Phobic fears in games

I have a love/hate relationship with spiders. I really like what they do, but I get REALLY creeped out by them and imagining one crawling on my skin makes me shiver.
That said, facing some big-ass spiders from time to time while playing Skyrim was a bit uncomfortable for me.

Having an empty magazine in a game with guns is incredibly frightening to me, to the point of where I will choose not to use weapons with rare ammo because I must have it full. I don't know where this comes from, but I must keep reloading so that my magazine doesn't run dry- I sometimes even reload in combat so I don't run dry. Even in games where I'm not normally worried about enemies because they're easy, an empty mag makes me assume I'm going to die. I blame STALKER.

Also, when I'm playing a multiplayer game and healing I always panic when the tank dies, even if it's easily recoverable. Even if it's not my fault or even a danger, I panic and go into full terror mode. There are mixed results, between facerolling the keyboard and actually pulling things off.

At one point in my life I was scared of every game, and no it isn't some sort of electronics phobia. I was really young at the time and I'd seen some jumpscares and that scared me of absolutely every corner in the game I had to turn. REALLY prevented me from playing sometimes. That phobias long gone, but I'm still crazy scared of spiders and games like skyrim with the huge spiders, I can't even go near those.

And maybe you'll get over it like I sorta did. :D

Anytime there's anything sharp near wrists in games, I cringe and go crazy. Most recent example was this huuuge syringe Kidman was subjected to in that Evil Within DLC, urgh.

snakes (or naga in some games) give me goosebumps. but i'll overcome that with looking away while killing it :p

lol, at first I read title as "Pubic fears in games" and then I said "WTF" :-))

The only games that make me very scary were Outlast and Resident Evil (long time ago) and maybe few more, but I cant remember them now.
In real life I have arachnophobia, but in games i dont have phobia from spiders :-)

Pretty much all horror games ruin me, I'm such a girl. No specific phobia but I do tend to avoid horror games unless I'm playing with someone who can remind me that I'm just playing a game.

Very interesting question!
I don't have any phobic fear now but when I was a kid I was utterly terrified by space. The game that triggered that phobia was Populous.
While playing you could right click your minimap to have a view of your entire planet (and of course, I wasn't aware of that). The first time that I accidentally righ clicked it, the game zoomed out and I almost shit my pants. I don't know why but it just felt horrible... the feeling of falling in the dark depths of space has been a recurring nightmare from that day.
Years passed and I gradually managed to control my fear.
I finally got it under control with the great X2: the Threat but boy oh boy was it hard!
I can finally play my Sci-Fi games normally, I can (virtually) jump into a space suit anf go for a walk on any planet but from time to time I still have those falling-into-space nightmares, but they aren't as scary as they used to be!
TL;DR: phobias are hard to overcome but you can do it!
Thanks for creating this thread David! :3

It might not be a phobia itself, but I get very strong sensations when I jump from super high in a game. Not afraid to jump itself, but as I fall from very high, my guts squeeze and I actually feel some form of physical pain from my character hitting the floor. Very weird.

even though i do have things in real life that freak me out like spiders for some reason when it comes to gaming nothing really bothers me. However I wish I could get over the desire to sink down in my chair or sit up straighter as if that will affect what I can really see on the computer screen. I know I must look rather odd when i'm craning my neck to the left or right to see what's coming from around the next corner in cs.go and other games like that.

Yeah, diving in deep oceans makes me extremely uneasy too, I still rememberthe old days of PS1, when I used to play Vigilante 8 2 a lot, there was some areas with deep water, and that was so scary, at least for me lol :)

I dont know if its a fobia or not but i hate when something happens with the eyes. (For example Dead Space 2: Isaac get stabbed in the eye in a machine) I just cant stand it in games nor in movies Im fine with any other gory things but eye is for some reason my criptonyte. If an eye comes out or needle is close to eye and things like this i cant watch and try to think about something else to forget it. (BTW im 19 so am not a small kid)

Swimming in dark water isn't fun but deep water is okay.
My most irrational one was probably Portal1/2. Absolutely terrifying making those jumps despite of the fact you can't die from fall damage. =_=

The only thing I'm afraid in games is that I'll get bored/tired from awesome game, and I won't feel same as when I was yet new to that game.

About swimming, I don't understand how can you be afraid of it, first its a game, and second swimming isn't scary, the only thing probably would scare me is shark, like in GTA V while collecting some nuclear parts or submarine parts, but I was well aware of sharks and whenever I saw one, I just killed them by standing on roof of submarine.

I don't have any phobias, so I don't have any fears that will extend into games. That's an interesting problem, though. The only things I have that are similar to fears are more concept than physical manifestations. Besides, I have no survival instincts anymore.

I have a little bit of fear of heights and probably bugs (the ones in F:NW made me felt quite uneasy), water levels and such are fine by me mostly

I don't have any real phobias, and I don't have issues playing most games, but something that can get to me is when there is a great sense of isolation. Like I'm cut of from the world and/or other people. It did not use to be like this, when I was in my teens, I could play any game and watch any movie (Silent Hill? Did not bother me in the least), but as I've got a bit older, this particular bit of horror has started to get to me a lot more.