What do you think is the most gloomy universe?

I haven't played all of these, but for me, gloominess needs to be grounded in a semblance of near-reality in order for me to really feel it. While Stalker isn't like that in all respects; the environment, weather, lighting, radiation and survival-ish aspects drive that feeling home for me more than the other games i had played from the list. To be honest though, old school, text based games were the ones I found had the most potential for this since your mind sort-of fills in the blanks.

Dark Souls without a doubt

Yeah. Pretty much any game in the "Souls" series or System Shock 2. The isolation is a big part of that atmosphere in both.

-Byshop

Dark Souls with Call of Cthulhu and Silent Hill a very close second and third respectively.

I would have picked Dark Souls, but I choose Resident Evil instead, not because of the modern Resident Evil, but from its origin, Resident Evil had one of the most gloomy and chilling atmospheres I ever encountered. The creaking doors, dripping blood...burnt bodies...quite gloomy, lol.

Warhammer *

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We have a winner!

Fallout

Cool thread! Silent Hill has definitely got to be the gloomiest video game universe.

It's gotta be the newer Fallout games. That post apocalyptic wasteland combined with Bethesda's penchant for lifeless NPCs...

silent hill if you live in silent hill

dark souls if you live anywhere else

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