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>Has a videogame ever scared you? If so, what is the specific moment and why?
Plenty of horror games have made me uneasy or startled.

But only two games ever made me genuinely terrified: Pathologic 1 and The Void.
In Pathologic 1, it was the fucking albino encounter on day... I think it's 5 of Bachelor's route? That shit gets to anyone who played Bachelor first, it's an absolute MASTERCLASS of fucking with the players mind.
It's all about the very, very slow build-up, about the way the game lulls you into a false sense of security over the course of like 7 hours. It's absolutely perfectly timed, hits you exactly at the moment when you become convinced that you got the handle on the story and figured out its approach to supernatural... and then this fucker appears and suddenly, literally everything were confident in is fucked again.

It's such an insanely effective scenario done with so very, very little resources.

The Void does something very similar with the first visit to the Surface, except the role of reality and strangeness are reversed. The game makes you very much confident that it's all abstract, all vague surrealism and some kind of very unclear allegory or metaphor and than it smacks you in the face with something so concrete, so obviously real, it again makes you question everything you thought you knew about the story, and that is PROFOUNDLY unsettling.

IPL really are fucking masters of their craft.
Also, Knock Knock never scared me, but it did give me a panic attack.