The first time a video game actually scared you.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Wingman4210]

Same here I was not ready.

[JackofTears]

I was going to mention Shalebridge Cradle and the Bloodlines hotel - two of the best horror locations in gaming.

[TitusCrow]

I was doing Live role-playing at that time ( about 1995 ) I was on the staff and we had taken over a big stately home in Scotland for the event. I had never saw both a ps1 or Resident evil. I remember watching my friend playing it on the 32 inch flatsceen tv in the big house. It was an old creepy house and playing Resident evil for the 1st time there ill never forget it. When the zombie turns round in the cut scene then you realise that YOU have to get away from him.. wow! 🦇❤❤😊

[TitusCrow]

I was doing Live role-playing at that time ( about 1995 ) I was on the staff and we had taken over a big stately home in Scotland for the event. I had never saw both a ps1 or Resident evil. I remember watching my friend playing it on the 32 inch flatsceen tv in the big house. It was an old creepy house and playing Resident evil for the 1st time there ill never forget it. When the zombie turns round in the cut scene then you realise that YOU have to get away from him.. wow!

[Mafia Penguin]

bruh, i was afraid of doom on dos

[Garrett]

I was going to post this because the first times I played that demo I had cheats on. I forgot what the invincibility cheat was and I was scared to walk up the stairs in E1M2 because I no longer had the upper hand. Maybe that game was not suitable for a 6-year-old but at least you were killing demons, not people.

[Mafia Penguin]

i was around 7 or 8? im not sure exactly. The Cacodemon was what scared me. it most assuredly was not for kids so young

[Kharn]

For me, it was playing interactive movie version Nightbreed on the Amiga. Getting chased in the graveyard made me crap my pants for some reason. That or the numerous ways to die in Personal Nightmare on DOS.

[MadMummy76]

I've been playing videogames since the late eighties but the first game that actually scared me was Alien Isolation in 2014. Had to stop playing it in the evening, because then I was up all night.

[Garrett]

I have a sequel of that game installed in my nightmares. I've played it twice so far.

[Chris R.]

Good question... I cannot pinpoint wich was the first, but the most memorable for me was Dead Space. The first one that is. The whole way it was designed is still a masterwork if you ask me. The heavy influence from Event Horizon and The Thing was a perfect match to take the sleep from you! I also got the artbook and the first novel (wich I HIGHLY recommend!). Of course there are a lot of great horror games out there in all shapes and colors but Dead Space remains my favorite.

[decoyOctopus]

Half-Life (1) scarred me a lot when I was just a kid.

[IceWolf]

I think the first game that scared me was Resident Evil on the Playstation. The moment where the dog jump through the window unexpectedly while going down the hallway in the house was the first time I was scared in the game.