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What’s the Scariest Video Game You’ve Ever Played?
Several of you have been having this very discussion over on Geeks recently. There have been so many different games thrown out there that there doesn’t appear to be a clear-cut “winner” for scariest video game. I decided to ask some others what they thought about this. What’s your take? What game do you feel is the scariest?
lbutlr: Scariest Video game. 3rd party wad for Bungie's Marathon .. very dark, monsters lurking around corners, marathon. Very scary
about 5 minutes ago
BayleeBlue: The scariest video game I've ever played was BioShock. Just thinking about it still gives me the creeps.
about 31 minutes ago
damondnollan: I would say the scariest game I've played is Resident Evil. I typically played it at night..alone…in the dark.
about 32 minutes ago
Matteo_Mobilio: Definitely Manhunt for the PC and Xbox.
about 34 minutes ago
j_holtslander: Aliens-TC for Doom 2 with the soundtrack to Aliens playing on CD
about 35 minutes ago
htnguyen: scariest video game has got to be either Doom3 (PC) or Resident Evil 2 (PlayStation 2) =)
about 36 minutes ago
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34 Comments
YouonPictures
February 7th, 2009
at 8:19pm
Condemned 2: Bloodshot on PS3… i only have the demo, but it still freaked me out… maybe cuz it was past midnight, and i was all alone in my room.. and the lights were off… lolz
Jayson R
February 7th, 2009
at 8:20pm
Undying …
mmidura
February 7th, 2009
at 8:24pm
Condemned 1 & 2
Danny Minick
February 7th, 2009
at 8:30pm
I have a fear of spiders, (to the extreme), so the scariest game I ever played was The Legend of Zelda: Orciana of Time. The first level had giant spiders called “Skullutas”. I never did make it past that level either.
Jonathon
February 7th, 2009
at 8:31pm
Half Life — the tension ate me up
Chris Schmied
February 7th, 2009
at 8:35pm
You forgot PREY. the ‘doors’ in that game are scary as hell.
SGG
February 7th, 2009
at 8:36pm
Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Siren(looks scary anyway)
Alex Gold
February 7th, 2009
at 8:49pm
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Still scares the crap out of me.
HuXu
February 7th, 2009
at 9:13pm
Uhhhmmm all these games fail at being scary, anyone here played FEAR? Download the demo for FEAR Project Origin and you will be freaked!! http://www.whatisfear.com
GV
February 7th, 2009
at 9:43pm
hands down Aliens vs. Predator (the first FPS version) as the Human/Space Marine.
Rajtilak Bhattacharjee
February 7th, 2009
at 10:02pm
Definitely Half Life, any day.
fabrulana
February 7th, 2009
at 10:24pm
I’d say Left 4 Dead or Deadspace
Gavin Roskamp
February 7th, 2009
at 10:30pm
Scary Maze Game by FAR. I’d never played it before so I was bored at 4AM and I went there and it was a really hard maze (You’ve all seen it lol) and then i got like 2 inches away from my screen and the sound was on full blast through headphones!!! I screamed like a little school girl!
Underbyte
February 7th, 2009
at 11:09pm
Why has no one mentioned System Shock 2? Definitely the Scariest.
Dead Space wasn’t bad.
Other scary games….
-Doom 3
-Undying
-bioshock
-Kirby goes to Disneyland
Laurie
February 7th, 2009
at 11:25pm
Half life 2. Having said that, I avoid scary games at all costs
Kala
February 7th, 2009
at 11:30pm
Tie between Silent Hill and Eternal Darkness.
andy
February 8th, 2009
at 12:01am
doom3.. By a long way
Undying
Hanna
February 8th, 2009
at 12:54am
Minesweeper… you never know when those bombs are gonna get ya. =|
gamepro
February 8th, 2009
at 1:24am
doom 3 is the scariest video game i ever played
Dave
February 8th, 2009
at 1:59am
Silent Hill for PlayStation.
Unlike Resident Evil which relies so much on soundtrack and musical scores to scare you, Silent Hill is just, well, silent. And that’s what’s scary because you go: “What was that?… Did I hear something???” a lot.
JS
February 8th, 2009
at 4:04am
Clearly, only one commenter here has any real knowledge of computer games.
Honorable mentions to the Thief series but the daddy of all scary games is SYSTEM SHOCK 2. It’s on a different level to anything before or since.
xxxXXD3V14N7XXxxx
February 8th, 2009
at 4:12am
moi? area 51 i think its called i dont like unknown things to running at me 0_o
aly
February 8th, 2009
at 4:47am
Alone in the Dark
Derek
February 8th, 2009
at 7:58am
Dead space would have to be the scariest but then after a while it wasnt as scary.
Jose Lebron
February 8th, 2009
at 11:14am
One of the most scariest games I played is “The Suffering” and the first ever Resident Evil when the zombie eating a corps turned aroud to look at you as you come around the corner an got up in slow motion…RUN!
Chris07
February 8th, 2009
at 11:29am
Definately Dead Space!
Dead Space is really scarey when played at night with full surround sound.
Shuha
February 8th, 2009
at 4:16pm
I think, Dead Space is a really scary video game…
sbushfan11
February 8th, 2009
at 6:01pm
The scariest videogame I ever played is Resident Evil 4 for the Playstation 2.
Dan
February 9th, 2009
at 2:15am
I don’t know about scariest but I remember the first game I thought was actually scary was Resident Evil on the PlayStation.
“What, What is this?”
“What is it!?”
“Blood. I hope this isn’t Chris’s blood”
Instant Crassic!
CTCY
July 9th, 2009
at 11:16pm
i like scary games, think the scariest games i’ve played are fatal frame series, silent hill 2 and siren: new translation (jap version) for PS2 and PS3.
Mobile Geek
July 11th, 2009
at 4:03am
I thought Diablo was creepy.
Devils ToyLand
July 27th, 2009
at 12:04pm
Are You Kidding The Only game that scared me was when the fishmen came storming your room at the Hostel hotel in Call of Cthulhu DCOTE we need more games like that
Vile Shadow
September 4th, 2009
at 8:59pm
Cold Fear just the noises and the screaming of zombies running at you with knifes that were infected by the exocells made me shiver.
Shelby
November 6th, 2009
at 10:33pm
The Fatal Frame series are the scariest games everrrr, way more scary than Silent Hill.