How do you guys even play Horror Games?

I use "shock therapy" when overcoming my fears(like for instance I shit myself when I see huge spiders, oh well, almost 30 and scared of spiders, yes, not afraid to say that). So I just find the biggest son of a spider and poke it. With my finger. "See, I'm not scared of you anymore!"

Do the same with your fear of horror games. Play at night, with lights out and headphones on. You might piss yourself so wear a diaper. You'll get over it.

Remember - whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

If you're really scared playing Skyrim then try playing stealthily. Then YOU will be the one making bandits piss themselves when they can't find you while you fill them with arrows. :P
As for the "jump scare" thing... well, I'd say "turn around and stab it with your sword/set it on fire" but I think that's too blatantly obvious so if you're scared running around alone try summoning some minions to assist you and detect nearby enemies before they can get the jump on you.

Scary games bore me. I don't get any thrill out of being scared and and they always follow the same pattern anyways (or at least I've seen enough to recognize every pattern). Also horror games are ALWAYS lacking visually, there's only so much to show off when you rely on darkness and obscured vision.
And there's far too much guesswork VS skill. Now having to figure things out is great, but the guesswork in a horror game is 99% of the time based on luck. For instance I was watching gameplay of Slender cuz I didn't actually know what it was and there's a basement maze which will be completely obscured to a black screen (due to dodgy electric lighting) every couple of seconds so there's no real way of knowing how to maneuver around the maze and thus no strategy to employ and at any time an insta-kill monster may appear which you have to run away from in an unknown direction. Now horror guys see a brilliant opportunity for scares...I see a potentially endless chain of resets from who knows to how much earlier in the game thanks to zigging when I should have zagged and checkpoint auto-saves and dead ends/running into the walking against a wall the isn't a dead-end whilst being chased cuz the screen has flashed to black and I can't see where the actual path is and such. No thank you very much to that, I prefer spending my time in more guaranteed ways were failure comes as a result of lack of skill and strategy rather than inability to employ either and relying on luck potentially setting myself up for a number of hours of replays of the same damn sequence.

Skyrim also scares me lol, but it's thanks to Oblivion. In Oblivion the threat of a CTD and a broken game lay around every corner and I've transposed that onto Skyrim (actually every third or first person RPG). And then add the obligatory jump scares on top of that as well which also give me a little pause when venturing deep into unknown caves. But they're nowhere near bad enough to get my to actually stop playing the game. And don't ask my why the prospect of a CTD in a cave is scarier than under the open sky, it just is.

@Matarf
i have a friend like you and he only plays mmo co-op games because he's too scared to get killed alone lol stick with the online games or if you think its serious go see a doctor (no kidding)
i Just finished P.T. and never gonna play that again outlast was a garbage joke compare to P.T. even thinking about it Increase my heart rate

I really like horror-themed games, but I don't play them much because the vast majority of them are nothing more than lame jump scares. It irritates me. It's neither scary nor clever, it's just lazy and cheap.
I love games that are spooky or disturbing in terms of the atmosphere, the "feeling".

On a related note: your Skyrim story reminded me of the headcrabs from Half Life. I always found them a bit spooky - the way they dropped at me from dark ventilation ducts and how I was never good at killing those little buggers... Haha :D

stop playing games . go out , make some friends

I'm kinda scared easily too but you just have to have the balls to do it. I won Amnesia here during my first year of registration and managed to play it until it got less scary.

Well jump-scares are exactly that, jump scares. Even if you're not scared, you'll flinch just cause some shit that wasn't there suddenly appeared in yo face.

As for actually being scared of mobs, try this. Go right in the middle of them and let them kill you. And just watch them kill you. Theoretically you should get desensitized towards them. :P

Also bit of heart racing is good for ya

If all else fails, I dunno, try maybe growing some balls maybe? :D Ready up on teddy rosevelt? Hype yo-self up? Cat got your balls? Sup ? Sup bro, u mad?

I can say I'm probably afraid of those, too. I'm having heart problems so I don't want to risk ruining my health further.
I stay away from them as far as I can, even if my fav youtuber puts out a horror game gameplay, I skip it 99.9% of the time.
Concerning singleplayers, sure I can get a jumpscare or two but I've learned to love that experience, char development and all that (big RPG fan). I can get away with those but I wouldn't try smth made just with a purpose to scare the wits out of me... If I don't feel like it, I just play classic, more unrealistic games which I know won't scare me.

PS. Love a good mp too.

Meh. I've always been a single-player kind of guy.

"I can't even play Skyrim, I get nervous of walking alone on the mountains, fighting skeletons in dungeons and caves, and the most of all, wolves and bears just come out randomly and give jumpscares"

As far as your Skyrim experience goes... it's such a shame you cannot gain... what are they called again? Oh yes. Followers. Even if they aren't real people, they sure would make things less lonely.

Kind of like this