Horror game recs?

Hey guys! I'm looking for a good horror game to play. I played Amnesia and Penumbra and found that I loved it, so I'm looking for more - preferably on consoles though. I've never played any horror games before those two, so I'm pretty much up to playing anything. Thanks in advance.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are good if you like some splatterpunk with your sci-fi Lovecraftian horror.

Metro 2033 is an excellent, very immersive game set in the subway tunnels of post-nuclear-war Moscow. Has both "oh crap, monsters are trying to eat my face!" horror and "oh crap, I'm going insane/monsters are trying to hack my brainmeats/Mind Screw" horror. The gameplay is also pretty good, though it's pretty linear, so there's not much replay value beyond achievement farming.

Alan Wake is basically a Steven King novel made into a video game. It's very much psychological horror, combining Primal Fear (fear of the dark) and Adult Fear (fear of losing a loved one) in a very effective way. The gameplay is servicable, but nothing special — the game is almost entirely story-driven. Unfortunately, has even less replay value than Metro 2033 because of it.

I'd like to know if there actually is survival horror game that is scary =P(Dead Space and Resident Evil aren't scary for me)

If your talking horror, no game does it better than Resident Evil or Silent Hill.

Siren is worth a try.

The Silent Hill series is one of the best, I'd say start with the first three, preferably 1 or 2. Silent Hill 2 is one of the best games in the genre.

There's also the Resident Evils, they rely less on atmosphere than the Silent Hill games but are still good. 4 is my favorite but that is more action-orientated. A good place to start would probably be hunting down the Gamecube remake of the first game or Resident Evil 2.

edited 2nd Feb '11 9:12:51 AM by Apocali

Then you'll have to tell people what you think is scary.

On the subject of Silent Hill and Resident Evil, I've never been a fan of either. Silent Hill I never found scary (a little creepy, maybe, but never scary) and the plot never did much to move me since I could never really identify with any of the characters. I'll admit that the only Silent Hill game I've played to completion was Silent Hill 2, but that's generally said to be the best of the series and it still did nothing for me, so whatever.

Resident Evil I've only played 4 and 5, both of which frustrated me to no end because of terrible mechanics. Frustration is the antithesis of entertainment. But a lot of people think Resident Evil is the best thing since sliced bread, so YMMV.

edited 2nd Feb '11 9:14:34 AM by NativeJovian

Nothing Is Scarier

So yeah, creepy music, atmosphere and Amnesia: Dark Descent.

I would not recommend RE 4 as a horror game. It has only a few genuinely scary moments (for reference, I found Dead Space, System Shock and Silent Hill 3 to be mindblowingly scary, as I am prone to a lot of Fridge Horror reasoning, which is why Shivers still reign at the top of my personal scare-list), and the rest of the game is a hilariously Narmy technothriller of dubious quality.

Fatal Frame's also a pretty darn good series if you're into the whole crazy J-horror thing turned Up To Eleven.

Amnesia The Dark Descent.

*psst* Re-read the OP.

Oh, and Silent Hill is a must for any survival horror fan.

whoops. -_-'

Well, nthing any mention of Eternal Darkness or the earlier Resident Evil games. Also, Chzo Mythos.

The first The Suffering is a solid game too. It's a bit on the actiony and gorny side but I liked its atmosphere.

I suggest STALKER. Agroprom, one of the first missions, is quite possibly the scariest thing ever.

STALKER is even more unsettling when weird things like enemies trying to shoot you through the walls happen.

Clock Tower for the Super Nintendo is victorious if you can get your hands on a copy.

Or when bandits spawn in front of your face.

I didn't find it THAT terrifying, to be honest. The Labs are obviously creepy.

If you have Half Life 1, try Afraid Of Monsters and They Hunger. Be warned, the latter's more campy.

Condemned Criminal Origins and Condemned 2: Bloodshot?

edited 2nd Feb '11 8:15:18 PM by NULLcHiLD27

edit: lolwut? Totally forgot I had this account. Anyways thanks for the recs everyone, OP here, going to pick up Eternal Darkness first and see how things go from there.

edited 5th Feb '11 8:41:55 PM by Bleggit