I was watching a film that creeped me out and it made me realize how much better horror is when it focuses on an eerie environment over cheap jump scares. So I'd like to play some horror video games that are like that. What do you recommend that's scary without having to rely on jump scares? (Preferably without any at all, but it's okay if they're present but rare.)
Also, is Silent Hill one such series? It always looked interesting to me.
>>258034
yes
Outlast, cryostastis and Amnesia series you an check out.
You can play most of these old games using emulators. I recommend purchasing a game controller though if you dont have one.
-Resident Evil 2
Few jump scares, but there good and unexpected rarely happens in the game.
-Silent Hill: Homecoming
My favorite Silent Hill is Homecoming. Only one I think I played on PC.
-Clock Tower 3 for PS2
You end up chasing the spirits of dead serial killers.
-Manhunt 2 PS2
Manhunt had a really cold atmosphere. Its like playing a character from Saw or that Nicolas Cage movie 8MM.
-Splatter House 3
If your into scary pixel art.
-Shadow Man
Its on steam, I remember this game being really grim as a kid. Lots of voodoo references.
Also the PS2 had a bunch of survival horror games. There is Haunting Ground, Fatal Frame, Obscure, Forbidden Siren. Most bizarre one I've played was D2 for Dreamcast.
Thank you for the answers, especially >>258055. That should keep me set for quite a while. I'll give this one bump though, in case anyone has any other suggestions. I certainly don't mind playing old games as long as they're still what I'm looking for.
>>258055
>My favorite Silent Hill is Homecoming
>>258518
Lol, desu I only liked it because of the difficulty. I read online reviews mentioning lot of bugs in the PC port.If I had to really choose it would be shattered memories. However I've never played the console port just the PSP port.
>>258523
In my experience a lot of people aren't too keen on any Silent Hill after 4 since they passed the series off to western developers. Any particular reason why you feel differently?
>>258034
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Inspired in a book by HP Lovecraft, the setting is really grim and scary, a lot of the "jump scare" parts are just normal things like a guy coming through a door, and there's nice little details like looking through a small window to notice someone hung themselves or there's someone (or something) dragging a body, things like that. There's also another Call of Cthulhu coming soon, not from the same devs but I recommend you still check it out
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>>258034
Silent Hill 2 is probably the most "atmospheric" horror I've experienced. It's really hard to recommend horror as feelings of fear are really, really subjective.
Some games with eerie environment would be for example Bioshock, Alien Isolation, maybe even Alan Wake, but then again many people do not consider them even "proper horror". You should probably just play a lot and find what you like.
>>258034
silent hill 1, 2 and 3 yes, the rest aren't really good
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fatal frame