Games that Actually Scared You

[DementedSheep]

Amnesia (obviously)
Fatal frame tho I never got to play the whole thing
That one haunted hotel level in VTM:B. Fuck that level. Don't know why that level is so bad to me, there are other games I have played that should be scarier but aren?t. Perhaps it because I hadn?t been desensitised by playing other horror games before that when I played it the first time
bioshock wasn't that scary overall but it had its moments
Currently playing the penumbra series. Overture wasn?t scary but Black Plague looks like it?s going to be much much better.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Doom! I played that shit when I was young, out in my Dad's office at night and I had never seen anything like it before. First time I was in the maze on I think e1m3 and ran into my first pinky demon and it killed me, scared the crap out of me!
More recently though, Amnesia Dark Descent is a good choice.

 

[otakon17]

Demon Souls. Lord, especially bosses like Flamelurker and Maneater. I would start to sweat, and my legs would jitter. That game is damn scary at times. The first time you play, hell anything could kill you. And now Dark Souls is even worse with even more deathtraps. God help me, Umbasa...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Duke Nukem 3D. No really, those damn Protosoid Slimer things used to scare the shit out of me. My best friend used to laugh at me because I'd freak out when ever I even heard that oozing sound they made.

 

[Tselis]

About ten years ago, a game called Extinction. There was alot of crawling through air vets in the dark, and goo, and stuff jumping out, and and and ... My husband was playing it at the time. He told me that if I screamed one more time he would turn it off. I had to bite my sleeve.

 

[kittii-chan 300]

i was terrified of the mansion of madness in timesplitters... sooo scawy ;(

 

[Filiecs]

Ravenholm scared me pretty bad the first time and it still creeps me out.
Amnesia REALLY scares me and I've only watched a lets play of it. Never stepped foot in it once.

 

[Nexus4]

Demon Souls. Lord, especially bosses like Flamelurker and Maneater. I would start to sweat, and my legs would jitter. That game is damn scary at times. The first time you play, hell anything could kill you. And now Dark Souls is even worse with even more deathtraps. God help me, Umbasa...

Yeah, kinda half agree with you. Thing is though, that I found that Demon's Souls is built entirely on nightmare fuel; so it kinda loses its impact after a while. For me the Adjudicator was just...well I spent more time staring at it than actually fighting it. Man that thing was creepy. In regards to other games, I'm gonna throw up Amnesia and Thief 3's orphanage level.

 

[Redworld13]

The Sims (Oh God The Horror)!!!!!

 

[MisterDyslexo]

-Dead Space
-Metro 2033
-Bioshock

And an odd one to throw out there, but Far Cry 2 any time I do an infiltration mission at night on the hardest difficulty. You could say its tense (mostly due to bugging AI), but I think scary fits it better. I get all paranoid about being spotted and getting my butt kicked.

 

[PilgrimScott_III]

Dead Space wasn't all that scary... right up until the very last scene before the credits. Scared the shit out of me. Had my heart pounding, and very few games are able to do that to me.

The Resident Evil GC remake was creepy enough, but the first instance of one of the fallen zombies rising back up as a Crimson Head right as I was walking past it was scary as hell.

There was also Descent when I was quite young (in case you don't know, it's a game about piloting a spaceship though underground military installations battling flying robots on planets and moons in outer space). The cloaking robots used to freak me right out, along with some of the boss robots simply because of how much firepower they had. However, were I to play it now, I wouldn't even bat an eye.

Half-Life had me on the edge of my seat quite a bit when I first played it at 12 years of age, especially in the beginning disaster sequence. Even now, I find it a bit creepy, though oddly enough, I get more on edge when I hear the soldiers' radio communications than any noise the aliens make.

That's about all I can think of for myself. Fun fact: My older brother got nightmares from the original Wolfenstein when he watched our cousin play it when we were young (less that 10 years old). After playing it again in recent years, he STILL can't believe such a cheesy (in his eyes) game could have scared him so badly.

 

[Mordekaien]

Gotta go with Amnesia here.... Oh and Vampire the masquerade bloodlines was pretty creepy sometimes.

And for the longest time, I thought that Butcher from Diablo 1 was horror personified.

 

[Frag-ile]

Amnesia (obviously)
That one haunted hotel level in VTM:B. Fuck that level. Don't know why that level is so bad to me, there are other games I have played that should be scarier but aren?t. Perhaps it because I hadn?t been desensitised by playing other horror games before that when I played it the first time

That level is among the scariest things I've ever played, Grout's mansion with all the insane harlequins was pretty spooky aswell.
Thief the dark project had me almost constantly spooked out, this was an age where even zombies were still scary and this game had much more than that to offer.
Alien Vs Predator (1999) was also a very scary game, even when you were playing alien and you were supposed to be the scary one.

Edit:

And for the longest time, I thought that Butcher from Diablo 1 was horror personified.

Oh yeah, I remember that. "Fresh meat" "Oh god he's comming, he's comming, run away!"

 

[Aerduin]

Other than Dead Space, the one that really stands out goes back a long time ...

Realms of the Haunting and old DOS game by Interplay .. Doom style adventure game set in Cornwall, now available from Good Old Games. Graphics sadly do look dated now, but in its day this was awesome.

 

[Raioken18]

The hotel from VTB: Bloodlines yep.

Also, and I don't think it's been mentioned yet, any game in the Project Zero/Fatal Frame series. Especially 3. This game will have you crapping your pants every 5 minutes. It is some of the most unsettling spooky you won't sleep for a week type games ever... I'd seriously have a nervous breakdown if I tried to finish it...

Meanwhile I remember the first time a game upset me (and the first PC game I ever played), it was this "educational" type game called Biosys, and somewhere along the line you come into contact with a corpse with maggots running across it, and you need to search it for keys. I was quite young when I played it, like 13... I cried. Hey it was published by Take 2?!?! Woah! I still play their games today! That's just... amazing... 12 years later...

 

[RemuValtrez]

Fatal Frame 2. There were about 5 people playing it with me, split between family and friends. I played it a little bit, and then handed off the controller. One of my friends ended up playing most of it, and overall, it wasn't -that- scary, just one single part. He was running through a house with the camera to defeat ghosts and such, went through a room about 5 times looking for something (I don't remember what it was). He ended up standing there thinking, and so he brought up his camera to see if that would help him find it.

To find the ghost of a woman with a broken neck reaching out to him. We all ended up flipping out at how she looked/how close she was. We had cleared the room multiple times but she just popped out of nowhere. Freaked everyone out, he ended up throwing the controller.

Was a good time though xD Gotta play it at night like we did!

 

[Anthony Wells]

my little pony: story of the blanks. only game to ever scare me

 

[Agarth]

I got scared just watching Jessy Cox play Amnesia the Dark Decent, I'd hate to actually play it myself....


http://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGcata#p/c/536131EC6F881D89/0/oKLuE1AvFEM

Also Fallout 3, any place with deathhclaws in it.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Every game with horror setting, fixed cameras and poor control over character.
Silent Hill III comes to mind. Game was creepy, yeah, but there were moments with this accursed radio static and no visible enemy. I almost panicked in moments like these.

 

[Adam Cammock-Sands]

Tomb Raider 1.