But then you have games like SOMA, Clock Tower, and the Resident Evil games which often involve avoiding creatures that are much more powerful than you. Obviously it's nobody's business but yours what kind of games you play and enjoy, but I don't think the disconnect is that hard to understand.
Must be that giant "take a hint" sign, and give Alien Isolation a chance. For the first 2 hours I found the game slow and boring, but atmosphere was great so i stuck with it. And then it got me to replay again it on hardest difficulty + DLCs, something that after 30+ years of gaming rarely happens with me. Maybe it would be like Castlevania SOTN magic.
Alien isolation isn’t even the scariest aliens game tho. I’ll never forget the day I loaded up Alien colonial marines. That was the day I lost all hope in the existence of a god and my trust in humanity was forever tarnished.
I was so pumped for PARASITE EVE in 1998, Still remember picking it up on release day. I got a PSone for Christmas the year before for Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil was the 2nd game I picked up and it blew my mind. When I saw Square Soft was doing a game rooted in survival horror, I was over the moon. That opening cutscene with tears on the face of a frowning Statue of Liberty still gives me all the feels.
My favorite is Friday the 13th for NES . It took years .....and a youtube video ....to finally beat this game. Its a masterpiece once you learn the basics . The scare is no matter when You see Jason .....You will jump !!! The fun is realizing that you can win . It took me forever to get past day 1 .....day 2 is tougher. ...and day 3 you fight jason outside because inside a cabin you got zero chance !!!!
I remember the first game to scare the shxt out of me was : The 7th guest on PC MS DOS. It was one of the first Cd Rom games I got and the atmosphere was so spooky. It's a first person inquiry game in a manor where strange things occured. You have to solve some creepy puzzle games to get your way. As i type these words, I still have goosebumps just by thinking about this evil game. the low res FMV ghosts appearances blended in nice 3D backgrounds and the eerie soundtrack was quite amazing. You really have to check out this one !
This is exactly the type of video I have looking for to get me in the spooky season mood, thanks Pam. Time to close the curtains, turn off the lights and get those headphones on for that true horror feeling.
I just want to share my earliest scary memory of a game is doom as cliche as that sounds, but I was sitting there wondering what this graphic was and suddenly I realised it was an imps fireball and it was too late. Still a big memory to this day in my 40s
If you think that the original Doom games are creepy, then you've probably never played Doom 3. Un. Nerving. If Pam was unwilling to add Alien Isolation to her list, then that means D3 is in the same realm of nope.
I really appreciate the way Soma implemented the "safe" mode, because I would have never experienced it without that. Both because I'm a coward and because I too hate the gameplay loop of constantly hiding from unbeatable monsters. It allowed me to focus on the incredible story and atmosphere and ended up being one of my favorite games for it. Loved the video, I'm excited to give The Cat Lady a try this coming spooky season!
Thank the modding community. A year before they added safe mode, there was the Wuss Mod. Developers were able to see the concept in action, and smooth out the rough patches for the official version. I fully support this practice, because console players lack access to mods. It's a great way to enrich their gaming experience.
If you can track down an old adventure game called The Dark Eye, it's one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Another one that I would definitely have on my list is Alien: Isolation.
That game had such amazing presentation. Not overly violent or jump scary, but some truly terrifying moments and some body horror thrown in for good measure. Beautiful and creepy.
The first hour or so of Resident Evil 7 in VR is the scariest experience I've had with any game. It gets a bit less scary once you start to get a handle on things and find some save rooms, but the tension never completely lets up either. Silent Hill 1 is also ridiculously scary despite the more primitive graphics. Doom 3 in VR (on PSVR) is so much more effective than the original version. The pacing, level design, monster closets, jump scares, etc. all work so much better in VR. Even on Easy difficulty I found it incredibly effective and creepy throughout. Those are probably my top 3.
Did you ever play Eternal Darkness, i think you'd like it. I'm surpised the game has never been ported. Even though Silicon Knights went bankrupt Nintendo did publish it so theres no reason why it never has gotten a port.
I watch a lot of different review channels. Your voice and delivery are very easy to listen to, and there is a lot of great information. Great job. I hope you keep them coming.
You opinions on games are amongst those I appreciate the most. Even with games on which my opinion differs, I get a fresh perspective on them, which offers a chance to look back at them. I really enjoy your videos, and a guilty pleasure of mine is how much I am entertained by your clips of the hate mail. Sorry but you do those so well!
How about Death Stranding? I understand it’s not the main focus to be scary but it’s so freaking tense when you go into BT territory, especially if you are not geared up properly. I sunk more than 500 hours in that game and still to this day I find myself working around BT infested areas. LOL.
Nah, maybe initially but they become more of a nuisance than anything. I'm playing it at the moment, and once you get the cutting tool BTs are basically no problem at all. Even before then, unless you're playing on Very Hard it's usually better to let them take you and then either fight or run from the big BT, either way it clears all BTs and rain from the area. Also, you can pee on the tar people to despawn them which is hilarious.
@@Ashley6100 Well, it depends how you approach the game I guess. I really don’t want to argue about that. As for difficulty, I play at hard level, not very hard. But despite having been a gamer for more than 35 years I’m pretty bad at it apparently, as on the Internet everyone is better than me! My daughter is also better than me to be fair, but she started playing videogames when she was 3. LOL. I guess that’s the secret. Everyone is younger than me on the Internet! All of that said. I truly believe everyone should give Death Stranding a try. You might hate it, but if you don’t, chances are you are going to Love it.
you could try playing 5 days a stranger, 7 days a sceptic and 6 days a sacrifice. it's a trilogy. a quadrology actually. very good. point and click horror
The Cat Lady has some of the best representations of how depression actually feels that I’ve ever seen in fiction or otherwise. Also, I can’t help but feel like All Flowers in Time Bend Toward the Sun is part of its soundtrack, even though it’s not. I’ll never not associate the two things together. Dark Corners of the Earth clutched at the mantle of Greatest Horror Game of All Time and then dropped it. I wish I could say it’s one of those games made more beautiful by its flaws, but it’s not. Still love it for what it almost accomplished, though.
Horror, in my opinion, has the best atmospheres in any genre of any medium. Some of my personal favorite horror games that didn’t make your list would definitely include Resident Evil 2 Remake, Alien: Isolation, Dead Space 2, Tormented Souls, The Evil Within 2, and Half Life: Alyx. My honorable mention is the usually criminally underrated The Order 1886. For me, the atmosphere in some parts of the game, especially the underground subway sequence, are very well done even if the overall game isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Keep up the great work on the videos. Hope you have a great month of spooky games to play 🎮🧟♂️👻🎃🧛🏻
Ok so some of my favorite horror games would be the castlevania games even though I have only played Castlevania 2 NES and Castlevania Symphony of the night. They all seem good and I look forward to playing more of them. Doom 1 and 2 are amazing to me. For the PS2 the manhunt games and the Suffering games and the Evil dead games. I have only played Manhunt 1, but I tried the others and they seem great. Monster Party NES. Zombies ate my neighbors SNES. Parasite Eve PS1. Loaded and Reloaded PS1.
Doki-Doki Literature Club is good for one thing and one thing only: An engine to power Monika After Story. OTOH, I'd love to see a Doki-Doki Panic (Western SMB2) romhack where the characters are re-skinned as the characters from DDLC. BTW, my fave survival horror games are Friday the 13th for NES, Sinistar, and Pac-Man 😛
Outside of Silent Hill, the Ocean View Hotel in VTMB is one of my absolute favorite horror experiences in a game. I was genuinely scared in that level, and very, very few games have ever achieved that haha. All around, great list!
I've been playing horror games since Resident Evil first released on the PS1, and have loved the genre ever since. Was very pleased to see Parasite Eve here, as it's a favorite of mine, but seems to be mostly forgotten. I'd recommend playing the remaster of Resident Evil 2, with modern controls, and Resident Evil Revelations, both of which I prefer to Resident Evil 4. I've not played Alien: Isolation, as I too dislike games which just revolve around hiding. Have you played Fatal Frame - Maiden of Black Water? I noticed you ranked the 2nd game in the franchise highly. I think The Last of Us could qualify as a horror game, especially the first one, and I enjoyed it, since it reminded me of the best Resident Evil games, and The Evil Within; which I think is a very good game - especially the moments when the landscape changes entirely and you have no clue what is happening!
No Silent Hill 2 on the list? It might not be the best horror game, but one of the best story driven games period. Its a bit clunky, definitely unsettling, but its somehow easier to play than SH1 which I barely manage to finish. Dead Space freaked me.out more tbh... Goodish otherwise, I like the old school PC horrors a lot
I like The Sinking City. It's animation is awful, the combat sucks so bad, and sometimes confusing to go around the map. But the game is really charming with good story and have some memorable moments.
Recommendation: _Eternal Darkness_ I think its the first game with an insanity mechanic, its definitely the only game I've ever thought had a *_good_* insanity mechanic. Even games I like with insanity mechanics like _Sinking City,_ don't do insanity very well
Great video, Pam. It was interesting to see where you ranked some of those games. For me the scariest games in my top 5 are System Shock 2, Stalker series, Clive Barkers Undying, Resident evil and Dead Space. System Shock 2 is old but it was much scarier than Bioshock and the games like Prey. Those games exist because of system shock 1&2.
Loved the video! I'll have to check some of these out, though I'm pretty skittish. Although, I'm glad that Silent Hill was also too unnerving for you, at least I'm not alone there.
Fatal Frame has bothered me because they call a camera a "camera obscura" which is a different thing entirely. A camera obscura was used in the renaissance to aid in painting and drawing. No film is involved; it's basically just a lens on a box that projects an image on a frosted glass plate so it can be traced by the artist. Sure, it's a cool sounding term...But it's not a camera by our definition.
i love horror although i’m still in my infancy regarding horror games just recently started the resident evil franchise so far tho i’ve loved dead space 1-3, evil within 1-2 & alien isolation
It feels wrong that the pastiche overdone clone-of-PT layers of fear is on the same tear as detention, last door and a couple resident evil games... I recommend also the video about Bloober team by Bobvids to get a couple reasons behind the medium being so bad despite the big budget. But extremely agree with Stories Untold and Anatomy! I hope more people play them after watching your video :)
Holy crap looking at the I'll come and games and so many games I need to finish TBH I spent so much on rule of Rose I'm kind of scared to play it just in case the disc doesn't work at like the final hour
LOL I actually liked little hopeless for the same reason you liked it more my co-op partner could not for the life of them make the right decisions or hit the qtes that aside I thought the premise and plot were really cool
S rank for soundtrack and host for the video. The Cat Lady had the most amazing sound design. Surprised that I didn’t see either of the siren games from the PS2 era that had that weird second person sight jacking mechanic. They definitely had a very unsettling atmosphere. Haunting ground, the spiritual successor to clock tower, with a late PS2 Capcom horror title that also serves mansion. The dog companion AI was expertly implemented for the time and it would make an incredible remake with modern technology.
I miss the Chzo games by Yathzee, starting with 5 Days a Stranger. Another one that has already been mentioned is System Shock 2. Have you ever played Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? Especially the Amiga version is really good. The monster designs can be very disturbing and the combat feels scary.
Resident Evil 2 Remake should be on S-tier along with Alien Isolation, and they're not even on the list. Dying Light only gets a C? Those night runs are pretty spooky. Maybe I missed it, but isn't Amnesia: Dark Descent on the list?
Another great video! Like these summary tier lists you make as well as your other reviews. Always find some hidden gems that I've not tried before on them. Perfect to pick out a top tier game or two for spooktober.
Great video as always Pam. :-D I always found Koudelka (PS1) an interesting blend of horror and turn-based rpg. The grid system makes it even more unusual. Also Hellnight (PS1) is a horror game seemingly forgotten by nearly everyone which you might enjoy. So many great games out there!
The first Evil Within game is such a special game for me! I know it has problems, I get why people don't like it, but it has stuck with me ever since I played back in 2014. The Evil Within 2 is also pretty great and worth a play through! Great video :)
Dr. Chaos for the NES, which I DO NOT recommend, was maybe my first horror game. A kind of GOONIES 2 meets RESIDENT EVIL? The intro music was pretty cool. The controls kinda sucked but I felt like that was intentional. That game was scary, the controls were awful, and I had buyer’s remorse. What a horrid experience! But I laugh about it now.
I’m really looking forward to trying LITTLE NIGHTMARES. Right now I’m working my way through the YOMAWARI trilogy. Have you tried any of those games? The first feels like it may be a low-budget masterpiece though I’ve only progressed through the very early stages.
I agree with you about Metro 1 and 2. The second is overall better, as a FPS, but the first was also a horror game and a great one. I felt the open areas were more scarier than the tunnels, the tunnels were more confortable, so to say, and when you had to explore the surface, with limited gas masks, it really made things a lot more tense. But the second focused more on that, and the resources managemente changed a bit, making the horror less horrific. I wonder how Exodus is, still haven't played it.
Holy mother of all reviews! This was a huge undertaking and you are a champ with all of this. I played lots of the games on the list and you nailed them. Thank you for all the work you put into this. Game ON! LOL
I will never forget the first time we played the original Resident Evil...It was my friends birthday party in a dark basement with probably 8 of us...when that first Zombie came after us we screamed like little girls. No offense to little girls. There had never been anything like it before. We were child veterans of Wolfenstein and DOOM...this was different.
I'm surprised not to see *any* Alien games on this list. Alien Isolation and the first PC Aliens Vs Predator are among the best games of their era, and some of the scariest I've ever played. I guess Alien Isolation does count as one of those first-person games where you hide a lot, but it doesn't hinge on jump scares; the fear-factor emerges organically from the audio-visual design atmosphere and free-roaming AI.
Always look forward to your ranking videos and finding new items for my bucket list. The first PC game that I remember scaring me was Clive Barkers “Undying”. I also remember thinking parts of Earthbound for SNES were very eerie and made me feel unsettled as a kid.
@Cannot be Tamed Hey Pam! Would you consider doing a video on your favorite horror movies? Obviously games have been your wheelhouse on this channel, but if you are a horror fan, which I hope you are, why not share your insight on your top picks? The Conjuring 1 and 2 are really my top two, followed by American Werewolf in London and Train to Busan to name a few. Just an idea, as it's a perfect time of the year for this type of list. Maybe not a list of 60, LOL, but maybe your top 10?
I really liked how you ranked your horror games, cool list :v If you thought p.t. Was something…. You gotta play visage That game gets so overlooked. Got really good reviews for it as well. Just….no one talks about it. Definitely the scariest game I’ve ever played. Almost on all counsels. :v Hope you keep making awesome content list videos and stuff
Great list. Would absolutely love to see you give Death Mark and sequel Spirit Hunter NG a go. They were such great surprises for me and fast favorites. Think they might be right up your alley.
