What SINGLE game has scared you more than any other?

As the topic says, your single scariest game ever, what is it? Feel free to mention any game moments that scared you too, just be sure to mention spoilers first :P

My scariest game ever is Penumbra Overture. I just beat it, and every step i took deeper into that mine, the more the dread grew of what I would find. Awesome game.

Penumbra Overture.

lobodob

No doubt.

the penumbra series is a good pick ^^

My personal favorite is System shock 2, that game had me nervous for half the game :\

Silent hill 2 is also pretty good...

While STALKER is tense I would not call it scary, but you might want to include it ^^

the penumbra series is a good pick ^^

Maddie_Larkin

No doubt.

STALKER freaks me out on a subtle level. It's not really scary (except for the laboratories), but the games make me feel terribly uncomfortable the whole time due to the immersive atmosphere and your own vulnerability as a player.

painkiller had its momments

Easily Penumbra series. No other game has made my hairs stand on end. ;)

I haven't played many scary games for a long time. But of the more recent ones, I have to say Doom 3. I am sure there are scarier out there, but that's the scariest game I have played in the last 5 years.

Overtune scary? Pft.

Black Plauge is where it is at. :)

Overtune scary? Pft.

Black Plauge is where it is at. :)

thespywholied

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Overtune scary? Pft.

Black Plauge is where it is at. :)

lobodob

Definitely Penumbra.

Dead Space. Playing Dead Space with headphones makes me paranoid.

Doom 3 was a little scary but it was the cheap scary where things jumped out at you all the time.

I think one of the scariest games I've ever played was the panoramic horror game Scratches. Although it wasn't the scariest, I got an error on the game that made it one of the scariest moments I've had playing horror games. Long story short, I manuvered through something (I won't go to far into detail for the sake of preserving the scare for the people that play :)) to get to a point where there was no option to move or turn at all. It seemed like there should have been a cinematic or something but nothing was happening for about 30 seconds. I alt-tab out to find that there was a windows error that stopped the game. So I started it back up, got to the same place and it seemed like the same thing was happening. I sat there for another couple seconds getting ready to alt-tab back, and out of nowhere scary horror music turns on and you see something move in front of you. I almost had to stop playing for the night :D.

The first Fatal Frame for the PS2.

Morrowind. The Sleepers creep the heck out of me. That and I don't play scary games at all.

Clive Barker's Undying: the only game I've ever played that made me stop playing, get up and turn on the lights. :shock:

*shiver*

An oldie, System Shock 2

System Shock 2.

Definitely Penumbra: Overture. Scared the **** out of me.

Clive Barker's Undying: the only game I've ever played that made me stop playing, get up and turn on the lights. :shock:

*shiver*

JN_Fenrir

No game recently, of all time probably Quake when I was 7.

No game recently, of all time probably Quake when I was 7.

Whiteblade999

I agree that Quake was scary, when I was young those zombies scared the crap out of me. The scariest, though, would probably be System Shock 2. I'm only on the second level and I can only go about 5 minutes before I have to turn on the lights and quit. And then I'm looking over my shoulder for the next half hour lol.

Condemned: Criminal OriginsTreflis

Penumbra: Overture. I couldn't last more than around 7 minutes. When I met the wolf, that was it.

Metro 2033! I expect something horrible to pop up every time I turn a corridor or enter a tunnel. Any post-apocalyptic-game is usually depressing/scary for me.

Metro 2033 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: SoC withc Complete 2009 Mod. Now the atmosphere and setting of these games just add more to the scary factor. Very pressing and unusually depressing games, especially Metro, which by the way was quite the surprise for me this year.

Clive Barker's Undying: the only game I've ever played that made me stop playing, get up and turn on the lights. :shock:

*shiver*

JN_Fenrir

While the game wasnt actually that scary, i completely s**t brix at the mannequin scene in Condemned 2.

Even to this day the first Underground lab part in STALKER:SOC still scares me, but the most scariest game i have ever played would probably be F.E.A.R.

I have not played the Penumbra series and probably never will (don't really like scary games anymore)

EDIT: I can't believe i just said THAT

F.E.A.R from 2006, i've never sh!t my pants so much while playing a video game, ever in my life

Penumbra sounds good..

Thief III in the asylum/orphanage part. The first 30 minutes is just exploring the place but that whole time I was always on edge looking behind my shoulder.

Games don't scare me in the traditional horror sense. Screamers, walking corpses or the dark don't work on me. I guess I'm more into the sense of uncertainty, dread and atmosphere that makes you feel uneasy. Few games do that and none of which I can even think of right now. Karl319

ever played "the path" its a game off steam.. truly you will feel creeped out. its along the lines of a sandbox alice

Morrowind. The Sleepers creep the heck out of me. That and I don't play scary games at all.

Grodus5

LOL

Doom 3...they were cheap scares, but damn...they were frightening

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Morrowind. The Sleepers creep the heck out of me. That and I don't play scary games at all.

Eneru112

LOL

Edit: And to put this into prespective, the next "scariest" game I've ever played is Resident Evil 4... which I ended up laughing whenever it tried to be scary. Good game, just not scary at all.

FEAR, a few parts made me jump like doors closing slamming shut by themselves, bodies flying, or when Emma would appear behind me a few spots during that game.Jd1680a

half life2 was scary in some moments

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi. Man, that's the scariest thing I've ever played in my life. Never gonna repay this game again.Crimsader

I don't think I've been more creeped out than I was by the original Alone in the Dark when it first came out. Games like Resident Evil after that simply reminded me of Alone in the Dark.

Recently? Dead Space is legitimately scary.