Games you found scary and or disturbing.

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Many of us have made a thread like this before, but with Halloween around the corner and lots of sales on Steam/Consoles, let's start fresh for those looking for some Spooktober scares.

I still have to finish Silent Hill 2. I was really liking it last year around this time, but got distracted by Rogue Trader, which consumed me for a good month.

I'm in the middle of Deus Ex games and Dark Souls 2 run again, but I'm starting to crave some legit terrifying.

I'm looking at Silent Hill 2 as my fall back, and might pick up Project Zomboid, always wanted to check that out. It's more existential dread than anything from what I hear, which might be what the dead dr ordered.

Amnesia the Dark Descent is prob the scariest game I've ever played that wasn't in VR.

What are some of your of your suggestions?
 
Condemned: Criminal Origins

Only game I can remember actually scaring me, and making me dread the next room. And not because of bullshit survival horror mechanics, but because it was legitimately intense.
 
HereticBD said:
Condemned: Criminal Origins

Only game I can remember actually scaring me, and making me dread the next room. And not because of bullshit survival horror mechanics, but because it was legitimately intense.
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Recently played that again. Still awesome.
 
Fury said:
Honestly, the only one I can think of was playing PT right when it was announced/dropped, before everyone was talking about it.
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That's right up there with Amnesia for me. Both always made me feel that I was playing with something I shouldn't lol.

I hope that's one game that could see the light of day at one point, had so much potential. I still have the demo on my PS4.

Losfer Words said:
Doom (3 I think). I was so excited for it and was completely unprepared for how jump scare heavy it was. Played through it cause I bought it new. Had a rough go with it though.
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I didn't expect it to be so scary either. It was big a huge step up in graphics, especially lighting.

I played it again many years later but it wasn't scary anymore until I got my Oculus Rift and modded it in. I think the mod was called openvr. I was right back to 2003 and then some lol.

Doom 3 is still my fav of the bunch. I never played Doom 1 and 2 at launch, so I didn't have nostalgic ties to its original gameplay. Doom 2016 is crack, but I still preferred the slower pace/horror atmosphere of 3.
 
I played a few chapters of The Evil Within, but ultimately put it down bc it seemed like gore for gore's sake. Plus it was kinda difficult in parts and I got tired of seeing my guy get ripped apart and disemboweled. I'm getting soft in my old age
 
Bobby Boulders said:
I played a few chapters of The Evil Within, but ultimately put it down bc it seemed like gore for gore's sake. Plus it was kinda difficult in parts and I got tired of seeing my guy get ripped apart and disemboweled. I'm getting soft in my old age
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The early parts are gore central and frustrating. It's def worth sticking with though, especially once you get some better gear/level up stats.

The sequel is even better, gameplay wise, as they give you lots of tools/ways to take out enemies, very immersive-like.

I really enjoyed the story as well. They left enough for a 3rd game, but if it ends there, as the studio is done, it feels complete enough.
 
The only game that ever startled me in any way shape or form in almost 40 years of gaming was the original FEAR on PC.

I don't remember exact details but you're going around a corner and you get hit with something by someone a stick maybe but you can't avoid it happening. Startled the shit out of me lol.
 
Bobby Boulders said:
I played a few chapters of The Evil Within, but ultimately put it down bc it seemed like gore for gore's sake. Plus it was kinda difficult in parts and I got tired of seeing my guy get ripped apart and disemboweled. I'm getting soft in my old age
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I didn't find those games too bad. I think the worst part was in the beginning of the second one.

 
I'll say a different kind of terrifying is getting stuck out at night in the original Dying Light. Especially early in the game.

More like shit your pants intense.
 
I remember the look of terror on my 2-3 year Olds face during one of the early COD Black Ops cutscenes where a dude was screaming about numbers in Masons fave...

..total dad fail on that one thinking he was too young to realize what was happening...
 
Alien 3 (sega genesis). The atmosphere and music followed by the cutscene you get when you fail to rescue all the prisoners in time gave me a nightmare or two.

 
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HereticBD said:
Condemned: Criminal Origins

Only game I can remember actually scaring me, and making me dread the next room. And not because of bullshit survival horror mechanics, but because it was legitimately intense.
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Criminally underrated. The bit with the locker and the mannequins scared the hell out of me.

Condemned 2 was alright but got a bit supernaturally for my liking...
 
Alien Isolation

It did a great job with atmosphere, jump scares, and the feel of being hunted. While not "scary" it did get my heart rate up and kept it there while playing.
 
I didn't get too far in FEAR before nope-ing out.
 
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