Enough. I won't play horror anymore. I am literally torturing myself :/

I am very easily jump-scared, but I love (good) horror games. It's all about the atmosphere. I always find myself itching for more after finishing a good horror game.

Ahaha, ikr... even if there are no jump scares in a horror game, I'll still creep myself out.

Recently I started playing Close to the Sun because... well, gosh... it looks sooooo much like Bioshock and it looks damn good :D But the game is crazy scary for me and I didn't even make it through Chapter 2.

Will definitely need to try again one day though... and preferably I'll NOT play the game in the middle of the night.

Played Amnesia some months ago. Great game, I can see it, the tense and horrific atmosphere is really well developed, even in a (quite) old game... But that's not my cup of tea. Continuous anxiety XD

i can suggest layers of fear not too overwhelming but just the right dose ;p

holy crap just found out about layers of fear 2 :O

I never had issues with any kind of game, luckily - I get only easily bored since I passed my 30th birthday and I saw so many games in my teenage years that I keep on seeing clones and clones and clones..
On the other hand I've always been a fan of horror movies (here in Italy in the '90s at least there were no age restrictions in cinemas and you could rent VHS everywhere), so I saw tons of them back then.. this helped me a lot, probably :P
Anyways if you feel it's not your genre, there is luckily plenty of other games and I personally think most of the times, for what concerns horror games/simulators/novels/scary things etc. you're not losing that much if you skip them

I dont have the nerves to play horror games.
But when some friends come over and happen to want to play something I usually just give them a horror game to play on my account and I watch and enjoy a beer :D
This has turned out to be good pass time for me and my friends from time to time. Even girls enjoy watching some crazy horror game and hearing (and making) witty comments. And those girls are furthest you could get from being "gamer-girls"

Yeah, i can't play horror games either.
I tried Outlast.
Well... Never again :)

But watching people playing it is funny, hu hu hu :D

I don't like the horror genre as well, but not only games, but also movies and tv series and books as well. It may be good for some, but for me it never really is.

I am pretty much immune to horrow now a days but a while ago i played ARAYA. Cheap "ish" Asian horror game with horrible voice actors and meh animations.. But the sound! At a certain place in the game i could litterally feel the ghost/whatever creep up on me. I was sitting in my chair grinning like a kid as the hair of the back of my neck stood up.

Sadly most games rely on gore and/or jump scares and they just don't do it for me.

If you want some good horror but not just horror maybe look into F.E.A.R and maybe F.E.A.R 2? FPS games with some horror thrown into them but not the focus point. Just stay away from the crappy third one.

I can litteraly play any Horror Game if doens't have jumpscares.
But a horror game without any jumpscares it's not a horror game.

I love horror games, yet I can rarely complete them because I get scared so freaking easily in games. :3
But I won't give up.
I'm just too much of a horror fan. ^^

did you try to play observer (with headphones)?
I came to my limits with this 😅

Yeah, I get easily scared.

The Painscreek Killings brought me to my limits. By the way, seriously, this game deserves some love. If you like being Sherlock Holmes in a creepy, semi-open world setting, then play this.

My suggestion to you - Start easy and slow, and build up "immunity" gradually.

Start by playing half-horror games like the F.E.A.R franchise (especially 1 and 2) and Dead Space, then move on to games with horror based more on atmosphere than terror, like SOMA. After that, you may feel adventurous enough to tackle games like Alien Isolation etc.

Same here, I love horror movies but horror games give anxiety attacks, or close to it, and I play games to have fun and forget about life.

Games like Bioshock or System Shock, F.E.A.R. or Dead Space where I can defend myself - FUCK YES!

Games like Amnesia where I can't fight back and I can only hide or that only use jumpscares - FUCK NO!

Depends on the definition of horror. I do enjoy horror adventure games (like The Cat Lady or Fran Bow), but absolutely hate these "horror" games where running and/or hiding from monsters is a core gameplay element (Amnesia and everything that followed): having to repeat the same sequences again and again (yep, I suck at them) is so goddamn frustrating, I just want to explore and solve puzzles at my own pace. Therefore I was saddened to know that the sequel to glorious Layers of Fear will be spoiled by a heavy "horror" component, for example.

While we are at it, I rarely watch horror movies at all nowadays.

At least you can ejoy horror movies, I mostly see a detailed version of my hand for the durration of the movie.

I have a bunch of horror games on Steam (RE0, RE1, Amnesia, SOMA, Among the Sleep, Layers of Fear, Lone Survivor, Outlast, Alien Isolation, and a few others), and every time I play one I feel like I'm forcing myself. I think the only one I've finished in like 10 years was Among the Sleep, and even then it was tough (won it in a Playing Appreciated giveaway, so kind of had to finish it).

The odd thing is that I actually love the neon graffiti and Halloween aesthetics. The neon area in Psyconauts was great, and the Halloween'ish area in A Hat in Time (minus the actual horror section) I spent more time in then just about any other area in the game.

I'm the opposite--I melt through the floor if I try to watch a horror movie, but games I'm OK with. Perhaps because I have more of a sense of control of the situation? (Not that it's always easy, though--it took me forty minutes to get through the last room of Alien: Isolation because I had to keep pausing and go off to hyperventilate a bit.)

I might have odd standards, though. Whether I can get into it depends on the source of horror. Aliens, zombies, monsters? HECK YEAH. Existential dread? Definitely. Supernatural/cults? Maybe--it depends on whether it's actually horror, or just a reskin of: Psycho murderers? BORING. CrAzY lunatics escaped from an asylum? Seriously, stop. It's boring AND stupid. (Which is why I will never play Outlast and even passed up that "free forever" offer a while back. It could be a good game for all I know, but the setting rubbed me in all the wrong ways.)

Respect you for not collapsing because of outside pressure to look weak or a pussy and doing what you actually think. Do what you want man because you want it.
Also I'm a firm believer that jumpscare bullshit fuck your heart up in the long run

I am the exact opposite of you in respect to response to games vs films.

i honestly just find them boring.

It's a love/hate relationship. I love the genre when it's well done with great atmosphere, but I hate cheap jumpscares and my anxiety level goes through the roof when I'm expecting one. I try to play a lot of them but I usually give up before finishing the game. My last 15 minutes of Alien Isolation was me hiding in a locker, coming out slowly, hearing the alien, running back in the locker. Rinse and repeat. I'm still in there.