Is this game scary?

[Hawk]

Creepy.....

[Lucas]

Not at all

[FloydSneed1844]

Nope, some of the monster designs are close to the likes of horror monsters, but all in all, it's not scary.

[tonypa]

I think it has some quests or monsters you could call scary and creepy. There is also lots of blood, guts and dead bodies everywhere.

Scenes From A Marriage. The Crones. Botchling.

[jss1138]

It can be. Depends on your age and maturity.

[Frag Maniac]

I find the game overall more amusing at times than scary, but then I've played a lot of horror games and eventually even those don't feel scary, aside from being startled by a few jump scares.

It can certainly get annoying at times though. The combat animations are fairly clunky. You can use a torch in your non sword hand when fighting in dark caves, but idiotically the torch often vanishes when embroiled in hard combat, then reappears when you're done.

You also can't even equip the torch while on horseback, something that would have IMO added a lot of mood and necessary visibility when riding at night through the forest.

There's the Cat potion to see in the dark, but it's too bright and monotone IMO. And brilliantly (joking), they decided to make all the torches in dark caves unlit, and it's not like you can always easily light them all before engaging in combat.

What CDPR excel at is the creative end and fleshing out quests, characters and stories. They are terrible at a lot of the technical aspects though. It's a game worth playing, but not without a lot of frustrations along the way.

[s]

not creepy or scary

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Not a horror game but can be scary depending how you look at it. Me as somebody who was raised in the slavic/hungarian culture this gives a so far unknown (and scary) experience. Seriously just look at the 3 crones, they give me the creeps. Nothing what you would imagine from old folktales.

Another scary thing is the zero value of human (or non human) life. People hanged or impaled just for the "lulz" like in dark ages.

[Jojo]

It does have fantasy horror and scary environments like spooky forests, haunted castles and mansions, dark caves, graveyards and crypts and these locales can be explored at night making it doubly creepy. The music and sound effects are great. Deadwight Wood is a good example, you can hear creepy moaning and crying out.

[Ivar]

There are horror vibes during certain sections, like a Tower full of Mice. But it doesn't outright scare you. It's there for the atmosphere.

[Frag Maniac]

The only time it's potentially scary is if you do something crazy like take on red skull rated vampires inside a dark cave with little visibility or space to move. By design though, not scary.

[Caffeinated Rabbit]

It has a mature dark tone, in a way that can be scary its no horror game but part of the lore is themed around evil, monsters, curses and mutilation of all sorts, it shouldnt scare you but when you see a childs head in a cauldron with three naked girls drinking blood chanting blood magic rhyms id assume laughing is not the instinct reaction. so.

[MeTaLSnAkE]

Sometimes, Fightning certain monsters was scary a little for me. But not *THAT* scary. It has it moments.

[JiMMy]

its Dark and Stricken