There this horror game I wanted to try but for personal reasons I wasn't at a point where I could just spend money on video games so I watched people play it on YouTube.

I really enjoyed it and just remembered it existed sometime this week. Now that I can, I'd like to buy the game and play it myself. If anyone can tell me the game's name, and where I can buy it I'd really appreciate it.

I believe you played as a delivery guy. When you get to the house there's this doll that follows you. There is also this lying white board that gives you wrong tips. Like for the first doll I believe it was "don't look at her" but you needed to do the opposite.

I think there were 4 dolls total. 1 was wearing some black dress and you needed to keep staring at her. 2 was a clown and you needed to not move when they appeared. 3 was some boy in a black suit and you needed to run away from him. 4 I literally have no idea how to counter that one.

Looking forward to playing it!

We're currently working on a new level for our game. The first level is in a Police station and the second one will be in an asylum. We've been thinking of the usual bedrooms, bathrooms, solitary, etc. But we were wondering if there are some clichés to avoid around this theme and place? Or things that are found "boring" for people who like horror movies, and games. And on the contrary, what are the unique elements you'd like to see, that are not explored that much in other fiction?

You can check out the overall ambiance of the game here (older footage): https://youtu.be/QPO1PEUYtzQ

They are currently on sale for console and I was curious if they are worth it. I know a decent bit about each one but I don’t know how good they are. I have heard both bad reviews and good reviews so I have no idea who to trust ngl.

In my opinion, the genre is underappreciated. Every once in a while, a great mascot horror game like Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 will come out and get milked by content farmers. It really sucks.

I'm looking for a good psychological horror game that emulates things that can actually happen to you.

Something like (beware 2016).

That game really resonates with me as one of the scariest I've seen.

What generally scares me in a video game is when there is a scary well designed monster / are scary well designed monsters (generally, games with human antagonists do not scare me in the slightest actively chasing and hunting you, but their nature and origin is almost entirely unclear, if even hinted at at all. I like games that just feel wrong, like there's an uncanny layer underneath it all that almost makes it feel like you shouldn't be playing it, games that give you little to no safety. So basically I tend to love horror games that just feel wrong and unnatural, like an IRL cursed game. I also don't like horror games that are pretty much just moving setpiece to setpiece where the only thing you have to do is run, that's why I don't like little nightmares for example.

I should note that I really don't like those puzzle style horror games where you run around an enclosed area with a monster chasing you trying to solve puzzles to unlock a way out, because I am bad at them. Like Nun Massacre, Stay Out of the House, Monstrum and Aka Manto are scary but I pretty much played them once got killed then went "yeah I'm never finishing this" and stopped.

I also love games where the location you play at is equally unnatural, unsettling, and just flat out wrong feeling.

Games that successfully scared me:

- Voices of the Void: Best horror game I've ever played. Not a lot chases you but it nails that "this is just... wrong" atmosphere so perfectly. You feel like you're trapped in a nightmare. I think the scariest thing by far is that it doesn't let you pause when something scary is happening, so when I'm playing normally and all of a sudden I can't pause my fight or flight kicks into 110% instantly.

- Knock Knock: also nails the atmosphere perfectly, but the monsters aren't super scary past the first few times meeting each.

- Lost in Vivo: silent hill spiritual successor, yet again nails that atmosphere perfectly, especially since some of the scares are in your inventory and even in your safe room .

- Parts of ImScared: I can't say a lot without spoiling but this game is good.

- Lethal Company: slightly less scary now that we know all the monsters out there right now but damn this game gets me when I'm alone deep in the darkness with no clue how to get out and there's lots of very unnatural disturbing monsters like the coil head and barber. Murky divers also gets close cuz the monsters are scary as shit, content warning falls pretty flat on the scary front past the first time playing, more funny than anything.

- Amnesia: the bunker. I'm gonna give this one half points because it's not very scary for the first chunk since everything you need to do is so close to the safe room. Once you have to go farther for longer it gets scarier. Dark Descent also scared me a bit a few times but too much puzzle-ing

- OG silent hill 2. Was my first foray into that kind of horror.

Edit: also cry of fear and darkwood

Games that didn't scare me:

- Alien Isolation. The alien IP did it in for me, because it's been done to death.

- Outlast 1 and 2. Enemies are pretty much all just crazy people who rape and kill. I read Crossed by Garth Ennis which is pretty much the same thing but with 0 content filter so I was entirely desensitized. Every chase sequence is just "run and climb into vent," "run and hit switch then run to thing switch opened," "run into crawlspace / door they can't go through," etc.

- Every roblox game. Scan_Test.DEMO got me with one scare because it was very non-roblox but for every other game I just can't get over the fact they're in roblox.

- The Classrooms. Too jank and predictable.

- Every resident evil game. I have no idea why people think Mr. X is scary, you're faster than him by a lot, and the rest are equally un-scary. They're tense, but not scary.

- SOMA. Very good game, very well written, not scary at all, there's like 2 sequences that are pretty harrowing but past that it's just "here's a monster, avoid it for 30 seconds as you go to the next place.

- Every FNAF game. Even when they were new. Mascots aren't scary to me so. Same with Poppy Playtime.

Lighting round for the rest: The Evil Within (too over the top / explains too much), Dead Space (too much action), Condemned (I just bludgeoned 50 people to death why would I be scared), Phasmophobia (no one gets scared by it anymore everytime I try to play it they just robotically go through and do it perfect then leave), etc.

Somebody knows what are some good multiplayer horror games to play with friends? I played with my friends at: Lethal Company, Content Warning, Anomaly Exit, Crawlspace Multiplayer, Dark Hours, Infestation Origins and Escape The Backrooms. (My friends also have played games like Lunch Lady, Phasmophobia etc... but I didn't play with them)

Hi all! I'm new to this sub but i wanted to ask if anyone had recommendations.

Best if there's a story to it😅 For example: RE7, RE Village, outlast. Even smaller games like fears to fathom and all that is fine with me!

I plan to buy silent hill 2 but i also want to ask for more recommendations.. Thank you in advance:)

If we get enough votes may GOG make a port of this game to PC!

https://william-nightingale.itch.io/gaslight-hollow

Hi everyone, I have recently created a new free horror game. It's called Gaslight Hollow and I would really appreciate if you guys could give it a go and drop some feedback on itch.io. I have linked the itch page for the game above. Thank you!

You can also watch the trailer for my game on youtube: https://youtu.be/8CADgTkhANg?si=kgdOOge9ZQ-lpHca

What a magnificent, "simply" and great game Is "Darkwood". One of my favorites horror experience of my life. ❤️

First off, I want to start by saying that my girlfriend is borderline Diokophobic, Kinemortophobic, & Omniphobic.

There is no exaggeration when describing how terrified she is of things. She gets paranoid when anything slightly unsettling happens, and she has a hard time keeping her composure after being surprised. She enjoys movies and games that stay lighthearted and refuses to go anywhere near a chase scene (ESPECIALLY in games. She freezes up in Phasmophobia when a hunt starts, and she stopped her playthrough of "Stray" because of >!the chase scene with the little robots!<) or zombies (she even struggles to fight zombies in Minecraft. Zombies in the "Maze Runner" trilogy seem to be okay with her until they start chasing the main characters).

That being said, I am a horror fanatic. I love all things ghouly, demonic, dreadful, & frightening. Now some people might think this is a terrible combo; However, she has taken leaps and bounds to try to take an interest into my likings, as I have done for her. Together we've watched maybe 2 or 3 horror movies in our year of dating including "Alien Romulus", "Smile" (we had to turn it off halfway through), & "Nosferatu" in theatres. She's expressed that she wants to get more into the horror genre, but I have no idea where to start with her. I've put her on some non-horror shows, movies, & games that she enjoys, so she fully trusts my judgement of media, but I'm struggling to find things to watch/play together that wont scare the life out of her.

Recently, she's taken up listening to creepypastas on her way home from work, a pastime she enjoyed when she was younger. I was wondering if anybody could recommend some movies, games, or TV shows to us to ease her into things. Something that might expose her to mild chase scenes, zombies, or eerie buildups (as she seems to struggle with these instances the most) So she can get her foot in the door. I think my ultimate long-term goal is to get her to play my favorite indie horror game of all time, Lost in Vivo. For me, the game is truly the epitome of immersive horror and I would love if she could share that sentiment with me.

TLDR - My girlfriend is scared of everything, but wants to get into horror. Where do we start?

Looking for this game is driving me crazy so Im going to describe this as best as possible. The game begins with the player, in first person, standing at a shrine on the top of a set of stairs. You walk down the stairs and try to cross a road or train tracks or something and get hit, then you reload at the shrine as the game tells you to look before crossing. You’re walking through a town and trying to get home but keep running into some kind of ghost or demon or entity thing?? but every time she appears she runs at you (I think) and this really jarring music starts playing as to scare you to get away from her. As the game continues, the setting gets more distorted and the woman appears more often and becomes more difficult to evade. I think her neck is tilted or broken?? Also I think when you she gets you the game over screen is her face and unsettling music. When you eventually reach your house, there are context clues as to why you’re being followed by this woman and the apartment that you’re in has extremely poor lighting making it a bit difficult to get around. There’s a goldfish and a ringing phone in the apartment I believe. You leave the apartment towards the end of the game I think after having a run-in with the woman in the apartment and go down the stairs that were leading to the apartment. The game ends with you stopped at the bottom of the stairs and you hear the woman running at you but you can’t or don’t move. She gets you and the game ends. That’s about everything I remember, I’ve tried searching key words on YouTube and google and haven’t had any luck. I almost don’t want to find out what game this is because it scared me so bad but I need peace of mind lol. Please let me know if anything matches this description!!

I'm wondering how logically we wouldn't be able to body slam husks and kill them.