10 CREEPY Locations Discovered in Open World Games 

Days Gone has a classroom filled with students who all killed themselves rather than become infected with the virus, and every single one of them signed their name on the whiteboard. Pretty creepy. In reality, the names on the whiteboard are the developers of the game.

"Tired but not necessarily sleepy" spoken like a true gamer trying to fit some time in while still having to uphold the unfortunate duties of an adult

@Gameranx The shadow creature in AC: Valhalla is Hodr, the god of winter and darkness. He is responsible for winter, cold weather, nighttime, shadows, the winter solstice, and watches over the strongest warriors. He's not being a creep, he's basically just there to say "you're doing great, buddy!"

Walking through forests at night in the witcher 3 is creepy

Great list but hard disagree on the Elden Ring entry; the jellyfish interaction is melancholy, sweet, and wholesome.

The frenzy flame nomad graveyard above the entrance to the 3 Fingers is the creepiest hidden location in Elden Ring. From all the corpses dead from madness to the eerie song being played, this place is environmental storytelling at its' finest.

For Elden Ring, i thought the Windmill Village in Altus Plateau was creepy, with the women there doing 'ring around the posies' around corpses of the other villagers.

Hey, "the weird little-girl-jelly-fish" has a name. It's Aurelia and I'll have you respect her name. She is blessed and pure, and must be protected at all cost.

2 come to mind: -Cyberpunk 2077 and that Maelstrom cyberpsycho that was on ice, you all know this one -Mass Effect 1 in Luna Mission (forgot details), but for some reason there is no background music AT ALL, no any noises from facility, just here and there some high pitch whistle that all together creeped the hell out of me first time i played it

On the Elden Ring one you forgot to mention the headstones close by that talk about the dead sisters, and have their names.

One that gave me the creeps was the Witcher 3 a side quest to get the Netflix armor but exploring more and seeing the ghosts and those horrible sounds just gives me chills

Red Dead Redemption 2 has so much creepy stuff going on. It really feels like there was meant to be an Undead Nightmare DLC. I really love the foreboding creepiness that you find off the beaten path. I guess it plays into the theme that these places aren't quite "civilisation" yet.

Fallout 4 is literally littered with creepy locations

The witch in the well quest from Witcher 3 was memorable first time around

Fun fact, Gachapin and Muku was the Japanese Sesame Street that aired in the 90's. It was actually awesome to see Infinite Wealth insert them in the game

The thing at number 1 seems to be a reference to the Leshi of Scandinavian and Slavic myth. The Witcher series has them too.

That Ghostwire Tokyo one had me shook when i played... lol. Creepiest thing in the game for sure.

The Witcher 3 has a coast line in been Velen that is filled with cannibals. There's even a camp that has a 'factory line' where they are slaughtering human bodies in preparation to eat them. There's a lot of creepy stuff in the Witcher but this area has no quest or anything with it, it's just there.

Can't believe you guys didn't include the Derelict Freighters from No Man's Sky!!! They are not obligatory or anything, in fact, you never need to visit them for any main nor secondary mission, and neither needed for much, other than cosmetics and credits, so you have to go in willingly

Posted years ago about the demon at the spider flower shrine in Ghost of Tsushima. You never see it, but whilst exploring the shrine at night, the mist drops, the music changes to action music and you hear a sinister inhuman gurgling and hissing around you before you hear a horse being attacked just outside the stone shrine walls. No Twitter or reddit, it’s gone unnoticed, so keen to see what pc players will find when they use mods to no clip to see what they can find. I searched the area after what happened and found no trace of the demon and the music stopped once I activated the shrine and the monster stopped its inhuman sounds.

I LOVE this particular kind of list! More please!

Could make an entire video on RDR2's creepy locations. Ghosts, aliens, vampires, inbred swamp people, cults, wolfmen, etc

I didn't know they added much to Ghostwire post launch so I'm itching to jump back in and explore the school.

The logo on the wall in Spider-Man 2 is from the Hand. The bad guys from Daredevil. So probably they will feature in a coming DLC

I'm surprised Elden Ring got a mention, I mean, the entire bloody game is creepy as hell.

Out of everything in Elden Ring that's the "creepy" thing you guys pick lol. That's actually one of the wholesome moments them being reunited. There is much more creepy horrifying stuff in that game.

The children of the arch sounds like a reference to the heavens Gate event where a small cult all killed themselves via poisoning with the belief that the Hailey’s comet that was traveling past earth at the time was actually an alien mothership in disguise and that killing themselves as it passed earth would result in their spirits being ‘uploaded’ to the alien mothership

At this point Gameranks is just making lists over and over for their favorite games.

I remember Far Cry 5 had a creepy Prepper Stash to find. When you would try to solve it you would find a creepy figure on top of the window and when u finished the quest you come to find that there is no dummy, there is an earie red balloon floating and a voice mail of a clown just laughing. Far Cry 6 also had a very creepy house. The Oku's Triada Relic Haunted mansion! Character would tell u how creepy this spot is and how it is cursed, you can only access it at night, and when I went there I came to find that there was a lot of weird things here and there that left me on edge there is even a part with mannequins with shotguns that made me nervous. It isn't until u reach the end and find that there really is a ghost and spirit and u can find one of the dolls that's cursed

The butler in the original Laura Croft game(s) that would follow you around every where tripped me out as a kid. I found out how to lock him in a pantry once and he kept walking at the door. 😅

In RDR2, I ran into 3 separate locations with blood, body parts, and notes that seems to be from a serial killer. Never found a conclusion to that. Another creepy one I happened to find was a house with an open window and inside was like a big stuffed pig thing.

The jellyfish from Elden Ring makes me think of the Hanar from Mass Effect.

That "Children of the Ark" Is most definitely based on "Heavens Gate"

The “Mind your own business” quest from Hogwarts Legacy had me creeped out!

10 CREEPY LOCATIONS: 8: scary horror ambience all over before a scary enemy 7: idk but I clipped through the couch 6: possibly the most wholesome moment in all of the game of the year wtf is this

What about the old church in RDR2 with the dead bodies in the beds? Or the serial killer?

Gamerax always comes in clutch when i need something to watch while grinding in games, eating or just to fall asleep in places where its almost impossibly uncomfortable

Dunwich building in Fallout 3. It still gives me the creeps

Bitterblack Isle got that eerie feeling, especially if you enter below level 100. I remember i went to that place for the first time when i was level 72, roamed to deep and encountered a chained gorecyclops, that thing was huge and room was too dark

Falcon, you’re forgetting with the Starfield one if you read all the notes left in the bunker you read the story building up to their disappearance. It’s not life changing, but it really adds when you leave the bunker and are ambushed, you realize the totally helpless and terrifying situation those settlers were in, because they aren’t some star born protagonist

RDR2 has a lot of creepy locations

Dying light had a great deal of creepy locations, was hoping to see some of em on this video

Great vid, I think fallout 3 was my fav really had a lot of these spooky areas as well and like you said they know what they’re doing, plus the music really added to it. Fantastic list must find some of these.

Derelict freighters or space stations in No Man's Sky. The freighters have hatching alien egg sacs or rogue defense systems, while the abandoned space stations are just dark and empty.

In BotW there is a little place in the middle of no where that there are a TON of demonic statues. One of the 120 shrines is found here, but there is never any explanation for all the demonic statues.

Rdr2 had the witches house that was creepy. Hogwarts with the dummies scared the crap out of me too.

I just recently finished Ghostwire Tokyo and it's better than it's reputation. Especially for free on Ps+ extra.

Not a creepy location, but this list reminded me of a creepy moment from Starcraft 2, Wings of Liberty. At the end of the missions from Zerarul's crystal, you get a cutscene showing the whole galaxy going dark. I always tried to avoid doing that mission late at night as it always gave me the creeps. Oh yeah, the first time talking to the demon in Dragon Commander always got to me a little too. Though no where near as bad.

Generation Zero has a lot of creepy locations but there’s one I found that made me shiver. Don’t remember the coordinates but there’s an orchard & a barn. When you get close to the location even during the day everything goes dark like it’s nighttime. There’s something like an altar and bodies around it, each one facing a cardinal direction. There’s a small quest related to that location

The creepies thing will be! When someone plays that game first time a long time after watching this video and dont exactly remembers how they know that place.

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I actually had to log in just for this, but the creepiest location in open world ghames is that little "town" of Andale in Fallout 3, where they all seem so cheerful and happy its so weird, in middle of wasteland, its really unsettling. Sure enough, if you spend time in there, you find out theyre esentially cannibals, killing and feasting on anyone who passes through the town, and the mantle of main provider of family (that is butcher of people) is passed from parents to children in relatively young age...oh and did i mention the only 4 families that survived the war just stayed there, interbreeding over and over for 200 years? For me, the creepiest location ever.

I’m having more fun with Starfield than I have had with any other game including Fallout. The attention to detail is incredible.

Great list. Have to go back into Spider-man 2 and check it out since I missed that one. Seems like I should have seen it since it was close to a camera location. I didn't miss the location in Jedi: Survivor though and got the full effect of the jump scare! I totally remember that moment and it was indeed creepy!

Man the Elden ring one is just sad, I was a little scared the first time, but after the dialogue I was holding my tears

Man, I'd say the radon mine in Far Cry 5 and the serial killer's hideout (the church) in LA Noire. Both still give me chills and I've played through both half a dozen times.

Love it! Resident evil 7s entire map is creepy lol Res version of the"Sawyer" family! Awesome game. Great video fellas 👍

The black slime room at the Sedgwick Hotel in Ghostbusters the video game (2009) freaked me out I remember!

easter eggs in video games are so unique to its medium. such a good way to immerse the player into the lore.

the best thing about the remains of the Blackwater Athletics Club is the letter B spelled out in limbs, because if you check, youll find that none of the bodies in the pit are missing any limbs... equally spooky imo and even more tucked away is the remains of the chain gang found in the woods NE of Macleans House, just five or six skeletons still chained together, and at the end of the chain is a single foot and lower leg still in the final manacle. the rest of that skeleton is found a few metres way, missing its lower leg, the implication presumably being that the last survivor cut his own leg off in desperation but bled out before he made it far.

Man, I've played over 150 hours of Starfield and I never have come across that Point of Interest yet in my game. I'm excited to track it down.

In cyberpunk, I can’t remember where but you go there on a main quest, there’s a whole empty apartment complex and it’s huge. There’s no noise but it’s juts pitch black with very few lights

The Fable Games had some very creepy areas as well

To me, a mannequin following you around when you aren't looking is the absolute scariest on this list.

Downloaded the Stalker trilogy on Xbox and that game does a pretty damn good job of keeping me creeped out!

Dude, just the commercial for Dondoko Island was enough to really make me want to get back into the Yakuza games! 😆😆

Rd2 Swamp creepy girl at night and ghost wire school got me which was a surprise when most of the game was tame

Was the ghostwire Tokyo mannequins movement synced to the fucking background audio. That shit had my heart pumping

That one ghost in GTA5 that appears on the mountain at a specific time at night is creepy and so out of place in that game which makes it way more freaky

Number 4 ripped straight off from the RE8 DLC.

the murder house in rdr2 is pretty messed up

Snow Runner, on the Drowned Lands map. There is an abandoned gulag, I believe around -793.41, -415.41. Going there during the day was creepy enough; nighttime ramps it way up.

Can’t believe the Ardat Yakshi monastery from ME3 isn’t on here. What a great, creepy place and mission

DARK URGE. The Fallen Bhaalspawn is the Dark Urge NPC in Baldur's Gate III. And who doesn't keep their dead mother in their room?

The safe house in Starfield really fucked with me, I was convinced a terrormorph would jump out at me after searching every room

crazy that the creepy house from RDR2 with the strung up animal/human/taxidermy thing didn't make this list.

Cyberpunk 2077 suprisingly has plenty of creepy location for non-horror game. There is this quest where you fight Maelstrom woman that turned cyberpsycho after performing some kind of ritual. When playing this quest, it suddenly turned into horror game...

starfield section....."nothing in here just empty rooms" yup that is starfield checks out.

I think the first one was a spin on heavens gate. Except instead of uploading their brains, heavens gate members jumped off a cliff thinking they would be beamed to a spaceship as a reward or subverting similar.

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I always think of Tumbleweed in Red dead Redemption. Who knew the best way to potray a dead lonely town was just make a dead lonely town

The Cyberpunk 2077 easter egg sounds like a nod to SOMA. There was also something about an ark project where people uploaded their minds to a computer and it was sent to space. It's very nice to see a reference to SOMA which is an incredible game. There need to be more cyberpunk horror games like SOMA and Observer

In starfield when you finally get inside the legacy was creepy af to me idk why , but was worse when I had to escape. I was panicking trying to figure out how to get out the whole time🤣

The cyberpunk one sounds scarly similar to the "Heaven's Gate" incident.

To add to the Elden Ring spirit ashes stuff, there is an NPC that you can talk to and have a short quest related to her. Her name is Latenna of Albinaurics. She has 2 short quest chains, one turns her from NPC into a spirit ash, and she willfully becomes your spirit ash summon to help you in battle in exchange for assisting her on her second quest where you take her somewhere and summon her there, just like you do with the Jellyfish. Latenna's quest chain, which can be encountered early in the game but finished much later on, is the solid proof that spirit ashes used to be regular living being that, voluntarily or not, became spirit ashes while still retaining their consciousness.

Well, I think The spiderman one is just some comic character thing. Punisher maybe.

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in snowrunner there is a graveyard in the middle of nowhere, and passing through it all tires submerged..

Rdr2 can fill a whole list

Wo Long had a couple corpse piled creepy spots. Underrated game

the ghostwire one is the first time ive been legitly scared in a game, the way you can see it move too

Never seen the Ark children in CP2077, but there's supposedly a devil's pit where someone tried to videotape and it just became terrifying, also in outskirts, unmarked

Can confirm, the school section of Ghostwire Tokyo, while completely optional was probably the most HORRIFYING part of that game.

At number 7, the store in Spider-man 2 is basically run by a sorcerer of Kamar-Taj. If you walk into the bookstore and look to your right, the painting on the wall has similar pattern to the round window pattern on Dr Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.

MGS2, where Colonel Campbell starts going crazy, creeped the hell out of me as a 13 year old, playing it at night for the first time in 2001.

Bramble The Mountain King has some serious dark imagery

The Haunted Hotel in Vampire Bloodlines. Played the game 4 times and I dreaded going there each time and you never get attacked. It’s just a ghost story. I’d race through it speed run style.

Didnt know about that location in Red Dead, but the serial killers apartment was messed up. Also the crying girl in the swamp...I avoided the swamps at night after that 😮

The swamps in Lemoyne in RDR2 is pretty creepy especially the night folk

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