gaming The Scariest Game You've Ever Played

[Lunas Husband 2,777]

Ahh that would have to be the time I arm wrestled a silverback(Gorilla).

 

Ah the other game would have to be Fatal frame games, those things scare the shit out of me....

[Marty McFly 37]

 Reading through some of your guy's comments, I remembered a curious little jewel from my youth. Has anyone here played Phantasmagoria on Windows 95? No? That doesn't surprise me. Thinking back, Amnesia is probably scarier, but I was introduced to Phantasmagoria at a very young age by watching my dad play it while I sat on his lap. It also didn't help that our computer was in the basement and he'd turn off all the lights while pointing out that the intro music is actually a Demonic chant used to allegedly summon Satan. Yeah, not the greatest game for a child.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Marty McUnoriginal

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,611]

I have to say, one of the scariest is surprisingly Resident Evil 4 but only about the first half of it. The atmosphere and music of the the first half is incredibly eerie and quite scary first time playing through. It isn't jump scary of course, but it just oozes atmosphere, which is the mot important part to a horror game. Condemned Criminal Origins is pretty scary too. The Mall level is just freaky beyond belief.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I'd say it would be hard to pin down, mostly because while I am of a nervous disposition I enjoy being creeped out so much that it's really damn hard to actually full on scare me shitless.  

 

In all honestly, it would probably be one of the many horror-themed flash games I've played. 

[MichaelxXxTrixie 433]

The scariest game I've played isn't actually a horror game at all.

 

In the game Thief 3 you face zombies, except you actually have to sneak around them and hide from them. One just popped up right in front of me, it scared me so much I knocked my keyboard off the table.

[Scootalove 10,689]

The scariest game that I played was Resident Evil 0, I think that's the one with Nemesis. Anyway, that game gave me nightmares when i first played the game seeing Nemesis for the first time.

[Cstriker 737]

Curious as to everyponies level of being terrified. To Amnesia: The Dark Descent was the pinnacle of a scary game, taking what was learned from the Penumbra series and adding a dash of the Cthulu Mythos into the mix. Fantastic pacing and immersion, trully a feeling of beiing alone in that game mixed with psychological revulsion that relied your immagination rather then jump scares or gore.

 

Outlast was lackluster which did the opposite to me, and relied too much on gore and jumps.

Edited February 24, 2014 by Cstriker

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,663]

Well, from all the games I played, I would say, the Dead Space games ... but at the end of Uncharted 1 ... yeah, that was a bit scary too XD

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

I don't play games, but I watch YTers play them sometimes I'm just going to go with that, k?

 

Hmmm...lemme see...

 

Ah. Here we go.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnE785fmKE8&feature=c4-overview&list=UUq6VFHwMzcMXbuKyG7SQYIg

[Serious Sam 259]

In terms of Atmosphere: Amnesia: The Dark Decent

 

In terms of Horror and Ambiguity: SCP-087-b

 

In terms of "NOPE!": Amnesia: Justine

[Moonbacon 384]

Slender the arrival

 

do i need to explain anything else?

[Cstriker 737]

Slender was meh. I appreciate what the team did, especially 8 pages or whatever...but after Amnesia...everything has been spoiled for me.

 

Honorable mention:

Thief: Deadly Shadows' Shalebridge Cradle level...so flippin scary.

 

Really excited about Soma and Alien: Isolation.

Edited February 24, 2014 by Cstriker

[The Mane-iac 1,648]

I've not played a "scary" game for a long time, so I'll have to say the original Silent Hill. I remember playing that thing all time and thought that it just got creepier and creepier as you went on. Starting off in the thick fog with what I liked to call "skinned dogs" hunting you, to the creepy frikkin school building, and then nightmare world and it's rusty grate streets and demonic gorillas replacing the dogs... yea, fond memories. Was really hoping an HD remake would get done of it like the original Resident Evil. Update the graphics, but don't go changing the game or enemies or anything.

[Codelyy 1,286]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpmE5Wy7YMU

I don't tend to play many horror games but SCP Containment Breach is the scariest game i've played. SCP-173 jump scares and just running away from SCP-106 i find terrifying!!!!! 

Edited February 24, 2014 by Codelyoko373

[repsol rave 2,963]

I loooooove the Dead Space series. Tough They're not the most scary of horror games. (Eventough they get waaaay scarier when you play them on high difficulty settings) 

Most scary game i ever got to play must be Amnesia: The dark descent. I actually had trouble sleeping while playing through that game

[Jackleberry 1,923]

~ SCP: Containment Breach.

 

This game right here just scares the duck out of me ... for the most part I just watch videos of it, but hell, one time I tried out the MLP mod for it, and at one point I was nice and secure within ... um ... whatever the SCP that allowed you to change items into other items was, and freakin' SCP-173 (or Pinkie in this case) freakin' appeared out of nowhere. In a supposedly secure room. I noped the heck out of there, and continued playing. Eventually I just ... I just couldn't handle it any more, as I was walking through some dark tunnels, and just fear-quit. Never played it since, but I don't think my computer would be able to handle it any more anyways, as much as I'd like to go back. (And just for the record, I love the SCP lore. So creepy and interesting!)

[Serious Sam 259]

@, You're lucky you even got that far, I can't even play that game without me screaming 2-3 times; at that point is when I fear-quit 

[Megas 27,695]

Resident Evil REmake for me 

[An Old Head 4,816]

@@Cstriker,

 

Hi - just letting you know about this earlier thread. It's on the topic of Scariest Games, so I've merged your identical thread with it  

[Discordian 6,015]

I haven't played nearly as many horror games as I'd wish. Typically after I play them I am no longer scared of them. First playthroughs are the only thing that ever scare me.

 

So based purely on first playthroughs the scariest games for me would have to be Silent Hill and maybe Fatal Frame. "Maybe" because I've only played about forty minutes of it but what I have played scared the living bejeezus out of me.

[Guest]

Condemned: Criminal Origins, without a doubt.

[Zhortac 1,474]

Doom 3, in the dark, at 1 am, with stereo sound...yeah, never did that again lol.

[Greywolfin 102]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia; Justine, Slender

 

I know some people don't find these games scary at all, but I always immerse myself into the game as much as I can. I play in the (mostly) dark with headphones on so all I see and hear is the game. I find psychological horrors like these to be way scarier than the traditional "jumpscare" game. With normal horror games, there's always the comfort of knowing you've got a shotgun or whatever to rely on and kill whatever is attacking you. In these, you have nothing. You either hide or die, those are your choices.

 

The Screecher is great as well. Talk about a psychological/ jumpscare combination! It's a mod for Don't Starve so if you haven't played it, I'd recommend picking it up. It's a short playthrough but it's pretty good.

[Trolzilolz 31]

Dota 2. All these Russians spamming me in bad English: "NOOB, RUSSIA IS MOTHALAND! ALL OBAY!".

Okay, not exactly like that but the most of them are dumb and stupid in my opinion. Wait, isn't everbody like that in both dota and LoL?

Edited February 24, 2014 by Trolzilolz

[Torrez 36]

The scariest game I've ever played?

Amnesia The Dark Descent- that Grunt is haunting me...

Dead Space- shooter? No when you're out of ammo and you hear monster sounds behind a wall...scary..