[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

The spooky month has started, and so has the discussion about the scary games that came out since the last Halloween! Thank you @Inyeon for sharing the Dead Space Remake view. It's nice when someone tells you how scary the game is so you do not need to check it yourself 😅

But there were many scary games before just the last year, of course, the ones that scared us more than anything that the last year could throw at us (and I guess growing older helps somewhat). So then what would be the scariest game you ever played in your entire life?

I am not a fan of "scary scary" games, the scariest in a traditional sense that I played is probably Scratches:

Though I am quite fond of Lovecraftian stories, but I see them as more atmospheric than scary.

But Scrathes is not the one that frightened me most. For me, it was the same childhood trauma effect like the one that we talked about with @Saka when I was scared in my impressionable youth. It was back in 2005 and I wanted to play Mor. Utopia, a very avant-garde game about a small provincial town having a plague outbreak. Technical limitations aside it was very well done and still is one of my favourite games of all time, but back then, I was spooked and not by the game itself, but rather by the menu:



I guess I was more impressionable back then, but when I launched the game and saw that, I got so agitated I turned it off and waited a few days before finally getting past the menu and seeing all the game had to offer. The game itself is not that scary, it was more of a shock factor of that image that triggered me somewhat. I am not afraid of it now.

And this is a story of an impressionable little DoctorEldritch being scared of a man with a scalpel on a screen. Got any stories of your own?

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch Outlast is one of my faves. The game had quite a few jumpscares. Kept me entertained.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch I was in the primary school when the Lord of the Rings came to the cinemas. I think I was in 4th grade when I played the Return of the King games. Some missions, like the Path of the Dead, the King of the Dead and Shelob's Lair were suuper spooky for the child Saka.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Is this the one?

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot Outlast series is building its lore now like Resident Evil, which is a good thing. But same as Resident Evil, it seems a bit too scary for me to check out personally. But the timeline summary videos are interesting to watch.

[BelalSaid]

@Saka I have a similar experience, too, playing Hitman: Contracts as a child. It isn't a horror game in itself, but it was pretty grim and it's the darkest Hitman game in the franchise. Especially the hotel mission with the ghost room.

[DoctorEldritch]

@BelalSaid I played it but not as a child, but I remember that level, it was...not scary per se but creepy for me. But I had almost the exact situation with the haunted hotel mission in The Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. That I played as a child and it was a scary mission for me, with ghost and everything. The funny thing is, in the game, you're playing as a vampire, so a monster yourself, but it was still scary to be in the haunted hotel even if you yourself are undead.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Yes, it's that one!

[Maiky123]

Outlast This was the scariest game I've ever played, I was very scared, The scariest thing is the sounds as if you are inside the game, I was 16 when I started this game.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Maiky123 you have that in common with @DracoTarot then. It seems too scary for me to try.