10 Scary Video Games for Halloween

Games 4 Guys writes: There are a lot of scary moments in video games but the whole game had to make you fear playing it. At the very least it had to inspire you to play with the lights on. Gruesome visuals don’t cut it, these have to make your heart rate increase, pupils dilate, and take frequent trips to the bathroom to clean your shorts.

[Brewski007]

Amnesia the dark descent isn't in this list!
I seriously considered buying new pants after playing this game.

[the_tick]

You only considered it???

[UltraNova]

Siren Blood curse??

[nveenio]

Why is Bioshock on this list? That game wasn't scary at all. Neither was Doom 3, for that matter.

[Xristo]

seriously, they must of left Amnesia out due to ignorance (only reasonable excuse)....easily the scariest game i have ever played!

[NYC_Gamer]

bioshock?how is that game scary

[Jimmy the Greek]

its got all the elements of a horror game. jump scares, gore, unspeakable evils.

[Acquiescence]

although they mostly occur within the first few hours of the game.

[Raoh]

siren blood curse

resident evil 2

[tacosRcool]

Games on list that are not scary:

Doom 3
F.E.A.R.
Bioshock

At least to me since these games put the scariness to sleep

[lovestospoodge]

I played doom 3 on pc with a 40 inch screen with my friends like 6 years ago, and f*ck me it was scary

[tacosRcool]

That game is wayyyy tooo predictable. Open a door, a monster pops out. Yawn. I knew where most monsters would pop out and where. Such a boring game

[Ace Killa 08]

FEAR seriously.... dude....its scary with surround sound at night....SCARY

[zagibu]

I agree with both of you. Doom3 did have some scary moments, but the silly monster spawns quickly led to boredom.

F.E.A.R. also had some moments, but they were just far too infrequent. Dito for Bioshock.

[Fishy Fingers]

Hannah Montana: Rock Out the Show

[kanetheking]

put it away!.

[Nasseh]

MY MIND, IT'S SCARRED FOR LIFE.

[protekjv]

just by opening the box bats and sh!t come out of it.

[Kingdom Come]

"The Walking Dead" Television Adaptation, not a game. No Bioshock?
Can't wait for "The Walking Dead", great comics, great director (Director of Shawshank Redmption)...

[DarthMoose]

the walking dead is gonna change alotta peoples views on the zombie genre

[Ve3tro]

BioShock
Doom 3
F.E.A.R

Were not scary one bit.

games4guys.com? Should be games4girls.com. ^_^

[Acquiescence]

Couldn't finish it in the end, had to chicken out. I got stuck so I was left wondering around all over the place trying to figure out what to do next. For the uninitiated, the game senses when you are taking too long to do something, and when it does it unleashes more ghosts to follow you around and hassle you, which of course only exacerbates things. This was too heavy duty for me, so I sold it! A decision I regret to this day. I WILL buy it again one of these days, start from scratch and finish it.

But seriously, that game freaked the shit out of me. Even more so than Silent Hill 2.

[Malice-Flare]

Project Zero is Fatal Frame, in case people don't know...

[blakstarz]

Siren without a doubt needs to be up there....but Phantasmagoria was my very first PC horror game....awesome to see it listed.

[TheMutator]

Condemned that's all i have to say

[Ace Killa 08]

the game is just scary with the darkness and the combat system. I bought it for 5 bucks at gamestop and worth it lol

[Malice-Flare]

made by the original director of the first Silent Hill...

[Tarmgar]

Call of Cthulhu..... it's the only game that I know of that incorporates a sanity element. Where when you see something freaky... you character gets freaked out and everything gets blurry and slow and stuff. I couldn't finish that game btw. Scared me to death lol.

[jjank11]

didn't eternal darkness have that sanity meter or something. Loved that game but it was not really scary, just alittle freaky at times.

Amnesia, I believe has a sanity element to it if you don't hide from enemies well enough.

[Tarmgar]

Didn't know other games had it. I've never played the ones you've mentioned. Cthulhu was the only one that I knew of that had it.

[xer0]

Has anyone played or even heard of this game.

The editor could have put together a more relevant list of games that are available or current gen systems.

[Pandamobile]

Where the hell is Penumbra? Fail list.

[Blaine]

was very good, but annoying when it tries to scare you. I say this because often times the "scare moments" are predictable, but also because of the sounds. Many people complimented the game because of its sounds, but I hated its ambiance track. It continuously plays sounds to keep you on edge, so it always sounds like there's a necromorph behind you when there isn't. This distracts from those times when there actually is a monster behind you, and is just a cheap way to tighten the atmosphere.

Also, it gets a LOT less scary when you realize there are never more than 3-4 necromorphs attacking you at once! Once you feel confident that you can take on that many of them at once and come out unscathed, then there really isn't any reason to be tense anymore. More often than not, there will only be one or two coming at you at a time--the lack of challenge takes away a lot of the scare factor.

All that being said, it's a very good game, for sure. Definitely one of the best survival horror games I've played in a while.

[zagibu]

I mostly agree with you, but think that the soundtrack captures the paranoia element quite well. If you were in this situation, you'd constantly think a necromorph was behind you, too.

[Blaine]

if I was in that situation, forget the paranoia, I'd probably shoot myself in the face after I saw the first necromorph!

[SpinalRemains138]

I remember being really freaked out when fighting "Piggy" in Manhunt about 7 years ago. You hear him coming and it's pretty scary. I hate that fucking Piggy!

[Anderson8]

demons soul on the first play-through is scarier than most of these game

[SexyPrawns]

Good list, but I've already played through all of these.

Fatal Frame 1 - 3 should compile 3 of those, however. Lol.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, as well.
Siren: Blood Curse is great.
Silent Hill 3 would be a good addition.

I'm sure he took the scariest from each series though. So, he's right.

[stragomccloud]

Ah. Doom 3. Kinda' like the Crysis of the day. Had everyone crying because the could barely run it. ...at the time, I remember being happy that I could at least run the game at 640x480 with medium effects.... until I noticed huge frame drops when more was happening on the screen.

What an incredible feat in it's day. That, and Halflife 2, truly paved the way for next gen graphics and atmosphere.

[Dac2u]

The Dark Eye is a great game if you can get it to work. It's sort of an adventure game set in Edgar Allan Poe's works. It's a really eerie game and is perfect for Halloween.

[theonlylolking]

MW2. Anyone who have played online knows its scary.

[Jacobite]

Only thing wrong with scary games their a one trick pony, never the same second time round.