Which game has scared you the most?

[Mouth for war]

Yeah...i'm talking about those funny moments when a game simply scared the s¤%# out of you. One of my fond memories...and i think more agree with me, is the hallway in Resident Evil when those dogs jumps through the window...But i think i got more shocked when i was playing Resident Evil 2 and that damn licker jumps through the glass in the interrogation room. Nemesis in RE3 wasn't bad either...he could make my heart beat really fast sometimes hehe. Hell...I even remember the sound effect when Jason showed up in friday the 13:th for the nes...sometimes it made me jump haha. I probably have more but those are the more memorable stuff. so...how about you?

[Oliwerko]

I got scared hundreds of times in Thief 1, not that much in Thief 2, but that was also tense.

So, for me the scariest game ever is Thief 1. No more to say here 

[Babar]

Alone in the Dark. WHY DID YOU WALK SO SLOWLY, CARNBY?!

[GarageGothic]

Did anyone play Friday the 13th on the Commodore 64?  At random times, when one of the campers got killed, this screen would pop up accompanied by a digitized screech. Used to scare the bejesus out of me.

[Mouth for war]

ah yes...i remember Ft13 for the c64. that scared me as well hehe

[R4L]

I was only maybe 7 or 8, playing Silent Hill on PSX, and I was already creeped out by the game, but the part where the corpse falls out of the locker... I stopped playing Silent Hill for so long and was only able to finish it when i got it again last year, when I was 16.

16! That's a lot of years! That's how badly that game scarred me. Scarred for life man.

Plus, the Resident Evil games got to me. I used to play them, but when it got dark, I never played it until the morning.

The 1st Fatal Frame game on Xbox scared me a lot. The premise made it perfect. You basically take pictures of ghosts, but because it's made by a Japanese company, it's more a surreal horror, like The Ring style for instance.

Hmm... what other games? Half-Life spooked me a bit, because it was really intense for me at the time. The things in Resident Evil 4, I think they're called regenerators, idk, but they make this noise that scares the piss out of me.

Any game that is as disturbing as the Silent Hill games, will most definitely make me jump. I think "disturbing" is much worse than "scary" lol.

[vict0r]

Hmm... Although not the best game ever, Doom 3 scared the crap out of me several times!

[OneDollar]

I don't really play horror games, but there have been a few moments in other genres.

First time I opened the knight's tomb in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and you got a 256 colour skeleton accompanied by a loud musical sting. Always used to turn the volume down at that point when I played through it again. I also got rather worried playing Myst for the first time, like when you find one of the brother's torture chambers with skulls hidden in chests, or wandering around the tree-top houses on another island. Say what you will about Myst, but the atmosphere was very good. The original Men in Black game as well, what with crazy doctors jumping out of the shadows and zombie dogs running around in the second mission. I think I also stopped playing Half Life a couple of times when it was getting late.

Much more recently than all those I started playing The Dark Eye (game based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe), and decided I wouldn't play it late at night . Again fantastic atmosphere.

I reckon the scariest thing I've played on my own so far was the demo to Penumbra Overture. Played that in the dark with the volume up and it was great, though the scary part was that I knew if something attacked me I wouldn't have a chance because I couldn't get to grips with the stupid controls

(I also have to admit that The Curse of Monkey Island made me turn the volume down because I got scared... it was late, I was young and it was the bit where you're going through the Goodsoup family crypt, and somebody starts laughing evilly. Turned the sound back on again when I realised it was Murry though )

[TwinMoon]

While not a real shocker, Trilby's Notes made me feel sick with that excessive amount of gore.

[TerranRich]

When I was a kid, Doom and Alone in the Dark did it for me. Doom for its overall atmosphere (which at the time had me immersed in it), and Alone in the Dark for its general creepiness. Especially that weird creature that broke through the window. When I first heard it coming, I was freaked the !@#$ out.

[evenwolf]

Hugo's House of Horrors!    hahahaha,   seriously timed puzzles ARE scary.


I'd have to say Resident Evil for the win.   Silent Hill and other games have made good attempts but they simply follow in the footsteps.


Then there was that D game.

[Stupot]

I'd have to say Resident Evil for the win.   Silent Hill and other games have made good attempts but they simply follow in the footsteps.

I have to disagree with you there wolf...
Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 were profoundly terrifying... I can't judge SH3 because I never played it, and 4 was cool but not really that scary... Is there a 5?... if so I haven't played that one either...

[evenwolf]

Right.  Sure.   But without RE paving the way those games would never exist.


Yes they had scarier moments with crackling radios and fog and things off camera.    I will say they were most terrifiying.  But even then I have to nod to RE for being OG.

[LUniqueDan]

The first time was F13 for the C64 too, that I innocently played it without warnings (there was also 2 other screens if my memory's good)
Then the first random incounter in Alone in the Dark make me that huge effect.
Finally 7AS was unbeatable. Everytime I replay it I jump when the welder shows up.

[zeeman645]

nobody went next gen on  this topic so i will. CONDEMED 1 & 2 scared the s%!@ out of me man! in my opinion, condemned is the scariest game i have ever played.

[auriond]

I can't judge SH3 because I never played it, and 4 was cool but not really that scary... Is there a 5?... if so I haven't played that one either...

SH3 was terrifying to me, but then that was the first SH that I ever played. And I'm a serious wuss, so take that as you will.

SH5 is coming out soon, but in the meantime there's SH 0rigins to keep you occupied

[The Suitor]

Doom... When I was a kid and one of those pink demons ran across the screen, I jumped and the keyboard did a flip as well. I must've still had it in my hand.  My dad laughed his ass off at me for minutes. Alone in the dark, was very creepy to me back in the day, especially that/those gargoyle thing(s) (can't remember if there was one or two) you had to kill with the mirror(s).

[Buckethead]

I can't think of any game that actually scared me. I always just feel a chill of a excitement when it gets scary. Although many years ago me and my brother were playing Half live non stop and it was kinda too much for me as I had nightmares about it at one time.

[PixelPerfect]

If you live alone, it's dark outside, no lights on in the house and have a decent set of headphones pretty much any horror game will give you chills.

When I was younger we used to play Silent Hill 2 at my friends house and then I had to walk this forest path in the dark at midnight when returning home. That was pretty scary. I think the psychological twists in that game are just top notch and SH2 is pretty much my all-time horror game no. 1 because of it's story.

[skuttleman]

Hmm... Although not the best game ever, Doom 3 scared the crap out of me several times!

I agree. Doom3 is the only time I've had to take a break from playing a game just because of how much it creeped me out. Fantastic environmental immersion!