History ParanoiaFuel / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogmaII'' has [[TheVirus the Dragonsplague]]. With how potentially devastating it can be to allow the disease to reach its terminal stage, many players have taken to [[SuperDrowningSkills chucking Pawns into the nearest deep body of water]] at even the mere suspiscion of infection. Pawns with a "Straightforward" personality tend to get this treatment due to their snarky disposition being misconstrued as a symptom of infection (the actual symptom is being disobedient and rude, while a healthy Pawn will obey while snarking), as well as avoid hiring any Pawns with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] (the infected will actually have ''[[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]]'' red eyes).

* ''VideoGame/HellNight'', a UsefulNotes/PlayStation game released [[NoExportForYou only in Europe and Japan]], has this in spades. The game is played in first person, and casts the player in the role of an average Joe salaryman trying to escape from the underground areas of Tokyo as he is stalked by a constantly-mutating humanoid monster for some reason. The high school girl that the main character is partnered with at the beginning of the game can detect the monster's presence somehow and will tell you were he is... usually. Another scary part of the game is that NPC[=s=] are not visible outside of individual rooms until you walk right up to them, making for some unpleasant surprises, especially if you haven't come down from the adrenaline rush of encountering and escaping the monster at the time.

* ''VideiGame/TwistedWonderland'':

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has the Patriots: A group of [[spoiler: hyper-intelligent AIs]] are secretly running every aspect of not just America, but ''the entire world''. They're watching, and orchestrating every minute event of the entire world, even perceived human failures and disasters, in the mother of all {{Gambit Roulette}}s. And you'd never even know who or what they are, because they're so powerful they censor their name from even casual conversation.

** From ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', there's The Sorrow, who follows Snake around for a good portion of the game. Until the "boss encounter" with him, the player has no idea who or what he is, or what he wants. He doesn't attempt to harm Snake in the scenes he shows up in, but he's still quite creepy.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3,'' on your way to the Seeker Missile, you walk past shielded tubes containing Metroids. Guess what happens when you get the item.

* The Cocytans in ''VideoGame/TheDig'' are nice enough once you save them, apart from the comment their leader makes about how "if any of your people try to pick a fight with us, ''[[CurbstompBattle we'll mash them like bugs]]''." In context, what he meant to say was "don't worry, we can take care of ourselves" in response to Commander Low cautioning him that not all humans would be as amenable to the idea of alien contact; but the ''way'' he said it, it makes one worry about what would happen if the Cocytans ever gave humankind a ''good reason'' to "pick a fight" with them...

** Yo-Kai are everywhere. They control your emotions, your thoughts, your temperature, hell, even your ''memories.'' Having that sudden urge to pee? It was probably a Yo-Kai. Forgot your keys? That can also be a Yo-Kai. Feeling extra sad today? A Yo-Kai problem indeed. While this sounds mundane at first, it starts to feel a lot more terrifying when you realize that there are ''just as many terrifying and evil Yo-Kai out there as there are jolly and benevolent ones. And they can make you do things that you'll never live down for the rest of your life.'' And worst of all? Without the Yo-Kai Watch, these things are ''invisible.'' The next time you have the feeling of being watched, keep in mind that it ''may'' be a Yo-Kai, and they may not be very friendly.

-->'''3, 2, 1, TERROR TIME'''
*** It's even ''worse'' in the later games... Since sometimes you'll have to ''wait'' for the golden door to appear, or even worse; it'll be locked. And you'll have to directly TAKE the key from the Onis themselves. Hell, sometimes there won't even be a timer; you'll just ''suddenly get sucked into a dark portal and directly into Terror Time.''

*** It's even ''worse'' in the later games... Since sometimes you'll have to ''wait'' for the golden door to appear, or even worse; it'll be lockked. And you'll have to directly TAKE the key from the Onis themselves. Hell, sometimes there won't even be a timer; you'll just ''suddenly get sucked into a dark portal and directly into Terror Time.''
** Yo-Kai are everywhere. They control your emotions, your thoughts, your temperature, hell, even your ''memories.'' Having that sudden urge to pee? It was probably a Yo-Kai? Forgot your keys? That can also be a Yo-Kai. Feeling extra sad today? A Yo-Kai problem indeed. While this sounds mundane at first, it starts to feel a lot more terrifying when you realize that there are ''just as many terrifying and evil Yo-Kai out there as there are jolly and benevolent ones. And they can make you do things that you'll never live down for the rest of your life.'' And worst of all? Without the Yo-Kai Watch, these things are ''invisible.'' The next time you have the feeling of being watched, keep in mind that it ''may'' be a Yo-Kai, and they may not be very friendly.

* ''VideoGame/YoKaiWatch'":

*** It's even ''worse'' in the later games... Since sometimes you'll have to ''wait'' for the golden door to appear, or even worse; have to directly TAKE the key from the Onis themselves. Hell, sometimes there won't even be a timer; you'll just ''suddenly get sucked into a dark portal and directly into Terror Time.''