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[Gonzito]

For me personally, Madison, Visage and Resident Evil 7

 

[GymWolf]

Condemned 1 and it's not particularly close.

Tension build up was second to none.

Only vr horror is a clear step up for obvious reasons and people who says otherwise clearly just haven't tried horror vr at all.

 

[March Climber]

Nintendo 64 games scarred my childhood more than any horror game ever could. I guess if I were to pick the top 2 it would be OoT and Majora’s Mask.

I think it’s mainly due to the juxtaposition of a seemingly straightforward heroic game suddenly presenting you with hellish nightmare fuel 5 hours into your game or unsettling you 10 hours into it, and never fully explaining why.

Then suddenly you go back to normal heroic stuff as the game pretends it didn’t just do that, making you feel even more unsettled afterwards.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

P.T. for sure.

Please tell me how you can have one of the best 'Horror' games/Demo of ALL time, loved by millions and one of the most looked forward games ever in existence

And then take a massive SHIT on it?

I mean, what the fuck man.

Utter lunacy.

 

[Madserb2023]

Majora's Mask. That game genuinely was more unsettling to 1O year old me than anything and I just finished Resident Evil 3 nemesis.

 

[Edmund]

Fatal Frame

 

[tommib]

Best is a tie between Resident Evil 3 Remake and ObsCure for different styles of horror. Mechanically and in terms of pacing and presentation RE3R is a damn near perfect rendition of modern horror games. Likewise ObsCure is the same for the old school horror games.



The scariest I have played is Silent Hill Shattered Memories and Tower of Latria in Demon Souls. In one you have no choice but to run even when you're hopelessly lost. In the other every step you take could be your last.

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I would not be able to handle demons souls tower of latria in VR. Fucking nightmare of a place in pancake mode.

 

[Vick]

Only possible answer for me, and reason I still keep a PS4 Pro I'll never get rid of.

Consuming horror media since childhood, played and loved the OG RE trilogy as kid (scared shitless), Silent Hill 2 as first PS2 game (scared shitless), played all those "horrors" in the 360/PS3 era, enviable horror BD collection. First time I've downloaded P.T., five minutes or so in and when nothing happened yet, I felt the need to stop playing.
Did a few loops, stared at that lit hallway and felt inside I was doing something wrong, like my subconscious recognized this stuff as potentially truly demonic in nature and dangerous. Sounds ridiculous, but it's the truth.

Only with VR I've been able to replicate that feeling.
And I'm 100% convinced the last, randomly generated portion of P.T. could seriously kill people in VR.

One reupload of a once legendary video I loved:



That said, can't wait to finally play Silent Hill 2 Remake in a few weeks.

 

[tommib]

No love for FMV horror, GAF?

Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 were scary, man. And gory!

D
Bad Mojo
Enemy Zero
Realms of the Haunting

And more recently, Immortality gave me absolute chills when you start to realize what’s going on with the video manipulation. It was like something out of Prince of Darkness.

Also, this motherfucker:

 

[winjer]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, this game created a really oppressive ambient, that was truly scary. Not just random jump scares.

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

Another for Alien Isolation in VR mode. I love horror games but I forced quite that shit almost immediately.

 

[jufonuk]

Return to castle wolfenstein. with headphones late at night.

Left 4 Dead 1/2 multiplayer scary trying to save team mates

 

[marcincz]

Silent Hill.
Really terryfying experience.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I don’t think anything has really creeped me out apart from the Regenerators in Resident Evil 4.

 

[EverydayBeast]

People want to know who’s the scariest?

 

[SNPlayen]

Scariest RE7 in VR by far. I shit my pants.

 

[luca_29_bg]

P.t first place!
Second place= Silent Hill 2 Remake, it's terrifying too!

 

[Rickyiez]

Fatal Frame 2 and Silent Hill 3

PT is the scariest no doubt, but a Tech demo doesn't count as the "best horror game"

 

[The Cockatrice]

People want to know who’s the scariest?

Someone broke the bot again.

 

[Euler007]

Doom 3 alone at night was stressful AF.

 

[ikbalCO]

BB - nightmare of mensis

 

[SkeletonQuays]

Condemned: Criminal Origin and Outlast

 

[Deerock71]

I've been juggling a few, but I keep going back to the 2005 RE4 HD. I know there's only a couple spots where it gets intense...but it's just FUN.

 

[Ribi]

Overrated trash

 

[Laptop1991]

This one, FEAR, great gameplay, story, and atmosphere and doesn't rely on too many jump scares for the horror and the shooting and slow mo side of it was top tier

 

[xVodevil]

All good horror games are scary, just wait till midnight and put on some headphones
Couldn't pick just one anyway, but for some variety I'll bring Thief 3 orphanage map
Also Doom 3 with no flashlight mod as released was pretty good stuff back in the day

 

[Beechos]

Hands down p.t. and that wasn't even a full game. That p.t. ripoff I think it was called visage also had its moments.

 

[soulbait]

Condemned: Criminal Origins is still the scariest game I have played. I really wish they would have continued the series.

 

[Hunter 99]

Old School-Resi 2 PS1,project zero,silent hill 4
Recently-Madison and Visage.scariest games I've played past 3 years

 

[Chronos24]

Playing Outlast for the first time scared the ever loving shit out of me. Resident evil Remake on GameCube was great too. Playing SH2 remake now and damn so far that one has been nerve racking. Anything VR horror also.

 

[PurePlatinum]

Resident Evil remake is the best, but Alien Isolation is the scariest by a mile.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Silent Hill on PS1.

Resident evil 7 VR

 

[Big Baller]

This one, FEAR, great gameplay, story, and atmosphere and doesn't rely on too many jump scares for the horror and the shooting and slow mo side of it was top tier

I cant think of a better horror fps and its been 20 years

 

[Dacvak]

RE7 in VR was something else. Definitely the scariest game I’ve played for sure, but primarily due to the immersion of VR.

 

[swaffles23]

Silent Hill 2 remake might be the game that had me tensed the most. Other than Resident Evil VII, I've never really been scared with RE games except for stuff like the regenerators in OG RE4. Original RE2 is definitely my favorite horror game though.

Running into Jason inside the cabins on the NES Friday the 13th scared the shit out of me as a kid.

 

[Rush2112]

Imagine if kojima had been allowed to develop PT into a full single player game.

 

[niilokin]

I can play through games like Dead Space, Condemned and Resident Evil cuz the monsters are "just" mutants or some psychic shit (like FEAR but that was particularly tough for me), but if it's about ghosts and apparitions I nope out immediately

 

[lughnasadh123]

Shout out to Doom: delving into the depth of hell being chased by demons with the sounds of babies crying in the background.

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

Horror games stop being scary when you're over 12.

 

[Big Baller]

Imagine if kojima had been allowed to develop PT into a full single player game.

You would have brought packages from door to door.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Favorite

Eternal Darkness

Scariest

Little Nightmares
Little Nightmares II

 

[rodrigolfp]

Horror games stop being scary when you're over 12.

Jump scares.

 

[Deerock71]

Alien Isolation. You really feel like a prey in this game.
And the alien is unpredictable as hell.

The Alien feels kind of predictable...until it isn't.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Resident Evil 7
Visage
Signalis
Outlast 2

Each of these, I gave up after a few hours because it wasn't worth the stress.

Outlast 2 was a unique case because it wasnt due to being "scared" but because it depicts something early on that I found extremely repulsive and evil. Mission accomplished, devs, it was so off-putting, I gave up the game.

 

[Jinxed]

OG Resident evil as a teen. I'll always remember that fucking dog through the window

As an adult probably the prison level in dark souls. Only game that made me claustrophobic, fuck that level

 

[Lunarorbit]

Have you tried vr?? If you love horror it will change your life a mediocre horror game in vr is scarier than the best console horror games of all time

Like the hentai tentacles were Halloween colored?

Edit: opps. I meant to.reply to someone else. Hahaha. This makes mo sense now

 

[Lunarorbit]

Some random cursed hentai game i stumbled on itch io

Like the hentai tentacles were Halloween colored?

 

[diffusionx]

RE7 for me. That game was legit scary especially in the beginning.

 

[FoxMcChief]

P.T. for sure.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Like the hentai tentacles were Halloween colored?