Your favourite horror games Thread

[PROTO32TYPE]

Hello guys! I love horror games.

My Top 3 List:

1 - SONIC.EXE

2 - FNAF Series

3 - Fan-made horror games

[Skullzrawk9]

Here’s my favorites:

1. Dead Space

2. Silent Hill

3. F.E.A.R.

4. Resident Evil 4

5. FNAF 1 (only the first game, rest of the series is mid)

[PROTO32TYPE]

Hey guys post your favourite horror games.

:)

[vanilla_d00m]

Alone In The Dark 3, Clock Tower Ghost Head, Resident Evil 3, Fatal Frame 1, Alisa.  I use to watch videos of those .EXE games but its too unsettling, never got into it or tried one.  

[PROTO32TYPE]

@VERDE_ Ti piacciono i giochi horror?

[PROTO32TYPE]

@DoomGuy999 Your favourite horror games?

[AdministrationCenter21]

Never really been into them, but I like FNAF 3 (Love this one, hate rest of the series though.).

[whybmonotacrab]

In no real order:

Silent Hill 3

Resident Evil 2/4
Bloodborne

SOMA

The Evil Within 2

Devotion

Lost in Vivo

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

Clive Barker's Undying

Fatal Frame 2

 

 

[Frangalho]

Manhunt 1 & 2

Silent Hill

Imscared 

the

Creepypasta based roms or mods

Cry of fear

 

 

 

[Coopersville]

Resident Evil, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Metro, Legacy of Kain. Weird inverse from the film industry since its mostly just AAA games worth mentioning as all-timers.

 

Honorable mention to Silent Hill because it's just b-horror now. 

 

 

[whybmonotacrab]

On 9/15/2024 at 8:59 AM, Coopersville said:

Resident Evil, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Metro, Legacy of Kain. Weird inverse from the film industry since its mostly just AAA games worth mentioning as all-timers.

 

Honorable mention to Silent Hill because it's just b-horror now. 

 

 

I'm sorry, but your takes are breaking my brain. If you think only triple a games are worth mentioning as all timers you don't play enough indie horror games.

Also, how is Silent Hill just B-Horror? Because it's had as many bad entries as good? By that logic you have to take Resident Evil off your list then. The good games in the series are more than reason enough for it to be a proper mention.

[heliumlamb]

D's Diner

[Daytime Waitress]

8 hours ago, heliumlamb said:

D's Diner

Kid Waitress would've turned their nose up at an FMV-driven "interactive movie", and even now that I'm older, I'm certain that something "glacially-paced but still having any kind of fail state/lose condition" would drive me spare. But whip 'rounds on The Place With All the Videos gives me a better appreciation about how it seems to nail exactly what it's trying to do, even if it wouldn't be my bag.

 

So dish, Lamby: what makes this shine brighter the the other luminaries of the genre?

 

Curious to hear your thoughts on it, even if I find the most interesting thing about it the backstory of Eno swapping in an uncensored version before sending it to the printers. Part of me is like, "daww, he risked that to protect his artistic vision!"; the other part is like, "ratings boards were certainly different back then*, but how was this not some kind of illegal?".

 

 

*

Spoiler

CERO wasn't even a thing then, was it? The ESRB had pretty much only just been established...

 

[LadyMistDragon]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

The Suffering

SOMA

The Evil Within

Devotion

 

Honestly, I still need to play a lot more

Edited September 18 by LadyMistDragon

[holaareola]

Silent Hill 2. It's been a long time. It's melodramatic to the point of being surreal (JAMES!) in a bit of a David Lynchy way at it's best and, well, like bad game acting and writing at it's worst, but a rare game that is psychologically interesting and thematically very coherent. And it looks amazing, feels claustrophobic as hell (I'm sure this is a processing power limit turned to an advantage) and is the whole package in terms of sonics, visuals, and artistic design. Pure atmosphere.

 

Outlast is another one that comes to mind. It's nowhere near as sophisticated as Silent Hill 2, but it's very effective at what it does, at least for a wuss like me. The darkness, total defencelessness, camera battery stinginess and much faster adversaries. It made my palms sweat.

[heliumlamb]

12 hours ago, Daytime Waitress said:

Kid Waitress would've turned their nose up at an FMV-driven "interactive movie", and even now that I'm older, I'm certain that something "glacially-paced but still having any kind of fail state/lose condition" would drive me spare. But whip 'rounds on The Place With All the Videos gives me a better appreciation about how it seems to nail exactly what it's trying to do, even if it wouldn't be my bag.

 

So dish, Lamby: what makes this shine brighter the the other luminaries of the genre? 

 

Curious to hear your thoughts on it, even if I find the most interesting thing about it the backstory of Eno swapping in an uncensored version before sending it to the printers. Part of me is like, "daww, he risked that to protect his artistic vision!"; the other part is like, "ratings boards were certainly different back then*, but how was this not some kind of illegal?". 

 

 

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CERO wasn't even a thing then, was it? The ESRB had pretty much only just been established...

 

i'll admit up front that i'm not really a big horror head when it comes to fiction.

 

broadly speaking, something being one's favorite does not always make a thing good, at least by populist or objective standards! with D, for me, the sense of urgency of the situation laura's in, the 2-hour time limit (with no pause?? don't remember, been a few years) and the absolutely lethargic crawl of the game work to create a sense of dread that any sort of jumpscare just won't. it's absolutely one of the shenmues, with a balance of time management and exploration of a verisimilitudinous world, contrasting with the sort of resource management that resident evil ended up popularizing for many horror games since. getting antsy from impatience is something it wants to evoke in the player. i don't think i've played any other game where it takes both time and control away from the player just to spend nearly a whole minute slowly saying the character's name repeatedly, on multiple occasions. it's got just enough "adventure game logic" to require note-taking, a pace that works as hard as it can against the player but in the atmosphere's favor, and it's short enough of an experience to never overstay its welcome. a different sort of panic restaurant. enemy zero seems like it would be even more up my alley, but i haven't played enough to form an opinion of it. D's brevity makes it really easy to revisit, particularly with friends in a sort of "movie night" fashion - one plays, others watch. i probably would've never tried it if one of my friends hadn't urged me to, when going thru some of 3DO's library while i was visiting. slowest 2 hours of my life, no regrets. i enjoyed it more than alone in the dark, which she also had me try during the same time period.

 

even though i don't have a 3DO, i still need to try that director's cut. i'm capable of burning my own CD-Rs, i don't need embracer group's shelfware division to shrinkwrap them for me!

 

Spoiler

CERO started around 2002, so my guess is that eno pulled that on the ESRB. sega had a little "recommended age" box on covers for most of the saturn's life in their home region, and possibly on some MD and GG releases as well. funnily, the only ntsc-j saturn game i have that's missing that little box is the port of bio hazard. none of my ntsc-j playstation or dreamcast games have anything that seems like a guidance rating.

 

i do favor the puzzling, adventure game side of horror games though, which was easily my 2nd favorite bit about the original non-dualshock version of resident evil (not to be confused with the original remake of original resident evil. different vibe, the mansion lost a lot of its original character there). i quite liked the original clock tower, but i've only played that once via a fan translation. that ended up being one of the few point and click adventure games that REALLY resonated with me, the environment is your means of defense.

i guess i'm just not super eager about stuff where the primary elements are blatantly aligned with horror, at least to the point of seeking it out on my own? i'm also the same way about movies, now that i think about it. i usually end up being urged to give horror media a chance in the presence of friends, and i end up thanking them every time. mizzurna falls and illbleed have been on my radar for a handful of years as well, and i still need to give from software's echo night a proper go. i'm still not sure if blue stinger is something i'd consider a horror game, especially with the following-camera version. it's hard to be scared when monsters explode into coins.

[hexagonopus]

obviously silent hill 2. 

 

SOMA, The Evil Within and Little Nightmares II also rank very highly for me.

 

in terms of the scariest game, personally for me it's probably five nights at freddys 4 or silent hill 3. those are some of the only games that are so intimidating to me that i can barely stand to play them

 

edit: OHHH amnesia the series is peak, too

 

another edit: OHHHHHHHHH ALSO i love the game Anatomy and the game Signalis

[Skullzrawk9]

I forgot to mention this in my first post, but I also really like anything from David Symanski (I think that’s how you spell his name). Squirrel Stapler and Pony Factory are really good short, surreal horror games.
 

Even his non-horror games, such as Dusk and Gloomwood, generally have a thick, dread-filled atmosphere. I haven’t played Iron Lung myself, but I’ve heard it’s good and I intend to try it.

[Coopersville]

On 9/17/2024 at 7:09 AM, whybmonotacrab said:

I'm sorry, but your takes are breaking my brain. If you think only triple a games are worth mentioning as all timers you don't play enough indie horror games.

Also, how is Silent Hill just B-Horror? Because it's had as many bad entries as good? By that logic you have to take Resident Evil off your list then. The good games in the series are more than reason enough for it to be a proper mention.

I've played all the ones you have, they're just not "all-timers". 

 

Silent Hill hasn't been good once since 2004. If it makes a comeback like RE did, it can sit at the big boys table again. 

[hexagonopus]

2 hours ago, Coopersville said:

I've played all the ones you have, they're just not "all-timers". 

 

Silent Hill hasn't been good once since 2004. If it makes a comeback like RE did, it can sit at the big boys table again. 

This is kind of confusing to me. You mean to say that the Silent Hill series in general is too much trash by volume for it to count as an "all-timer" series? What is your definition of "all-timer" then? I would assume by the term that it means "something whose reputation lasts forever". But if you concede that the Resident Evil series had its dark age, wouldn't that disqualify it from being an "all-timer" franchise? Or, is something only an all-timer (or not) in the present moment... because if so, that's very semantically confusing to me

[GibFrag]

Nightmare fuel 

[Mr. Freeze]

In no particular order

 

Resident Evil (entire series)

SOMA

Alien Isolation 

Visage 

Phasmophobia 

FNAF 1

System Shock 2

Silent Hill 1-4

 

[JoeyKelastiof]

Amnesia the dark descent
Layers of fear ( Highly recommend the first one! )
Cry of Fear
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

[whybmonotacrab]

10 hours ago, Coopersville said:

I've played all the ones you have, they're just not "all-timers". 

 

Silent Hill hasn't been good once since 2004. If it makes a comeback like RE did, it can sit at the big boys table again. 

How do you know all the indie games I've played?

 

A series being mismanaged doesn't make the good games in the series invalid. By your logic Blood, Quake, and Duke Nukem are trash games because the latest games in their respective series are crap.

[SolarFrog]

Silent Hill 2 will always come to mind. I would read about Silent Hill in various gaming magazines as a kid and I was always so fascinated; I HAD to play these games. Jump to 2014 and at the age of 15 I snagged a complete copy from my local shop for 18 bucks. It is easily one of the most formative pieces of art for me just captivating my whole mind as a teenager and forever changing my taste.

 

Other non-Silent Hill favorites are World of Horror, Resident Evil 4, Dead Space 1, and Fatal Frame 2.

[SolarFrog]

On 9/12/2024 at 11:29 PM, AdministrationCenter21 said:

Never really been into them, but I like FNAF 3 (Love this one, hate rest of the series though.).

What about 3 specifically do you enjoy that the others lack?

[whybmonotacrab]

18 hours ago, hexagonopus said:

obviously silent hill 2. 

 

SOMA, The Evil Within and Little Nightmares II also rank very highly for me.

 

in terms of the scariest game, personally for me it's probably five nights at freddys 4 or silent hill 3. those are some of the only games that are so intimidating to me that i can barely stand to play them

 

edit: OHHH amnesia the series is peak, too

 

another edit: OHHHHHHHHH ALSO i love the game Anatomy and the game Signalis

Amazing picks!

 

Due to your favourite picks, I have to ask if you've played either Devotion or Lost in Vivo? Devotion is sort of like a PT style game that has a really good story some interesting scares; and Lost in Vivo is basically first person indie Silent Hill.

 

 P.S. Anatomy fucking rocks.

[Coopersville]

14 hours ago, whybmonotacrab said:

How do you know all the indie games I've played?

 

A series being mismanaged doesn't make the good games in the series invalid. By your logic Blood, Quake, and Duke Nukem are trash games because the latest games in their respective series are crap.

 

What games you've actually played are inconsequential because I've already played just about every game, as it was released, for nearly the last four decades. I can gauge if a game is good or not, approximately how long it'll take to beat, and if it's worth the timesink, just by observing it for about five minutes or less. Anyone about my age probably knows what I'm saying.

 

I didn't list individual games because I don't feel like impressing anyone with an exhaustive list of every obscure indie game I tried out, but if you want one, check out Paranoia 2: Savior if you have a stomach for eurojank. Try not to think too hard about what I qualify as an "all-timer". 

Edited September 19 by Coopersville

[whybmonotacrab]

13 hours ago, Coopersville said:

 

What games you've actually played are inconsequential because I've already played just about every game, as it was released, for nearly the last four decades. I can gauge if a game is good or not, approximately how long it'll take to beat, and if it's worth the timesink, just by observing it for about five minutes or less. Anyone about my age probably knows what I'm saying.

 

I didn't list individual games because I don't feel like impressing anyone with an exhaustive list of every obscure indie game I tried out, but if you want one, check out Paranoia 2: Savior if you have a stomach for eurojank. Try not to think too hard about what I qualify as an "all-timer". 

There's a lot here I could nitpick, like the fact that it's physically impossible to play every game considering 50 release on steam every day, or the fact that you think your age gives you special powers of video game knowledge when it seems far more likely you're just jaded and have lost passion for the hobby.

 

 That, however, would be missing the point. The thing I take issue is the fact that you just dismiss entire sectors of the industry as not being worthwhile with sweeping generalisations. They may not be all timers for you or me, but if someone had Amnesia, Outlast, Fran Bow, The Cat Lady, Faith, or countless others I wouldn't jumping to say "these aren't worth mentioning" - because they absolutely are.

 

Edit: Tone is hard to convey in text and I'm not meaning any of this to come off as hostile as it may appear.

[DoomGuy999]

On 9/12/2024 at 8:59 AM, PROTO32TYPE said:

@DoomGuy999 Your favourite horror games?

Surprisingly I don't like horror games that much from a player perspective, but as a guy who programs games for fun, horror games are always well done. One that stuck in my mind was do you copy.