"Stu, what are you doing?" "Making *SHADOW MONSTERS.*" "It's Tommy's bedtime. Why on earth are you making shadow monsters?" "Because I've lost control of my life."
in the Ice Cream Mountain level there's a mummy hidden in the pyramid shocked me when I was younger have to kill it with a golf ball on the wiki its says one of those clown robots made to look like one
To any unfortunate people who played that Rugrats game when they where younger, that game was riddled with horror nightmares. Not just the mentioned ghosts in this countdown. I was terrified of this giant purple gorilla who'd chase you in a creepy closed toy store. The creepy goose with grandpas teeth in its mouth, the mr. Friend toys you fought in the basement, and Theres a creepy mr. Friend mummy hidden deep in the pyramid in the golf minigame. And the music was horrific in most of these situations. (That game was like silent hill for 3 year olds.)
Yo, I remember now man. I had this game and I never finish this csuse some of the scenes freak me out. I had to be 5 or 6 man but the night scene got to me.
9:09 Hearing the bubbles and the breathing from Endless Ocean brings me immeadiatly into a zen state....and then they had to remind me of the idol. Diving into the abyss was also quite creepy. I love to see some recognition for Endless Ocean.
A hat in time queen Vanessa’s manor is pretty scary the first time. One level your jumping through a cute as heck platformer and in the next your running away from the devils evil ex.
I've not played the game, but my family calls my paternal grandmother "the devil's 7th wife that he sent up here so he didn't have to deal with her" - so my first thought upon reading this was "But my grandmother's name is Gwen, not Vanessa...."
Might I add : Photoshop Flowey and the True Lab from Undertale? Especially when you have to have gone full pacifist to even reach the True Lab. As a pacifist you've seen the game at its least creepy and most funny and then...
That Lemmings level makes so much sense now. I don't remember being scared by it as a kid, but it was confusing like, 'okay, I guess this is hell now??' I do like that it was a homage to their other game, and I think if I've known that back then it would've blown my mind to see a level from another game there.
There's a moment of existential horror in the Protoss mini-campaign in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. You rescue a squad of troops at one point by powering a structure that had been shut down while they'd been teleporting to the battle through it. They're happy to get back into the fight, but the battle they'd been trying to get to was _ten years ago._ What's worse, they were fully aware of what was going on that whole time. Makes you kind of shudder to imagine how many others might be lost out there, trapped forever in the place between places.
@@LizzardGirl713Yup! The False Hydra is a community favorite, mostly due to its ability to delete people's memories, which it usually does to make close friends and family of its devoured victims to forget that person's existence at all. It actually became such a staple of homebrew D&D that many people didn't actually know it was fan-created material, and some still don't!
Since you mentioned rugrats, you really should have included that one lone clown robot all alone inside of the pyramid on the minigolf level. That place scared the hell out of a young me because I never expected an enemy in that level, let alone isolated.
Lavender is a traditional color of mourning. It’s actually rather brilliant to name a Poké town after it. It has a cheerful sound and yet an association with grief and death.
OMG that level on Rugrats Search for Reptar freaks me out SO much! 😣 I didn't play horror games at the time this was released and this was the freakiest gameplay I had experienced thus far. But even when I started playing horror games I look back and THAT Rugrats level has freaked me out the most..lol I think it's because it's such a bright cheery house and to see it completely dark is just.. unsettling.
@@addyxinwonderland1473 I feel like the void has an actual mental tractor beam where everyone who plays the game just decide to go to the void for no reason out of nowhere. Despite there being no resources or story-related things in the void, you suddenly want to go there and (in most cases) die. That's what scares me about the void. It lures you in to die.
@@lindatory1886 I actually have Megalo Thalasophobia - a fear of large creatures in the ocean. If I knew the ocean was empty, I could swim and dive in it all day. It's just faster & easier to say Thalasophobia in casual conversation. lol And as a testament to how much so - I played the first Endless Ocean until the drop off and had a crippling panic attack. When the second game drops you right into a pod of whales - I immediately and a panic attack and turned off the TV... Because turning off the console would have taken too long. I can laugh at it - you kind of have to - and I actually appreciate games like this as it allows me a way to try and deal with it at my pace without actually physically putting myself in real world "danger" and - let's be honest - danger. I did manage to beat Subnautica after spending months in the shallows accomplishing nothing. But in that game you get the Sonar and Prawn Suit and giant submarine. But there were plenty of times when a Beasty would surprise me and I'd turn off the game. I didn't care I lost an hour or work either.
9:59 “if you can even be arsed to pull on your wetsuit...” Oh dear, sweet luke, it takes a herculean effort of will, the strength of 50 men, a tremendous amount of wriggling, 40 acres of space and a horiffic realisation of paunchiness (if you are me anyway) to consider getting into one of those hellish, waterproof, skin condoms lol
Chateau d'Onterre in Dragon Age: Inquisition is not by any means an instant classic scare, but man, its slow burn brand of horror is still up there. Shame it's too easy to miss unless you're intent on clearing absolutely everything in-game.
I feel like it has been mentioned before but is worth repeating - the Comstock House in Bioshock Infinite. Even the sound that the Boys of Silence make still causes me to jump
Okay, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but despite the creepy idol emails and whispers in Endless Ocean, I feel that the actual scary part is diving into the Abyss; a pitch-black box canyon that houses various squids, sharks, and other deep sea residents to suddenly appear off the edges of your screen because your flashlight only illuminates so much.
For me, trying to sneak past Dark Bramble's anglerfish in Outer is one of the scariest things I have ever done in a game because the anglerfish are big enough to swallow your spaceship whole, and they have incredibly acute hearing despite being blind, meaning that if you try to rush past them, you're just gonna die
Why not Mimi from Super Paper Mario? I wasn't expecting her to suddenly start a creepy transformation sequence into a giant spider head thing! Absolutely freaked me out as a kid
When I played the Rugrats game on the play station 1, I barely remember the ghosts, which I guess means I wasn't scared of them, but I do remember this level where Tommy gets stuck in this animatronic play place (I think) and he wanted to get find the Reptar animatronic or something and there was this big-ass evil-looking gorilla animatronic that scared me shitless. I remember screaming and crying and having my Mom finish the level for me every time I encountered it. Now I kinda wanna play it again and see what the big deal was about lol.
Another thing that got me as a kid was in the Sims Bustin’ Out for the GBA, the sewers really freaked me out and then one of the exists lead to an actual haunted house that was equally as scary.
I'll add: The first time you encounter Jenova in (the original) FF7. First everything goes quiet, then you get out of your cell and see trails of blood everywhere combined with creepy music, and then you come face to "face" with this headless...THING. ...but seriously, eff that boss in the well in Kakariko village. That thing was honestly probably the most terrifying thing I ever saw in a non-horror game.
While it isn't not a horror game I love the bit where after swimming around bright tropical shallows you enter the blood kelp biome and your PDA casually remarks that this biome matches six out of the nine preconditions for stimulating terror in humans.
A bonus from Search for Reptar, you can find the mummified Mr. Friend, AKA Mr. Fiend, in the pyramid on the Egypt themed hole of the miniature golf game. Very unsettling.
It wasn't the ghosts that scared me in the Rugrats game. I was terrified of the level where you get trapped in a toy store over night and you have to take down Thorg the Gorilla.
MissingNo from Pokémon Red and Blue had me running out of the room screaming once. I had no idea that certain letters in certain positions in your character's name could alter the image of MissingNo. I was playing Pokémon Blue on TV via the transfer pack in Pokémon Stadium late at night with all lights off. I trigger the MissingNo glitch and it's a Kabutops skeleton. I was horrified.
I honestly thought you were going to talk about Magu Tapa with the Endless Ocean entry. It gets worse. In the sequel, an identically large great white named Thanatos appears. . . And he actually CAN ATTACK YOU. But wait, there's more. Your one and only means of defense, the pulsar, has absolutely NO AFFECT WHATSOEVER on Thanatos. This is a trait shared with only one other animal: the electric eel, which is non-aggressive and can be easily avoided. Thanatos, in contrast, outright pursues the player. But wait! There's more! Thanatos inhabits a corner of the map and swims in and out of the map. Meaning this massive killer shark has a tendency to SNEAK UP BEHIND YOU!!! And the noise that alerts you when danger is near is on par with the drowning music in Sonic, especially when it starts getting faster and faster and you can't even see where it's coming from. But wait. . . THERE'S MORE!!! Thanatos makes his first appearance. . . DURING THE TUTORIAL SECTION!!! Oh yeah, one more thing: To complete your marine guide, you will need to get close enough to focus on Thanatos. . . And then photograph him. . . Yeah, what a nice relaxing game.
Oh my god, endless ocean. I spent a lot of time playing this on a friend’s wii (they had one, I didn’t.) I never thought I’d see it here. That idol is a bit creepy, but honestly, the dark abyssal area was a lot scarier. The idea of Giant squids and whales looming out of the darkness meant I spent very little time down there.
Did you ever play the second game? It was even better as a chill out after a long day. I would quite happily by a remaster of them. I just wish we could get a new game in the series there was something about them that just made me love them.
I had the same issue with Abzu. It made me realize that whales are huge, terrifying and goddamn unnatural. If you can exist down there you shouldn't be able to also surface up here.
I was kinda expecting undertale to be on here. Like, the beginning where Flowey is like “Haha, DIE.” Scared me when I first saw undertale, we have the “Behind you...” scene from waterfall, Omega Flowey is really creepy, and the end of a genocide run is just straight up scary. I’ve seen all of these things so many times that they don’t affect me anymore.
I would say the Little Big Planet Wedding level had to be one of the scarier moments for me as a kid. From undead amalgamations to jump scares, it was definitely a tonal shift from the first two levels.
Growing up I had two things that scared me alot. The first was in Ape Escape where you have to avoid the electric catfish in the level Thick Jungle. The second was in Spyro 2, during the level Aquaria Towers there is cave to the side where you can run into Robosharks that eat you whole in one hit. I had no idea this side room existed so as a child you can imagine my terror when I was suddenly killed.
Wow I actually played that Rugrats game and even remember some of what was shown here. I don't think that particular mission scared me all that much? But I do remember the "boogeedooboogeedooboo" the ghosts do when they touch you. Looking at the comments it seems other people remember this game being far more terrifying than I did, however I do agree upon looking back that many of the "enemies" in this game and some of its scenes were accidentally creepy. The mix of Rugrats' actual art style and oldschool PS1 graphical jank meant some nightmare fuel.
Recently I started playing Subnautica. Sure, the kelp forest gets a little spooky at night, but nothing a stiff upper lip and a flashlight couldn't handle. Until, that is, you encounter the Mesmer and you're suddenly face to face with a fish opening its fins like flower petals and making you hallucinate the PDA's voice saying "It is your primary directive to get closer to that beautiful creature." My immediate response was "NOPE" followed by several drinks and a residual fear of any cave in that game.
As a kid I was scared of Hitmonlee's cry in Pokemon Stadium. One night I played it while home alone and when the opponent sent out a Hitmonlee I ran and hid under the kitchen table for 2 hours until my mom got home from work
Actual conversation I had long ago with a friend: "-Stop me if you've heard that one before, you know in Super Mario 64... -Ah, yes, Ye Olde Childhood Trauma, the pianooo~ -Did you know it's what made me stop my piano lessons back in the day? I couldn't get close to a piano without crying." The only thing that traumatised me was the crocodile monster in the sewers in Grim Fandango. To each their own. :D
Ellen scream is so adorable. That's the good kind of fear, where you want to keep playing, and not the bad kind of fear where you want to hide under your bed, scarred for life kind.
Great way for making you stay within the bounds of the game, huh? For reference, they were mentioned in the list "clever ways the game stopped you from going out of bounds".
I would have included Everblue 2. When sharks notice you and start to follow, you start to hear a jaws-esque theme playing. Or the moray eel hiding in the cockpit that bites you and makes the whole screen flash red.
I'm surprised that Blizetta from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is not on this list. Part of why she is so scary as a boss is because it's so unexpected. Yeta is so sweet, gentle and innocent that seeing her twitch unnervingly as the evil of the mirror shard possessed her truly is the stuff of nightmares.
King's Quest V on PC. There's a woods you explore early on. If you accidentally walk off a cliff that's in there, Graham will scream unexpectedly. If your volume is at the right level, the scream is very not quiet.
Nobody gonna talk about Subnautica? A first play through of that where your friends told you it was a survival building game that was underwater? Not even bothering to mention the Reapers?
Not sure if random acts of jumpscare count, but if they do then I'd have to go with Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. I mean sure it's listed as a psychological horror because it's hell on earth, but the sudden shift from philosophy and rage to a random swarm of bats bursting at you from either the clock tower or the random present that drops down was totally uncalled for, and the fact that if you jump you've probably lost a fair bit of progress only makes it worse. *Now all I need to do is actually get that far in the game.*
I kinda wish they included Sky: Children of the Light even though it is a mobile game, just because of new players finding Dark Dragons. The noises they make and how they look is enough to creep people out. And it’s a 4+ game!!
I’m quite shocked that Queen Vanessa’s manor from A Hat In Time isn’t on here. That level was INSANELY SCARY!!!! Was not expecting that level. thanks Gears for Breakfast for the nightmares.
The "Gather Sewer Crystals" optional mission on the planet Aquatos in 'Ratchet and Clank 3; Up Your Arsenal' still gives me the creeps today, more than 15 years after I played it the first time!! The creepy slimy "Amoeboids" that are LITERALLY EVERYWHERE but hides within the walls freak me out everytime I play that level. At first the sewers seem to be somewhat empty but then you hear a horrible sound and a bunch of minor jump scares happen and suddenly there's 10-20 Amoeboids coming for you from all angles! Try to kill them and they multiply.. I would have left that stupid mission alone if it wasn't for all the bolts (money) you generate and eventually buy awesome weapons with..
Zelda ocarina of time is a horrible example, evil plants, spiders and giant spider in deku tree, wolf in lost woods, stalchildren at night in hyrule field, redead in kakariko village, tektike on death mountain. And that’s just the first couple hours of the game. I get the bottom of the well is scary, but that game is loaded with scary things.
Ellen will understand: "insects" in Skyrim... Like they are the weakest enemies of the game, quite literally, yet THAT first time seeing them coming right to me, with their stupidly high detailed 3d model and while I was in 1st person mode, never left me. I would rather roundabout the giant's camp, kill the robbers, and assault a forsworn hold, just to freaking avoid to fight a nest of them... Done that way more times that I'm willing to admit ,:D
Dreamfall terrified me with the black house in a snowy void landscape with the little girl named faith who said “Find April Ryan. Save April” over and over again
you forgot to mention about how in rayman 3, where your at the volcano realm you fall into a pit with haunting music and scary spirits come out and all of a sudden you are treated to this really terrifying music, also gonna mention the fact that you are also trying to hide from living hideous creatures that want to kill you and are all invincible
The rugrats game has another level thats terrifying! Chucky is afraid of clowns, and theres a level where the basement has robotic clowns. I forget how you beat them, i never beat it as a kid as a result
Came here to tell you about my personal nightmare level in Lemmings: "Shadow of the beast", ... only to hear that dreaded tune while typing about the very thing!! 😱 Didn't want to sleep today anyway, thank you!
The RLCraft Mod for Minecraft spooks me. I know its a bit of an exception as its a completely different game at this point... but still something I wasn't expecting when I first gave it a shot. I can't even mine coal without a mild panic attack.
Little Misfortune *is a horror game* but it doesn't say so right of the bat so when you find a child who just h*anged himself halfway through it is *Very VERY unsettling*
Woah, no way you forgot about the robot toy hidden inside the pyramid of the reptarland mini golf game! That was the MOST terrifying in that whole game.
The first thirty seconds of the final level of Star Wars Bounty Hunter freaked me out so much when playing solo at night as a teenager that I didn't play it again until the ps4 release 😂
I wouldn't say it's 'shockingly scary', rather, more eerily creepy, but the sea floor on Manaan in _Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic._ It's just you, a handful of sharks that can instantly kill you, and the oppressive, suffocating silence.
