what is the best horror game you’ve played ? I’ve played a fair few over the years , I’m really enjoying the latest LAYERS OF FEAR

  • Kovu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    alien isolation, visage, madison and maybe observer

    I’m playing signalis atm but I’m not far into it yet

    • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.comEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      +1 for Alien isolation. That really needs a sequel. It captured the whole style of the first film. It was scary and fun at the same time.

    • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      i couldn’t get myself to finish alien isolation when it came out, it was that constant fear of that smart alien coming out of nowhere haha. always thought of trying it again though.

    • _sideffect@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I stopped after the protagonist found out what he is and got to the water section… It’s like the reveal was done in an anti climatic way.

      Or am I missing much more to the story?

          • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Haha, well I won’t spoil anything, I’ll just say that the reveal you are referring to isn’t meant to be a “big reveal”. For me at least, I saw it coming a mile away as it’s extremely foreshadowed by the first act of the story (ie. The first NPCs you find at the very beginning are convinced they are still in their meat bodies, there is no other reasonable explanation for how you travelled to the future, etc.). The real story is about how you can still serve a purpose in spite of that revelation.

            • _sideffect@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              That’s exactly how I felt when the protagonist finally came to realize what he is… I was like, ok, yeah, I knew that already.

              Now I’m curious about the rest!

  • SuiHoThen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Maybe a bit too old school but “Eternal Darkness; Sanity’s Requiem”. Surprisingly good (entertaining) voice acting and writing!

    • HowlinMadSnake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I’ve had an eBay alert set up for this one for ages.

      I really just need to give up and emulate it already.

      • SuiHoThen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        That specific line reading is fully iconic, you hear it once and you remember it forever!

    • Lord_Logjam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I came here to say that. I loved that game, the sanity effects were brilliant and have never really been done properly since that I know of.

      • SuiHoThen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        That’s right! The sanity effects were so well tailored to that era of CRT TVs and the type of game crash errors one could get from a corrupted c save file. I would absolutely love to see a modern horror game give this kind of effect a serious shot.

  • Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    As someone who hates horror but loves SF: Alien Isolation is pretty nuts. I legit threw my controller when the AI outsmarted me and caught me in a doorway face-2-face. I couldn’t play again for months.

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Loved Dead Space 1&2 and the Resident evil games (the remakes and 7, 8). In terms of story, Silent Hill II is probably my favorite and i’m eagerly awaiting the remake

    EDIT: idk if Bloodborne counts as a horror game really, but that is probably the best Lovecraftian game i’ve played

  • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Currently fresh in mind; Garten of Banban

    There’s something instinctually terrifying about that damn bird. Genuinely good horror.

  • JTStrikesBack@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Right off the bat, the Dead Space series is pretty good. Crazy as it sounds, Dead Space: Extraction (a wii game that no one talks about, although it is also on the PS3) is probably my favorite in the series.

    You can’t go wrong with the Silent Hill series, and another possibly unpopular opinion is that Silent Hill 4 : The Room is probably my favorite. >

    Now a real oddball pick. Is it the best game? No. Does it have an amazing story? No. But Obscure and Obscure 2 were a lot of fun of you’re cool with “this is like a really low budget campy horror flick” kind of games. Played them with a buddy a few years ago and it was the most fun co-op experience I’ve had in ages.

  • N0ll@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Silent Hill 2 is my favorite

    Call of Cuthulhu dark corners of the earth is amazing up to the point where you get a weapon, but gets really bad after. Still worth playing up to that point.

    Alien isolation is really scary, especially on higher difficulties since the alien acts differently on higher difficulties. It’s just too long and drags pretty hard in places.

  • ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Scorn was worth a shot if you’ve already played Soma and RE. The mechanics are… Fine. The art is jaw-dropping. It’s like Amnesia if H. R. Giger had been the art director.