Well to be fair you couldn’t finish PT anyways unless you followed a very detailed YouTube guide video
Anxious-Use9993
What is this game about?
BigOlympic
Outlast was redlining my stress level
NewSecond6954
Silent Hill 4, Spoilers : the first time your appartment turn into a nightmare, your health bar is falling because of the ghosts and you need to go through the living room if you want to save 🫠 (only way to save in the game)
captrudeboy
Ehhhh heart pounds more than I sweat but the dollhouse area in resident evil village had me on edge the whole way
WingerRules
Jurassic Park on the 3DO, the FPS being hunted by a raptor level.
Consistent-Biscuit
Probably that spider castle in Nioh.
dredd-garcia
Final bit in outer wilds had me STRESSED
as did dark bramble
3--turbulentdiarrhea
Amnesia: The Bunker
BourgeoisStalker
There’s an indie game called Phantasmophobia that has VR compatibility. On desktop it’s creepy but fun, but VR was different. Being stalked by a bloody butcher ghost then having a pair of desiccated hands cover my eyes from behind made me quit that game and never go back.
Traditional-Eye-6914
Alien: isolation. That game gave me nightmares lol
superbrew
Just. Dead Space in general, so nerve wracking. Remake is amazing too.
pareech
Almost every minute of the game “Prey”.
StillGalaxy99
RE: Village. That fuckin baby. Haunts me.
SHOGUN009
Siren: Blood Curse
ErikTheRed2000
That part in Alien: Isolation when you go into the xenomorph hive
Aggravating-Bug-9160
Tarkov makes me stink of anxiety sweat
XxMikroxx
few games did this starting with Visage and outlast but also resident evil 7 trying to sneak around jack
LarryCrabCake
Not even a horror game, but the part in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty when you’re being hunted and need to hide from the big spider mech/drone thing while completing various objectives to escape.
Edge of my fucking seat for the whole mission.
QuailRoyal2505
Resident Evil 3 on PS1, running from Nemesis
nwbell
Medbay level in Alien: Isolation
Overall_Link1495
The regenerators in RE:4 and the remake.
DirtyHollywood87
Soma: the part where Terry Akers stalks you through the Theta Labs
matt602
Ravenholme from Half-Life 2 was thoroughly disturbing the first few times I played, even to this day the mood creeps me out when I do a replay. From the moment that Alyx tells you about it the first time right up until the final scene with Father Grigori… its a trip.
Evening_Onion_8141
The outlast games will forever be favorites of mine.
Treshimek
The early-game giant snake chase in Sekiro
I_Lick_Your_Butt
Dead Space and FEAR were the two games that made me jump and uncontrollably yell out.
Beard341
Put on a VR headset and play Resident Evil 7. Fucking terrifying.
DevinPacholik
Visage. I have a lot of criticisms with that game, like the mindless fetch quests with zero handholding and the overall quality falls off later, but it is SCARY.
Some of the chapters are horrifying and always unnerving. Just walking around that house, the devs nailed that PT feeling of “there’s something else with me.”
It’s often not the loud jump scares, but the “did I just see what I think I saw?” moments that get you. It has lots of quiet spooks like eyes peaking around the corners or a hand scraping on a wall in the shadows. You’ll experience this kind of thing, as the house groans and shifts around you, and you find yourself begging for a jump scare just to release some tension. Fantastic horror design!
It’s the kind of scary where even after you solve a hard puzzle, your joy is sapped because you immediately dread what’s beyond the next door. I’ve played a lot of scary games, and while Visage doesn’t rank high on gameplay mechanics, it’s easily the scariest on my list.
Calvinweaver1
F.E.A.R. that part in the elevator when the power goes out. then comes back on just long enough to see the girl next to you before it goes out again
Matthonius
The sewer in RE4. The loud splash follows by running through water scared the crap out of me.
Deimos_Aeternum
Alien Isolation. All of it.
rioalquin
Beat Saber
Reach-Nirvana
I haven’t felt genuinely unsettled during a game like Silent Hill 2 made me feel in *years*, a decade even. I loved the original and missed the fear those first four games put in me. The dread. I can get spooked by a jump scare in Dead Space, but nothing can force me to walk through an entire game like an Akira Yamaoka soundtrack. The hammering industrial music while I’m fighting off enemies genuinely makes me feel panic. I walk everywhere cause the droning soundtrack when I’m not being attacked makes me feel like I’m about to be attacked at any moment.
As much as it’s music to set a mood, it’s also at times music to make you stressed, and it fucking *works*. It’s one thing for a game to jump scare me, it’s cheap, but it’s fun, whatever. For a game to make me genuinely feel a sense of dread where I don’t want to see what’s in that next room, and I don’t want to find out the next story beat, because I dread what I’ll see or find out, but I *can’t* stop playing because it’s just *so damn compelling*.
I cannot stress enough how much the SH2 remake brought me back to being a scared teenager.
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Well to be fair you couldn’t finish PT anyways unless you followed a very detailed YouTube guide video
What is this game about?
Outlast was redlining my stress level
Silent Hill 4, Spoilers : the first time your appartment turn into a nightmare, your health bar is falling because of the ghosts and you need to go through the living room if you want to save 🫠 (only way to save in the game)
Ehhhh heart pounds more than I sweat but the dollhouse area in resident evil village had me on edge the whole way
Jurassic Park on the 3DO, the FPS being hunted by a raptor level.
Probably that spider castle in Nioh.
Final bit in outer wilds had me STRESSED
as did dark bramble
Amnesia: The Bunker
There’s an indie game called Phantasmophobia that has VR compatibility. On desktop it’s creepy but fun, but VR was different. Being stalked by a bloody butcher ghost then having a pair of desiccated hands cover my eyes from behind made me quit that game and never go back.
Alien: isolation. That game gave me nightmares lol
Just. Dead Space in general, so nerve wracking. Remake is amazing too.
Almost every minute of the game “Prey”.
RE: Village. That fuckin baby. Haunts me.
Siren: Blood Curse
That part in Alien: Isolation when you go into the xenomorph hive
Tarkov makes me stink of anxiety sweat
few games did this starting with Visage and outlast but also resident evil 7 trying to sneak around jack
Not even a horror game, but the part in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty when you’re being hunted and need to hide from the big spider mech/drone thing while completing various objectives to escape.
Edge of my fucking seat for the whole mission.
Resident Evil 3 on PS1, running from Nemesis
Medbay level in Alien: Isolation
The regenerators in RE:4 and the remake.
Soma: the part where Terry Akers stalks you through the Theta Labs
Ravenholme from Half-Life 2 was thoroughly disturbing the first few times I played, even to this day the mood creeps me out when I do a replay. From the moment that Alyx tells you about it the first time right up until the final scene with Father Grigori… its a trip.
The outlast games will forever be favorites of mine.
The early-game giant snake chase in Sekiro
Dead Space and FEAR were the two games that made me jump and uncontrollably yell out.
Put on a VR headset and play Resident Evil 7. Fucking terrifying.
Visage. I have a lot of criticisms with that game, like the mindless fetch quests with zero handholding and the overall quality falls off later, but it is SCARY.
Some of the chapters are horrifying and always unnerving. Just walking around that house, the devs nailed that PT feeling of “there’s something else with me.”
It’s often not the loud jump scares, but the “did I just see what I think I saw?” moments that get you. It has lots of quiet spooks like eyes peaking around the corners or a hand scraping on a wall in the shadows. You’ll experience this kind of thing, as the house groans and shifts around you, and you find yourself begging for a jump scare just to release some tension. Fantastic horror design!
It’s the kind of scary where even after you solve a hard puzzle, your joy is sapped because you immediately dread what’s beyond the next door. I’ve played a lot of scary games, and while Visage doesn’t rank high on gameplay mechanics, it’s easily the scariest on my list.
F.E.A.R. that part in the elevator when the power goes out. then comes back on just long enough to see the girl next to you before it goes out again
The sewer in RE4. The loud splash follows by running through water scared the crap out of me.
Alien Isolation. All of it.
Beat Saber
I haven’t felt genuinely unsettled during a game like Silent Hill 2 made me feel in *years*, a decade even. I loved the original and missed the fear those first four games put in me. The dread. I can get spooked by a jump scare in Dead Space, but nothing can force me to walk through an entire game like an Akira Yamaoka soundtrack. The hammering industrial music while I’m fighting off enemies genuinely makes me feel panic. I walk everywhere cause the droning soundtrack when I’m not being attacked makes me feel like I’m about to be attacked at any moment.
As much as it’s music to set a mood, it’s also at times music to make you stressed, and it fucking *works*. It’s one thing for a game to jump scare me, it’s cheap, but it’s fun, whatever. For a game to make me genuinely feel a sense of dread where I don’t want to see what’s in that next room, and I don’t want to find out the next story beat, because I dread what I’ll see or find out, but I *can’t* stop playing because it’s just *so damn compelling*.
I cannot stress enough how much the SH2 remake brought me back to being a scared teenager.
What game is P.T?
The Library from Halo CE…