Mine is Silent Hill 3. Its subject matter revolves around the fears of a teenage girl, like death of a parent, puberty, unwanted pregnancy (with a demon fetus, no less), mirrors (THAT ROOM shivers), and stalkers. The atmosphere is so oppressive and I cant play the game without having something else playing in the background, its that horrifying. I managed to finish Silent Hill 2 last year, which was like conquering my own fears. One day, I’ll finish SH3. One day.
I tried playing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and although the gameplay was fun the story was just a little too dark for me. I quit about halfway through bc it just wasn’t a fun experience.
You know I thought I was going to be unique with this one.
This game gave me so much fucking anxiety that I couldn’t finish it. The dark atmosphere and the constant whispering in your ear made me feel like I was straight up hallucinating. It fucked with my head so hard.
Even though I’ve finished the first three at least once, Fatal Frame games are terrifying. I love them dearly, but I literally can only play any of them for maybe an hour before I have to turn them off.
I don’t know if I would be able to finish one these days. My anxiety is way worse than when I was young.
Edit: To be more specific, the sound design in FF games is too good. The atmospheric sound effects, the background music, the ghosts voices. It’s so creepy. The way the ghosts appear out of nowhere, the subject matter of folkloric rituals.
It’s all just the perfect storm of terror. The anxiety gets to me after a time.
Siren is another series I would hate to play right now.
Oh man, Silent Hill 2 and 3 are some of my favorite games, the atmosphere is just perfect. I started playing Resident Evil 7 in VR and the part at the very beginning where you go down into the basement and I just noped out and haven’t tried it since. Will probably give it another go eventually…
Silent Hill 2… I’ve finished so many horror games including RE7 in VR, but for some reason I get to the apartment building in Silent Hill 2 and nope out.
I’ve tried Dead Space on a few occasions but I can not stand more than a few minutes. I can’t help it but nopenopenope.
Not quite an answer to your question, but if you enjoy horror games but don’t want to be too spooked yourself, I highly recommend the OhItsRobinM channel on YouTube and Twitch. She plays horror games and is absolutely unphased. She makes them bearable to watch for me.
I subscribed to her thank you !
Outlast is 2spooky4me. Got pretty far in, but then just couldn’t get past the dread.
Never played it, but Alien: Isolation is a cool-looking game I’m not going to even bother attempting.
I call The Evil Within. It was awesome when I played it. I don’t usually play survival horror games, but this was incredible. However, it was putting too much stress on me. I couldn’t bare it anymore when they started to add invisible ennemies 😅. One day, I hope I will play it again to the very end :).
I tried to play Prey, but couldn’t handle the idea that everything might be an enemy.
I didn’t play much horror, but I always thought the FEAR games were badass. Lots of jump scares, crazy storyline, and solid game play. Also loved the Deadspace series… Not having a HUD but finding clever ways to provide information to the player was pretty ground breaking at the time.
There is a game so fucking terrifying that I won’t even buy it although I’d totally play it. That Dragon, Cancer. It’s a deeper fear than I can ever explain.
Never heard of this. Just read the wiki. Holy shit I could never.
I couldn’t finish it, not out of fear though. It’s just, absolutely, devastating.
Jesus I go to horror games for a different brand of horror. I can’t imagine voluntarily subjecting myself to this, but I can actually imagine wanting to make it if I were a parent who had to live through that.
I had to bail on Alien:Isolation because it was stressing me too much.
It may be lame but alien isolation i have been booting up the same save for years and can never bring myself to play it long enough to finish.
It used to be Bioshock but now it’s Prey
Mine is SOMA. Not necessarily because anything about the gameplay is scary, moreso just because the ending is so… difficult, that it’s painful.
I cleansed my SOMA trauma with The Talos Principle. Very similar themes but viewed through a hopeful lens.
SOMA may be my second favourite game of all time. I highly recommend it to everyone. Even if you don’t normally do scary games (like me, I’m a total wuss), there is a safety mode where the monsters cannot kill you. This makes it tolerable enough for even people like me to experience the game, and its amazing atmosphere and story.
I struggle with progressing through Amnesia. It’s such a cool game with an intriguing story but when I really get into it, it disturbs me to the core lol
