I want good Horror games!

[JasonKaotic]

I'll list all the games I've played that I found genuinely scary:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Irisu Syndrome [sub](That game... that... fucking game...)[/sub]
SCP: Containment Breach
SCP-087 [small](If that counts as a game)[/small]
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Ao Oni
Ib [small](Sort of. It had some fantastic moments, but most if it is jump scares. Good ones, though. And not all the scares are jump scares.)[/small]
Condemned [small](Also sort of)[/small]
Alien Trilogy [small](Also sort of... it's at least scary for such an old game)[/small]

I assume Silent Hill 3 is too, but I haven't gotten 'round to playing it yet.

 

[Nightmonger]

That one mission in Theif: deadly shadows anyone who has played it will know ITS SCARY

 

[Punch You]

People only talk about it being hardcore, but Dark Souls is actually a great horror game. Plenty of scary monsters and locations.

 

[shrekfan246]

It depends on what type of 'horror' you're going for? For pulse-pounding tense horror, I can echo Amnesia, Penumbra: Overture and Black Plague, Condemned: Criminal Origins, System Shock 2...

For a slightly different, more psychological mind-fuckery type of horror, I can echo Silent Hill 2/3, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and then recommend something that apparently nobody else played or liked... Alice: Madness Returns. And, by extension, American McGee's Alice, which you'll want to play before Madness Returns. Though it's certainly a product of a by-gone era of level design.

EDIT: Also, considering the fact that practically everything can and will kill you, Demon's Souls and Dark Souls do the atmosphere really well.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Hm, I don't play many scary games (if any at all) but I guess I'll give this a shot. The Fatal Frame series?

 

[Vkmies]

I am going to be super-hipstery and only recommend games these fine gentlemen have forgotten:

Lone Survivor. Basically indie, 2d, 8-bit Silent Hill

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. A old Point and click with a inherently creepy and morbid story and writing. Based on a short story by the same name.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

I've not played them but I hear the Dark Fall series is darned creepy. All but the most recent are 360 degrees, point and click adventures in the style of Myst, though, if that bothers you. The most recent apparently has more conventional first person controls, though.

Might be stretching the definition of "horror" a little, but Another World/Out of This World and Heart of Darkness are pretty damn creepy.

Also, if you like survival horror maybe you'll be interested in checking out it's roots? Project Firestart is surprisingly creepy for it's day and the earliest survival horror game I can think of. It's on the Commodore 64; it's not aged amazingly well, but it's still enjoyable in the right mindset and is a brilliant little piece of history. Every survival horror fan should play it just to see how far the genre has come.

 

[marfin_]

I'll copy & paste my horror list again...






Undying
The Dark Eye
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Alone in the Dark
Clocktower
System Shock series
Dark Fall: The Journal
Manhunt 1&2 (get the uncut version of 2)
Realms of the Haunting
Shadow of the Comet
Ripper
Scratches
Seven Games of the Soul
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
Zork Nemesis
The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure
Divi-Dead
Sublustrum (Outcry)
Phobos 1953
Anchorhead
The Residents: Bad Day on the Midway
Thief 1/2 and certain fan made missions
Nosferatu
Resident Evil 1&2
Sllent Hill 1,2&3
Haunting Ground
Harvester
Sanitarium
Blackstone Chronicles
Seven Games of the Soul
Personal Nightmare
Black Mirror 1-3
DarkSeed
I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon
Last Half of Darkness
Tomb of Zohir
Beyond the Spirits Eye
Shadow of the servants
Return of the Phantom
Veil of Darkness
Dead Reefs
The Thing
Temüjin
Black Dahlia
Twisted Lands Series
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Cosmology of Kyoto
Midnight Mysteries Series
Dark Dimensions: City of Fog
Dracula: Love Kills
Alpha Polaris
Waxworks
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
The White Chamber
Overclocked - A History of Violence. More of a psychological thriller than horror, but still gud
Penumbra
Gabriel Knight 2
The Void (aka Tension, aka Turgor)

Your Tome of Horror games is much appreciated dude!!! =)

 

[D-Class 198482]

Amnesia, Penumbra, Silent Hill, Painkiller had some creepy levels, Condemned, and if you have the Half Life series and Fallout 3 there are some good horror mods for them.

 

[Anaklusmos]

Lone Survivor... don't understand how not a single person has said this, sure it's got a childish aesthetic... but that's how it gets you...

EDIT: didn't realize two other people had recommended it

 

[Sacman]

If you own Half-Life 2, then the mod "Nightmare House 2" is great. You only need the second one, because the original one was just a map and it wasn't well made. 2 contains the original map, but remade, so it's a win-win, plus it's free.

On the topic of half life mods... check out Korsakovia... possibly the scariest things I've ever played... just mind warping and disturbing on every level...<.<

Also, check out the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series... it's more atmospheric and subtle than straight up scary... but it's absorbing to the point of having a long lasting effect...

System Shock 2 as well... just like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. it nails the feeling of being completely alone and vulnerable in a hostile environment... so it's more the atmosphere being disturbing than the game having actual scares...<.<

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

So only one mention of Fatal frame series so far?

And NO mention of Forbidden Siren series?!

Seriously, play them.

They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong!
*hides*

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I play an absurd amount of horror titles but here are one's I always recommend people.

Rule Of Rose (Specially this)
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4
Fatal Frame 3
Eternal Darkness

 

[marfin_]

I am going to be super-hipstery and only recommend games these fine gentlemen have forgotten:

Lone Survivor. Basically indie, 2d, 8-bit Silent Hill

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. A old Point and click with a inherently creepy and morbid story and writing. Based on a short story by the same name.

I'm sorry but I read the "I have no Mouth and I must Scream" short story... it has greatly disturbed me and I will not play the game! Thank you for your suggestions anyways

 

[Vkmies]

I am going to be super-hipstery and only recommend games these fine gentlemen have forgotten:

Lone Survivor. Basically indie, 2d, 8-bit Silent Hill

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. A old Point and click with a inherently creepy and morbid story and writing. Based on a short story by the same name.

I'm sorry but I read the "I have no Mouth and I must Scream" short story... it has greatly disturbed me and I will not play the game! Thank you for your suggestions anyways

Oh dear! I don't know if I should take that as a victory of a great suggestion of creepiness, or loss of disturbing innocent people!