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[woose1]

Er.... Penumbra?

Parts of Bio-shock? (I don't know about you, but that part with the dead family sitting in front of a broken TV and rubble scared me, even when there were no baddies about.)

What do you mean?

[Maric]

Something that isn't popping up to startle me.

EDIT> Something so scary that its not fun 

[Okenido]

Yume Nikki an unsettling exploration game.

I never, EVER want to go through making that game work EVER again!
It took me 4 hours just to find the Japanese unix program required to work it.

I bet you didn't use the english translation...

[Sergius]

I wouldn't exactly call it horror, but Sanitarium was quite creepy.

Dark Seed 1 and 2 are pretty scary too.

[Mephisto]

Dementium: The Ward for NDS. Seriously. You're in a hospital. When you walk through the maternity ward, demonic slug-babies crawl out of the ducts and attack you. They're fast and tiny, making shooting them with a pistol, or much worse, smacking them with your nightstick, in dim lighting very difficult

[Cthulhu]

Clive Barker's Undying was pretty scary.  I know I've played some games recently that sent me into "runjustrundon'tlookdon'tshootjustrunormaybestopplayingjustgetoutofhere" mode, but I can't remember what they were

[Hawkfrost]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth?

Clicky.

[cowofdoom78963]

Yume Nikki an unsettling exploration game.

I never, EVER want to go through making that game work EVER again!
It took me 4 hours just to find the Japanese unix program required to work it.

THE HORROR.

Well the program is right here with the game NEVER MIND, OH MY GOD. It looks pretty intresting and obscure. So I might as well play it, I do have the heart of a lion after all.

[Sowelu]

American McGee's Alice.

It's not hardcore horror, but it certainly counts at least a little bit, and it's kind of obscure.  I can't say it's a great game, but for its time, it sure had some pretty interesting environments.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

What about The White Chamber or Yahtzee's games?

[Gunner-Chan]

Hey, uhh... I don't mean to hijack, but I decided to try Yume Nikki and... I can't move! The arrow keys don't work... Well, they work everywhere else but not in the game at all.

[Sowelu]

Mental list of things to try:
Numpad vs. arrow keys?
Numlock?
Options with some "joystick" mode?

I haven't played in so long I don't know if those apply at all...

[Neonivek]

One of the things lost on most people are the small things that Phantasmagoria brings to the table

1) Slow alterations in music to become creepier
2) Transition of many objects to become creepier
3) Actual Pacing!?! This game takes its sweet time to actually become scary.

If at any point Phantasmagoria sucks you into the atmosphere... BAMN! Though that is around it.

Phantasmagoria is only obscure for people of a certain age and the same goes with 7th Guest.

I don't play too much horror because I am a wimp. (I don't watch Horror movies with others because they find it hillarious when I jump)

[0x517A5D]

I have not personally played it, but the Robbing The Cradle level of Thief: Deadly Shadows creeped me out just reading about it.

If you're willing to be spoiled, there is an impressive essay here:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

JOURNEY INTO THE CRADLE.

Note: the document is around 6MB.

[Sowelu]

I never played Phantasmagoria or 7th Guest, I was one of those weenies who played Shivers, kind of like if you were one of those kids who got a Game Gear instead of a Game Boy I guess.  Shivers wasn't great.

Worth going back to in this modern day and age?