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Best horror games

Ranking the greatest games that scared us silly

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  • BladedFalcon - November 1, 2012 3:58 p.m.

    Hmm, pretty nice list... Although I haven't played any of the top 6 games there XD Anyway, Fatal Frame II is there, so that's enough for me. Even though I personally liked the original one better, and found it to be the scariest one by far. Still, I realize that might be because the first was a wholly new experience, and I had not played anything like it before, whereas II felt more familiar because of the first one.
  • shawksta - November 1, 2012 4 p.m.

    Great list. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's requiem man! That had so many ways to scare you, even if some were big jokes like the forced save file deletion and the "Blue screen." I wish Nintendo can publish a sequel or more games like it.
  • SDHoneymonster - November 1, 2012 4:10 p.m.

    I actually found one of the few problems with the first Dead Space was it gave you too much ammo, certainly on normal difficulty - I was never out of it anyway. Still scared me silly mind you. I've been playing Condemned recently and put it down for a while, simply because I got bored with the gameplay, but it does have a great atmosphere. And what else to say about Amnesia? Other than the fact that I will never, ever play it again. That game scarred my very soul.
  • RonnyLive19881 - November 1, 2012 4:10 p.m.

    For some reason I can't view these using Chrome :( I click the pictures and nothing happens... I have to open up buggy ass Fire Fox Lol
  • CrashmanX - November 1, 2012 4:12 p.m.

    Same here. Not 100% sure why that is.
  • CrashmanX - November 1, 2012 4:13 p.m.

    Ignore that, wrong comment response.
  • CrashmanX - November 1, 2012 4:13 p.m.

    Same here. Not sure why that is. I thought it was just me at first.
  • KnowYourPokemon - November 1, 2012 4:18 p.m.

    Am I the only one who doesn't find Slender scary in the slightest? You walk around a forest picking up notes, drums beat as you pick up more notes, and Slender shows up at times. The only thing remotely "scary" would the the quick jump scares you could possibly get when you see slender and they play the cliche large bang of piano keys in the background, which might I add, literally any game, movie, or even audio file can do.
  • taokaka - November 1, 2012 4:19 p.m.

    Just playing the demo of resident evil: revelations is scarier than slender. Even just looking at a screen shot of lone survivor is scarier than slender. Hell, even dead space 3 looks scarier than .......... I just can't do it, that would be taking it way too far. But anyway you get my point, slender should at least be lower on the list.
  • RonnyLive19881 - November 1, 2012 4:19 p.m.

    This is basically what I was going to put,Gotta love the death tub... gets me every time.
  • BladedFalcon - November 1, 2012 4:24 p.m.

    I loved Eternal Darkness, but I honestly wouldn't consider it very scary. I mean, yes, the glitches and stuff that mess with your head were pretty pretty and well executed, but otherwise the game's overall atmosphere and locations and enemies never really built to be that scary. Hell, even the music in certain levels felt more like an action game than a horror one XD
  • PoisonWar - November 1, 2012 4:31 p.m.

    Come on guys... Slender? I'd easily replace that with SCP Containment Breach, if we have to add in a free indie game. I did not see Penumbra on the list :o
  • Aarononymous - November 1, 2012 4:37 p.m.

    Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the World was pretty damn scary.
  • Redeater - November 1, 2012 4:39 p.m.

    Slender isn't scary period. It's the equivalent of one of those soothing videos with a quick image flash and scream at the end. I love the choice for number one and severely wish I could play Stalker. That game was so brokenly shipped it isn't funny. I just bought all three stalker games and they either have 15 minute load screens (apparently pretty common with new video drivers) or the game just chugs along and crashes!
  • taokaka - November 1, 2012 4:40 p.m.

    Well done sir, You are one of the very few chrome users who have displayed any initiative whatsoever, they normally comment that the slideshow is broken and leave it at that. Then I'd have to tell them to use the official gamesradar app for PC a.k.a firefox.
  • KadajMetal - November 1, 2012 4:40 p.m.

    Lone Survivor is actually pretty scary
  • SDHoneymonster - November 1, 2012 4:40 p.m.

    Agree with this man. FEAR also isn't scary - creepy ghost girls are nothing when you've got REACTIONS OFF THE CHARTS (or slo-mo bullet-time, whatever you like to call it).
  • shawksta - November 1, 2012 4:41 p.m.

    To an extent, yeah it was more of an action game than a horror one (Better Horror than Resi5 will ever be) but if anything, HOLY F*CK did that Bath Tub scene caught be massively off guard scared the F*ck out of me.
  • Turtman - November 1, 2012 4:50 p.m.

    Such an underrated and overlooked gem. I loved what that game tried to do with the first person genre
  • Turtman - November 1, 2012 4:51 p.m.

    Amnesia Amnesia Amnesia (and the spiritual prequel: the Penumbra series)

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