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Get married, and let your in laws have a say in your life. Trust me.

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I'm surprised no one yet has mentioned this gem

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Well, you don't know yet if it's "good".

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Yeah but here's hoping, right? Not gonna hold my breath, though I sorely hope to be proven wrong. We could use some genuinely good horror games.

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Sure, I'm pretty sure it will be awesome but still... we don't know that :)

I'm pre-ordering it in a next few days when I get some more money from cards. It's still up for pre-order for over a week.

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If I win it in my group giveaway I'll tell you how it is.

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Okay.

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Wait. By the time you play it I'll be playing it as well! Cause I'm pre-ordering it this week so I'll have it even before it's released :)

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Skyrin

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Lone Survivor, System Shock 1 and 2. Aliens Vs. Predator (the old one.) Anchorhead. Undying.

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Just wait for Routine

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this one looks very promising, thanks for making me know it !

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Amnesia.

Oh wait...

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Super Mario Bros.

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Nosferatu :D.

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I would say, Dead Island games and Dead Rising games since they have not been mentioned. Though they are more of a zombie style of games and not much on the horror I would say. I enjoyed them quite a bit at least and they do have horror aspects :P

( Of course, there is a game coming next year I am looking forward to but that is not out yet so do not know if it will be good for sure.. but I think I will enjoy it quite a bit. Made by the same ones who made the Dead Island games. Dying Light. To me it looks like an unofficial sequel to Dead Island Riptide due to what has been shown. )

I would suggest Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City but I am well aware that not everyone likes that game.. so I would say.. if you have a console at least try it on there.. Never know, you might like it if you give it a chance.

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Alan Wake, semi surprised no one mentioned it. Since it is a Horror game. Its really not that bad either.

Also keep in mind, I am only saying these since they do have some horror aspects to them. I do not find games to be scary in general, most movies ends up being the same way but that might be due to being practically raised on watching the stuff.

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Dead Rising is kind of anti-horror. Even when it plays itself straight, it's still a goofy action sandbox. Well, DR2 at least, never played the first.

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To go over some of the ones previously suggested, baring in mind I'm a bit of a gaming/horror snob :

"Condemned Criminal Origins" isn't so much a horror game as it is a weird action-suspense game with a focus on melee combat.

"Dead Space" is sci-fi/action with plenty of jump scares but a very tense atmosphere, and I actually enjoyed it despite feeling startle scares are the lowest form of horror.

"Eternal Darkness" didn't age very well, but it has some good elements to it. Expect to get lost and wander around a boring series of rooms a good few times though.

"Home" is utter garbage, I bought my copy for under £1 and feel it was money wasted. It lets you wander about a linear progression of areas and objects, and makes you tell yourself a story. "You see a box labeled 'dead puppies', you look inside, is it full of dead puppies, yes/no?", and then gives you a brief text feedback based on what you pick, relying on you to join up the disconnected parts in your own head at the end of the game. I completed it out of morbid curiosity, hoping for -something- to happen, instead all I got was a lonely, pointless walk where I told myself a boring story in my own head.

"Lone Survivor" is like Silent Hill in pixellated 2D, only not scary. It makes great use of atmosphere and I felt compelled to see what would happen next, but it felt like less of a game and more like an interactive, delayed story. I like it, especially the soundtrack, but I can't bring myself to replay it. Don't go in expecting to be scared. Expect to be unnerved, occasionally bored, and perhaps intrigued. I suspect this is a real marmite kind of game.

The "Penumbra" games were weird. Hard to get into. The engine is a real spark of incredible thinking, with minor interactions managing to only help the general tension of things (they used an updated version for Amnesia). Though they can be scary, it's mostly player-created horror (sort of like Amnesia). If you get into it, it's pretty tense. If not, it's irksome and technically flawed. I remember the second one being far better than the first.

The "Resident Evil" series popularised the term 'survival horror' in videogames, but each game gives you guns, and often starts out with slow, predictable enemies. I love them, but they're not very effective as horror. As you get further into the series, it's more about monster-filled action, with a gross-out element in place of an effort towards horror. Still worth checking out, though I would suggest researching any title you intend to play before you buy it, there are some horrible games in that series (Operation Raccoon City appears to be one of them).

"Silent Hill" series? Hell yes. The first didn't age well at all, and I personally disliked the second, but the Silent Hills are the biggest stand-out horror games in my mind. They pay more attention to details that others tend to glaze over, at least from a design standpoint, and while it can get a little monster mash-y sometimes, you typically never feel powerful enough to let your guard down. Even entering a room with a few enemies you may recognise as predictable or weak, you will likely end up engaging them with a sense of uneasiness, waiting for the next curve-ball it bowls towards you.

Anything "Slenderman" related. No. Just... no. People all trying to cash in on some creepypasta-turned-meme. The games tend to be nothing but hueg stretches of empty, eventless, boring tension, with the occasional startles-scare / screamer element. Some people are into that though, I guess. I wouldn't suggest paying anything for them unless you're dead certain you're getting something more polished than a walk in the park with a quiet, lanky Anon.

"Paranormal" had great potential but was totally wasted. The base story being some dude who works as an artist of sorts is convinced his apartment is haunted, so starts recording his everyday life to get proof he isn't crazy. This was obviously supposed to gradually accumulate in a kind of Paranormal Activity kind of way, and was promised to be a procedural experience that plays differently on multiple games. Instead, from day 1, the game randomly spams you with prescripted events like there is a RNG running in the background and picking from a limited shortlist of jump-scares to throw at you. I played it a good ten times or so, and each time the haunting had the same cause, and the same 'random' events. The big clue that he was being haunted should have been that half his apartment is either floating, falling over or flying across the room at any given point, and also that there are sheets of diary-like text left out in plain view (as if they're supposed to be hidden secrets) about the nasty history of some murdered folks that lived there. That's it. There ain't no more. It's also still buggy as hell. It could have been so much more but it ended up being like a typical horror movie : A bit spooky to begin with, but shows itself pretty quickly to be a laughable mess of startle-scares and screamers.

I actually enjoyed "Alan Wake" though it wasn't that scary. The 'scares' are frequent but come mostly in the form of random enemy pursuit, and almost immediately become as expected as a random enemy encounter in a JRPG. I think this is another marmite game. I'd have more to say on it but I've forgotten most of the finer points of it all. The main campaign has you generally running through forested areas while random adversaries sprint-sneak towards your location. The extra levels (serving as the complete finale to the story) were way more enjoyable than the main story itself, I think. Yet I still liked it. I can't even remember why, because in all honesty I think I should have disliked it, but didn't. If that makes any remote sense? :V

"I Am Alive" bored me to the point of uninstalling after my first play session. Wasted potential, held back by a loathsome combat system and a clunky climbing system. The sense of exploration could have been great but the invisible walls and linear nudging just killed it, where instead it could have had a climby-explorey feel like Shadow of the Colossus. Shame. Besides, it isn't even a horror, it's a platform adventure.

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I agree on everything you said.

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yeah, slenderman games are really annoying.

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Paranormal was not rly bad, but if you want something with plot as well, wouldn't recommend.

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clive barker's jericho

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+1

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doom 3

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Windows Vista

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+1

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silent hill 3 is the scariest game I ever played

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Amnesia :)

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F.E.A.R first one is one of the best games i ve ever played, dead space2 kinda reminds me it :)

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+1 for FEAR!

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yamimash plays alot of scary games check him out
https://www.youtube.com/user/yamimash

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Alan Wake, not too scary but nice suspence

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i hear S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Chernobyl Diaries is scary

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Shadow of Chernobyl* and yeah it's kinda creepy at times.

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amnesia.

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amnes------ shit...

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These are in no particular order. I simply typed them as I thought of them. I have beaten every game on this list at least once, some more than once. I'm sure I forgot some, as well. I have nearly every gaming system there is in my house, most bought in recent years specifically for the horror games available on them regardless of the games rating. I just love the horror genre.

The Suffering, Silent Hill (series), Resident Evil (series. ESPECIALLY the GameCube remake of RE1), Fatal Frame (series), Kuon, Haunting Grounds, Clock Tower (series, including the SNES game), Echo Night (series), Rule of Rose, Home, Scratches, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (series), Penumbra (series), Condemned, Lone Survivor, The Cat Lady, Scratches, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth, F.E.A.R. (series), Dead Space (series), Clive Barker's Undying, System Shock 2, BioShock, Siren(series), Alone in The Dark (series), Alan Wake (not really scary, but my #1 favorite game of all time nonetheless), Eternal Darkness, Dino Crisis (ONLY the first game), Corpse Party, Fahrenheit, Doom 3.

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