The useless topic about immersion.

Shadow Man Here's a video of the Beginning of the Game

Slender: The Arrival?

Bad Rats.When you hear the music for the first time,you already feel uncomfortable.But when the gameplay starts...

Don't Starve makes me feel inside of the game for some reason.

The Walking Dead was immersive IMO.

So grab a decent racing game.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Payday are pretty immersive, imho

Cry of Fear

Ugh? Amnesia? How come no one has mentioned that? You rarely have to run from monsters, there is no shooting, and it is like 100% atmosphere.

i just started playing Alan Wake and it's quite immersive. Other games I like to immerse myself in are those games with awesome music and atmosphere like the early C&C games, Diablo 1, Starcraft, Elder Scrolls games etc.

Well, I was going to say Skyrim before I saw you wanted horrific. But, I will still say Skyrim because you can add in plenty of mods that make the game scary in a way. In Skyrim, you can add in the "Frostfall" mod which makes the colder areas of Skyrim the scariest places ever, because not only do you have to keep warm, you have to set up a tent, and fight off the sabre cats and dragons. You can also add in mods like "Granitehall" which adds in a horrific short story and stuff like that.

But if you are really looking for horror games, the only horror games I own (that I can think of at the moment) are Penumbra and Amnesia, which both make you run from danger and hide in closets...

I found Alan Wake and Thomas Was Alone to be very immersive. Also excellent games.

what about this?

Lone Survivor is pretty freaky

I so want to recommend System Shock 2, because I found it to be one of the most immersive game that I've ever played. But sadly there is plenty of fighting in it.

And the first half of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is pretty darn immersive as well. There is some running, but mostly it is sneaking around, solving puzzles and finding you way around enemies (Then you get a gun, and it goes downhill from there. Still, the game is worth playing (and paying for) for the first half)

Seems like we have the same interests, so let me list a few games in my backlog.

• Anna
• Dark Fall: Lost Souls
• Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
• Post-Mortem
• Still Life

If I'm onto something here, I definitely recommend Penumbra. Fantastic game, great story, immersive. Like Amnesia, they recommend you play it with earphones in a dark room. That, as far as I'm concerned, is the definition of immersion.

witcher and dragon age were immersive for me

I really love the STALKER series for atmosphere and immersion. Playing with all the lights off and sound up can definitely get to you in certain areas.

Lone Survivor. You fight to keep your sanity in a post-apoctalyptic world that may or may not be your entire imagination.

Home. So many people have said it's a very bad game but I loved it, it absolutely terrified me.

Strategy games.

Mass Effect

Chivalry is pretty good for that, I actually move my head sometimes trying to push my sword further into the enemy's face... When you're charging into battle with your brothers in arm, arrows flying right beside you, everyone screaming at the top of their lung, you definitely feel like you're on the battlefield. Bonus immersion points for using headphones :D

Dunno, I feel pretty immersed while playing Postal 2 ;-P

Personally I'm also interested in horror games and I was checking these collections, hope some of these get greenlit:
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On Desura I have some games I haven't tried yet:
Paranormal
Paradigm Shift
Fibrillation

Otherwise, what people have listed here: Anna, Dark Fall: Lost Souls, Penumbra Games

Also, gamersgate may have something:
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• dead space
• system shock
• deus ex
• bioshock
• fallout
• audiosurf (especially if you're totally high ;)
• wizardry series
• diablo
• descent
• old flight simulators

and the winner is... TETRIS