Have you forgotten the terrifying "Realms of the Haunting?"

Top five most terrifying games of all time....

1. Solitaire [nuf said]
2. Minesweeper [Mines are scary ]
3. FreeCell [Do you want to get stuck in a cell?]
4. Pinball [Pin + ball....come on]
5. Spider Solitaire [come on...it has spiders...]

my sister got scared when I played HL when she was 5, and she was still scared watching me play HL2 nearly 10 years later, so if you're a 10 year old girlie man then yeah it's scarey

You mention most of mine:

1. AvP 2 (by a huge margin)
2. FEAR
3. System Shock 2
4. Doom 3

I haven't played any other game I'd consider scary.

Of the games that I've played, Doom 3 is #1, followed by FEAR (although the original Mario Kart is pretty scary, the shells, oh god the shells).

in chronological order

doom
out of this world
resident evil
clive barkers undying

they mentioned the rest.

zork was kinda scary in its own way. all but undying were probably only scary due to my age at the time. those were the days.

forgot about raveholm.. probably because I want to forget it.

Clive Barker's Undying for me.... and the first Alone in the Dark. Blocking the trap door, grabbing the shotgun... just awesome.

How could you guys forget about Bioshock?? I don´t know about you, but for me it is pretty scary...
Also, Silent hill 2 and doom 3...
I think these are scarier then Alien X Predator2, at least.

Doom 3 was conspicuously absent, of the resident evils, #2 was the scariest to me.

#1. Resident Evil 1 (First game to ever really scare me)
#2. F.E.A.R (Play it, you'll know why)
#3. Parasite Eve II. (How one could forget this game I do not know.)
#4. System Shock 2
#5. Half-Life

I don't understand why S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was left out of the list.
Has anyone even played this game? It is sooo eerie... and it scares the piss out of me. I have yet to finish it... because I honestly cannot play it at night.

Really... S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ... Ben have you played this game?
Like, really played this game?

The mood of the game sets you up with fear... even when no actual danger is present... you will be scared. And when the game wishes for you to be scared, you will take it to that next step.

Give the game a chance!

Doom 3 is probably scariest! I had more heart pounding in that game than all other games combined! Hallways were scary, the portal was scary, HELL was super scary and freaky.

FEAR has my 2nd vote very freaky and the expansion had some scary moments.

Half Life2 I can't remember it well but I think there were few moments that made me jump a bit

Quake4 when you get cut in half yacks!!!

hmm last choice I can't even remember what was scary I'm forgetting these games but all I remember some moments from MaxPayne on drugs it's not scary but freaky because the man trying to fight for his life while hallucinating!

Let's see.....parts of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (in the catacombs) was pretty scary as were parts of MaxPayne I hated the dream sequences when his wife was screaming or the baby was crying.......Parts of the original Diablo creeped me out as well. Doom III was just plain creepy.............I never finished it.............

doom 3 was only scary for the first 30 minutes, it became terribly repetitive after that...

fear also suffered from that, the first few times stuff flies off shelves and you see phantoms and the little girl, it's fairly creepy, but they terribly overused the same effects and it made for a very repetitive game.

half-life and half-life 2 werent terribly scary, the pace was swift enough to not really build enough mood about the area you were in. sure ravenholm was dark and dismal, but it wasnt exactly frightening.

a couple people mentioned stalker, which had creepy moments, but the entire game lacked a certain overall creepyness. i think that game had potential and could have been FAR better.

a lot of you seem to have played system shock 2, which indeed was filled with a fair level of creepyness, especially when shodan comes back into the picture, but i dont think it held a candle to the original system shock, which i would love to re-code if i could get permission from the handful of companies that own rights to it... which will never happen and is incidentally why a third system shock was never created...

I agree with Doom 3.

That game just leaves me completely wrung out every time I play. It's terrifying. Those claustrophobic hallways, never knowing what's going to jump out or when (especially when it appears DIRECTLY $%*ING BEHIND YOU)... ugh. As a reviewer said: death is almost welcome at times. It gives you a break.

FEAR sort of freaked me out, as did SS2.

That level in the original Thief with the graveyard and the zombies was pretty ^&$%ing scary.

Has anyone ever played the Classic Doom mod for Doom 3? Recreation of the first episode, and none of the maps were straight ports. Even though I knew exactly where I was going in that mod, as I've played the original many times, I was still pretty damn scared in certain areas. I recommend you give that mod a download.

Why did Fatal Frame II not get the top five? And why do people keep saying HL and HL2. Yeah, they're bad ass games but nowhere near being 'scary'. Unless you're all afraid of head crabs.

As some others have said:
"How did Undying not come up in this top 5?"
I think it's the only game that actually stood the hairs on my neck up while playing. Additionally, the game at times made me jump in my chair. No other game has done that. Not to mention, it was written by Clive Barker!

The Suffering gets no love? C'mon guys. Easily one of the scariest games ever. Alone in The Dark was also one.


1.) The Suffering
2.) Alone in the Dark
3.) Doom 3
4.) Resident Evil 5
5.) Clive Barker's Jericho

PS. No Particular Order.

Well, I'm pretty late to this thread, but whateva...

The Good:

I liked FEAR quite a bit - there were a few moments when I almost leapt out of my seat. And the storyline was pretty damned creepy.

I really, really thought that the Shalebridge Cradle level of Thief 3 was outstanding. Very freaky.

Undying - I agree with some of the other posters - this is one of the greatest horror games ever.

HL2/Ravenholm was pretty damned good as well - great gameplay with a decent chill factor.

The Bad.....

DOOM 3 - the whole pitch-black darkness/secret panels popping open thing got old fast and became more annoying than anything.

The Thing - I have no idea. Tried to play it on the PC and it was so buggy that I returned it the next day.

The Ugly

Nocturne - The gameplay was pretty terrible, but I thought it was worth wading through for the scares. I realize that I'm going out on a limb on this one.