Scariest Games Ever

[allyourblood]

If I had to suggest anything I'd say, if you're a SH freak, play it. If not, play the other ones and don't let Shattered Memories be your first impression of the series.

Thanks for that mini-review. I think I'll try it, as I am quite the SH fan; I've played the first four in the series multiple times. I haven't gotten around to SH:0 or SH:H yet, but I will when I get the time. Now I'll add SH:SM to the list.

I also really enjoy the soundtracks in the SH series, with the first and second games being the real standouts; especially the title theme in the first and second games and Lisa's Theme from the first one. Absolutely haunting and beautiful. For the more ambient portions of the score, Yamaoka bummed a lot of ideas from the industrial genre (especially from the late 80s/early-mid 90s -- see Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack, Scar Tissue's TMOTD and almost anything from In Slaughter Natives for some similar soundscapes), but to great effect; the blast drums, scrapes, and dissonant synth pads all nailed the vibe of the game perfectly.

[Theretrogamingroom]

I owned Friday the 13th on NES as a little kid and I always flipped when Jason
would pop outta nowhere and kill you.

[The Shawn]

Call of Cthulu - Dark corners of the Earth on the original xbox.


The game gave me the creeps, in a good way. Allthough it was a very difficult game to get through it was well worth the accomplishment.


Also the first Suffering game was eerie IMHO.

[balkiry]

I got the crap scared out of me the first time I played Code Veronica for Dreamcast. It was like 3:00 AM house was pitch black and my brother was watching me. All of a sudden the dogs burst out from the grates, I yelled : holy shit" and threw the controller out of my hand.

I had a very similar experience. However Resident Evil 4 trumped it with the regenerators. I have nightmares about them still... That breathing...

[TheCaptainniatpac]

What about Doom 3? It had it's moments.

[Gooch3008]

What about Doom 3? It had it's moments.

Oh man, some parts of that game were pretty damn unnerving. Best use of shadows in a game to date imo.

[TheCaptainniatpac]

I almost had a heart attack when i saw the one under the stairs after you had to go through the foom full of fire

[Holger Czukay]

Scratches for PC. Takes a while, but when it gets going it really gets going.

Penumbra Overture, and to a much greater extent Penumbra Black Plague for PC.

Friday the 13th for Commodore 64 (THAT GOD DAMN SCREAM)

The Laura Bow games on PC weren't exactly scary, but some of the ways you could die were outright disturbing.

[backtrax]

It's very rare that I find a game that actually frightens or unnerves me. Usually games which are specifically designed to this (read: Resident Evils, Silent Hills, Eternal Darkness...) fail miserably (not that they are bad games). However there have been a few titles which surprised me with their ability to frighten. I'm interested in knowing which games have had the same effect on you.

Here are my nightmares:

Thief - The Dark Project (PC)
http://www.jackdark.com/OTHER/S1.JPG
The most immersive game I've ever played combined with extremely realistic audio and truly frightening zombies, undead, and mindblowing locale.

System Shock 2 (PC)
http://www.jackdark.com/OTHER/S2.JPG
The tension this game induces is incredible. A binary nightmare.

Alone In The Dark (PC)
http://www.jackdark.com/OTHER/S3.JPG
The plot became more and more insane the more you unraveled it. The ambient sound effects still freak me out.

Shadowgate (NES)
http://www.jackdark.com/OTHER/S4.JPG
I had this game when I was 10. Not only did it's puzzles bewilder my young mind, but the music and monsters molested it.

Sweet Home (NES)
http://www.jackdark.com/OTHER/S5.JPG
Despite it's graphical limitations, this game WILL unsettle you. The score is creepy and the monsters random and violent. Not to mention the haunted mansion you're in with all it's illusions and traps.[/img]


Silent hill is most scariest.

[Darko]

Silent Hill 2 made me paranoid like crazy. I decided to play it only at night in pitch black. I actually used blackout curtains. It was a fun experience.

[spongerob]

Silent Hill 2 made me paranoid like crazy. I decided to play it only at night in pitch black. I actually used blackout curtains. It was a fun experience.

That's awesome, that's what I do. I make sure the picture is as good as it can be, with 5.1 sound and no light. I also have to be alone. To me, that's just a great time.

[bohproper]

burgertime on acid was the scariest game i ever played haha

[Emperor Megas]

My of the games that come to mind would be:

Alone in the Dark (3DO version)
DOOM (3DO version)
Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
Genma Onimusha
Mansion of Hidden Souls (SEGA CD)
Resident Evil (REmake)
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Silent Hill 3

As silly as it may sound, Silent Hill 2 was probably the scariest thing I ever experienced in my life. No movie, book, video game, or real world experience freaked me out as much as that game did the first time I played through it. It seriously got into my head and kept me up at night for weeks.

A lot of the games on my list most wouldn't consider 'scary', but for me, the atmosphere of some of the games (like Mansion of Hidden Souls and Genma Onimusha) really creeped me out, or managed to give me nightmares (DOOM, Silent Hill 2).


That's awesome, that's what I do. I make sure the picture is as good as it can be, with 5.1 sound and no light. I also have to be alone. To me, that's just a great time. I tend get into it, too. I actually have a smoke machine that I use sometimes when I play horror games (especially Japanese themed games, like Fatal Frame and Onimusha). I always play alone, with the lights out, and with the surround sound turned up as well.

[jammajup]

Doom 3,Resident Evil and Silent Hill also i found Nomad Soul rather sinister too

[Collector_Gaming]

my favorite topic EVER!!!

i love love love trying to get the shit scared out of me. Cause its a adrenaline rush! and if you don't do that once in awhile then your not living imo :D

anyways

I agree specially after to listening to it again on youtube without having to fire up the ole NES or downloading a rom lol that Metroid original had some pretty crazy music and i remember when i was younger i had a hard time playing the game at night because of this. It was just so ambient and lonely.... That whole feeling of
"When in space..... no one can hear you scream...." and kinda got to me.
when i was really younger (say 6-7ish) i could not play Nightmare on Elm Street at my cousins house on his NES at night. I saw alot of 80s horror films as a kid and seen Nightmare on Elm St 3 (which the game takes place of) and just got to me badly to the point i couldn't play it.
now that i am older should be the big tough guy and such. I gotta say some games still give me the jump and "HOLY SHIT!!!" factor.

Resident Evil 2 when i played through that like 10 years ago on the N64 i got spooked. Was my first real surivival horror game experience so i didn't fully know what to expect. But i tell you what since then i got hooked on the genre.

Half Life series has some good moments to itself.

F.E.A.R the last game of its type i played through gave me some good goosebumps specially the end was like "HOLY SHIT!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!" and the game cuts right there like omg what just happened!!!

The Thing was pretty good but didn't really get to me much.

Eternal Darkness had some good moments (specially when your guy starts freaking out and weird stuff starts happening to the picture or sound or whatever)

Dead Space. Theres a reason why deadspace got to me and why the next game i will list did so too and is my fav horror game for jumps and scares
Dead space when you are walking along. you see blood streaks like something got dragged while dying. You hear faint voices out of no where from random locations. you find someone around a corner that looks deranged and offs themselves.
and the thing that gets me the most.
You'll be playing... Say your going through a hall way right... with lighting from behind.... you get close to the end of that hallway... and then you see a shadow run right by your shadow... like "WTF WAS THAT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!" cause you get that feeling like something snuck up behind you and is gonna kill you.

the better version of this comes from my favorite horror game and i have yet to beat it for this reason

FATAL FRAME

Fatal frame scares the shit out of me if i play it at night. with the volume up and all the lights out.
Why?
how would you like it if you walk into a room adn then you hear a eerie child giggling noise along foot steps running right behind you and you turn around and theres nothing there.
how would you like how your meter starts freaking out and you don't know what or where or how somethings coming out and then you turn around and BAM you find yourself face to face with a ghost that aims to kill you.
and all your armed with is a old friggin camera with mystical properties? I am out of here man. lol

[G-Boobie]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

I'm playing through it a second time now, and I swear to God, it's not any less terrifying. I've played almost every survival horror game released since Resident Evil, and nothing comes CLOSE to Amnesia. The first night I played it I screamed and woke my girlfriend up. It made my dreams a little uncomfortable too. I'm not used to that.

It's a PC game, and I know that might turn some of you Goddamn console only kids off, but trust me on this: this game is the new gold standard.

[Tommittaja]

The single scariest game of all time, in the entire universe... is...

Amnesia - the dark descent (by Frictional games)
from the makers of Penumbra. i cannot play it anymore. i almost lost my conciousness once in that game because i was SO scared.

E: Playing through Dead Space.... it's not scary. it's a slasher, not a horror game. survival horror does not equal horror
JUST as saw is not a horror movie, but a slasher. :P

[Roms-bb.org]

Deamon's Soul!

[FrankGarret316]

I'm really really ashamed to say this, but I CANNOT play scary games. Let me qualify this by saying that there is not a single scary movie I can't watch. You could put me in the basement of an abandoned mansion with the lights off, and make me watch the scariest movie you could think of, and I wouldn't feel scared one bit.

When it comes to games though, particularly first person scary games (but doesn't have to be first person), I don't have that same detachment feeling I have when watching movies, where the fact that it's "only" a scripted movie is constantly in my consciousness, with games I get scared as fuck because I feel like I'm really there.

Sorry for that tangent, to answer the question, I'd say any Silent Hill game, and most recently Dead Space.

[parski]

Silent Hill 3, no doubt. I still can't play that game. 1 and 2 are fine, but 3 freaks the crap out of me.

[Enigmus]

To me, the perfect scare game is...

...Myst.

Yes, Myst. Before you say anything, think of how its methods scare: the factor that it is on a desolate fantasmic island, in first person, with no one but you, the hellish books of the "gods" that control whether you escape or not, and videos recorded of another person who made it onto the island but seemingly vanished. This, when combined with the incredible and overwhelming choice of options down to the most minute details, provide a truly psychologically scarring game: you are scared senseless by loneliness, confusion, vast choices of action, and the sense that this all combines to make you realize you really have little to no control of your survival. I've played this a few times, but all of this has, IMO, brought it down from "confusing tech demo" to "brain bleach requiring psychological tormentor." This is what I believe is the purest form of all scary games.

[jwmollman]

I would have to say Silent Hill 2 and 3 were my scariest games. It's very rare that a game will keep my eyes glued to the screen and my ears open trying to find what's lurking in the darkness around the next corner. It was the limited vision in such dark places and the creepy/intelligent music that kept me scared. The creatures on that game were really odd and freaky too, but it's different from your typical zombie I guess.

[Collector_Gaming]

To me, the perfect scare game is...

...Myst.

Yes, Myst. Before you say anything, think of how its methods scare: the factor that it is on a desolate fantasmic island, in first person, with no one but you, the hellish books of the "gods" that control whether you escape or not, and videos recorded of another person who made it onto the island but seemingly vanished. This, when combined with the incredible and overwhelming choice of options down to the most minute details, provide a truly psychologically scarring game: you are scared senseless by loneliness, confusion, vast choices of action, and the sense that this all combines to make you realize you really have little to no control of your survival. I've played this a few times, but all of this has, IMO, brought it down from "confusing tech demo" to "brain bleach requiring psychological tormentor." This is what I believe is the purest form of all scary games.

you know what

when you put it like that. I actually agree with you

I'll help you out here

People think of what if you were dumped onto a island.. You don't where you are.. what world you are in what dimension you are in what time zone you are in.
And you find various buildings and contraptions but find that the island is completely isolated and has absolutely no one around to talk to... to explain things to you.

And then you find 2 books you open them up baiscally have these charecters who explain whats going on in their detail and you must choose which do you go with. 1 will lead you to hell. the other will lead you to heaven.

kinda reminds me of that episode of Twilight Zone where a farmer and his dog gets killed and he comes across a fellow who explains that they are dead and is in a very convincing manner explaining that the passage he is by is heaven. and to go there all he has to do is go past the gate and walk on down a path.
But can't bring his dog as his dog has its own gate to go through...
The farmer decides to hell with that and continues walking away from the gate not sure what to do and comes across another fellow who explains his gate is gate to heaven and that the other one is hell and that his dog is welcome with him. and they try and figure out which to believe... and decide to go through that gate

so yes when you think about it. The isolation and the loneliness of Myst does strike that fear in you when you think about it that much.

and i have a feeling thats what the game makers were trying to achieve when they made it.
Kinda like a what would you do.. how would you survive.. how resourceful are you

[DangerMan]

The original resident evil. As a kid it scared the hell out of me. I couldn't play it until i was older. No other game (even the sequels) have ever scared me like that one did.

If i was to give a 2nd place game, i might have to go with parasite eve.

[jordandavid]

I'm sure this has been mentioned, but the Redeads in Ocarina of Time. Just being anywhere near them when they get up and try to attack. Especially since Hyrule Castle Town is so deserted and run down except for the Redeads. I'm 22 and that shit still scares me. I literally run through that section of town as fast as possible every time I have to go through it.

[Family Computer]

I have never played a survivor horror game. What should I pop my cherry with that is playable on xbox360 or ps3?

[APE992]

I have never played a survivor horror game. What should I pop my cherry with that is playable on xbox360 or ps3?

Alan Wake felt a lot like Silent Hill of old in that it actually managed to scare me at points. There is Silent Hill 5 but I'd suggest Alan Wake first.

[Guntz]

NOTE: My post is a bit of a spoiler.

My conventional vote goes to Silent Hill 2. It is by far, THE scariest thing I've ever witnessed. You'd have to be an insane masochist to play that game by yourself, LET ALONE in the dark and a surround sound system. Seriously, that game effed me up for at least a year. I'm much better now, but I vow to never, EVER play or watch it again. I might go off my rocker. But why was I hit so heavily by SH2? Simple. It was the first real horror game I'd ever seen. I didn't even play it myself, I watched someone else play it. In fact, we played through the entire game. I didn't catch the first bit and I couldn't last through to the end. I still cannot believe I sat through 80% of Silent Hill 2. How did I ever muster the courage after that fucking hospital???

Now, for my more off-the-wall vote for scariest game ever, It's definitely Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Yeah, this one ended up surprising me too. How is it scary? To put it straight, it's everything in Majora's Mask that adds up to create a very unsettling experience. If any of you thought the Redeads/Well/Shadow Temple was effing scary in Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask is worse.

The single most disturbing part that I remember, is the music box house in the canyon area, the location of the 4th dungeon. There are Gibdos (basically Redeads with Mummy texturing) circling around the music box house. It's more disturbing if you're actually there. When you have to go into the house to save this Dad character for his daughter, you go inside, go downstairs and just as you step near this casket standing up, the Dad bursts out half-covered in bandages as if he's ready to effin murder you. I literally jumped out of my seat at this part. You have to play the Song of Healing on your Ocarina in order to save him. I always thought if you didn't do that part, he'd kill you or something.

Moreover though, Majora's Mask as a whole is disturbing. Talking to the people around Termina is really sad, for them the world truly is ending and everyone can see it coming. Many of the sidequests are real tear jerkers considering the circumstances. The single saddest sidequest is the last one, where you have to help Kafei (sp?) over all 3 Days reunite with his fiancee. If you complete the sidequest, they finally meet with a tearful passing of words just minutes before the moon destroys Clock Town...

Can you still believe this is a Nintendo game?

[APE992]

I haven't thought about Majora's Mask in years, but you are right. The game is pretty dark and disturbing but without diving into anything remotely like Silent Hill 2.

Resident Evil was pretty scary for its time, nothing like it had been available unless you count Alone in the Dark. First time I played it was a demo for the Dual Shock Directors Cut version and was weirded out by the whole thing. Still have trouble playing it these days.

[Guntz]

Yeah, I haven't played Majora's Mask in years either. My memory is quite fuzzy on the specifics of the game. I should really play it again sometime (I beat the game 100% on the GameCube)...

Maybe I'll do that once I buy an N64 copy eventually.

[goatdan]

I am surprised I didn't post on this one in the past. Only one game has ever truly scared me -- most of the 'horror' games I find their build ups to be a little obvious about where it is going, and therefore aren't as scared, but Alien Vs Predator on the Jaguar absolutely terrified me when I played it, so much so that I stopped playing it and have never gone back. It scared me so badly that I jumped off the couch I was lying on. But, you NEED to play that game with the volume up, the lights off and the HUD off. That's when it is truly amazing.

[kafa111]

banjo kazooie is very scary, it just has this fear factor in it (no trollin)
i usually dont get scared easily, silent hill, bioshock and those games didnt even scare me, but banjo just makes me wanna shit my pants

[M.Buster2184]

The Gamecube remake of Resident Evil is at the top of my list, that or Doom 3. Many a creepy moments in that game.

[allyourblood]

banjo kazooie is very scary, it just has this fear factor in it (no trollin)...

I'm going to need to hear more.

[Collector_Gaming]

I'm going to need to hear more.

http://www.woosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/banjos.jpg

[Kellhus]

I know I'm not the first to mention this, and not the last, but Silent Hill 2 for me.

It's the only video game that I have ever played that's made me feel an actual sense of dread. I wasn't "scared" exactly, but I was genuinely disturbed by what I was seeing and by the themes being presented to me. I don't mean I was disturbed by the graphic nature of the game or the gore either (although some of the graphic scenes were quite unsettling), I mean I was disturbed by the absolutely insane mindfuckery going on and how incredibly well it was presented.

From the moment you get to the apartment complex to final minutes of the game, it is a seriously messed up game.

[Lerxstnj]

The Suffering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Play it on Xbox or PS2 now!!
Have extra underwear handy.

[mike_the_red]

I know I'm not the first to mention this, and not the last, but Silent Hill 2 for me.

It's the only video game that I have ever played that's made me feel an actual sense of dread. I wasn't "scared" exactly, but I was genuinely disturbed by what I was seeing and by the themes being presented to me. I don't mean I was disturbed by the graphic nature of the game or the gore either (although some of the graphic scenes were quite unsettling), I mean I was disturbed by the absolutely insane mindfuckery going on and how incredibly well it was presented.

From the moment you get to the apartment complex to final minutes of the game, it is a seriously messed up game.

Part of the magic of the Silent Hill franchise is exactly what you're describing.

The scares are unique in each game. They all have something to offer. If I had to categorize them, here's how I'd do it-

Silent Hill 1 : Religious themes especially organized religion, palette continuity and visual aesthetics, Conspiracies, brown/grey/black/orange.

Silent Hill 2 : Loneliness themes, sexual themes, missing memories, discontinuity and non sequitur references, grey/black/dark green/dark blue.

Silent Hill 3 : Revelations, childhood themes, adolescent girl references, strength, abuse and trauma survival, more religious themes, palette-wise a mix of the first two.

Silent Hill 4 : Adult male themes, trapped/claustrophobic themes, sound, quick frights (pop outs). Grey, darkness, black. Colorless, almost. Muted.

The rest of the Silent Hills I'm not sure about because I haven't played them. :) But I'm planning to, eventually. Personally, Silent Hill 1 is the best for me. I just relate to those themes more.

[JimmyJ]

Clock Tower is THE SCARIEST GAME EVER hands down

[rarecube]

banjo kazooie is very scary, it just has this fear factor in it (no trollin)

I actually agree on that ... For some reason it does have this darkness/obscurity about it.

[PlayerWM86]

I'd have to say the arcade versions of Sinistar and Splatterhouse - as well as Area 51's "game over" screen. The Castle stages from Super Mario Bros. scared me as a child - especially that creepy music. I got over that around 1997 with the SNES' Super Mario All-Stars.

When Sinistar captured the ship in the Dreamcast version of Williams Arcade Classics - causing it to explode, that sent chills down my spine and I never touched the game (and the compilation) again in my teenage years.

[extra_anchovy]

as a kid -

Alone in the Dark (3DO)
Resident Evil (PS1)
Night Trap (3DO)
Out of this World (3DO)

as a really young kid -

Granny's Garden (BBC) lol! when the pixelated witch suddenly appears

now -

Clock Tower (SNES)

a testement to how atmospheric a SNES game can be. and I'm not easily scared either but playing this at night does raise the heart rate a little.

also there is an adventure game on PC where you have to escape from a mental asylum, can't remember the name though. that one is very atmospheric, and scary if the guards caught you they gave you a labotamy.

also The Ring on dreamcast is pretty eerie and atmospheric too

btw this is a great thread to find out great games I have missed out on. as the best games are those with atmosphere so you can be immersed into the experience.

after reading this thread I want to play the Silent Hill series. and also give Myst another go, played it ages ago on 3DO but don't think i played it long enough for the atmosphere to sink in

[Cass]

Fatal Frame 2...

I have no words...

Silent Hill 2 is a close second.

[Gamevet]

I am surprised I didn't post on this one in the past. Only one game has ever truly scared me -- most of the 'horror' games I find their build ups to be a little obvious about where it is going, and therefore aren't as scared, but Alien Vs Predator on the Jaguar absolutely terrified me when I played it, so much so that I stopped playing it and have never gone back.

It terrified me alright. The frame-rate was so horrible that I was afraid to play it again. :eek:

[Colorado Rockies]

SIlent Hill 2 is the scariest game I've ever played. The soundtrack was just so creepy and perfectly complemented the gameplay.
I was about 13 or so and I couldn't even finish the game I was so scared lol.

[spongerob]

Good to see SH2 getting the love it deserves. I remember in 2002 about a year after it came out, all you'd find were SH1 fanboys for various reasons criticizing the game. Time usually has a good way of sorting out the haters. SH2 is art, and is the greatest horror game I've ever played.

This might sound crazy, but I played Amnesia: Dark Descent, and didn't feel that it was scary at all. It was probably the least psychologically engaging horror game I've played this generation or last. It's lazy. It doesn't give you all the pieces and let you fill in the scary parts, it just wants you to create your own horror period. Zero atmosphere, zero immersion, nothing.

[n20vette]

The first resident evil made me jump when you open the front door to the mansion and the dogs jumps at you. Alan wake was a great game it deffintly kept me on the edge of my seat. sad thing is the only reason I played it becuse it came with my new 360. Now im addicted.

[jwmollman]

Usually games don't scare me, but when I was about 14 in 2005, I remember playing a demo of Silent Hill 3 with my cousin, and that game scared the heck out of us. I ended up buying the actual game, along with Silent Hill 2, and we had the scariest times of our lives.

I'd say they're both on par with each other.

[TheShireGamer]

Well for me personally, the one that instantly pops into my head is Half-Life 2, I know it isnt really at all scary, but the level Ravenholm really got me terrified to the point where I wouldnt want to turn a corner, it got to the point where when your walking through a silent road and the then suddenly you hear a loud screech behind you and its just nerve racking!

[elmsa114]

I had this self image during my younger years that I don't scare easily...Silent Hill 2 played alone at night :D proved me wrong!! :D

[ChrisGun]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
I've beaten the game several times now, and i scream like a litle girl everytime the monster pops up.
although, i enjoy the storyline and the gameplay.

[Nes]

My favorite point and click game is Lighthouse. There were a number of scary moments in the game led out by finding the monster stealing your baby at the beginning of the game.

[Genjackson]

The original Clock Tower that came out for super famicom has a translated ROM. It it by far the scariest game out there that I have played. The sound effects are great. The cutscenes are absolutely brutal. Awesome experience. I have all the fatal frame games. They probably come in second. I hate the idea of having a weapon in a horror game. It completely kills it for me.

[Genesaturn]

My top 2 are Silent Hill - Every time I heard the static on the radio I damn near pee'd myself...I was 15 when it came out...after that it would be RE:2 - I jumped more times in that game than any combined.

[Darth Binks]

I love the REmake for GameCube. Eternal Darkness is just a great game period, but also very creepy. That game messes with your mind, it's like fighting psycho-mantis throughout the whole game. The scariest of all time for me was each characters second game in RE 2, they scared the crap out of me back in the day. I never knew when Mr. X was going to pop up, and every time he did I would be unprepared.

[Gerald]

Friday the 13th on NES. Venturing through that camp, alone, with the eerie music was creepy.

Ninja Gaiden for the arcade and later on the NES. The arcade had some weird villains and the Continue? screen made it really violent. The NES version was pretty suspenseful with the cut scenes, music, and the strange villains. Later on levels have some faux satanic stars enscribed on walls.

I was already a teenager when playing Splatterhouse 3 but it still had some very creepy stuff. Probably one of my favorite scary games. The music and story was excellent.

[nouserever]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of pripyat. From dog sneak attacks to invisible mutants popping out at you, it scared the shit out of me. i refuse to play this game at night.

[archaznable]

The scariest game that I played was with out a doubt Resident Evil 1 on the PS One ... one time when me and my friend played it we are like playing it on a dark room then when I was walking around the corner on a hall way a dog jump right in front of my character I drop my control pad on the ground and was pretty shock lol ...

[Kirbz]

Silent Hill
:ass: :onfire: :( @_@ :bawling:

I Literally Pissed Myself

[Videogamerdaryll]

Without reading other posts..
Off of the top of my head by played-memory

PS1 Resident Evil..
Clock Tower
Silent Hill
Deep Fear Saturn Import(not sure why but I was younger when I played it)
Heart Of Darkness

Tomb Raider (Saturn)
Wait now,hear me out..Do the High Climbing,Trying not to make a mistake,have hardly any life then walk slowly through a semi dark tunnel only for a RAT to jump out at you....Or the Wolves chase you..
When I first played this game the wolves chasing me scared the crap out of me..

To date the Scariest..(still playing it)
Xbox 360 DEAD SPACE..
Play this game in the dark with GOOD Headphones on and you will hear the Creepiest noises and music tone that will scare the crap out of you(it’s like a Horror Movie).Plus things jumping out of you will have you jumping out of your seat...The monsters follow you above,in the vents,you can hear then,it’s real creepy
This game is AMAZING..It’s The Music and Sounds that make it so scary..
Dead Space Intro Movie..whew it's creepy
http://youtu.be/b2pRAN_3oH8 (http://youtu.be/b2pRAN_3oH8)

http://youtu.be/48PyJO0nVVw (http://youtu.be/48PyJO0nVVw)

This music in the game comes on before you play it if you let it demp..It’s is SO CREEEPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXQsQKGqIU&feature=colike (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXQsQKGqIU&feature=colike)
Then later in the game it surrounds you and comes in and out,that has to be one of the most creepiest parts in the game.

http://youtu.be/kdzui0sGg3s (http://youtu.be/kdzui0sGg3s)



Alan Wake was quite scary..

[Schiggidyd]

Wasn't anyone else freaked out by the monsters which appear in Uninvited for Nes?

[tomcrew]

tetris and games like dr mario arnt scary but really can ge your blood pumping when u miss up

[GizzyGames]

I really can't say I get scared in any game, but my wife refuses to play Resident Evil unless someone is in the room with her lol

[samspade]

the first time you play any resident evil game.

RE remake for Gamecube probably takes the cake now.

If you have never played the series before and played that one i gurantee some shit your pants moments.

Half life had its moments and yeah system shock 2 definitely.

White men cant jump for jaguar actually made me cry.

I actually think that the original Resident Evil is the scariest. I think the early polygons lend themselves well to making you afraid and not sure quite what you're looking at. The abstract and your imagination is far scarier than REmake. The spiders jumping down to the ground without an intro or warning is still scary to me.

[old_skoolin_jim]

Wasn't anyone else freaked out by the monsters which appear in Uninvited for Nes?

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES! I came here to give that game my vote. I was 18 when I finally got a chance to play it on an NES (circa 2002, thank you ebay) and was geniunely creeped out for an evening or two.

[101011]

Apparently it's fatal frame.

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I remember when my brother got his PS1 and Resident evil though. The dogs through the window... First and last scary game moment.

[Johnny Nintendo]

I haven't played very many scary games, but I am a fan of horror movies. I think I would have to go with Friday the 13th on the NES. When I was younger I would never play that game at night. Jason would always scare me in the cabins, I would go into a cabin he was in and search for him forever, and right when I would backtrack to leave the cabin he would pop out of nowhere. I could handle him on the trails, but once I entered a cabin my heart would start pounding.

Also I'm a huge fan of the SAW franchise, I was wondering if anyone has played the SAW games? Are they any good?

[CatTehBus]

I'll never forget the first time I played Silent Hill 2.

[Guyra]

I love horror games. The first and second REs were somewhat scary. I love the REmake for the GameCube. The SH series has also got some really creepy stuff going on. However, continuing in the same genre, I find the FF/PZ series ten times scarier than either of the previously mentioned series. And even though I love Eternal Darkness, I personally didn't find it that scary - even though it was quite creepy at times.

Those aren't the scariest games I've played at all, though. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was incredibly scary up until you get your first gun(which takes a while), and I loved that part of the game. (After that, it just became a standard FPS, more or less.) Then you've got Penumbra: Episode 1 and Penumbra: The Black Plague. Creepy as hell games, especially the first one! (Though most others seem to disagree and claims Black Plague is the scarier of the two.) Then the same guys made Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was even scarier.

I also have to mention the King's Field games, which have this ability of making you really feel the atmosphere in the games. They can be quite creepy quite often, even though they're not exactly horror games. But they are dark.