History NightmareFuel / Dusk

* You start the game prying yourself loose from two meat hooks in a dingy basement, and the first thing you see is three Leathernecks - bag-headed mooks with revved-up chainsaws - shuffling their way towards you, while you have only two fairly weak sickles to defend yourself. It's a dismal and chilling scene, firmly setting the tone for the rest of the game and can be startling to players used to being dropped into tutorials or empty rooms to start out. [[spoiler:During one of the game's final levels, you return to this area and end the level by ''impaling yourself on the meat hooks again.'']]

* ''[[BlackoutBasement "The fall broke your flashlight."]]'' While its mercifully only a short time before you gain a replacement flashlight in these sections, you'll likely spend the whole time terrified by the thought of having to fight [[DemonicSpiders wendigos]] in the dark.

** During a segment in The Escher Labs, you find a teleporter simply labeled "DON'T" in blood. Stepping through teleports you into the gigantic, flayed ribcage of an unknown creature as a loud drill-like screech pierces the air. It's bad enough to have to go here for the red key, but worse yet is that this room is seemingly ''tailor made'' to give the two Wendigo hiding inside it a chance to blindside you with the visual and auditory noise drowning out their two most obvious signals, and no physics objects for them to shove around.

* Fork Maidens. They appear shrivelled, undead and ladylike, with [[GhostlyGape gaping eye holes]], pale grey skin and scorched, bloodied clothes. Despite their frail appearance, they [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies take a lot more firepower to bring down]] than other mooks, especially early on when you first encounter them.

If you're a big fan of VideoGame/{{QUAKE}} and [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} DOOM's]] horror elements, DUSK cranks them up a notch, with very grotesque and sometimes downright mortifying enemy designs and level themes.

* Horrors, pictured above. They're introduced in the last few levels of the game, and while not the most dangerous enemy, their appearance is ''[[UncannyValley very]]'' [[UncannyValley unsettling]], sporting an anguished NightmareFace with [[GhostlyGape no eye sockets]] and a signature [[MonsterMouth elongated mouth.]] They gasp and wheeze loudly, run ''very'' quickly once they spot you, take quite a bit of punishment and spit out several green gobs of goo that can be fairly damaging especially in close quarters, which you ''will'' be forced into in their debut level due to it taking place in a series of cramped underground catacombs. They too are also introduced in a fairly horrifying manner - you [[HellIsThatNoise hear their heavy, tortured breathing long before you encounter them]], and you're required to a flip a switch that opens up the basement, where the [[JumpScare first one is waiting to ambush you just around the corner.]] It only gets worse from there.

If you're a big fan of VideoGame/{{QUAKE}} and [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} DOOM's]] horror elements, DUSK cranks them UpToEleven, with very grotesque and sometimes downright mortifying enemy designs and level themes.

* ''[[BlackoutBasement "The fall has broken your flashlight."]]'' While its mercifully only a short time before you gain a replacement flashlight in these sections, you'll likely spend the whole time terrified by the thought of having to fight [[DemonicSpiders wendigos]] in the dark.

* Horrors, pictured above. They're introduced in the last few levels of the game, and while not the most dangerous enemy, their appearance is ''[[UncannyValley very]]'' [[UncannyValley unsettling]], sporting an anguished NightmareFace with [[GhostlyGape no eye sockets]] and a signature [[MonsterMouth elongated mouth.]] They gasp and wheeze loudly, run ''very'' quickly once they spot you, take quite a bit of punishment and spit out several green gobs of goo that can be fairly damaging especially in close quarters, which you ''will'' be forced into in their debut level due to it taking place in a series of cramped underground catacombs. They too are also introduced in a fairly horrifying manner - you [[HellIsThatNoise hear their heavy, tortured breathing long before you encounter them]], and you're required to a flip a switch that opens up the basement, where the [[JumpScare first one is waiting to ambush you just around the corner.]] It only gets worse from there.

* Possessed Scarecrows. They're ScaryScarecrows, alright, and the way they're introduced in the second level is even more unnerving - at first they just appear to be simple background props. Then you find your way through the corn field maze and one ''[[JumpScare suddenly breaks its post behind you]]'' and starts blasting you with a double-barreled shotgun. They're pretty resilient, too, for being so thin, able to take at least a few normal shotgun blasts before being put down.
* Fork Maidens. They appear shriveled, undead and ladylike, with [[GhostlyGape gaping eye holes]], pale gray skin and scorched, bloodied clothes. Despite their frail appearance, they [[IncrediblyDurableEnemies take a lot more firepower to bring down]] than other mooks, especially early on when you first encounter them.
* [[MadDoctor Scientists.]] They sport creepy surgical masks with sinister eye slits and grey mouth guards. They take less punishment than other foes, but their [[ThatOneAttack syringe-stabbing attack]] is one of the most damaging in the ''entire game'' - it takes off at least half your health on harder difficulties even with full Morale, and on Cero Miedo if you don't have any morale it's an ''[[OneHitKO instant kill.]]'' Hearing their laugh can raise some hairs, especially in the more confined underground stages of Episodes 2 and 3.
* Wendigos, dear ''lord'' the Wendigos. New Blood chose these guys to be front-and-center on the store page's banner for a reason - they look like large, demented ghouls with deer skulls for heads, are both tough enough to tank several Super Shotgun blasts ''and'' are very agile, and worst of all, spawn in as '''InvisibleMonsters''', who only reveal themselves when struck by one of your weapons, accompanied by a ScareChord for good measure. It's not uncommon for a player to hear their characteristic, spine-tingling heavy breathing, swap to the Mortar/Riveter and start flailing about firing blindly in a frenzied panic.

If you're a big fan of VideoGame/{{QUAKE}} and [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} DOOM's]] horror elements, DUSK cranks them Up to Eleven, with very grotesque and sometimes downright mortifying enemy designs and level themes.

** You're introduced to them in the second level of episode 2, ''[[MeaningfulName The Unseen]]'', in a rather terrifying set piece - from the start of the level, you head into areas littered with the corpses of dead Possessed Soldiers. That's when you notice, [[AlwaysABiggerFish something ''else'' got to them before you did.]] You proceed to the [[DarknessEqualsDeath unlit, dim ruins]], with only the light of your flashlight to guide you, and when you pick up the red key needed to progress, you hear a breathy bellowing noise, see a sign written in blood on the wall that says 'DON'T TRUST YOUR EYES', begin to turn around and suddenly notice there are ''very heavy breathing noises getting louder and louder'' and ''bloody footprints making a beeline towards you.'' In earlier versions, this was much worse - you could ''only'' pinpoint the location of a Wendigo based on the sound of their breathing or objects in the environment being pushed around.

* Wendigos, dear ''lord'' the Wendigos. New Blood chose these guys to be front-and-center on the store page's banner for a reason - they look like large, demented ghouls with deer skulls for heads, are both tough enough to tank several Super Shotgun blasts ''and'' very agile, and worst of all, spawn in as '''InvisibleMonsters''', who only reveal themselves when struck by one of your weapons, accompanied by a ScareChord for good measure. It's not uncommon for a player to hear their characteristic, spine-tingling heavy breathing, swap to the Mortar/Riveter and start flailing about firing blindly in a frenzied panic.