Horror games

The only horror games that have truly scared me were the cancelled Project PT, and the first Resident Evil game for Playstation, but that one only scared me because someone broke into my house while i was fighting the last boss at the rooftop. I havent touched that game again since then

I take everything head on kill anything that move into blow in smithereens lol

most horror games i play at 2 3 times the game speed, not a fan of the genre
no such thing as a jump scare when its so fast you have no idea wtf happened and the audio doesnt always match up OR its twice/thrice as fast
played both state of decays at normal speed as i actually enjoyed them

Ive only actually played 2 horror games. Fobia and Monstrum. I won them both from SG. Monstrum was Trash in every way possible, i dont know how else to describe it.
Fobia, on the other hand was fantastic. I dont recall what all i liked about it...But I do remember the atmosphere they'd build up, the lore, narrative...it all swooped me in. It did have its flaws, but i still found the time played to be a worthwhile experience.

Edit:
huh interesting. Looks like i played it almost exactly an year ago! And I played Monstrum a month prior, looks like I really hated it. Maybe the transition between these games, made my experience of Fobia even sweeter.

Edit 2:
Speaking of cheats, I got through Monstrum thanks to cheats. It was the worst game.

I tend to enjoy horror-adjacent games more that proper horror games since they're not so focused on being scary all the time so they can take detours into other moods for the sake of being varied and/or fun to play. Kinda like how Resident Evil 4 isn't afraid to be campy or outright silly at times and that ends up making the game better, or how some adventure games allow you to take a long time solving a puzzle without being distracted by any immediate risk (aka the serial killer will politely wait for you to be done).
Like, I wouldn't call Still Life a horror game but it is very similar thematically speaking. And the fact that it takes its time and you don't feel like the game is trying to scare you but rather slowly creep you out works really well, something its sequel kinda screwed by trying to be more horror-like.
Or how Alan Wake by aiming to be a thriller dodged some pitfalls of the horror genre and instead indulged in being weird and mesmerizing.

But the one game I remember finding so unnerving that I quit it for later and haven't revisited in over a decade was Lone Survivor, should probably get around to playing it again at some point. Unlike RE1 that I quit because I got frustrated with some of the puzzles or Dead Space that I run into a technical problem with Origin and went "I'm not playing all the way from the start again".

Playing Condemned: Criminal Origins. It is pretty great.

I don't play a lot of horror games (or horror movies or shows) but when I do, I play lights out (even the keyboard goes dark) and no sound at all.
Of course that can create issues you're not expecting like when your gf's dog jumps on the couch and explodes a bag of potato products in the other room while you're playing Alien Isolation and you almost have a heart attack.

In my favourite horror game og Dead Space you have to be silent as many sounds are muted in vacuum and you can better enjoy the scary sounds of BART, the San Francisco rapid transport system.

SOMA is horrifying, albeit not proper horror. Recommended.

I never muted the obnoxious, happy music in Doki Doki Literature Club. Does that give me any gamer cred?

I can't play true horror games at all - I can play the pixellated ones sometimes (depends on how cartoony they are).
VahidSlayerOfAll indicated they played horror by using a cheat to speed up gameplay. That resonated with me - I watched the first Resident Evil movie by taping it and fast-forwarding through the icky bits. You don't lose any context at all.
So if I like potato at all, my poll choice would be the third one :)

I recently started up FEAR 3.
It’s a great series - not too scary, not too fast paced, etc.

Outlast scared the shit out of me

I'm playing Ghostwire Tokyo, hardly a horror game.

I really enjoy horror games and I wish there were more games like The Evil Within series (especially like the 2nd game), the closest that comes to mind is obviously the way more famous Resident Evil franchise, but aside from that, there really isn't. You can always argue that Dead Space or the recently revived Silent Hill are close too, but I always thought the atmosphere on those games was always more about "I have to avoid the spookyness and jumpscares as much as possible" instead of being a pure "horror-survival-with-almost-no-ammo experience". Aside from that, I really enjoyed all those games (even though I haven't played half of the Resident Evil franchise yet)

Anyways, this spooky season I will be playing the new Life is Strange, so I probably wont be playing any horror games lol