Horror Games - What Do You Recommend?

[The Fifth Horseman]

I quite enjoy playing horror-style games, and would like to ask which titles from here and / or HOTU would you recommend.

[BeefontheBone]

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is pretty horrific, or the slightly more recent Deer Hunter games might do the sane, but I don't thinkn that's what you meant...

[MdaG]

"System Shock 2", "Sanitarium", "I have no mouth and I must scream" and "Alien vs. Predator 2 (As Marine)" are pretty creepy.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I asked specifically for titles present on Abandonia or HOTU. Old games.

[gregor]

Hugo's horrific adventures.

[MdaG]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@May 4 2005, 03:45 PM
I asked specifically for titles present on Abandonia or HOTU. Old games.
Ooops, read your post too fast.

[DeathDude]

I'd recommend either System Shock or System Shock 2, both good games that should provide a scare for ya.

[Virgil]

Shadow of The Comet - adventure , Alone in The Dark action /adventure - recommend you those .

[Kon-Tiki]

HOTU has Sanitarium. They ought to have Last Half Of Darkness too.

[Tulac]

Alone in the dark?

[Virgil]

Yes , Alone in the Dark (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alone-in-the-dark) . First survival horror game on PC (H.P. Lovecraft inspired , if it's matter) . However , Resident Evil it's only a pale copy of Alone in the dark , inspired of "dead-man-walking b(c as a variant)-movies" .

[PrejudiceSucks]

System Shock 2. No more needs to be said. Although it comes in at a hefty download to say the least.

Other than that, if you want horrific games, I recommend the orginal Command and Conquer and also X-COM Apocalypse. Eugh...

[Tulac]

Errm he said available on this site or HOTU, is System Shock2 abandoned?

[BeefontheBone]

Pretty unlikely I'd say. XCOMA wasn't that bad, just a bit ugly.

[Havell]

System Shock 2 is avalible for downlaod of HOTU here. (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3924)

[LordHart]

Dude, I highly recommend Enclosure. It is an adventure game made in AGI, heavily inspired by John Carpenters 'The Thing', and it will give you the creeps in a few places. Good plot, excellent graphics for an AGI game, an overall logical puzzles.

I definately rate it a 5.

http://www.abandonia.com/games/322/download/Enclosure.htm

[Stroggy]

Now you may not agree with ly on this, but there is one game that REALLY scared me when I first played it, and even to this day I prefer to look away when I see a screenshot of the game; here (http://www.abandonia.com/games/411/Playroom.htm) it is

[Omuletzu]

Darkseed

[The Fifth Horseman]

Darkseed was great, done with it over a year ago. :bleh:
Shadow of the Comet even earlier. :ok:

[joelster]

I love playing Horror style games also. Problem is, I can't find any game that actually scares me. The closest I've actually played to being scared was Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2. I went searching for abandonware on horror games and still can't find any thing that scares me, I've only foundgames that had scary LOOKS, but wasn't actually scary.

[Stroggy]

Games that are actually scary are far and few. It needs good scripting, good music and (most of all) good characters and story. You don't even need an entire haunted city to make the player scared, more often than not a house or laboratory with claustrophobic rooms does the trick far better. Just look at the Cradle mission in Thief III, That mission was seperated in two parts: the first part did not have one enemy but it was still quite scary thanks to the setting, the sound (or lack thereof), the second part had 5 or 6 enemies but I think that even without the scary zombies (or whatever they really were) lurking around the place would be as scary thanks to the convenient logs left around which gave the player a look into the history of the place.

While a lot of Japanese games manage to scare the player, the player is usually scared of the monsters (or huge bosses) and not all that scared of the setting.

[TheSmyth]

The only game to ever actually make me jump has to be Clive Barkers: UNDYING.

Very Well scripted, and bl**dy hard! :ranting:

[MdaG]

Originally posted by Stroggy@May 6 2005, 07:37 AM
Games that are actually scary are far and few. It needs good scripting, good music and (most of all) good characters and story. You don't even need an entire haunted city to make the player scared, more often than not a house or laboratory with claustrophobic rooms does the trick far better. Just look at the Cradle mission in Thief III, That mission was seperated in two parts: the first part did not have one enemy but it was still quite scary thanks to the setting, the sound (or lack thereof), the second part had 5 or 6 enemies but I think that even without the scary zombies (or whatever they really were) lurking around the place would be as scary thanks to the convenient logs left around which gave the player a look into the history of the place.

While a lot of Japanese games manage to scare the player, the player is usually scared of the monsters (or huge bosses) and not all that scared of the setting.
The haunted mansion in Bloodline... "Be careful..."

Gave me goose bumps.