Has a videogame ever scared you? If so, what is the specific moment and why?

No

The last time was doing Poppy Playtime and the first chase against Huggy, because it caught me completely off guard when he appeared

>>715391381 (OP)
Thief, sneaking between the chain rattling zombie things in the almost pitch black tunnels in the sealed off quarter near the old cathedral. Jumpscares don't really count.

The first night of Darkwood where nothing actually happens and it's just a bunch of noises. I remember how the door of the room I was in opened by itself either that night or the next and my heart nearly stopped.

>>715391527
Cute dog

i remember being creeped out by the Deerhaunter in Timesplitters FP

Holy shit I forgot about this series , is it finally finished yet it's been 4 years

>>715391381 (OP)
cookie

>>715391649
You have to be 18 to post here.
It's ok I won't tell janny this time.

>>715391527
>lust provoking image

>>715391381 (OP)
>zoomers actually think this shit is terrifying
Lmao

>>715391381 (OP)
is it bad that I find this slightly arousing?

>>715395887
>"The last time"
>Doesn't understand getting startled

The one time I jumped out of my chair and yelped like an idiot was in the Piggsy boss fight at the end of Manhunt where you walk into that creepy rotten abandoned house or whatever that for some reason is in the middle of some luxurious mansion and there’s no music or noise of any kind and as you’re walking around suddenly you hear a loud chainsaw and this fat pig faced fuck gunning for you

>>715391381 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3wqHQ-v9qw

>>715391381 (OP)
Does this series actually SCARE people?
I enjoy new updates, but the art is so shitty I don't get how you can be afraid.

>>715398249
i remember getting vitriolically angry after i looked into it because it was worse than i was expecting and the parts i'd heard good things about were extremely derivative of other better things like local58
nowadays my opinion is closer to apathetic because of how much worse slop there is out there but i still really don't care for it

>>715391381 (OP)
I got a lot of jump scares from those fucking guards in Oblivion, because I liked playing as a thief.

I get a constant feeling of panic playing this. Guess I'm scared of space now.

>>715391381 (OP)
What is that? I'm guessing some anolog horror or zoomer horror game shit but I want to see porn of it right now. Spoonfeed me some info and watch me bulk up my left art like a roided up wife beater.

>>715399920
Wario may have been invincible but he isnt so tough after Rudy Rapes him.

>>715399974
No.

There was a moment in Fear 2 where your possessed commanding officer just walks slowly across the screen while doing this ghostly moan. At that exact moment, my friend called me. This was like one in the morning. That was probably the last time I can remember clearly. I also remembered Condemned having some pretty fucking out there moments.

That one demon door in fable two. If you know you know

>>715391381 (OP)
The one that sticks out the most for me was in Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers when the woman gets turned into the sin eater. I think it was memorable because it was tonally quite a bit darker than anything else in the game

>>715398249
I've never been SCARED by anything from the Walten Files guy, but I do think that he's very good at making viscerally unappealing faces. If nothing else, analog horror has shown that it's very fucking hard to draw/paint a memorably fucked-up visage without falling flat on your face and ending up with a gag (see Jerma face Gabriel,) but he consistently puts out shit that's effectively repulsive to look at.

I doubt the average viewer will be jumping in their seat, but I do think that his stuff leans more towards disturbing/grossing out the viewer than it does outright scaring them, so the way he draws/renders shit like this does a lot of work in carrying the tone and memorability of his videos.

BEN and Tails Doll made me shit my pants as a kid, so I lean towards thinking most kids would be losing sleep at night if they stumbled upon any of this stuff, but kids these days consume this shit 24/7 so what do I know.

The wampa in Shadows of the Empire scared the shit out of me. Same with IG88 clanking around looking for you

>>715401316
Are you saying the image you have posted is unnerving or whatever? Because it's not it's comical

I feel like with this stuff your generation is just searching so hard for something to call your own. But you really don't have much

If you want to see fundamentally unnerving art reference the scary stories to tell in the dark books. But like ..a sheep? Lol

>>715391381 (OP)
why is this thing so fuckable looking?

Yes.

1. Playing games like Alone in the Dark, AVP Jaguar, and Killing Time as a young kid
2. Dogs through window in Resident Evil (release week)
3. Out of bounds leviathan in subnautica. Even knew of its existence and turned a 180 at some point and he was just RIGHT THERE

>>715401804
>Alone in the Dark
>as a young kid
holy shit why are you still here? Go get a family or start a business or something you old fuck

>>715400102
Yes... now...

>>715401904
Huh? It's leisure time. I've already done other things. Don't worry, I'll replace you with AI that will be impossibly more interesting than you in a handful of years

>>715401949
Gem.

>>715402159
this is a zillenial site thoughbeit, so leave boomfilth

>>715391381 (OP)
Visage has decent jump scares

Alien Isolation has great tension, but isn't very scary (to me)

Amnesia: The Bunker

>>715391381 (OP)
>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.

the flying polyps fight at the end of call of cthulhu: dark corners of the earth REALLY fucked with me in a way I've never felt from any other horror game

something about them just suddenly appearing hovering in the void staring at you set off a primal fear I have about seeing something in an abyss/body of water just watching you, I was breathing heavy basically the whole fight

then I softlocked on the last puzzle of the game because it's a buggy piece of shit lmao

>>715402361
It's the presentation, you are alone in this cavern, this infinitely dark underground void, nothing near you but the thing column of rock you are using as a makeshift bridge - and these THINGS, these giant horrible unspeakable things come flying at you from the darkness, screaming and roaring, it's extremely well done

When I was a kid, silent hill and parasite eve scared the shit out of me. A bit later(still a kid) the dark area with the ashley sliding tile puzzle in RE4 did, but it was mostly due to the music and tight dark corridors(track is called Evil Malaise)
Lots of games have had me on-edge from tension and anticipation still, but nothing has me leaving the lights on at night. Movies do a better job at spooking me, but only found-footage type spooky stuff. Regular spooky movies are too predictable and cliche.

>>715391381 (OP)
The last game I've played that actually scared me and wasn't just a cheap jumpscare has to be Resident Evil 2 Remake with Mr X. The library room where you have to move the book cases while hearing the footsteps, has to be the most scarred I've been playing a game. And I'm not claustrophobic but the crammed areas and rooms in the police department got me paranoid as I felt trapped in the scenario Mr X corners me. And the stomping just constantly makes me at edge.

>>715391381 (OP)
Reminder mods will rarely put screamers in threads like these so always mute your speakers.

>>715401316
He has the potential, yes. I think it's his medium.
Like yeah, Pumpkin Rabbit COULD be scary, just not in fucking MS paint.

>>715391903
Darkwood is scary but you just reminded me of this walking sim called Suicide of Rachel Foster. It's an incredibly unscary drama about being in an isolated hotel, and is almost entirely comprised of two people talking on a phone, and nothing paranormal happens except in this one specific room where some ghost hunters came to investigate. You watch a video tape they recorded of the door to the room you are currently in slamming closed and all of them panicking and running out. Then when you stop watching the tape and go to leave the room the door ever so slightly moves on its own just to fuck with you. It's the most spooked I have been by an incredibly mundane thing happening in a video game.

>>715391381 (OP)
Palworld, it was my first encounter with a predator pal, way higher level than me too, I ended running away from it after it almost 1 hit killed me.

The fear was genuine, since I didn't have any teleport point close to that area, so dying there would be a pain in the ass to retrieve my stuff.

SOMA.
Anglerfish

>>715391381 (OP)
Pink Valley, it didn't make me jump or scream but past a certain point it made me feel very tense and felt chills running down my spine several times

Silent hill 3 I don't know why i played 1&2 and was ok but with the third i was scared all the time

>>715391381 (OP)
First trying out Darkwood got me fucking tweaking, i was playing with the perfect ambience too

>>715399762
I unironically couldn't finish this game because it triggered fears I didn't know I had.
Pretty much the only game that caused to me to drop it out of fear, I'll finish it one day

>>715391381 (OP)
"Reduced frights" mode in the Outer Wilds DLC accidentally made the game more scary.
I thought I was safe in a dark cave so I turned my lamp on and the deerman was right in front of me.

>>715410426
I might end up the same way. Cool game tho

>>715391381 (OP)
One time in Boneworks I turned around to an enemy standing behind me
Phasmophobia in VR hit me with the "chest pain"-tier panic the first time I thought i saw a ghost. I was even playing with friends. Haven't touched that shit since.

>>715391381 (OP)
Every time my pc blue screens i get chest pain from the jumpscare

Half Life. Fucking headcrabs I hate them so much.

I was playing Abiotic Factor last night and got to the Cascade labs, and I saw the silhouettes for this thing and heard the audio logs for it, but didnt really think much of it at the time. I went back to my base for food and to put shit away when I hear breathing noises, when I went to look this fucking thing was sitting at the corner and started wheezing at me while hovering towards me. It took me so off guard because the game had a goofy half life alpha vibe up to that point, I damn near pissed myself when i rounded that corner

Oceanside hotel, you know the game.
Also the raptor statue same game.
Other than that; nope.

>>715391381 (OP)
The Mortuary Assistant, near the end of my first playthrough, when the music started ramping up and I knew I was nearly out of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PReWyAMBZR8

>>715391381 (OP)
Jumpscares are boring so I mostly avoid horror games

>>715391381 (OP)
Super pitfall.
The game looks like it will break in a trillion pieces at any moments given how stuttery and glitchy the normal gameplay is.
Also the visuals of it and how the deeper you go on it, the more hellish everything gets.
Also it had some bizarre parallel world bugs with the gold bars being silver and all sorts of bizarre shit.
It didn't helped it was the first NES game i played after atari stuff.

>>715405797
I need to check this one out.

>>715391381 (OP)
Last horror game to make me feel genuinely on-edge the entire fucking game was Visage. They nailed the atmosphere. Even between chapters when you're not in any real danger, you don't know you aren't and it fucks with you.

>>715399920
>no room to eject you to should you fail
>instead given the only game over screen across all of WL2 and WL3
>game ominously autosaves afterward
I was small years old, so I thought my save just got bricked even though it’s ultimately harmless.

>>715391381 (OP)
>Half Life 2
That duskhaven map or whatever it's called. The one with the zombie headcrabs. I just couldn't play it so I turned on no clip and flew through it. Scary shit

I will make this post about video games by stating that there is a Walten Files fan game that I keep seeing shilled on xitter. I don't know it's name, I haven't played it - looks neat though.
>>715398249
I find parts of it creepy, but I consume my horror alone, in the middle of the night, without getting spoilers or reactions from other people - I try to isolate myself as much as possible because that's the only way anything on a screen really can freak me out these days. At this point though Martin Walls (the creator) is just trying to make a weird mish-mash of Breaking Bad, Five Nights at Freddy's, and movies like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre - I mean this literally, he used to talk about Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul on twitter a lot, the FNAF connection is evident already, and he's called back to TCM multiple times in between the series and his online presence. I like it for what it's worth, and the porn is incredible.
>>715404543
IIRC he remade the original Mysterious House short for the RRV tape - he put a remade Mysterious House, it's sequel (The Return of The Pumpkin Rabbit), and a couple more shorts that are exclusive to the tape together and put it out. I ordered a copy a few months back but they're sending them out in waves, so I can't vouch for any of the stuff on the tape that isn't The Return.
>>715401681
You jest, but I would go so far as to say that The Watermans are probably the only slashers that Gen Z has that are gonna be memorable in the next decade. I would go so far as to say that The Return of The Pumpkin Rabbit is the best modern slasher flick I've seen in years - and that should concern every red blooded American, because Slashers are the American genre - and we got beat out by some Chilean dude making FNAF adjacent fan fiction.

>>715402358
>The Void
To be clearly, you're talking about that 2008's Russian with nude ladies? Is it good? I haven't heard many positive things about this game.

>>715417851
>To be clearly, you're talking about that 2008's Russian with nude ladies?
Yes, the very same.

>>715417851
>Is it good?
That is not an easy question to answer. It's absolutely unique, extremely clever, it broke a LOT of new grounds, and the only game that really pushed the medium further was Pathologic 2 which was made by the same people and drew a lot of inspiration from it.

At the same time... most people will find it essentially unplayable. It's incredibly janky, insanely obtuse, absurdly hard and unfair and just confusing.

Everything it does has a purpose and a point, but that does not change the fact that it's often just straight up unpleasant to play. Most people will not stick around for long enough to get to the point where it starts to make sense and come together.
And even when it comes together... it's still not a pleasant experience. It's a game about pain and dread, and it's really good at genuinely capturing those emotions through gameplay... but it's still an exercise in very unpleasant emotions. Most people have enough of those IRL and will not see much value subjecting to them in what is supposed to be entertainment.

Sorry if all of this sounds too vague or pretentious, but it's not an easy game to talk about. It literally does not fall into any established genre, it's just completely different from what games are expected to do.

I love it. For people like me, it's one of the best games ever made. I'm masochistic and obsessed with surrealism, dreams and melancholy, and I'm fascinated with the theory of how games can convey stories or themes. But... I absolutely understand why most people will hate it. It's a valid complaint to say that you don't see how games making you confused and miserable is something to praise. And this game is entirely designed around making you feel confused and miserable.

>>715415414
I can kind of get this one. You do literally descend into hell.

all of killer7

>>715418754
It is very unnerving, but i wouldn't say scary
The settings are so weird and dream-like, and the actual plot is so bizarre and apocalyptic
I can't think of a game that feels more like a dream, not quite a nightmare, where everything feels as bad as it could get before you wake up and feel extremely paranoid before going back to sleep again

>>715401949
This remains, 371 years later, the best cover/frontispiece illustration ever made. Explains the entire concept of the book visually and has a kickass tagline to boot. Hobbes rules rousseau drools

That one Slenderman game that is half walking simulator freaked me out. I legit dropped it halfway through at the part where you’re in some sort of basement in some wooden shack and there’s some witch looking woman there. I just went “fuck this” and dropped it. Might come back to it later. It’s genuinely unsettling when you KNOW something’s coming for you and it knows your exact location. With shit like Amnesia you can at least hide and take things at your own pace, but with Slenderman you have to keep going and never look back.
That said I did get a little freaked out by this one pseudo-jumpscare in Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs though but that’s mostly because I was high as shit at the time. Also the teleporting electric pig was genuinely fucking unsettling. Just its whole existence being this sort of horribly disfigured experimental creature that constantly warps in and out of reality as it chases you down and probably feels incomprehensible pain just felt like an unsettling thing to think about. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs felt genuinely unsettling at times in a way that the original game didn’t. The original Amnesia was just edgy and dark but aMfP gave me this horrifying feeling of sinking deeper and deeper into a horrible place no human should be in. Especially since you had that map thing that showed you where in the facility you were and teased what came next. It was dreadful to think about what horrors awaited you at the bottom of the facility.
I mean, just look at this fucking thing

>>715391381 (OP)
Resident Evil Remake when I found out the zombies could get back up after killing them when they turned red.

Phasmophobia spooked me all the time until I started to figured things out.

The jellyfish BT things in Death Stranding look kinda eerie when you first see them. They’re just these weird grotesque balloon creatures ominously floating in place in complete silence, and there’s dozens of them. It just makes a bit of an eerie image, which is funny because they’re actually not a threat at all and in fact are pretty fun to shoot. You can just take an assault rifle and a blood bag and pop them like balloons and collect the goodies they somehow got a hold of

>>715391381 (OP)
The last time I genuinely got scared by a game was in Yomawari 2.
Basically:
>Yomawari is a series about little girls traversing a town full of spirits and yokai for one reason or another
>The intro of the game has you doing the basic controls where you're shown how to use the flashlight, pick things up, and use them
>About twenty minutes later, introduces the map
>The second you check the map (pause menu) a monster hand rips the notebook from your hand and starts screaming in your face
>Noises of your bones being crunched up and eaten off screen occur
>Begin game as a different girl
I played the first game so I knew there'd be spooks (mostly atmospheric scares) but that caught me off guard completely and I kept expecting it to happen again throughout the rest of the game.

>>715391381 (OP)
Old Amsterdam in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk gave me the heebie jeebies while exploring through it, even if nothing actually scary happens. There's a few weird areas like this in this game.

>>715391381 (OP)
Am I the only one who finds going deep into some Morrowind's ruins unnerving? It's like the feel you weren't suppose to be here. I especial had it in the first dwarven ruins, the ones where you're suppose to find a golden cube (and it's not just because the cube doesn't lies on the lower levels).

>>715401681
I think it's a bit better in motion with sound, but I'm also a bit of a pussy and get unnerved by a lot of shit I shouldn't,
https://youtu.be/rx17URII50A?list=PL4vKU-7eDZm1lDhRLv_l5XKVN7tWsHVTY&t=124

>>715420454
old amsterdam was the weird lost woods place right? its been a bit

the only things that scare me are jumpscares and it's a really cheap way but it gets me every time. it's so lame, it's like poking someone with a cattle prod and being like "ha you jumped"

>>715391381 (OP)
I remember getting jumpscared a lot in the first STALKER game. This fucker lives rent free in my memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kytK6EvQFVk

I remember watching this video of this guy playing/reading a horror comic, and all of a sudden the comic gets animated and the ghost snaps it's neck and runs at the screen.

>>715391381 (OP)
Outlast: Whistleblower when this guy is chasing you.

>>715391381 (OP)
Jumpscares scare most normal people no matter what they are. It can be the most horrific monster or just a sock puppet, if you create enough suspense, you will get jumpscared 9 times out of 10.

>>715422572
That shit was famous back in the early 2010s.

>>715391381 (OP)
Open world games scares me sometimes. The open spaces make me feel like I’m being watched and my mind immediately thinks I have a modified game copy like the creepypastas I grew up on.

>>715391381 (OP)
dumbass

>>715391381 (OP)
One of the few times i've been genuinely scared in a videogame. You're stuck in a claustrophobic small concrete room with flickering lights while a bunch of demonic looking things come after you from the dark corners, and it happens at the end of a level so you most likely have limited ammo

>>715391527
Babby kurwa...

>>715391381 (OP)
Prolly the original Submachine Universe
>enter 666 on the transportation device for shits and giggles
>get sent to a small red-tinged room with the most awful background noise possible
Genuinely got spooked hard.

I fucking screamed and punched the PC power button when you-know-what happened.
Sure, I was a kid. But it's not even a horror game, yet the way it took ~1hr worth of playtime to set the ground to make the jumpscare as impactful as possible was a masterstroke of writing.

Unironically thought this was gonna be a cozy slice of life until Sayori hung herself I remember screaming mainly because of the jumpscare but like other Anon's have said Outer Wilds and Subnautica

This game is fucking terrifying. Especially on launch, where you had no clue how the AI worked. I remember being stuck in a room for at least 10 minutes out of fear, since I kept hearing it shuffle about in the darkness but couldn't tell exactly where it was in the maze of halls. Easily the scariest Amnesia game and up there for one of the best horror games overall.

Then they added Nightmare mode later and I literally could not continue the game from how scary it was.

Martian gothic-janky ps1 resident evil clone

Early on (about 7:39 in the below) you come across a floating corpse. This gave little me (think i was 8 or 9 at the time) nightmares for weeks

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxI2WX0O1u8&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

>>715418887
So, scary.

>>715424579
lmao that voice acting

>*thump*
>....
>*thump*
>....
>*thump*
>...
>*thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump*

>>715393662
what's even scarier is that Rewind will never get released.

>>715391381 (OP)
No, because I don't play scary video games, since they scare me very easily.

>>715424794
Its a resident evil 1 clone so makes sense

>>715391381 (OP)
>6 years old
>playing Metroid Fusion way past my bedtime
>drifting to sleep from exploring the ice sector, a more subdued area of the game
>jolted awake by sudden alarms and voice acting clearer than anything in a game I had ever heard at the time https://youtu.be/Y9T5m1tjGzA?si=vrBjYdzucpizLit1&t=5208
>shut the game off in panic and barely get any sleep

Finished the game a few months later though, remember begging my mom to get me Metroid Prime.