what is your favourite horror game?

pyontri

tell me why its is your favourite.

Somnolence

Hard to say. If we're just talking about play time then it has to be something dumb like Dead Space 2 or Resident Evil 6. But those aren't horror games.
The best horror games are always indie. I really liked the horror game SCP-087 that came out over a decade ago, and was one of the original 3 that blew up and really helped the site's meteoric rise (and I guess eventual meteroic fall). There's one scare, and it's done extremely well. Quiet, chilling, and with a huge buildup.

If not that then Anatomy by Kitty Horrorshow. The tagline says it all: "every house is haunted".

What's your favourite, and why?

pyontri

Somnolence
well i just finished this horror indie game called "cry of fear" and what i have to say about the game is that it is great!
eery atmosphere, and a game that you are always on edge. my only problem with the game is that it is very buggy and when you go through the wrong door, instead of saying something like "you dont need to go through this door right now" the game would completely crash and i would have to start it up again. but thats what you get from a game made 10+ years ago lol
the game is based at sweden and is about this clinically diagnosed deppressed guy

other people on the web think its the saddest game the have played but yes thats my favourite horror game

Ross_R

I'd say Eternal Darkness, for all the awesome and unique mechanics it uses to scare the player (do not look for it online before playing; you'll literally spoil all the fun). I do encourage everyone to play it on Dolphin emulator, since it runs pretty much perfectly. The ending is a bit of a drag - but otherwise, the game is simply superb. Extra recommended for the fans of lovecraftian kind of horror specifically - it was made before the whole lovecraftian shtick became so popular, you can call it banal, and it works with these theme way better than a lot of later video games as well. It also actually establishes a setting of its own - and does so splendidly - instead of working with Lovecraft's creatures and lore, so yeah, extra points for creativity here as well. Plus, the artwork and voice acting in one of the main character's anatomical journal is simply beyond excellent:

pyontri

Ross_R
by that play through to me it seems like a good game. i wouldnt actually know but im only going of what you are telling me.
but with that gameplay in the link what i like is the dialogue used to describe the creatures, its very powerful.
and it seems like those creature would be scary to play against.

Somnolence

Ross_R
Eternal Darkness is great, but I hate how the Mantarok rune basically just bodies everything. It turns an otherwise interesting dynamic of the three runes magic system and just has an objectively best answer. If you could only unlock it on or after your 3rd playthrough, that'd be alright as a fun bonus, but as is, a tenacious player can luck out a 'win button' halfway through the game.
That all said, the horror of the game is fantastic. I vividly remember playing with a bro when we were probably a bit too young, and goofing around because we were absolutely terrified of continuing onwards. That one chapter early on where you've been cursed and you're slowly turning into a zombie? Magnificent. At the time the sanity effects were mind-blowing, but in retrospect, you could probably reuse them as comedy bits in another game. Walk into a room and your head just explodes? Huge pool of ammo that doesn't go into your inventory in one room? TV volume just starts going down for no reason? That game had a sense of humor I'll tell you, lots of personality.
As a weird aside, I've heard it was a god-awful company to work at, Silicon Knights, which is a shame. Absurd hours, deranged CEO, the works. Art through adversity, I guess.

pyontri
Cry of Fear is a fantastic game. The horror is pretty low-brow, I'm thinking specifically of the screamer after you get the police baton, watch out for the trees, and the guy doing the hand-stand before the asylum but as a game it rocks. You're absolutely right about it being buggy too, it's one of the reasons why I never 100%'d it. No one wants to do a 2.5 hour Nightmare mode speedrun to unlock Simon's Book when any one of 150 loading transitions can mean the run is over.
Insane to think it was made on GoldSource too. It genuinely looks better than Half Life 2 in a lot of places, and the sound design is unmatched.

Ross_R

pyontri
Just keep in mind that to get the true ending, the game expects you to complete it three times. You might want to download complete savegame after your first walkthrough.
Though, who knows, you might like it to the point you would actually want to complete it three times.

Olifromsolly

Dino Crisis really made me scratch my head with its puzzles. I miss when games had challenging puzzles, it's as if the worldwide average IQ has dropped.

Nah

Some on my list may not be that revolutionary, they just creeped me out.

Silent Hill series: Self explanatory. The series never fails to choose the places that look creepiest at night: schools, hospitals, amusement parks, prisons, etc. I've found SH2 the best, but the scariest is either SH1 or SH3. I won't go further because everyone knows this series.

Amnesia: Again, it's popular so I don't need to explain much. The game is what I call "hide-and-seek" horror, which can be scary at first, but then ends up being ok when the player decides to "Leeroy Jenkins" the level. Amnesia somewhat accounts for this by introducing the monsters later in the game and adds the effect where staring at the monsters reduces your sanity. The messed up sounds playing when sanity falls also spooked me.

Fatal Frame: MY WINNER FOR SCARIEST SERIES. Pokemon Snap Benadryl Edition. The gimmick of this survival horror is a camera used to defeat enemies. You do more damage by keeping the camera on the ghost or timing your shots in the midst of an attack. Ghosts can appear anywhere, shifting through walls and keeping you more on edge than other survival horrors.

Like Silent Hill, the series makes use of a terrifying atmosphere, but they do something different that I can't explain. I know it's just a spooky haunted house but I'll give an example: imagine peering out the courtyard of a mansion and getting a glimpse of a malevolent looking onryo staring right back at you waaaaayyyy on the other side of the courtyard. Now you know that thing is wandering the same building in which you are located, and it's only a matter of time for when you encounter it. There's plenty of scares like that which just brings dread. That coupled with the disturbing ambient sounds makes this game a struggle to complete alone at night.

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