Games that scare you the most!

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Condemned 1 & 2 great games though.
Amnesia: Dark Descent

Embarrassingly, bioshock scared me every now and again as well

For the most part, i am de-synthesised when it comes to horror in games and movies. When i was about three years old, i used to watch my dad play Deus Ex, Half-life, Heart of Darkness, and Blood 2: The Chosen, to give you an idea of what i was used to.

When i was 11 i played Half-Life for the first time, and that was when i discovered a gamemod that did frighten me, which was Afraid of Monsters. New horror games, such as Amnesia and Penumbra, has not succeded in terrifying me as AoM did.

Watch Spike and Barley play Afraid of Monsters: Directors Cut on youtube. Its hilarious because they get scared quite a lot. If ypu happen to own HL however, give the mod a try yourself.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Dead Space
Condemned 2: Bloodshot

These are my top three. Amnesia is indescribably scary. If you have it, try playing it in the dark with headphones. It really does immerse you into the game.

I didn't find Amnesia to be that scary, it had a predictable flow to it in some areas, you knew you wouldn't get attacked by any monsters early in the game either so the first few hours were a cakewalk anyway. But Amnesia custom maps... THEY'RE SCARY!

a mod i got for fallout 3 is the only thing gamewise that came to being a legit scare. i actually can play fatal frame and not have a single real scare. maybe because i know alot of the gimicks used in horror movies. i find that weird because i don't watch horror movies.

but when i am in control in a game i don't seem to ever get scared by it.

the asylum mod for fo3 is the only true scare i've had in my 18 or so years of gaming.

chapter 12 in drakengard may be another, but that mostly just disturbed me, not fear but like [O_o eh] kinda thing. i still say that is bar none the most bizarre thing i've ever seen in a game, several years later i still can't play that chapter easily, and the cutscene called "a little thing" is still something i have a hard time watching, and i haven't seen it play start to finish in 8 years i think.

The Pyramid H3ead in Silent Hill gives me the creeps, and also the music, also characters Sledgehammer and the guy with the gas mask in Clocktower 3. I've always thought gas masks looked scary.

Half Life 2 (the Ravenholm level)
Half Life 2 Episode 1 (the part where you're waiting the elevator in pitch darkness and zombies and other enemies are attacking you. My flashlight ran out, too.)
Amnesia (even though I haven't really played it)
Halo 2 (the part where you're all alone, underground I think, fighting the flood)

The Scary Maze

The Siren games always terrify me, I think stealth works great for the survival horror genre of video games because it makes you afraid of the monsters rather than feeling like you can just kill every monster in sight. Plus the story of each game is always so despairing and just about every playable character either dies or meets some sort of horrible fate in the end.