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I wanna scares

Baron Dupek

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Dead Space 3 got nice feature - hallucinations - tha happen in coop. Some strange things happen on your screen (objects for example) but your partner not.
Other than that it's another projection, where you can see where all that meat for fast food come.

I heard Evil Within after first 2-3 missions become great game, some people even compare it to Resident Evil 4.
 

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Clive Barker's Undying. It's a gorgeous Gothic shooter, with an excellent visual style and soundtrack.
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Eyeball

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It is, however, COD with scarez, as tasty and atmospheric a game as it is.

Other than that, Dark Souls has a bleak and oppressive atmosphere that gets all the scarier when you know that more or less everything in the game can two-shot you and you gotta start all over when they do. Shit gets intense.

The best horror games for PC include Sanitarium, Scratches and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. None of them rely on jump scares (except for 1 or 2 awesome ones in Scratches) but they're slow, creepy and extremely atmospheric.
 

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Clive Barker's Jericho was rather atmospheric for me when I played it. The gameplay part was reasonably challenging too. The characters are fucking awesome.

I mean, come on. Name me another game where I am allowed to kill children crusaders.

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...with a colonial marines pulse rifle ? Yeah, I dont really know any other game like that. :smug:

And come on, you sure this Clive Barker crap isnt exactly the CoD with scarez we talked about ? Look how the left children expression seems those bad jap actors, man.
 
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Darth Roxor

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It's less of a cod and more of a (worse) Republic Commando with scarez, sorta. Although it doesn't really have any scares, just typical Barkerian disgusting stuff. It's an alright game with some interesting ideas, but your mileage may vary.
 

Grimwulf

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...with a colonial marines pulse rifle ? Yeah, I dont really know other game that let you do that.

Now come on, you sure those Clive Barker shit isnt exactly the CoD with scarez we talked about ? Because it totally looks so.

They are both artsy and original at least. Have a bunch of interesting mechanics to play with.

But yeah, you won't find any jumpscares or suspension. Just gory visuals, well-written dialogues and engaging gameplay. Unlike cod popamole, Teh Plot is actually there too.
 

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You should try Itazura Gokuaku ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Also watch some of Vannesa Blue, bitch knows how to suck... those tits man.



You should also play Saya no uta my little shoggoth is magic for the ultimate eldritch loli power

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Mortmal

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Five Nights At Freddy's , cant think of anything else giving scares. Maybe Amnesia the dark descent .
 

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System Shock 2 has the best atmosphere this side of the Stalker games
Call of Cthulu is great for lovecraft fans and has aged relatively well
Amnesia is the best for tense gameplay with a few jumpscares which become predictable but still fun
The marine's campaign in AvP2 is magnificent
Undying is...good but much too shooty for my tastes
Your best bets might be Alíen Isolation and System Shock 2...although you might enjoy Dark Souls too even if it is not a "scary" game and Neo Scavenger is addictive as hell
 

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"Five Nights At Freddy's" Do you even Silent Hill?


Might as well throw some slenderman shit while you're at it.
 

Ebonsword

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I found Outlast to be pretty frightening (you don't even have any weapons to fight back with).

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Wife and children on vacation for the entire week. Ill be home alone and want some scares to test manhood. Throw at me games to be played on 50" tv in total dark apartment with subwoofer sound.

Im already replaying Stalker for the underground labs scare, and Im thinking getting Alien Isolation on steam but not sure. What do you reccomend ?

But THERE IS A CATCH: games must have minimum substance. Dont throw cheap scares shit at me. Throw me things with good/involving plots, or nice art direction, good setting, etc. Dont want "horror CoD".


P.S: alternativelly, just forget the scares and recommend some good porn you watched lately. Or good Hentai games. I love them.

gotta be Alien: Isolation doesn't it?
 
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Play Outlast but here is the catch.

You have to rp your son as he escapes from an asylum that your wife just got murdered in while they were on holidays because her husband was home playing videogames.
 

Untermensch

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Another vote for the 1999 Aliens vs Predator.

F.E.A.R is also good, although it has jump scares.

Resident Evil Remake on hard with Chris. Bonus points if you try to beat it without burning bodies.

The first Silent Hill.

Condemned:Criminal origins.
 
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Scratches and/or Darkness Within if you like static Myst-like adventure games. They manage to be quite atmospheric and at times scary.
 

sser

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F.E.A.R. has the single greatest jumpscare in all of gaming, but I don't think it's a really spooky game. It is a good action game, though, and the same could be said for Dead Space. People rag on the later Silent Hills, but they're still decently scary, IMO. I played through Homecoming and was sufficiently entertained. None of them really get to the depth of the first two games, but as far as scares go they're more than solid. I'd recommend the Kuroinu hentai series. Lots of elves getting bashed up by ogres. I'm gonna slip that sentence right in the middle of this post. And I've heard the new Alien game was really scary in the same way that Amnesia sorta was, but I haven't played it.
 

Zarniwoop

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It's not, FFS. It's tense, not scary. Amnesia is scary. In Isolation, you know death is around every corner, constantly stalking you. You're always expecting to die in the next corridor or run into a jizzmannequin in the next lab, ready to TUT TUT you to a slow death.

In Amnesia, Penumbra etc. it gets you when you least expect it. When you can't even see it.
 

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