The first time a video game actually scared you.

[DeathJester76]

Mine was System Shock 2, the hybrids were scary as sh*t...giving me flashbacks now just thinking about it!

[Nella_Bolt]

I remember being like... probably 8 0r 9 hanging out with an older friend of mine who was playing The Thing on PS2. All I really remember was seeing a large alien monstrosity with a human torso as a tail, dragging along the ground. Golly that spooked me.

[Smarch Weather]

I always got really nervous in the hedge maze level in Zombies Ate My Neighbors. The chainsaw guys really freaked me out. I was like 5-6 years old. Besides that, probably Resident Evil and Doom.

Doom 3 has been my "scariest" gaming experience so far, but I haven't played many horror games.

Yay, first post. Hi, everyone.

[Damimi521]

Fatal Frame 1. Fatal Frame at night with lights off... even as an adult, I literally pissed my pants.

[Drann]

I don't think any one game genuinely scared me outright until Thief: Deadly Shadows. There's a map called The Cradle that was disturbingly tense, funnily enough the thing that actually gave me the scare turned out to be a bug in the game rather than anything intended, although as I said the map was extremely tense regardless. Prior to that there were a few games that bothered me on some level, if not outright 'scaring' me. Silent Hill comes to mind as a very atmospheric and tense game, Phantasmagoria 2 also sticks in my mind as a game that kept you on the edge of your seat while being pretty damn creepy in parts. There was an area in Shadowman that actually freaked me out a bit too, it's like a nursery area where you can hear children giggling and this childish soundtrack, but you're in a pretty horrific environment.

Honourable mention for VTM: Bloodlines when you go to the hotel.

[Pikachu da Montanha]

I don't remmember the year, but i was very little and the game was Alone in the Dark 2. Amazing game.

[MadMAUL]

I don't really get scared from video games but I did get a big jump scare where I was physically jolted while playing The Darkness. I think I was in chapter 3 or 4 where you're playing on a battlefield & learn a bit of history about the darkness. I was walking this battlefield just looking around & everything was quite. I looked one way & then back & BAM! Someone appeared right in front of me. The biggest jump scare I ever had from a video game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqkW...=AtrophyOfSoul. At the 19:10 & 19:44 mark. It doesn't seem like anything in this video but I was playing this section by myself, in the dark. I think I had killed everyone & had been just walking around, figuring out where to go with a nice extended lull & then one of the flashes. It got me good.

When I was a young boy, lighting hit our antenna & ran into the TV & blew it while I was watching. That scared the crap out of me more than any video game . It literally blew up & caught the carpet on fire.

[SKYKING]

When I was a little 5 year old boy getting an Xbox for the first time, Spiderman: The Movie game was probably the scariest, and I have no idea why. But as far as REAL fear goes, Rust is the only game that genuinely made real, actual adrenaline rush through my body. Hiding in a bush with nothing but a bow and half an hours worth of farm as a group of AK / full kits run past you, knowing that a single movement and they would see / hear me, I'd be dead instantly, and half an hours work would be in their hands with not a scrap left for me. Knowing that at any moment a group could rocket into my base and take a week's worth of work in 5 minutes. That, I feel, is the most intense feeling a game has ever given me.

[Little_Balloonicorn]

Though it is my favorite game, the first I can remember is FNaF. (started liking it when I was 9)
I still to this day am a baby about playing it. It was Foxy and Freddy who scared me the most, I hated the laughing and steps knowing he was getting closer, and Foxy slowly peeking out of his curtain, just knowing if I forget to look he'd run out. Still love the game even though I'm always a baby while playing it.

I'm gonna add to this with my most recent scare, and this (pathetically) was Deltarune, I played it a few moments after it came out. In the beginning of the dark word there are little orb like things that giggle and rock left and right if you pass them. The first time I passed these, I jumped, I don't even think it was supposed to be scary.

[Magical Sasquatch]

For me it was back in 1994, my dad took me to the mall to pick out a game for our new family computer we just got, "Wow I miss those days looking around in a computer store" anyway, Alone in the dark 2 stood out to me and looked like a good adventure game, of course I got it, got home and started it up and my mind was blown! This game was very scary and creepy for its time. I will never get that creepy clown puppet out of my head the sounds those creepy zombie dudes made and the feeling I had when I was running away from them. I was legitimately scared playing this game but boy did I love it. This is the game that got me into the horror game genre. I would love to hear some of your stories on this topic. Peace.

I was informed I posted this in the wrong forum, If a mod could move it to the right spot for me that would be great. Thanks.

[Zalachai]

Yeah that piano was one scary m-fer

[Magical Sasquatch]

My bad, still learning to navigate the site.

[exit92]

Dead Space 1. I had a crappy rig back then. The occasionally framedrops combined with the motion blur of the slasher attacks gave me a rough time.

[Bakpfeife]

Wait. Isn't this in the wrong topic? And it was the piano in mario 64.

[Magical Sasquatch]

Thanks for the info, Still learning my way around the site.