SPOOOOKKKYYY gaming - The Bear and Badger

Wookienopants

I’m really struggling to think of a game that’s not a horror game that I found unsettling.

Guess I haven’t played many games lately

davyK

Someone mentioned Ecco being unsettling - I found Super Metroid to create a similar sensation. The sense of isolation - especially when the game's background music was quieter.

Slightly more obvious - Doom 64 - is deliberately so because of the soundtrack. It left quite an impression on me - esp. played with the lights off - when it was a contemporary game. I find it to be still effective.

Also - the first time I entered the Dark World in Link to the Past. Was transformed into a rabbit and had to use the mirror to get back. The feeling of relying on a single object to return you to normality. Just created an odd feeling.

hylian_elf

Difficult for a non-horror game to be unsettling. Is Last of Us considered horror? Cos that had unsettling bits.

GurtTractor

Minecraft can get really fucking scary once you start decending into a massive cave system. My fave part of that game I think. Also the Nether is so much WTF.

Dark Soldier

Darkwood looks creepy as fuck and as such it'll be my Halloween game

Tempy

hylian_elf wrote:

Difficult for a non-horror game to be unsettling. Is Last of Us considered horror? Cos that had unsettling bits.

We’ve listed a bunch!

Verecocha

Is Alien: Isolation considered horror? Truly the scariest gaming experience ever for me.

Yossarian

Those insta-deaths and woeful checkpointing shat me up too.

Blue Swirl

davyK wrote:

Slightly more obvious - Doom 64 - is deliberately so because of the soundtrack. It left quite an impression on me - esp. played with the lights off - when it was a contemporary game. I find it to be still effective.

Seconded. I remember one level, which I had cleared of demons. I just needed to find the exit. Through a window I could see the Martian desert, and the Earth hanging in the sky. Coupled with the ambient noise of the map, it was sobering. I am utterly alone on this planet, everything is trying to kill me, and no one on Earth knows I'm here.

Blue Swirl

Yossarian wrote:

Those insta-deaths and woeful checkpointing shat me up too.

That and the cheating AI on the alien. Still a solid 9/10.

Skerret

Thief series proper spooky. Also Limbo and American McGee's Alice back in the day. Shadowman?

yourfavouriteuncle

Both Blackwood Crossing and The Last Days of June for their sense of foreboding and downright sadness. I knew what was coming but it needed to not. Both made me cry.

RedDave2

The sense of isolation and the weather and scenery in red dead redemption could create some sombre moods, especially the plotline with the man in the black suit.

Also had a nice moment in far cry 3. Took the hanglider to the highest pointand flew as far as i could just to see how far the game would let me go. The weather had darkened and was raining and when i crashed into the water the whole scene was quite unsettling as there was no island to view. And then the sharks came....

Moot_Geeza

It was often heavy handed, but there were a few sections of Hellblade that succeeded in being unsettling. I'll second the Oxenfree shout, although I'd struggle to pinpoint why. It definitely wasn't the 'weird stuff is actually happening now' scenes that did it.

Kow

Amnesia: Dark Descent. Playing in the dark with headphones on is a genuinely scary experience.

Paul the sparky

The original May Payne with those nightmare sequences. The crying baby sound effects, blimey.

JonB

Skerret wrote:

Thief series proper spooky. Also Limbo and American McGee's Alice back in the day. Shadowman?

If only for this piece of music:

digi

Greggorys horror show.

Been playing it recently and it's damn weird, hard and unsettling!

Wookienopants

JonB wrote:

Skerret wrote:

Thief series proper spooky. Also Limbo and American McGee's Alice back in the day. Shadowman?

If only for this piece of music:

Oh my god, I loved Shadowman! Had forgotten all about it!

mistercrayon

The dark forest level in Plok has some fabulous lighting and creates an eerie atmosphere.

Also papers please is pretty decent horror through bureaucracy

GurtTractor

Mirror's Edge's weirdly uninhabited environments can be quite spooky. Makes me feel like a lost soul running through some kind of parallel limbo universe, being chased by annoying police spirits, never able to reach or interact with the ghostly pedestrian figures moving at ground level.

Roujin

mistercrayon wrote:

Also papers please is pretty decent horror through bureaucracy

Yaasss. Good shout this.

Also whoever recommended Inside earlier as well, really eerie atmosphere and one of the best ending sections of a game ever.

RedDave2

The opening few moves in x-com/x-com 2 when you don't know when the enemy will show up is often tense. And I really liked the fishing village with the dead whale. When the shit goes down in that one, it's panic mode and quite scary.

Dark Soldier

And then you realise it's RNG out the arse and it's not worth ya time

Tempy

If you’re bad

MattyJ

Some of the Hive bits of Destiny 1/2 can be quite spoopy, especially when it's pitch black and you've just got your torch

RedDave2

Dark Soldier wrote:

And then you realise it's RNG out the arse and it's not worth ya time

Nah, I wouldn't be surprised if there is small bit of deception with the percentages going on, but i was able to master it so it cant be too random.

That level is a killer though. Once you know what to expect it's not too bad but on first play through its a squad killer. I think on first play through I lost 3 of my better soldiers.

Dark Soldier

Tempy wrote:

If you’re bad

am a good gamer tyvm my dad says im the best

Dinostar77

PT demo on ps4, i still have it. That was scary.

Dinostar77

Verecocha wrote:

Is Alien: Isolation considered horror? Truly the scariest gaming experience ever for me.

still not finished it. wish pc hack (keep alien in a vent) was available for ps4. very atmospheric game.

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