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What's your favorite survival horror game?

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For the people that play survival horror video games, what's your favorite one of them all?

My absolute favorite is by far Dead Space. Never have I been so utterly terrified by a video game before.

The atmosphere of the USG Ishimura was eerie as hell, and with how scary the Necromorphs were to me, I almost couldn't get myself through the game.
 
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TheGoverness said:
For the people that play survival horror video games, what's your favorite one of them all?

My absolute favorite is by far Dead Space. Never have I been so utterly terrified by a video game before.
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The Long Dark.
It's not exactly horror, but there are times when wolves are chasing you, that you'll be horrified.
It's an early access steam game, based on survival.
 
TheGoverness said:
For the people that play survival horror video games, what's your favorite one of them all?

My absolute favorite is by far Dead Space. Never have I been so utterly terrified by a video game before.
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FEAR wasn't bad.

As silly as it sounds, Minecraft can be creepy till you get used to/powerful enough to deal with the Endermen. That noise, at night, alone is kinda creeepy
 
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Great story, great characters, amazing plot, hard as hell, off-the-wall bat**** insane crazy creepy awesome creature designs!
 
I may be stretching the definition of the genre, but I would say Limbo is my favorite. It is both unsettling and beautiful at the same time.

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Back in college, some friends and I played The Suffering. To add to the effect, we played it in complete darkness. Super creepy game.
 
P.T.

Although it was only a demo and the project (Silent Hill reboot) has since been canceled. This is the kind of horror that gets under my skin. Mind-bending surrealist nightmares. The gameplay is very minimalist - you basically just walk down an unending M.C. Esher hallway. But the tension ratchets up and up and up. The visuals are impressive, the sound design is especially amazing, and the game isn't overly reliant on jumpscares. The atmosphere gets so unsettling the game becomes uncomfortable to play.

Unfortunately because the project was canceled you can't download PT anymore as far as I'm aware. But it's worth watching a playthrough on youtube.
 
Alien: Isolation
If played in the dark with full surround sound, it'll scare the hell out of you. The hook....the alien cannot be killed, no matter what. You just have to hide from it.

Outlast
If played in the dark with full surround sound...bring another pair of underwear.
 
TheGoverness said:
For the people that play survival horror video games, what's your favorite one of them all?

My absolute favorite is by far Dead Space. Never have I been so utterly terrified by a video game before.

The atmosphere of the USG Ishimura was eerie as hell, and with how scary the Necromorphs were to me, I almost couldn't get myself through the game.
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In chronological order:
System Shock 2
Silent Hill 2
Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Special mention to Outlast which I didn't finish because I was too scared.

And Bioshock isn't a horror game but it's one of my favourites, and that's in part because of how atmospheric and creepy Rapture is.
 
Penumbra was the best because it was purely a puzzle game pretending to be a first person survival horror, you couldn't actually kill any of the enemies. (Well with the exception of the ending)

However if we're judging by how scary the game is this scene from Condemned was to me the most frightening crap a video game ever pulled:

 
It's kind of hard to beat games like Amnesia, where the story is well constructed, you're easily disoriented by the environment, the music is about as scary as it gets and your best "defense" is huddling in a fetal position in a dark corner (where, incidentally, you slowly go insane because you're in the dark). Back to the music, the score for the final level was probably the most hope-sucking and harrowing thing I've ever heard. The torture instrument scenes were...unsettling.

A surprisingly successful indy game is something called The Last Door, which has no graphics to speak of but has a rich story and is really creepy.

Just finished Limbo which was also quite unnerving from beginning to end, though the puzzles had a simple and fun logic component to them.
 
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In chronological order:
System Shock 2
Silent Hill 2
Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Special mention to Outlast which I didn't finish because I was too scared.

And Bioshock isn't a horror game but it's one of my favourites, and that's in part because of how atmospheric and creepy Rapture is.
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LOVED System Shock 2

You can download it from Steam
 
Layers of Fear


 
Velvet Elvis said:
Alien: Isolation
If played in the dark with full surround sound, it'll scare the hell out of you. The hook....the alien cannot be killed, no matter what. You just have to hide from it.

Outlast
If played in the dark with full surround sound...bring another pair of underwear.
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Alien: Isolation worked on the Oculus rift in early versions. I have an HTC Vive and would pay full price for the game a second time to have it work because oh dear lord would that be amazing.

I'd probably also have a heart attack, but eh. Details.
 
Monopoly. It was terrifying, I'm never playing it with my family again.
 
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