Have been startled....never scared.
I once took a dip in a pool in a cave in Morrowind....I turned around, and there he was.....a Dreugh right in my face. Oh, the horrors.
Startled never scared.

The Ocean Hotel mission in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines scared me. Also the whole big part in Hollywood with the horror video disturbed me. :laugh:

I still need to play through Thief III: Deadly Shadows to get to it's scary mission, but I just haven't gotten to it yet.

I get startled quite often though, usually from being hit by an enemy from behind.

Bioshock scared me. I haven't played Dead Space yet, but I was watching videos of Dead Space 2 and it didn't look that scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRJQ_S8Rjro

Other than that...some ambient sounds in Fable 1's island jail kinda scared me...but nothing compares to the link above...

Minecraft.

Fall down a hole I didn't see, into a cave and I can just about make out the silhouette of a creeper moving towards me in the darkness. Scariest moment in my entire life.

Dead Space and FEAR didn't scare me at all beyond jump scares, in fact, FEAR didn't scare me once. Minecraft is terrifying.

I think the only time I was really scared in a video game was in the Thief 3 - Shalebridge cradle level.

Also someone mentioned swimming underwater in Morrowind, I kinda forgot about that one - that's actually pretty scary too. I guess that's why I always have a few emergency water breathing potions with me.

Dead Space got me good. I never get scared playing games, but that one was awful. It never really bothered me when I got attacked. It was when I thought I was gonna get attacked and didn't. I think Bioshock may have startled me on occasion.

While the water monster didn't really bother me (if anything, I was frustrated with having to rush from crate to crate the whole time), I find the servant... things... really unsettling. REALLY unsettling.
I'm pretty sure the first time I encountered one, I didn't utter a single coherent sentence. I did, however, utter a lot of terrified profanity.
Of course, playing the game alone at midnight didn't help matters. >.>

Penumbra. I've stopped playing since the atmosphere creeped me out so much.

Thief: Deadly Shadows. The Shalebridge Cradle. That is all.

THIS. noone who has played those games would even put dead space or bioshock or frankly any other game even in the same league as frictional games. i was bored with dead space.......rolled right through bioshock.......doom3, system shock the only games that gave me any issues were STALKER, resident evil (the first ones, not the crappy third person shooters the last two turned into) and the first silent hill. but even those are nothing in comparison to amnesia and penumbra.

@woodelf. i still play bloodlines whenever a new version of one of the mods comes out. i agree the ocean hotel was pretty creepy although ive done it so many times now its just a 2 minute quest at this point. the seweres were kind of creepy.

I don't really play games that are specifically marketed as horror, but I have been scared a few times by other games.

The "ambient cave sounds" in singleplayer Minecraft were terrifying when I first started playing. The fact that turning down the difficulty to Peaceful doesn't remove the sounds shows Notch is a sick, twisted man.

And exploring Vault 22 in New Vegas is likely the most scared I've ever been in a game that was not designed to scare you. I just could not explore it... every second I was there I had goosebumps. Every. Second. After a few attempts at exploring it I ran out of there and never looked back.

the first time i played fallout 3, I did not want to leave megaton. But the truly scary fallout moment was when i visited Vault 87 at the middle of the night.

I loved that level for its scaryness. Well actually, there are only two parts that scared me. When the ghost of the woman runs past you saying "Help me!" or something similar.. and when you find the newspaper clip about a child's head that's been found in the laundry room....when you stop reading the clip, the washing mashine suddenly starts.

It took me a while to go in the laundry room.


Doom 3 gave me a pretty good scare once. The only one actually since the game is all about monsters ambushing you from everywhere. When all hell breaks loose at the start, if you go in the first restroom and look at your reflection, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2uym0wX-s
I was just running fast from room to room, happy to kill enemies and that cutscene really surprised me. And made me quit the game. It's the only time a game did this to me. And surprisingly, it's Doom 3 which, as I said, I don,t find scary at all.

Another good scare that actually still gives me the goosebomps whenever I think about it or that I watch it again is in System Shock 2. (Spoiler ahead!) One of my favourite scenes in gaming history.

Otherwise, Silent Hill 1-2-3-4, Penumbra and Amnesia are my other favourite scary games. FEAR 1 wasn't scary at all when you noticed its pattern (Scary part-Battle part-scary part-battle part), but was a pretty good shooter nonetheless.

DOOM 3. :swear:

I've played Resident Evil games. Found them fun. Only the dogs jumping through the windows in the first one made me jump a little.

I played (And very much enjoyed.) Silent Hill 1 and 2. In the dark. With surround sound. Alone. Weird? Yes. Felt kinda like Alice? Sure. Scary? Not really.

FEAR was a lot of fun. A few moments made me jump, but I never felt afraid.

But Doom 3. Good God. That game was not good for my heart at all. After playing for about 30 minutes, I would get so stressed out I had to stop and step away from the computer for a while. I still haven't completed it, though I keep promising myself I will.

I've been looking at Dead Space, and I fear it might have the same effect.

Man i can't wait to get my W2 I am going to play Amnesia on the new laptop i get. I haven't played a truly scary game in years. Not since Ps2 era with Fatal Frame.

I don't think I've ever been genuinely scared from a game, but some have definitely been very creepy, the old Silent Hill games for example. Project Zero was creepy too. I can't believe some people find Oblivion gates genuinely scary though, not feeling that one.

Resident Evil 1 Crimson Head Zombies, because I hadnt ever been chased room-to-room by anything that fast before. Also the Cerubus coming in through the window were pretty scary the first time.

Outside of that havent been really scarred playing a game... Games that have MAZE levels with no maps are pretty stressful because I have a terrible since of direction.

on a side note, Paranormal Activity the movies scared the hell out of me.

I can't even play games that are designed to scare me. Horror movies freak me out, even games not supposed to scare me are totally capable of giving me nightmares. Oblivion vanilla zombies scare the [censored] out of me and the draugr from Bloodmoon I still have nightmares about, though I haven't seen one in game for about three years. I did finish the Dungeons of Ivellon mod for Oblivion, though, and I'm really proud of myself. ^_^ Even though I had to enlist the help of several friends to sit with me while I played... Or play for me. Coughcough.

I'm the biggest loser ever...

Clock Tower 3
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Resident Evil 4 (Only in the beginning)
Bioshock

The game Dead Space was too intense for me, the way the "zombies" swarm your character. I need to reinstall the game someday and get more effective at combat.

The zombies in VTM:Bloodlines were disturbing to me, even though they're the traditional "slow zombies". When I reinstalled the game last year I found I was better at figuring out that level; knowing when to duck into the space between the walls, etc.

The first time that Bloodlines threw a fleshcrafted monster at me (several corpses fused together, in this case), you bet I ran. However, my instincts were correct: I ran to a ladder to higher ground and was able to take out the monster from there.

16 years ago Doom was scary...

You should try Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Most of the game is about nasty things coming from the depths of the sea, scariest game I've ever played.



Some parts of VtM: Bloodlines also really freaked me out, mostly Grout's Mansion and the infamous Ocean House Hotel.

Two worlds. I am still have nightmares of reliving the time I paid 60 dollars for it. Truely frightening.


I am too much of a wimp to play scary games so I dont even attempt it. The only game in my collection that is kind of scary is Resident Evil 4. But even im not scared of that game... Until the regenerators start coming in.

Scared? Sure, scared and startled is what they do easy. But that passes after a second. I want games that bloody HAUNT me. Like Amnesia, or the Project Zero series. That's much better. In the "Cthulhu is much better than Michael Myers" kind of way.
F.E.A.R. was a good example. FEAR? Haunting, as were many parts of Condemned.
F.E.A.R. 2? Sadly, they only delivered scares and startling moments. I mean, who thought it would be a good idea to have Alma go all OOOGABOOGA and jump into your face every five minutes? That became really boring, really fast.