Top 10 Unsettling Places in Genshin Impact 

For me, it’s the upside-down statue of the Anemo Archon, in Dainsleif’s quest. There’s an ACTUAL corpse just sitting there too, and it almost looks like he’s worshipping something before his life was taken on the spot. It really gave me the chills.

Agree the abandoned eleazar hospital is the one that will ALWAYS unsettle me to the very core, one place that deserves an honorable mention too is the door to khaenri'ah in my opinion

I thought the domain in Zhongli's Chapter 2 quest was pretty creepy. The story about Havria (the God of Salt) and how she died. It's creepy seeing exactly where she died and the remains of people who tried to escape the domain after she dissipated into salt; including her murderer's body. I've never been so unsettled looking at the remains of bodies completely covered in salt.

Something about the Melusine village just creeps me out. At first everything is cute, but as you go deeper, the place suddenly turns into a sci fi horror game. The embryo looking mechanisms, the portal, the enemies. Add to the fact that Hoyo decided to put the freakiest place in Teyvat in the same location, @1:06 the book of revealing. All of that stuff and yet the background music is so beautiful which makes it more unsettling.

People always count this among most beautiful places, but i always find the eternal oasis unsettling. It looks full of life but there is not even a speck of life there. Plus the beautiful vocals as background music makes this place seem like a sad, creepy and but beautifully nihilistic dream. I felt uncomfortable there because of thie overall vibes so i quickly speedran the whole place lol

I think you missed aranara old underground village and chasm's nail hole that we trapped with Xiao, Yelan, Itto, Yanfei, and Shinobu. I wish hoyo makes more quest with a lot of characters like in chasm quest.

im surprised venti's chained upside down statue didn't get mentioned

Honorable mention to the hideout in Wriothesley's story quest as well - not many things can make me feel physically sick, but that one and the abandoned hospital very much did

For me, this place is the upside-down statue of Anemo in the first world quest of Dainsleif. Everyone was too preoccupied with the appearance of the other twin and no one mentioned the haunted and heavy atmosphere of this place. It made me cry for the first time in this “bright” and “positive” game. Lmao 😢 It may not be the most but always be the first

You missed the underground part of Sumeru which includes the big door that seems to be the entrance of the abyss. That place gave me the creeps 😮

I would like to add the domain where we saw the Sinner...the whole atmosphere was just creepy with all those hypnotized hilichurls and...am I the only one who finds the Sinner kinda scary? (Actually, no...both the mc and the twin were unsettled... and that's saying something!)

The way you present is more scary 💀

The traces of blood in the eleazar hospital is absolutely horrifying

I agree with this list although for me I'd swap Tsurumi as no. 1. Just the thought of being trapped in a time loop in that island and learning the massacre that happened there straight up gives me shiver and not to mention Ruu's story on that world quest, just peak horror! I've played the game for exactly 2 yrs now and I haven't unlocked Enkanomiya. I should really get it started soon once I have more free time.

Seems like nobody mention Golden Apple Archipelago. Being stuck there forever with no way out, full of monsters and upside down buildings, strange illusions everywhere that will make you question yourself whether you're dreaming or still alive. Despite the place being bright and characters having fun there, if you're a normal people that aren't Venti's buddy you'll end up like those voyagers and Fatui. Absolutely NO.

there is also the dragon's heart in Dragospine, its soo creepy

Old varanara is also a very unsettling place not gonna lie, however it's now less unsettling because there's no more withering zone, also the place where you fight the marana's avatar (before arama became a tree) was pretty unsettling too although it doesn't look unsettling at all after arama became a tree. Generally the withering zones are one of the most unsettling places in genshin.

the door that leads to Khaenriah below Sumeru was the scariest for me. the environment there just looked... dead? idk how to explain it, but just knowing what was behind the door gave me actual goosebumps

Technically 7 is Teyvat after the apocalypse, but for those who have done the quest, if you go in and search close to one of the buildings you will see a frosted glass wall. If you notice the other side shows the upside-down ruin inside the Chasm. Also the ghosts and Enaknomiya are on the top of the list. Plus an honorable mention could go in the door to khaenri'ah and the chasm underground hell where we are stuck with Xiao and co.

I never found Enka to be creepy On the other hand, the Narssizzenkreuz Ordo locations related to the Chymical Marriage Seal spook the sh*t out of me with that hell of a creepy Harry Potter-like music that doesnt stop even when in combat.

If you go to the door to Khaenri'ah under Tunigi Hollow for the first time, you get the achievement "Abandon all Hope, Ye who Enter Here" And most of us know where that line comes from

1:12 that 'hole' in reality suspiciously looks like the rifts the All-Devouring Narwhal creates.

Does anyone know the cave near the eleazar hospital which gives you an achievement after you read the notes and touch the hoe tool (which is used in farming) That caves gives me the creeps, especially what is written on the wall and on the hoe when you press on it. Something happened in the dessert so bad and horrific that someone got trapped down there, and we get the most eerie achievement ever

What scares u most? Ghosts and monsters are one thing yes but the inhumane experiments of Dottore... man this is something that actually happened many times in real history as well... Humans are scarier than monsters

Also seeing hilichurls “dead” and buried is also a weird feeling. Usually see them dancing around fire in their camps so to see them lifeless half buried in the floor in pieces…doesn’t sit right

Wuwang Hills has that quest with the ghost girl who drowned, she doesn't know that but the quest ends and you won't see her again, is very unsettling and I will never forget it. The fact that many people will skip Enkanomiya hurts my soul deeply Hangeh Afrasiyab is also very unsettling, is one of the deepest parts of Sumeru with a door to Khaenri'ah

It's Dar al-Shifa for me. I remember when i was doing the archon quest i decided to take my time and check out the place At first it wasn't that scary but the more i read those notes they became more and more creepy and then i found that drawer that had a key the creepiest note (i don't remember what was written but i'm sure cause it scared the hell out of me) I IMMEDIATELY teleported away and took a few seconds to come down Never gonna set foot in that place again. As for the guy that managed to run away, in the caves around the dendro hypostasis, you can find some notes that are written by him and if i remember correctly they say how he was starving and had nowhere to go and all. Overall, fuck that place

There was a quest in chasm. that took you to this other relm where you 'time travel' between eras in a certain place. and you have to solve this puzzle. the creator of that puzzle meant for you to be stuck in an infinite loop. I almost went crazy

- The Chasm as a whole should be on there. The dark mud that correupts but can also give you memories of the past, those Khaenrian soldiers who are atill alive, stuck in the past and have no humanity left, the darkness of it all, and the tragedy that is the celestial nail is the icing on the cake. - the door to Khaenri'ah is as fascinating as it is creepy. The achievement for finding it DID NOT help. - the desert paradise you find in Jeht's quest whose name i forget. Everything is eerily still, frozen in time. Its supposed to be peaceful and relaxing, but i found it to be desolate and unsettling. I half expected for the "illusion" to be shattered in the end but it didnt. Side note, the severed irmansul branch there was sad since the place is forgotten even by the ley lines. Honorable mentions: - upside-down Venti statue + the Caribert domain. Same parallel - Dragonspine's heart + lore - the remains of Carter you find in the Narcissencruez lab. Body horror freaks me out. So finding that amalgamation AFTER hearing the lore about it creeped me out. What creeped me out more and saddened me is the possibility that it's still alive. Just sitting there unmoving and unable to interact.

anybody gonna mention higi village? knowing the story behind it makes it so messed up and gives me this sinking feeling whenever i’m there. sure, kairagi now inhabit it, but take them away and now you’re left with the state of the village at the end of its lore.

For me, the abandoned hospital, the real Beret Society HQ, and that domain in the Caribert quest made me downright uncomfortable.

For number 7 if im not wrong i think it's an image of teyvay doomsday according to rene

Great places mentioned here, I even forgot about some of those places' existence... One more scary place (and also bloody awesome) is the one in Sumeru between forest parts and the Desert where you have to go very low down the map (you also fight monsters in the last part of the Aranara quest, but I forgot the name of that place), it's also blue-purple-ish there. First time I got there, it was terrifying + considering the story behind it...

Honorable Mentions from me : the big gate below Sumeru desert (i forget the name, so cmiiw) I enjoyed the underground desert until i saw that gigantic gate, its huge, underground. My feeling from joy change to stunned but scared at same time. I know its smaller that inverted pyramids on surfaces, but being that huge door underground made me uncomfortable 😣😣😣

That upside down ruin in the Chasm is also very unpleasant. Also everything related to the Abyss is very unpleasant and gloomy, like one of the places that scared me the most in the early game was that ruin in which we found the upside down statue of the seven. Everything about that place seemed evil.

Not only do I constantly think about the last moments of Bosacius and Boyang, sealed up in the Chasm, but I also think of Zhiqiong. Like, that Visionless, frail girl set out to face the horrors of that semi-sentient place alone with no intention of coming back. I wonder if she’s still alive and/or sane

Got to say, 50 percent or more of scariness comes from the music.

i honestly think that enkanomiya is very pretty appearance wise, not so pretty with the whole sun children thing 😭 but getting the namecard for it and exploring (especially in whitenight) was very relaxing and overall pretty chill in my opinion

I'm surprised Qingyun's peak / minlin isn't mentioned. That place has an unsettling sound that disturbs me, the one that comes from xiao calling his dead friends. It's sad but to me it's still creepy and gives me goosebumps. It made me want to not stay in that area for long

Abondoned hospital creeps me out

not sure if it's a fever dream or just a glitch/mod/fake video; in the 1.X versions, I remember watching a video on tiktok where there's this giant ruin guard eye peeping from under a gap between two big rocks in Liyue. did anybody see that too? it gave me chills tbh 😭

For everyone asking where ??? ( #7) is it in a world quest. Called Book of Esoteric Revelations. To get to it have to help a Melusine on the open road who loves to paint. Help her and the rest of the quest will follow. To start the quest itself you have to go the Merusea Village in Fontaine. In the village one of the Melusine will have ??? Over her head. Talk to her.

"????" always makes me SUPER uncomfy. It's number one for me

I really hope in future hoyoverse was inspired to make a full horror adventure game... They actually did some in genshin and hsr

Ahh, Cuijoe Slope, gonna be honest, it's the only place where we met with a lvl 100 enemy on overworld Now you only see lvl 100 enemy on abyss

Also, the old Vanarana (exactly, the land of grounded dreams), it makes me feel VERY unsettled, and the music is just ☠️⚰

I would also add Serai Island, even after completing the Quest it still unnerving. And maybe the Desert Ruins too. Technically I'm just afraid of unground, dark places.

The only time I ever felt creeped out in Genshin is when I was in Enkanomiya and flying to a tiny floating island over the abyss. When I made it to the island the background music ended and there was just the noise of the wind and nothing else in my surroundings. It gave a desolate and eerie feeling. Besides that yeah the hospital is pretty bad. Otherwise Genshin has some messed up places but they weren't really scary, per say, just what happened in a lot of places is horrific. But...honestly these are all my favorite places in Genshin. I love when the environment is tragic and desolate, like the mysterious feeling of long-destroyed civilizations.

The zhongli quest that turned the ppl standing salt mummies The creepy kid that got possesed by azdaha These are some

I think the Nameless island should be mentioned as well, it's isolated from civilization and you cant even see the island on the map.

The only thing about these places that scares me is that it's not about its environment, it was its mysterious origins that is unknown to us is what unsettles me. Why is the place called ??? in that one place in Fontaine? The origins of the Nameless Ruins that is a mystery to decode, the Enkanomiya despites its majestic feels, but the backstory of it sends chills, and I think there's a lot more to it than what the Before Sun and Moon book has revealed to us. And the mystery of the door underground in Sumeru, makes me wonder if the two nations had so much connection to one another?

Honestly Genshin never really scared me. I was more fascinated than scared at every single place besides one. The eleazar hospital. It light just gave off the air of an abandoned science lab

We should appreciate how gd is the world design is.

okay so i was glitching around the underground of fontaine's map and i came across the "???" place. IT WAS SO UNSETTLING, i didnt do the quest and i actually freaked out

The video: 😨👻☠️ The outro music: 🕺🕺🕺

2:36 i remember when i was a genshin newbie, and i walked into wuwang hill and everything turned dark, so i instantly sprinted away and teleported back to mond LMAO i was so terrified

Gate of Khaenriah on Sumeru should be on the list

Do you remember that unknown space where the chasm archon quest took place? So let me remind you, THAT SPACE WAS ALIVE. It was trapping people and devouring them... and I'm not even mentioning all the strange things that were happening there, so probably it should be on the 1st place (if we're talking about all scary places)

This probably wouldn't count sense these places aren't permanent once you complete them, but any of the withering zones, especially when they're underground. It didn't helped by the fact that nearly every time I entered one the soundtrack "snare awaiting" played. It's also scary to hear how these withering zones came to be and how that even if we heal irminsul and get rid of them all...they will return eventually.

The background music and screen glitching just make these more scary

Ok, so it turns out i am one of the few people that realized that there was a mirror of the upside down fontaine location in the *??? * place.

For me no.1 scariest place in this game will always be Tsurumi Island before the ghosts departed. The blue wisps scared me so much I never went there if I'm playing at night irl 😂. Cuijue Slope is no. 2, it's beautiful but the sky changing and atmosphere turning darker everytime I get there never sit right with me.

I've never gone to the opera house, I've never gone behind that fountain! Looking at it creeps me out,now.

Whenever I am stuck at a dark place for too long because of a quest, I go back to mondstadt. It feels so at home and peace there😊

That sleeping priestess lullaby on elynas heart caught me offguard ngl😂😂

Enkanomiya in itself is a damn cemetery

Never knew it was unsettling since the background music was so beautiful to the point that ghosts didn’t scare me nor the places where people had died

It's a very small thing, but after finishing the full quest, I never went back to Higi Village on Yoshiori Island in Inazuma. To learn that the villagers slowly died or went mad is unsettling. Finding that register that first listed down the names of those who died, and then those Washizu sacrified, and then finally how the traveler was going to be the next victim, that terrified me.

A lot of Inazuma besides the city and sanganomiya makes me feel uneasy. The music sounds so lonely. The island has no people. It reminds me of like early minecraft days when a c418 track would play when you were deep in a cave and just felt alone.

Fatal Frame music Playing Horror game music doesn’t make the video more scary.

What about the place with the salt statues in zhongli story

I think the gate underneath Wriothesly’s office was freaky. It locked the entirety of the Primordial Sea behind it, and it was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.

The most unsettling part is the number of the red dots on your screen. Clear up those notifs why dont you?

These are all just opinions of mine and it's from memory so might be a bit... messy. I feel Wuwang Hill and Cujie Slope are too high in this list - yes, they're eerie and somewhat unsettling, but they're not to the same level as other areas which are lower down. Particularly with Cujie Slope, that's more due to us getting trapped it's not unsettling to return to. Other mentions, by region Mondstadt: the sword graveyard, both temples/areas for the Time and The Wind world quests and the Old City of Mondstadt Dragonspine: The Sky Nail - it's the first time you see the result of the Heavenly Principal punishing and destroying something. Durin's Heart/Wyrmrest Valley Liyue: Mount Hulao and the Stone Forest and the Dainsleif quest areas with the anemo statue Chasm: Perilous Trail quests areas, Dainsleif quest areas and the Chasm Delvers quest part where we lose Zhiqiong. Maybe the mushroom place Inazuma: Serai Island, the underneath of Narukami Island, the shrine place on Narakumi Island that has all the fox statues that you have to figure out, as well as Konda Village/under the well Sumeru: Withering locations, the desert ruins, door to what appears to be Khaenri'ah, Eternal Oasis, Mawtiyima Forest maybe, also Dainsleif quest area with Chlothar Alberich Fontaine: Melusine Village including the tunnels, all underwater ruins, plus places that deal with the Narzissenkreuz Ordo quest line. Then there's Wrio's story quest area in the Fortress of Meropide which I feel I need to mention; it was well beyond unsettling in my books. Just outright horrifying. I don't feel like it does it justice to call it unsettling (this is purely personal, for me for it to be unsettling it cannot be in active use)

I think, the most scariest thing here is the music you picked for this video. Very atmospheric

1. Chasm 2. Tsurumi island 3. Enkanomiya. Cause you have to clear those area in order upgrade Yae, Thoma and Yunjin.

I believe Serai island, Yashiori (before the tataragami rainstorm gets cleared) the Chasm underground mines and Old Vanarana deserve inclusion. (Especially Yashiori which literally had a human sacrifice cult which tried to kill us)

idk why, but I feel calm in all this places

1. Khaenri'ah door 2. Sea Of Bygone eras (if you look outside the explorble map) 3. The upside down ruins of the Chasm 4. Tower Of Gestalt Interior 5. Real Annapausis 6. Annapausis Kingdom Interior 7. Cuijue Slope 8. Sea Of Primordial Water 9. The Carp's Rest 10. Sal Terrae (Salt God's Death Domain) 11. Underground Of Tsurumi Island 12. Underground Of Narikami Island 13. Dev's Cavern (Sumeru) 14. Old Nursery 15. Tanit Camp Remains (after quest) In Sumeru 16. Hall Of Truths in Mausoleum Of King Deshret

The abandoned Eleazar hospital reminds me of the abandoned psych hospitals irl. Creepy as hell.

Yeah man I think the abandoned hospital did terrify me a lot

8 is host to one of the most spectacular things in the game, the music is dynamic. The transition between battle and non-battle theme is absolutely seamless and the melody is maintained between them, it's fantastic. Enkanomiya is so good, it's very beautiful and the music is amazing, I wish they brought more events in this region

Vacher's lab was also unsettling like . the notes, the girls' dresses...

Its tsurumi for me. The tribe there was trapped for over 2000 years. The only reason they knew sun even EXISTED to begin with was because of carvings on the walls. And they couldnt even leave island cuz they either cuz they had a slim chance of making it out alive. Ruu didnt know about electro bird dying(till the quest), he didnt know about the cataclysm and he didnt know about the celestia itself. All the little guy knew was thunder and was doomed reliving the same three days over and over.

the place you hear voices but dont see anybody.....

The whole The Chasm place is creepy asf, not only because its underground and dark but the soundtrack there is also unsettling too. The place gives me the vibe of minecraft cave every time i get there. And not to mention that there's a world quest which also creeps me out in the Chasm 💀

Honestly the hospital scares the heck outta me like omg please i feel so bad for collei and all the other eleazer patients that had to suffer so much

Tatarasuna, Enka, and Tsurumi Island are just sad af. I'm more scared inside that temple on Cuijue Slope, the things ancient people of Liyue must have seen.

The elezar hospital got me scared during quest. It doesn’t have the creepy effect like the fog in Tsurumi but it’s still scary. Even we were with Alhatim it freaks me out the most. Not to mention the side quest to escape from that hospital with those creepy notes.

that one location in stormterrors lair is very unsettling

For the Traveler it's okay, but imagine being a normal human and being stuck in any of these places.

Why’d I watch this at 10pm now I’ve gone teary eyed

Well seems like “A very bright Place” isn’t giving a bright feeling-

The gates of Kaenriach create a feeling inside, as if something is hiding behind the gate, and you feel uneasy.....

the dragonspine heart gave me physical headache. i feel like getting trapped in a humid room

0:25 it's funny how you used the french spelling "fontaine", it shows that the new region truly had an Impact in Genshin 💀

So many disturbing places... Only has ghosts in one of these places... Ichigo sure is hard at work

There is nothing scarier than the time you discovered Dragonspine for the first time

Am I the only one who finds most of these places calming and peaceful? Even the abandoned hospital... it's just sad.

I found the Thousand Winds Temple a very unsettling because a island that won't show in map and there is a specific time 2 am to 5am where time flies Very fast and not consistent also the lore that is hidden between the god of time