Mine is Silent Hill 3. Its subject matter revolves around the fears of a teenage girl, like death of a parent, puberty, unwanted pregnancy (with a demon fetus, no less), mirrors (THAT ROOM shivers), and stalkers. The atmosphere is so oppressive and I cant play the game without having something else playing in the background, its that horrifying. I managed to finish Silent Hill 2 last year, which was like conquering my own fears. One day, I’ll finish SH3. One day.

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    Subnautia is torture. I gave it another try after I got co-op going but my buddy quickly bailed.

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      I really really wish I could play that game but this fear of something coming out of the depths and killing me is too much. It’s just a game ugh

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      Such a beautiful game but I couldn’t stand being on edge the whole time. I’m stressed enough as it is.

      Playing on the Nintendo Switch was an interesting experience, with a rendering distance so short that by the time anything dangerous pops into view it’s already too late.

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    Mine is SOMA. Not necessarily because anything about the gameplay is scary, moreso just because the ending is so… difficult, that it’s painful.

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      SOMA may be my second favourite game of all time. I highly recommend it to everyone. Even if you don’t normally do scary games (like me, I’m a total wuss), there is a safety mode where the monsters cannot kill you. This makes it tolerable enough for even people like me to experience the game, and its amazing atmosphere and story.

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      I cleansed my SOMA trauma with The Talos Principle. Very similar themes but viewed through a hopeful lens.

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    Not quite an answer to your question, but if you enjoy horror games but don’t want to be too spooked yourself, I highly recommend the OhItsRobinM channel on YouTube and Twitch. She plays horror games and is absolutely unphased. She makes them bearable to watch for me.

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    Outlast is 2spooky4me. Got pretty far in, but then just couldn’t get past the dread.

    Never played it, but Alien: Isolation is a cool-looking game I’m not going to even bother attempting.

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    Oh man, Silent Hill 2 and 3 are some of my favorite games, the atmosphere is just perfect. I started playing Resident Evil 7 in VR and the part at the very beginning where you go down into the basement and I just noped out and haven’t tried it since. Will probably give it another go eventually…

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      Silent Hill 2… I’ve finished so many horror games including RE7 in VR, but for some reason I get to the apartment building in Silent Hill 2 and nope out.

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      @Drewski I noped out of RE7 also. RE8 and the RE2 remake I could handle, but 7’s opening was too much for me. The first person thing plus the VR thing eek.

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    I didn’t play much horror, but I always thought the FEAR games were badass. Lots of jump scares, crazy storyline, and solid game play. Also loved the Deadspace series… Not having a HUD but finding clever ways to provide information to the player was pretty ground breaking at the time.

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      Jesus I go to horror games for a different brand of horror. I can’t imagine voluntarily subjecting myself to this, but I can actually imagine wanting to make it if I were a parent who had to live through that.

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    Resident Evil 7 in VR was too much for me. I made it just past the garage battle and then gave the game away.

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      I tried a game called “don’t knock twice” in VR. Cheesy basic ass game, but I couldn’t handle it lol. Basically like the first thing you do is grab a phone off a couch and then you hear a knock at a nearby window. I took the headset off and never touched it again. Nope nope nope.

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      That is absolutely the scariest game I’ve ever played and it’s not even close. And that wasn’t in VR even

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    I struggle with progressing through Amnesia. It’s such a cool game with an intriguing story but when I really get into it, it disturbs me to the core lol

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    It may be lame but alien isolation i have been booting up the same save for years and can never bring myself to play it long enough to finish.

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    I tried playing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and although the gameplay was fun the story was just a little too dark for me. I quit about halfway through bc it just wasn’t a fun experience.

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      You know I thought I was going to be unique with this one.

      This game gave me so much fucking anxiety that I couldn’t finish it. The dark atmosphere and the constant whispering in your ear made me feel like I was straight up hallucinating. It fucked with my head so hard.

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    I’ve tried Dead Space on a few occasions but I can not stand more than a few minutes. I can’t help it but nopenopenope.

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    The two I have noped out of are “The Black Rose” and “The Designers Curse”

    Both are indie horror and F2P so go for it and check them out.