Top Ten Scariest Video Games of all Time

[Trololo Punk]

FEAR, the origanal was scary when it first came out (for me) though, i was 10 when i first played it...

My scariest game would have to be Amnesia, though I haven't really played that many horror games.

 

[jopomeister]

Can't really make a list, but, I've had a few jump scares from the Half Life 2 series. God damn those headcrab zombies lurking underwater...
Also, mentioned already, Minecraft. It's more creepy and intense than it is scary, though. You're there, you hear spiders and all-sorts, and you break one single block, BAM, mob infestation.
And certain areas in Fallout: New Vegas had me on edge, but not properly scared.
Those are really all the games I can think of that I've played. Other than that, I've seen Condemned: Criminal Origins, and that gets really creepy. *Shivers*

 

[TheCrapMaster]

Im abit suprised Penumbra wasent there, sure its the same creator and basicly the same game as Amnesia. But Penumbra was based in the current time period and had more mysteri to it. Heck i yet to find another game where a god damn normal wolf can scare the shit out of me like Penumbra did. But it might be just me that get more scared of horror stuff based on current time period compared to the normal 15th-18th century haunted castle/house.

Note: I havent played through either of the two games, for fear of getting a heart attack and life long trauma*sobs*

thats really very intresting, a tip for you brother, while playing horror we must have to keep in mind that these things are not real and will never gonna happen in our lifes, plus we have to learn and practice door close theory, in that theory you can easily learn about how to forget things u dont want to remember.

True, but im easily frightend and each time try to play a scary game i have to paus after 5min of gameplay and have 15min of gathering courage to go on. Tho its mostly the fear of "jump effects" that keeps me away and that you cant fight back in either of those two games. Dead space and f.e.a.r stoped being scary after 1hour of playing.

 

[hwarang]

Hey has everyone forgotten "The Thing"? Cause if so that makes it a properly underrated horror classic (nicely mirroring the film).

First of all for a monster horror game you don't get to see/attack any creature for a good half hour of gameplay that is spent developing tension with the mystery surrounding the events that destroyed the facility in the film.

Set as a sequel to the film, you are a well armed member of a team of soldiers. But guns just don't work on the monsters. You need to burn them to death to truly kill them. And nobody has got a goddamn flamethrower. A nice twist on the hiding ammo for tension mechanic, you think you are safe with your stockpile of bullets. Then you lose all of your squad when attacked.

As you desperately try to recruit more members to your ragtag team, reluctantly handing out weapons to who can use them, some members burst into visceral screaming monsters and start killing everyone. But not straight away! You never know if anyone will turn (unless you use a blood test on them, but you have to save those to use on yourself to prove that you are not a monster when recruiting people).
Monster designs coming straight out of copies of John Carpenter's classic as well as some truly demented ideas for beasts (you are relieved when it's only the decapitated head spiders).

But the worst part... when you first witness what happens to a comrade who has had enough of the terror. He will run off, you will chase him to save him but it is too late, he will use the gun you gave him to blow his own head off. Yes that happens. I swear, after the first time it happens you will turn off your console and not turn it back on for a week.

My. Favourite. Horror. Game.

 

[ogrebushi]

System shock 2 would be my number 1 as well, and for reasons that werent even mentioned. The -random spawning- walk around a corner a fireball monkey or that damn "can i help you sir" -boom dead- reload same corner is clear. Hell i as highschool age worried about getting a heart attack cause family thought it would be fun to tap on the glass or make loud noiss suddenly while im playing said game since you have your ears -open- listening for any little zombie growl, chimp wail, or that hydraulic swish swish of a mechanoid

 

[funguy2121]

Maybe I'm missing something here since I haven't played a lot of these survival horror games, but where is Dark Space 2? That game is scary as Hell! The tram sequence alone is heart-pounding.

 

[Rawne1980]

Alone in the Dark .....

The game itself wasn't very scary but those controls and camera angles terrified me .... FIX THE BLOODY CAMERA I would yell at my monitor in absolute horror when I realised all I could see was my feet.

Fallout New Vegas .....

Again, not a very scary game in itself, however, it did get to the point where I was dreading going near any NCR soldiers for sheer terror of them saying the dreaded "patroling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter".

Those words sent ice chills down my spine after hearing them for the 600th time.