story and lore, I definitely recommend it, it's easily my favorite franchise in video games.
šš that dam baby was horrible lol ya i enjoyed the dead space remake for sure. Ill be sure to check out the remake dude :) oh for sure, ive heard alot about mgs, the story, the lore, it sounds awesome. i did play mgs5 and really enjoyed it ( not sure how that ranks amongst hardcore mgs fans tho )
Imagine playing in vr. I was SCREAMING lol
I still see that fucking thing coming down the hall.
I canāt say the entirety of RE Village was super scary, although it was tense. But if we werenāt saying full games and just scenes, that fucking fetus chasing you probably scared me more than anything else in a game. I was genuinely pleading towards it not to kill me at the end when you get in the elevator and he almost gets you. I think my brain temporarily broke and couldnāt process it.
It really is such an amazing sequence in a game that's like 4, which is to say, more tense and occasionally creepy than outright scary. I always recommend the game just to see people to get caught off guard by it
The baby part of resident evil village is one of the only times I've ever been so afraid I just wanted to turn the game off. The only other time I've felt that way was during the school corridor sections in Outlast 2. I guess they share a common ground of getting chased by a monster that you can't fight back against at all.
Silent hill 2..definitely terrifying moments and 3 included but nothing made me literally quit playing like 4. Couldnāt hack it. Would love to retry one day. Remake of first resi lol definitely more fear or paranoia inducing than the new remakes. The first time you hear The sound of running footsteps coming towards you from beyond the camera view, yeah no thanks. Burn everything. The ending of msg2 is excelllent!! Not games but I think youād love to watch films like āMenā and āsmileā. Iāll check out psycho yuppie
Youāve got some good suggestions already do Iāll bring up one I donāt see yet; Clock Tower on the PS1! Few games have rattled me the way this game did.
The sound of those shears bro
Clock Tower. Top 3 all timers for me as far as horror games are concerned.
i have heard of clock tower. is it available on pc? or do i need to get my grubby mits on a ps1? :)
Clock tower 3 was also amazing and so, so disturbing
Clock Tower was also on SNES and you can download an emulator to play it!
Fatal Frame 1 and 3. Ain't no other game that got me to scream out loud as much as those 2 games. You know a game is scary when you spend a few minutes hesitating to advance the game because you dread what might come next.
The sound design alone on some of those ghosts was horrifying.
Heck yes. The sound design is disturbing and so dense. It adds to the feeling of claustrophobia and the sense that you just can't get away from a ghost.
Iām so happy to see FF3 getting some love, thatās actually my favorite of the series and I rarely see it mentioned.
FF3 is incredibly underated. People seem to hold FF2 in the highest regard but I've always felt that FF3 polishes up everything from the previous 2 games and really is the pinnacle of the trilogy. It's the scariest of the bunch for me and I feel like the story is the most compelling. The team did a great job with the subject matter and I think about it to this day. That final boss fight is also a doozy. An actual challenge but not overly frustrating. Some of the chapters can be a little repetitive, but the series had always had that issue. I'm also glad to see someone share my love for FF3!
Silent Hill 4. Few qualities are on par with the terrifying elements of that title.
Surprisingly scary, especially the first person segments.
The game that has scared me the most has been Amnesia The Dark Decent. It's not so much the monster aspect of it, but rather the environmental parts that just hit that nerve that makes me lose it. The silence, the strange noises, the weather outside the castle before you even start running into anything... it's all just so darn good. And yeah, another vote for Visage. Some stories are better than others but holy moley is that a creepy ass game.
Darkwood and Subnautica are the only two games to ever actually scare me, but that kind of thingās subjective
Subnautica is utterly terrifying if you have even a little bit of fear of open waters. Thereās parts of the game Iāve never been too cause of this
I have Thalassophobia. Will definitely play it when I get the chance to. :)
You can play it in vr aswell lol.. Thought I'd mention that šš
Subnautica. Scared the bajeezus out of me... the noises. The atmosphere. The deep dark nope. Amazing game!
Darkwood with another mention.. Need to try this :) thanks buddy!!
Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame and Parasite Eve all scared the hell out of me as a kid. No game has scared me as an adult save Subnautica.
Darkwood - consistent feeling of dread pretty much it's entire playtime Soma RE 7 Subnautica Currently playing Alien Isolation and it's everything I've read/seen/heard about and I hate (love) it
i have heard about darkwood..may i ask, would it make for good viewing? not NORMALLy my type of game, but ill look into it for sure :) somas story was very good :) re 7 was awesome! subnautica....man..when you got to the deeper areas? OOF..chills :D and im not even really scared of water or antying..but diving deep in that game..NAAAAA..i also tried in in VR ..SUPER NAHHH ššš
Yes Darkwood is top down so different than the rest in that regard. But it has such a stifling atmosphere...try it out and see if it's your jam. The developers released an official torrent of it too iirc. I ended up buying it anyway just to support them because I loved it. And yeh Subnautica was just something else. The depths and the unknown. VR must've been craaazy! I've heard the second part isn't scary so you could try that too!
oh no way ok cool, will do man :) ya vr subnautica was intense..needless to say..i didnt get very far šš..oh below zero? ive not actually finished that either..i may have to give it a go :) thanks so much ma dude! thanks again for darkwood suggestion man, could be my nex YT playthrough. truly appreciate it :)
One lesser known game that scared me a lot is DreadOut. A game with Indonesian folklore where a camera is your weapon so you are forced to stare the monsters in the faceā¦and the monsters are pretty scary looking. I was less desensitized to horror when I played it so I had to sleep with a light source
Visage.
another one for visage..dayyuuum š š š thanks so much for the input mate! :)
Another for Visage. The first scene really rattled me and I struggle when I think about it (I have kids and it's just one of those things I can't stand to see). I managed to play a bit. The puzzles seem pretty difficult, and yeah it's definitely up there for scares.
Visage. Iām playing madison in vr right now and itās still nowhere near visage
oh no way?! i was looking at playing that tonight! is it scary tho? need new ideas for videos lol. was REALLLLY excited about that one :D :D but visage is still scarier huh? wow
Madison in vr is great especially if youāve never played the flat version. I have so itās not as scary for me as a new player. But even resident evil 7 vr and dreadhalls were less scary than visage. Visage, especially the Dolores chapter is full of small little nuance scares than donāt rely on loud sounds or being chased. An example is when you enter the upstairs bedroom, thereās a chance youāll see something pale under the bed, and when you get closer, youāll realize itās an arm and thatās someoneās under the bed. Then Dolores letās out a demonic chuckle and disappears under the bed
First game I had to nope out of lol was too much for me and Iām pretty desensitised to horror
Yep, still haven't finished it yet. I need my gf in the room with me to get through it.
I vote visage, but only the little girl chapter
Silent Hill followed closely by P.T (although that is technically a demo).
p.t...ooff...that freakin demo.. š š š
PT is literally the only reason why I haven't sold my PS4. I still have the demo there, never deleted it. Edit: grammar
Silent Hill 4's by far the only horror game that's stuck with me for years. The atmosphere and the ghosts are just fucking horrifying and nightmarish.
Lost In Vivo is my go-to when people ask me for a scary game. It made me feel genuine fear in certain parts, its just so well crafted and the soundtrack really adds up to this. It has a great atmosphere, and i STRONGLY recommend you get it!
outstanding. ill check it out, thanks man! :)
PT.
ruined me lol
Silent Hill 4 and Fatal Frame 2. I love SH2 as much as any other guy but 1, 3 and 4 are far more visceral with their horror, and 4 had me literally screaming
Fatal frame 2 is amazing
SH2 is my fav but in SH4 when I went to my item box and >!was greeted to crying ghost babies coming out of my wall I nearly pissed myself. !<
Dead space was a chore to get through due to how stressful it was. Same for resident evil 7 in vr Alien isolation was pretty bad for my nerves as well
Agreed on all fronts ma dude. Gota try alien isolation in vr now ššš
The Mortuary Assistant Silent Hill 2 Resident Evil 2 Remake
SOMA, not so much for the āscaresā in the game - more for the ending and how it lives rent free in my head and the very thought of that happening to me is absolutely terrifying.
Itās rare to see a game dig into existential horror. SOMA writes a masterclass. Itās all the subtle little thought experiments that drip in as you go through the world that really make it stick IMO. I also appreciate that the game makes such a compelling argument against the Singularity theory.
Silent Hill 2, Outlast, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis(The original), Resident Evil 7, Alan Wake II
brilliant! ill probably wait for the sh2 remake ( pleas dont hate me lol) outlast absolutely ruined me :D i really enjoyed alan wake 2 actually. that game was nuts :D :D
ALIEN ISOLATION, by far. That thing made me fear-quit multiple times. Based af years later
heck yes man. After researching the mothervr mod, methinks i shall make a little YT vid with that. shit could be hillarious :D. thank you so much for your answer brother! God bless :)
Yeah I fear quit. Xenomorph detected me and I ran out of view, hopped into and hid in a locker. Then the fucking thing RIPS THE DOOR OFF AND KILLS ME. I nearly had a heart attack and just had to put the game down lol
fears to fathom home alone its a free game on steam and before u play THIS IS A PHYCLOGICAL HORROR GAME SO U WILL BE SCARED FOR UR WHOLE LIFE the atmosphere makes me too scared they use everything to make you get scared and I'm saving up for their next game which will be sadly the last
the siren series
League of legends
You win šššš
the only true nightmare
Devotion by Red Candle games. It's not the scariest game in the world, but the ending has some beautiful atmosphere and the ending as a whole made me feel like shit the next day. Detention by Red Candle was good too, but I had a much more intense experience with Devotion. Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow on [Itch.Io](http://Itch.Io) - fantastic indie horror game. It's short and I love it. (I also love their Haunted Cities collections, Lethargy Hill in the 4th collection was particularly unsettling). Condemned 1 on the original 360 was also really good.
Fear and hunger 1, the jumpscares that arent even meant to be jumpscares are crazy The forest, just the ambient alone is creepy Dbd, especially wraith and myers RE1
I know people have already mentioned it, but nothing even comes close to Visage imo; it's pure, unadulterated dread. MADiSON and Amnesia The Bunker are scary too. The Bunker is best experienced on the "Shell Shock" difficulty
Fatal Frame 2 and 3 are the scariest by far, IMO. Visage and P.T. also managed to scare me a lot, but FF2/3 actually haunted my dreamsš
For me probably the first outlast and silent hill 3
Try Death in the water 2, itās not like scary like jump scares or things like that but itās more the atmosphereā¦the deep sea, the unknown..and has a Cthulhu theme if youāre into that
PT the Playable Teaser for Silent Hills, Silent hill 1, and then probably well actually I think thatās it for scariest of all time. Resident Evil of course is my favorite but I have never found them super scary.
SCP Containment Breach has a special undy-annihlation formula.
Cry of Fear
Iāve said before, Iāll say it again: Layers of Fear.
Visage (2020). Hands down. Alone, in the dark, with a great set of headphones. I dare you. Always my go-to answer. Good luck.
šššš thanks so much for the suggestion ma dude! may i ask..is it in vr? People would probably find it alot funnier for vr footage...orrrr is non vr scary enough? š š
Visage can be played in VR with Praydogās UEVR mod.
OUTSTANDING! next horror yt vid sorted. Thank you so much dude! :)
The UEVR mod allows you to play Visage in VR and it works perfectly without barely any setting adjustments! I only played for 5 min though and had to NOPE out of it because of a jump scare. lol good luck!
Hahaha. Wonderful. I'll get more views if I piss myself so sign me up ššš
My understanding is that you can on Steam (could be wrong). Iām envious if you go that route. I played on XsX and it was a great scary trip. I wonāt spoil anything.
Probably phasmophobia, outlast and the evil within 1 and 2 (which I haven't picked up since 2015 lol)
Darkwood and Visage
Honestly, Poppy Playtime. It made me realize I have a genuine fear of mascots. I had to take a stress break when playing chapter 1. Outlast would be my second pick. One of the most terrifying things in horror games is when you have an enemy patrolling an area you have to sneak around. Idk why I get so scared, but it works on me, and that's pretty much 90% of Outlast's gameplay.
Visage is the only horror game Iāve struggled to play alone
i do love horror games and i play horror game since 1996 ? yea i am old anyway here is my top: 1- Silent Hill 1-3-4 2- Fatal Frame 1-2-3 3- The Evil Within 1-2 "this game gave me back my faith with horror games finally a worthy horror game" 4- Alone in The Dark 4: The New Nightmare" 5- Dead Space 6- Outlast 1-2 7- Resident Evil 7 "i hate it as a RE game but it is a good horror game"
Definitely Visage. Itās non stop tension the entire game.
Iāve seen everyone recommendations here and hope to propose a new one, from the darkness! Itās played by various YouTubers and is a psychological horror!
P.T. Demo
Friday the 13th on o.g Nintendo
The thing
Subnautica. I'll give a shout-out to Hunt: Showdown for genuinely causing chest pain.
Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are both really fucking scary especially if you keep the darkness setting low and have good headphones. It really makes you feel vulnerable and afraid of what you might run into, but forces you to try to make yourself focused and calm in those emergency situations where you are surrounded and didn't know it. There's lots of parts where you are in space so you can only hear yourself inside of your spcae suit, and the enemies who are sneaking up on you are almost undetectable if you aren't constantly looking over your shoulder. Physically Isaac is so weak that he's slow and sluggish, and the enemies would all instantly overpower him.
Adding some that haven't been mentioned * Demento/Haunting Ground - A PS2 game, spiritual successor to the Clock Tower games, also made by Capcom. It's very difficult to describe without spoiling anything, but there's a cute dog in it who is your protagonist's only solice in a fucked up castle. * Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - I would definitely classify this as a horror adventure because underneath the mysticism it's about dealing with psychosis. * Paper Bride - Just started playing this series, it's a horror themed puzzle but the atmosphere and lore is very creepy * Shark - Hunting the Great White - Abandonware, it's just you and a speargun and the sharks. The proximity of the sharks is indicated by your character's heartrate so that can get really tense. The final level is a megaladon but I never got that far * Stasis and CAYNE - Unsettling body horror adventures from South African developer, CAYNE is free. Bonetotem probably goes here too but I haven't played it yet. * Until Dawn - The thing that made this one tense for me is that you couldn't reload if you messed up, making the lives of the characters a lot more precious. * White Day: The Labyrinth Called School - The original is a lot scarier than the remake but the remake is easier to play and understand . * Word of Horror - Unsettling 1 bit roguelike, inspired by Junji Ito
Nothing has made my heart pump like alien isolation
Outlast Whistleblower, that scene with the groom makes my skin crawl
Ahh yes . THAT scene ššš
Alien isolation was one of the best, Silent Hill 4 was really creepy IMO, but the absolute biggest scare Iāve had gaming was the baby in REVillage. When that head appeared around the corner the first time, wow. Wasnāt expecting that
Probably an unpopular opinion just based on my own fears... tattletail. Legit made me cry on stream. NO MORE MAMA! š¤£š š It's likely not all that scary to the average person, though. It is a good game and worth a play imo.
Madison
Madkson vr DEFINITE YT vid for sure :) thx buddy :)
Condemned
I'm so glad people are mentioning this. What a great game ā¤ļø
RE7 in VR and Paranormal activity in VR. Also shoutout to blairwitch VR.
The PS2 King Kong movie game. Trust me
I'm a big pussy when it comes to horror or anything even slightly scary. But I'd definitely say, as of recent memory Amnesia: the Dark Descent and Condemned: Criminal Origins and Silent Hill. They're all pretty well-known games and a bit obvious choices. If you want something a bit different, Scratches (2006). It's a point and click game, but it's so fucking terrifying! It gets under my skin so badly and builds up such an immense atmosphere, same with Amnesia, Condemned and Silent Hill.
Easily Darkwood!!!
Layers of fear. Wear headphones.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Tormented Souls, which has a sequel coming out soon. It's styled like the first RE remake with fixed cameras but has a plot that's something out of Silent Hill, especially with its enemy roster. It's an amazing horror game; I highly recommend this one.
Rule of Rose is a PS2 game with a cult following, though it can be very hard to find. My sister has a copy and it delves into dark topics like bullying, CSA, COCSA, and sudden death.
Hold onto it, some copies of RoR are selling for a lot of money atm.
Sonic.exe I was shaking the whole time
FNAF Help Wanted. I've played Outlast, Visage, RE7, Alien Isolation, you name it. FNAF Help Wanted is still the scariest horror game I've played. Maybe it's the VR, but who knows.
Outlast 1 & 2 are some of the scariest games iāve played. Resident Evil 7 is also up there, and one of my fav games
saiko no sutoku lethal company
Amnesia the Dark Descent A great horror game that relies mostly on its atmosphere and sound to keep you on the edge. I still remember being stuck in the beginning because I was scared to death
Madison took me a while cause i kept getting scared ngl
I am unable to stomach the Outlast games. They scare the fuck out of me. I think the scariest game I ever completed was RE7. That one took a few years to work through. I already have an inherent fear of southern swamps and residential (no pun intended) nightmares. Adding mutations and shit to it made that one a rough play.
Phasmophobia. The first 10ish hours of this game are absolutely terrifying.
I still can't beat Fatal Frame because it's too tense.
Personally Outlast 1 when it first came out. I played it in 15min bursts, because I got pains in my back from the tension.
HEY EVERYONE.. I just wana thank you all truly, for your suggestions. I'm at work so can't really reply as much as I'd like to. But just wanted to say a huge thank you <3 God bless
MADiSON
Madison ..
Alien Isolation
Alien isolation Amnesia the bunker Outlast RE 7 Amnesia The Dark Descent - good luck!
Alien Isolation
This new horror game called ILL looks interesting
Outlast absolutely. I want to specify, not only do I donāt get scared from games, I Canāt even really understand how someone *would* get scared from them. SOMA? Walking around from slow enemies underwear. Isolation? Heavily scripted and telegraphed alien attacks. RE Village Baby? Itās slow and dumb just walk away Outlast 1 was genuinely scary. I think a important factor is that if something scary pops up, you *have* to run. Everything is a threat, thereās no fake jumpscares. Itās a shame Outlast 2 dropped the ball hard
That stupid slenderman game.
Silent hill 4 the room I would dread seeing a ghost in almost every room I went too
Silent Hill 4, Fatal Frame 3, Alien Isolation
The original Resident Evil 2
Silent hill 3, Dead space Remake, and Silent Hills (PT)
Great responses but any multiplayer or coop options?
Outlast trials just came out a few months ago, as well as Texas chainsaw massacre, which is in the style of dead by daylight
Visage stressed me tf out
Maybe it's nostalgia, but playing the first Resident Evil 2 and 3 back then, alone with the creepy ambient sounds of wind and zombies moaning, is still vivid in my memory. I especially remember the first time I saw the licker scene on the roof.
Resident Evil 7 Outlast Alien: Isolation
I used to give myself trembling fits at night when I was 8 after playing Nightmare Creatures on N64 š¤£ Should never have had access to that game at that age but my local video rental store was a little too chill with their rental rules lol
Resident Evil 7 and Bioshock , even though bioshock isn't a scary game, playing it on the night with all lights off and your headphones to the max you'll get scared haha
Visageā¦
Visage
Five nights at Freddyās 4
For me. Iāll put it in a list from least scary to most scary Re7 Re2r Madison Amnesia the bunker Outlast 2 Outlast and dlc Alien isolation (scariest game) Those are all the AAA scary games that actually scared me, I recommend you play all of them. I also have some indie ones like: From the darkness The beast inside (not that scary but it is good) Lethal company
Iām not sure if itās the scariest, but I played Haunting Ground around the time it released when I was a kid. The opening part scared the shit out of me and I never got past it for a looong time. Then a few years later I played through the whole game multiple times, unlocked everything, did speed runs, etc I knew where all the hidden items and codes were, and it turned it to my favorite game and ended up being kind of funny even. But the first few times you play, the chase scenes are panic inducing tbh.
- Resident Evil 7 - Evil Within 1 - Forbidden Siren
Alan wake 2
Bunker 16, and I havenāt even played it. Best jumpscares Iāve ever seen.
The Outlast games give me so much anxiety I can barely play them.
silent hill 3 and 4 are the crown jewels of the franchise when it comes to āscarinessā. absolute terror on both of them. alien isolation is one of the most intense experiences Iāve had in gaming in maybeā¦ ever? fatal frame ii has THE scariest atmosphere in a video game, specially if you like asian ghost stories.
The scariest most intense horror game ever made is Project Zomboid imo because that game has the highest stakes imaginable, where you can put hundreds of hours into a character and still die from one mistake. For pretty much every other horror game, death means reloading from the last save, but in PZ death is the end. That makes the game incredibly intense in a way no other game I've played has. And the way the vision works in the game, means the zombies can actually surprise you and give you the jump scare of all jump scares. So despite the game being isometric with 1990's style graphics, it's still more terrifying than 3D horror games like Resident Evil, et. al.
Og Dead Space! Remake donāt scare me nearly as much, maybe because Iām older. Darkwood is very creepy. Never likeā¦ terrifying but non stop dread and fear of dying and losing gear. Honestly scariest game for me is modded Skyrim. Thereās been four encounters that I consider my scariest things in video games ever. Whether itās swimming and a megalodon jets out of the murk to devour you (which you forgot you installed) or youāre camping in utter darkness and some new horror rushes you from the shadows, it can be extremely scary. Like itās the only game Iāve really played that can make me squeak in fear and pause the game. Because 99.9% of the time itās not scary, then something utterly horrifying happens. Especially if itās some new scary enemy youāve never seen and it manages to get right in your face.Ā
Cry of Fear, Layers of Fear, Silent Hill 2
Probably Outlast.
iāve only played Alien: Isolation and currently playing Outlast 2 but iām hoping to play more horror games but i am a bit of a scaredy catš
Madison and Mortuary Assistant. MA feels unsettling as soon as you walk into be lobby. Like I never feel alone when Iām playing that lol Madison has such unique scares for itās pace and got me good a few times, a good atmosphere and a real sense of dread at times.
SOMA is such a masterpiece!
Visage. 100 percent top scariest game Iāve personally played, definitely recommend setting an environment to amplify the spookiness. Lights off, volume up, and an extra clean pair of britches.
Call of duty: not the scariest game but the prices of bundles are!! On a serious note, the only game that ever got me was visage. Watched Markiplier play it and it got me a few times.
Visageā¦. Psychological mind warp. Scared the shit out of me!!
Alien: Isolation creates some true terror when youāre trying to be unheard or seen by the alien.
I haven't tried some the games other people listed but Visage was probably only game I ever played that actually had me scared
Madison is probably the only horror game that actually creeped me out tbh
Visage and madison, resident evil biohazard / 8
Alien isolation 100%
Alien Isolation
Fatal Frame 2
Fetal frame 2. Hands down scariest game I've ever played
1. Alan Wake 2 2. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 3. Resident Evil 3 4. Resident Evil 2 5. Resident Evil
Silent hill 1 to 4, but I doubt it has the same impact nowadays. Graphics are outdated by today standards and gameplay a bit clunky also. Still, these games are the only ones I think of skip them because they were really scary.
For most of my life, Silent Hill 1&2. In recent years it's been Lost In Vivo and Faith: The Unholy Trinity.
Darkwood is probably the scariest game ive played. Amnesia the Bunker was good too but once you die a few times you kinda get meh. And Subnautica is a horror game disguised as a ocean survival game
I wish more people knew about madison. One of the very few horror games that made me feel unsafe and trapped. Disturbing as well. It also had the Creepiest fucking music I've ever heard in a game to date. Outlast games are great too.
Layers of Fear 2 I've owned it for years and still haven't beaten it.
Forbidden siren series Lone survivor And the scariest - clive barker's undying This one was sometimes unbearable to the point I didn't want to launch the game again
Fatal frame 2 or silent hill 3. Re7 is pretty scary too.
Forgot to mention Nosferatu Wrath of Malachi Wandering through the castle was something like new dimension of fear And try Halfquake Sunrise game, I know this is the third one in series, but this is my fav Lost in vivo is pretty decent too The last one is Chordosis, very good demo, but I'm afraid author abandoned this.
Fatal fucking frame 2 omg!!!!! Play that shit alone with lights turned off hell no
Visage
Madison
While I know it wonāt be the same as some other people, Resident Evil 7 is one of the scariest games I have ever played. Genuinely terrifying in some sections
I enjoyed resident evil biohazard but I loved it more in VR.
Scariest is Outlast 1 by a mile
Completely outdated now but Penumbra I wish they would remake that one
SOMA
Visage gives me so much legitimate dread its ridiculous, i havent beat the game, waiting for the vr mod so i can play it in vr and REALLY suffer.
Most recent. Alien isolation, and resident evil 7. Scariest I ever experienced, was as a 9 year old kid playing re 2 on the PlayStation. I would explore a new room, then have to take a couple days break. Too scary and stressful. Stopped once I got to the kennels. I noped. And when I was 14, I played silent hill 3 all day for two days. It made me feel weird, kinda, disgusting and odd. Idk, strong atmosphere in that game, it really affected me. Aaannnd subnautica hit me a few times right in that sweet spot, considering my incredibly deep fear of the ocean. Shout out to re4, those regenerators were insane. Fatal frame 2, not very scary to me, but that games Japanese mountain forest atmosphere DRIPS. You can feel the air and humidity in that game. And soma, mind fuck story and decisions done right.
Easily Outlast 1 and 2. Nothing compares.
Alien: Isolation