Not so scary games (or even not scary at all) which, even so, scare you (and why)

Killing Floor, some-what Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, FONV without radio on because they used FO1/2 ambience music for their ambience music IIRC, but the ambience music is good either way.

All of them for ambience and the threat of death.

Subnautica, the scenery and discovering new things is beautiful yet the ocean and what lives inside of it is terrifying at the same time.

Doom 3

Even though you are a bad-ass with many guns, some enemies are so grotesque and sound scary that the game terrifies you.

DOOM 3

Can't screw with the monitor or game settings to get the screen bright enough to see anything. :P

Skyrim! Because of scary giant spiders.

Any game where you can fall from a high ledge and die. I get more nervous navigating the narrow ledges in Dark Souls than I do fighting the enemies, even though 99% of my deaths are to the monsters. (The Crystal Caves suck.) Hell, even games like LoZ can give me heart attacks if I fall unexpectedly. (But then in games like Lightning Returns, which has no fall damage, I climb as high as I can and jump off, grinning like a loon.)

Funny IRL story: At the scariest haunted house I ever went to (Ripley's Haunted Adventure), I was terrified most of the time because it's pretty awesome, but literally the only time I froze up was in an otherwise innocuous room where the floor had a mirror on it, which made it look like you were crossing a narrow wooden plank over a deep hole in the floor. It took the combined efforts of everyone involved to get me across, and even then I cautiously tapped my shoe on the mirror before crossing. The poor guide-lady was looking a little panicked herself, worried I'd stay there too long and the next tour would run into me. XD

I know it's partially a horror-themed game, but Headcrabs in Half-Life games give me the creeps. Not because what they are in the game, but because what do they do according to the story of the game.
+ Falling in many games just give me the creeps, mainly if first-person, like Mirror's Edge, Story About My Uncle.

Dropsy even though I haven't played it yet

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Deus ex >.<

There were some scary parts in Fallout 3 (some dark sewers, with weird/ghostly noises, can't remember much).

Dota 2. When I look at the hrs I played that game, most played game, very scary. I was gonna delete it from my library but I decided to keep it as a reminder of the horrors of the human condition.

Anything by digital homicide - it scares me that "games" can be that bad

Oldie but goldie... Thief 2. It had the dark and creepy occult things with ghosts and walking skeletons jumping you, and the sounds and everything, church music with chanting etc... I don't know if it's supposed to be scary or not though, but to me it is.

Firewatch scared me A LOT with all that suspence :(

There were couple things scaring me as a kid, in the Gobliins adventure games. Dunno which of them, and the only one I remember is where a mummy makes rounds and you have to hide up on some ledge otherwise you get spooked to death.

In Unreal, there's a bit at the very beginning, before any combat even happens, where you go through a door and there's a monster (Skaarj?) in the distance, crouching over a body, that runs away.

What the heck, you took a break from shitposting? o_O

I was really scared in games as a kid, even non-horror ones, when I was being attacked in the back in a FPS, I would feel a sharp pain in the heart. Started using invincibility cheats to cope with that.

Nowadays I dont have that issue, but I still avoid playing scary games due to that. I should try out one sometime. I started Dead Space but wasnt in the mood for it so stopped, but i didnt feel anything bad about it.

Chip & Dale 2. Honestly, that haunted house level... can't count how many times I quit the game while playing it as a kid...

Bioshock 1,2 and infinite are scary sometimes

I'm the same: shooting games scare me, although I'm trying to get used to it because there are some great FPS games.

Games that are not really scary but still scare me: Bioshock and Dishonored. I'm still trying to get used to it, and I do my best to avoid combat because I easily panic.

EDIT: I've played a short game of Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines years ago, and the only reason I didn't find it scary was because I played its tabletop game and was familiar with the lore. I was looking forward to meeting the different clans. I wasn't able to finish it but might get the game from Steam once I cleared my backlog a bit more.

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