The best horror games traumatize players

[Prinzip]

I believe that a good horror game should be like psychological abuse. It should basically border on cyber terrorism.

[ナルゴ (NARUGO)]

Was unable to finish left 4 dead for a long time because I would panic and exit the game when a tank spawned

[Falco]

so basically russian roulette?

[Mina]

Phasmophobia feels this way

[a profile]

sh1 hospital nurses gave me a lot of nightmares where I was afraid to move when I woke up. afraid they might continue trying to transplant a hump onto me because they saw me moving. several dreams like that.

sh in general did for a long time until I had a series of dreams which showed that not only were the two worlds the same world, but that girder-world was actually 'safer.' its rules were clearly defined and there is a very limited number of things you experience there.

meanwhile the horror of the real world is infinite, everpresent, and cannot actually be physically fought. a world of rusty pipes and catwalks at least allows you to fight. waking up in your bed unsure if an omniscient nurse with a scalpel and a tray full of exotic parasites is waiting for you does not. neither does checking if you're strapped down, because you might be numbed and too tired to tell without moving.

but I wake up in the world of invisible horror. not the one where I open my eyes and a boogin is staring me down ready to rumble.

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Originally posted by Plonk Chad:

The best horror games traumatize players

I believe that a good horror game should be like psychological abuse. It should basically border on cyber terrorism.

Come back if you find one, I have had a couple of jump scares but horror doesn't seem to translate well in gaming in my opinion.

Blood does not equate to horror :-/

[Adversary]

A game can't abuse you. As someone who was abused, games were my escape. My respite, my calm, my means to forget even if just for a while.

That being said, the best horror is the the aesthetical or atmospheric kind. The kind that doesn't try to scare or frighten, but unnerve and unsettle. The kind that challenges and provokes. The kind that makes you uneasy.

[Daenoxiis]

Call of Cthulhu, while stoned.

[Prinzip]

Originally posted by qwertyuiop:

so basically russian roulette?

Something like that!

In the future: this [www.forbes.com]

[sleeps]

hey. don't leak my idea >:(

[Magic A. I.]

Originally posted by abcd:

sh1 hospital nurses gave me a lot of nightmares

You are not alone. SH1 was the game that traumatized a lot of kids who later became SH fans. The school, the sirens, and especially the hospital with the nurses, its 4th floor, and waking up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QnmjE3ZFWM

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by Plonk Chad:

I believe that a good horror game should be like psychological abuse. It should basically border on cyber terrorism.

So Silent Hill games and a few others

[SHAZBOT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNtckMT49M

[Miki mac fiddlement]

Originally posted by Tom Macdonald:

i played sh1 and sh2 at a very young age. they were pretty terrifying.

To add it up, sh3 is basically sh1 but dialed up to 11.

I played it twice and it still scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of me, twice.

[Magic A. I.]

Originally posted by Miki mac fiddlement:

To add it up, sh3 is basically sh1 but dialed up to 11.

Have you played SH1 in the year of its release?

[Miki mac fiddlement]

Originally posted by Magic A. I.:

Originally posted by Miki mac fiddlement:

To add it up, sh3 is basically sh1 but dialed up to 11.

Have you played SH1 in the year of its release?

Not really, but to be fair I got into silent hill somewhere around the release of silent hill homecoming, so 2009-ish

And few years later I played sh3 and got too scared to finish it, and then fast forward to 2020, I managed to beat almost the whole franchise except book of memories.