What is a good horror video game outside of the Resident Evil series, Silent Hill series and Clock Tower series?

Fatal Frame
Echo Night

>>11809061 (OP)
You're playing the best 3D ones with the most polish the most budget. You now have to play outside that, for games that are either 2D, in Japanese, or have less polish.

>>11809063
Fatal Frame is much better than SH and RE if we're being honest with ourselves.

>>11809117
>>11809063
Nailed it but there's a few worth mentioning:
Dino Crisis 1 is great, haven't touched 2 but have always heard it praised as well
Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground, Siren, and Eternal Darkness are poster children cult classic horror titles
Kuon is actually pretty cool, from soft used to make unique games
Obscure 1 and 2 are a bit rough but charming and the multiplayer system is actually kinda cool
Alone in the dark and sweet home of course are series origins and worth checking out for that, the one on the dreamcast I can't remember the name of is actually somewhat decent
After that it gets a bit more mixed in quality but there's some unique stuff even in some of the worse stuff

>>11809230
Dino Crisis 2 isn't really a horror game

>>11809238
Since it's on daytime?

>>11809230
>Nailed it but there's a few worth mentioning:

Yeah, people will now look back at RE or SH games and go "what's the big deal?" because they have no context. But RE and Sh really pushed 3D gaming in ways not quite done before, and you just have to start playing other games from those eras to get some context. A lot of the 3D games lack polish or were quite crude and the majority of them are kind of forgotten.

into the vivo is a pretty impressive indie project.

D2…
The Dreamcasts best survival horror game imo, rivalling illbleed

>>11809061 (OP)
Alone in the Dark on PS1 I feel is on par with RE2.
Forbidden Siren series is clunky but hella spooky and thats why the new SH looks uninspired to me.
Clive Barkers Undying is good but has many non horror moments.
White Day a Labyrinth named school (Though the Janitor gets annoying).
Extermination is more like RE4 but is fun.

>>11809061 (OP)
Fatal Frame. Its he only horror franchise thats actually scary. With decent headphone please.

>>11809245
It's an action game like RE4

>>11809245
Daytime.
Protags are armed to the teeth.
Bunch of action headpieces.
A reward system that makes it so you are incentivized to hunt dinos.
Hella fun game and I prefer it to DC but definitely more of an action game.

>>11809630
>action headpieces
?

>>11809705
he clearly means set pieces and got autocorrected because he's a phone posting retard who can't take a second to spell check.

>>11809061 (OP)
Playing this RN and it's disappointing compared to the first one. Enemy variety sucks, too slow/easy and overall less scary for both aesthetics and gameplay reasons, It seems like they went for the Ico audience with the walking sim shit.

Parasite Eve

>>11809705
>>11809751
Excuse meeeee princess.
Anyways yeah set pieces.
Like you are going to move to a new Island and then you have a turret minigame.
Or you have to cross some jungle and then you get a dinosaur car chase turret section.
Or you have to cross some Silo and then a tank minigame ensues.
Stuff like that.
Again great game and fun but not exactly survival horror material.

Condemned: Criminal Origins
Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Both scared me a lot more than Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

>>11809061 (OP)
Doom 3

>>11810192
>Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth
pure kino

>>11809061 (OP)

>>11809245
no, its an action/adventure game where you blast dinosaurs for points. its not scary at all. there are some tense sections like the underwater segments and being chased by the t-rex but its not a horror game.

>>11809586
bro is the last boss a biblically accurate angel? looks crazy

>>11809903
>Again great game and fun but not exactly survival horror material.
People really do confuse horror with survival horror. They're not mutually exclusive.

I heard Alone in the Dark New Nightmare is actually fine. PS2 or PC.
It's sold on gog for a few clamshells

>>11810205
Doom 3 is incredibly underrated for its sheer horror factor. Extremely scary game, especially the first few hours.

>>11810425
Wtf every game listed here is great. I guess the critics were right all along.

Is the first Amnesia considered retro? Great game. Machine for Pigs is a skip. The Bunker is cool but it’s a different type of gameplay than the first.

>>11810552
>>11809602
Anyways prepare to READ a lot.
The game went all in on the background of the game’s events so dont be surprised to find 30 pages diaries to read.

>>11810612
>Machine for Pigs is a skip.
Nah its based.
Its not the first Amnesia but I really liked AMFP.

>>11809061 (OP)
Oh yeah the Penumbra series from the Amnesia theme is retro and good.

>>11810425
I think clive barkers jericho deserves to be at least on par with the suffering in terms of raiting, also rule of rose being that low a score is crazy but it was the xplay years and we used to have a wealth of constant great horror game releases we didn't know how good we had it

>>11809063
Echo Slop sucks, Kuon is the only good horror game Fromslopware made
>>11809230
Dyke Crisis 1 is garbage, it's RE with dinosaurs but worse in every aspect
Anus in the Dark was never good
>>11809602
Forbidden Slop is unplayable turd, but the sequel Forbidden Kino 2 is a must play
White Day A Lesbian Named So-Young is low effort trash
ExTURDmination is soulless shovelware
>>11810192
Condemned Cuckold Origins is boring sloppy shit
Call of Cuckhole is even worse
>>11810205
Zoom 3 is boring trash
>>11810612
>shilling the walking simulator slop responsible for killing the horror genre on /vr/
you the biggest faggot ITT and that's quite an achivement

>>11810714
thx chatgpt

>>11809192
No, the story is particularly boring in them and the gameplay while it can be fun is often too janky.

>>11810714
I'll forgive you for hating on Condemned because you rightfully trashed Amn*sia.

>>11810743
Condemnded 2 is good tho
PC port when......

>>11810714
Bet you have not played any of the games you quoted.

>>11810612
Amnesia is a 7th gen game that was released in 2010 so no, not retro. Although isn't it kind of weird in a way because you can discuss games on /vr/ like the first Force Unleashed or Spider-Man 3 as long as it's only their crappy PS2 ports even though they're both technically 7th gen titles?

>>11809117
>>11809248
these webms are superb, thanks for posting it.

>>11810815
Yeah that sets it in stone. Xbox had the best library of the generation.

>>11810714
You must be such an insufferable cunt to be around.

>>11810887
i may be an asshole on the internet but in real life i am a wholesome nice guy loved by everybody

>>11810741
>He plays video games for the story

>>11811171
I listed multiple issues, retard. And story is still a factor in a narrative heavy experience. Furthermore there's a central mystery you're attempting to uncover in FF, so yes. The mystery being boring and lame is a negative

>>11810425
>No Luigi's Mansion
>No FEAR
>No Quake 4
>No Yume Nikki
>No Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
>No Manhunt
>No American McGee's Alice
>No Castlevania
>No Onimusha
>No STALKER

>>11809117
Silent Kino

>>11809061 (OP)
Those are the only good games, everything else was either awful, poorly made, or just not well thought out.

>>11811171
Horror games arent platformers.

>>11809248
The way the snow falls on the ground is insane

>>11809248
RE was kinda just Capcom's Alone in the dark, SH was the one with actual 3D environments and interesting exploration

>>11812229
Correct! But their stories are worth engaging with about as much as platformers!

>>11812457
nta but that's not quite true, many survival horror games were proto-walking sims thus focused on ambiance + lore/plot, if you break down something like SH2's gameplay it's mediocre af with a few ok puzzles

>>11811337
It's all subjective, but I feel there's a difference between horror games and horror-themed games.
>Devil May Cry
>Maximo
>Darkwatch
>Ghosthunter
>Ghost Master
>Grabbed by the Ghoulies
And then there are games that turn to horror for one level:
>The Cradle in Thief 3
>Ocean House Hotel in VTM:Bloodlines
I try to think whether it was the dev's goal to make the player feel scared throughout.
But I'm only human. Still on the fence whether to add Bioshock for instance.
I've only played half the games on the chart. Just thought it'd be nice to have a list for when I'm in the mood for something scary.

>>11812534
To me personally there's not a lot of difference between being horror themed vs being horror. I get that a lot of people into horror only care about getting that rush of adrenaline and it's not like I don't get that myself. Sometimes I really just want a good fright but other times I just want to soak in the kind of atmosphere that only the horror genre is able to provide. The kind you would get from watching old black and white Universal Monster movies or Hammer Horror or playing any Castlevania game.

So for me VTMB qualifies as horror despite not being like SH or RE that's all about trying to scare you constantly throughout. If you remove the horror elements from VTMB it just won't be the same game.

Stuff like Grabbed by the Ghoulies is what I would call kids horror in the same vein as something like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Luigi's Mansion. Very mildly and sporadically spooky but mostly very lighthearted and comedic for the age demographic it's targeting but I know a lot of teens/adults don't consider stuff like that as legitimate horror so I won't argue about it.

>>11812534
>Bioshock
Even if I shared your opinion on the horror themed vs outright horror I would still consider Bioshock a horror game. It's a spiritual successor to System Shock and it also took inspiration from Resident Evil and Ken Levine was trashing any horror movies that wasn't Alien, The Shining or The Thing (so basically the few that made it into the IMDb Top 250) in interviews back then essentially claiming he could do it better because he thought what was scariest was the fear of losing everything and not enough movies or games tapped into that according to him. That's why the Big Daddies, the Little Sisters and the Splicers and the lore behind them and the collapse of the city of Rapture are the way they are.

But you only really need to look at the first trailer to know this was intended to be a spooky horror game. Even the launch trailer with its Beyond the Sea music blaring is contrasted by all the violence and the scary Big Daddy and the creepy little girl with glowing red eyes and the Splicer lady crawling on the ceiling. I know the telekinetic powers makes you seem powerful at first but it’s not like you can just use your super powers constantly and the way it’s presented makes it seem more like body horror than X-Men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqfPG4ZcAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoYorK3E4aM

>>11812534
Bioshock is an interesting case because it starts out as 100% pure horror but then the mood lightens up a lot. Very different from Halo CE, Half Life 2, Thief, VTMB which have their horror levels somewhere in the middle.

>>11809061 (OP)
all of them are good except Parasite Eve 1.
I have played most of horror games on PS1 and PS2 and the only one that I didn't enjoy at all is PE1