Honestly, this is a tough one for me because there's so many ways a game can be hard. I think it's either both Devil May Cry or Devil May Cry 3 on Dante Must Die mode, or MegaMan X6 or any of the MegaMan Zero titles.
I think I should also mention Five Nights At Freddy's games, not because the actual difficulty is an obstacle, but rather they're just so scary that picking up and playing them is difficult lol!
I think I should also mention Five Nights At Freddy's games, not because the actual difficulty is an obstacle, but rather they're just so scary that picking up and playing them is difficult lol!
Similar for me. I love survival horror so most of the Silent Hill games. I think SH2 was my favourite, but I do have a soft spot for SH4, partly because of an experience where there was a cats head in my fridge (in the game before anyone reports me to the RSPCA) and the meow sounds sounded like they were in my house and were freaking me & my brother out. I’ve played the Project Zero games (aka Fatal Frame) which are like playing an Asian horror film. And Dead Space, which took me ages because I jumped at everything.
Not a horror game: I played Fez which was tricky in the sense that you have a platform game but you sometimes have to think in 3D to work out how you move around. It’s a clever game.
I really should try some more big horror games, honestly! I'll be playing FNAF: Security Breach soon, and I've been curious about the classic Resident Evil titles! I've also played through Omori and Doki-Doki Literature Club too. And Undertale genocide route, which I DEFINITELY think counts! It really lays on the guilt seeing the characters who were friendly to you or acting like you were harmless in other routes suddenly being terrified of you and begging for their lives.
I've also noticed there's a strange amount of games that aren't horror, but have weirdly creepy moments in them despite that! Ever played Rugrats: Search for Reptar? There's some genuinely scary sequences in that game, like when you're running around the house at night and there's a load of imaginary ghosts, or when you're lost in the toy store and a giant mechanical ape mascot is hunting you down! I think the thing that makes it so creepy is that you're playing as a baby and seeing things from the babies' point of view, sort of giving you a feeling of vulnerability. That and the PS1 graphics just make it uncanny to look at lol.
And don't get me started about the Tails Doll in Sonic R... I can't even process why that thing looks so unsettling to look at.
I ended up with whiplash playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii - there should’ve been a warning on the Wii about doing warm up exercises before playing, especially when it’s games that make you tense. I had a stiff neck for weeks - that’s my memory of RE, that and being assaulted by an endless horde of weird people whilst being trapped in a house.
I’ve been looking at Reanimal (I think it’s out in February). It reminds me of Limbo (cool game) and is like Little Nightmares.
I haven’t played the Rugrats one but I know what you mean about some not-horror games being scary/creepy. I always think about the statues in the first Tomb Raider game that would come to life as you walked past. Bioshock isn’t survival horror but some of it makes me think of The Shining so I think it’s got that unnerving thing going on.
I’ve been meaning to play Omori.
Did you ever play Eternal Darkness? It messed with your head! I think I still have my copy buried somewhere. Buried. So nothing can escape!
I’ve been meaning to get hold of The Sinking City. It’s got a Lovecraft thing going on. It’s more detective game than horror but the visuals I’ve seen looked good.
But that cat’s head in Silent Hill 4. I still haven’t gotten over it! That meow was in my house! It was like Silent Hill was in my house! A bad time to have surround sound.
I've only just recently heard of Eternal Darkness, but my god, it looks like a wild time. All those fourth wall breaking sequences and everything
I also still have a little PTSD over my experiences with FNAF VR. It feels real. TOO real. For about a week every night, I was paranoid about Bonnie the Bunny or Freddy Fazbear waiting outside my bedroom door on the left to my bed, or Foxy would come charging down the hallway outside my room because that's the position they appear from to attack you in your office in the game! And you never truly get a feel of just how HUGE they are until you're seeing them up close and personal! Had to switch to flat mode to finish some parts of the game because it's too scary in VR lol! Doesn't help when you go outside the Playstation Camera's range unintentionally to reach the door buttons and the inputs don't track because of it!
Back when I was very little, I used to play Sonic 2 with my sister on the Megadrive/Genesis, we always played on two player, so we never encountered any of the bosses, but the first time I ever played single player, suddenly reaching the end of the stage and not seeing any goal post waiting there spooked me. Then suddenly, the music fading and being replaced with that boss music and seeing Dr. Eggman suddenly coming down in a little machine out of nowhere to attack you terrified me because I had never seen anything like that happening before! It makes me laugh thinking about it now!
I've only just recently heard of Eternal Darkness, but my god, it looks like a wild time. All those fourth wall breaking sequences and everything
I also still have a little PTSD over my experiences with FNAF VR. It feels real. TOO real. For about a week every night, I was paranoid about Bonnie the Bunny or Freddy Fazbear waiting outside my bedroom door on the left to my bed, or Foxy would come charging down the hallway outside my room because that's the position they appear from to attack you in your office in the game! And you never truly get a feel of just how HUGE they are until you're seeing them up close and personal! Had to switch to flat mode to finish some parts of the game because it's too scary in VR lol! Doesn't help when you go outside the Playstation Camera's range unintentionally to reach the door buttons and the inputs don't track because of it!
Back when I was very little, I used to play Sonic 2 with my sister on the Megadrive/Genesis, we always played on two player, so we never encountered any of the bosses, but the first time I ever played single player, suddenly reaching the end of the stage and not seeing any goal post waiting there spooked me. Then suddenly, the music fading and being replaced with that boss music and seeing Dr. Eggman suddenly coming down in a little machine out of nowhere to attack you terrified me because I had never seen anything like that happening before! It makes me laugh thinking about it now!
