History NightmareFuel / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/WildArmsMillionMemories'' has its own few terrifying moments as well:
*** The opening cutscene features TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt with the destruction of the planet being described in detail by a crying Emma. To make matters worse, this all came about because ''Rudy'', of all people, betrayed everyone. You get to watch the entire scene again at the end of Chapter 34, in context.
*** Siegfried was already highly competent in both the first and third games. In this one, his competence is downright ''chilling''. The first factor into this is how much stronger he is, to the point where he absolutely [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with you]] in battle. Right after the aforementioned curb stomping, he revives Mother, increasing the liklihood of Rudy's predicted betrayal. And the context for watching the opening cutscene again? Siegfried's doing as he had Rudy cornered in the Memory Maze. It's a good thing he betrayed Mother, shielded Rudy from her attacks and underwent a HeroicSacrifice or the game's ending would have been a lot grimmer.
*** In the final chapter, you've finally given Mother the beating she deserves. Then she becomes [[OneWingedAngel Mother Majesty]] and covers the Memory Maze in a darkness ''that erases your entire party one by one.'' To make matters worse, the background music gets quieter and quieter as each character disappears, fading out completely by the time only Rudy, Cecilia and Avril are left. And then the latter two fade out, leaving Rudy all alone.

* ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQlXJl_zf3Q its set of scenery kills]] reached a level of violence and gratuituous cruelty that you rarely see even in more modern games. Pick your "favorite": getting torn apart/eaten by wildlife/supernatural beings, messily squashed by boulders, thrown into giant fanblades, burned or boiled alive, split in half by lightning, painfully dissolving into acid goop, falling into a trapdoor filled with multiple sets of giant buzzsaws, [[OverlyLongGag letting mysterious machines mess with your body]]...

* ''[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi]]'', one of the craziest scrolling shooters known to exist in the video game history, has its trademark TrueFinalBoss, Hibachi, who will always give you nightmares and endless frustration, especially in ''[=DaiOuJou=]'' and ''[=DaiFukkatsu=]''! Just listening to the music is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzlG1ZkG6g enough]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFmJxmMGYI to]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HE8XZ8WKY creep you]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY9LTWjcvq0 out]], too!!

* ''VideoGame/BrothersInArms: Hell's Highway'' for the Xbox 360 has an example of this, in the middle of the game, your character, Matt Baker will start to break down from the stress of war and begin to see things, this makes for very tense, atmospheric moments when you are searching the adandoned hospital for Franky.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'':
** Upon getting a Game Over, press "No" when asked to continue, and you get to see Bayonetta being abruptly pulled into Hell, and screaming. It only lasts about two seconds, but ''damn''.
** If you let Cereza die in any of the parts where you are supposed to protect her, the Game Over screen shows only her doll laying on the ground underneath the light, rather than Bayonetta's corpse.

* ''[[InteractiveFiction Afflicted]]''. You're a health inspector checking out a seedy bar in a horrible neighborhood. Just the health violations you find are seriously {{squick}}y, but then you start finding body parts. Worst of all is where you find the second hand.

* From ''Ozzie's World'', the sequence describing what it's like to be a tree, while not meant to be scary, manages to be this. The narrator gleefully goes into detail as a kid [[ForcedTransformation transforms into a tree]] with his toes becoming roots and his arms becoming branches. With all of this, the kid is left at the mercy of animals, unable to speak or move, and it ends with him [[AndIMustScream remaining a tree and at the mercy of a lightning storm.]]

* ''NightmareFuel/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale''

* ''NightmareFuel/Duskers''

** NightmareFuel/Persona3

** ''NightmareFuel/{{Doors}}''