Nightmare Fuel / Kingdom Come: Deliverance

• Go out in the woods at night. The game presents a very realistic representation of night time, averting the Hollywood Darkness trope. Which means that when you're out in the woods without a torch, you can't see jack shit and it is very likely you'll be surprised by a sudden bandit/Cuman attack.
  • To make matters creepier, you'll occasionally hear the sound of a pack of wolves howling in the distance. While there are no wolves in the game, the sound is extremely creepy and will always make you feel unsafe, no matter how well prepared you are.
  • An example of what you might face while running through the woods completely drunk.
• The fate of Limpy Lubosh. Let's just say that his naked, gory, nailed and gutted corpse is not a pretty sight.
• The death of Henry's parents, his mother in special. She slumps over her husband's corpse, gets a last look at Henry's Heroic BSoD face and then gets stabbed from all directions by Cuman soldiers as she screams in pain. Keep in mind that Henry watches all of this happen right before him. This can actually by considered in universe nightmare fuel, as Henry has actual nightmares about the whole thing. On Hardcore Mode, stat-penalty inducing nightmares can be one of the negative character traits you can take.
  • Returning to Skalitz at the end of the prologue as well. The entire village has been sacked and burned to ruins and there are piles of corpses laying everywhere, including a few poor bastards hanging from wooden posts. The whole place feels very desolate and eerie, which isn't helped by the fact that the only living souls still hanging around are a few hostile bandits and looters.
• Henry can help an old prostitute by stealing some cheap stuff they want. Except soon after, she violently murders her ex-husband and wife with a knife and disappears to parts unknown. He can also help a farmhand get petty revenge on people who screwed him over, which escalates to arson with the intent to frame his crush's boyfriend or outright burn him to death. There's petty theft for turnabout, and then there are people who are so wound up, they just need a little help to drive themselves completely insane.
• Then there's the three witches quest in Uzhitz, who are just grieving women who do demonic rituals to process their grief. This being a realistic world, the rituals amount to getting high in the woods and harmless chanting. They get caught by Henry during one such ritual, but Henry also gets stoned out of his mind, since the women touch his skin with hands being smeared with hallucinogenic ointment. Then the demons appear. However, these are not actually demons, but woodcutters trying to interrupt what they perceive as Satan worship. Henry either defeats the "demons", waking up from his Mushroom Samba to the sight of slaughtered woodcutters, or doesn't, waking up from his Mushroom Samba to the sight of slaughtered women. There is no way this quest ends without innocent people dying because of superstitious beliefs.The only way to "win" the quest is not to do it.
• Neighboring the graveyard in Uzhitz are two unmarked graves. One of them contains an adult-sized human skeleton... and a tiny human skeleton above the pelvis. You are never given a full explanation what happened to the poor baby.
• There is a good jump scare if you have the Woman's Lot DLC. On one quest Theresa is supposed to go into the mines and try to find some missing silver that her brothers dropped, before they get caught with the theft, which would have been a gruesome death penalty for the lot of them, as you go deeper into the mine tunnels, suddenly you might get ,momemtarily turned around, then.... FLASH! When you investigate and go further into the mines there is a polaroid camera with Theresa's image on it.

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