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[kg333]

Call of Cthulu is pretty terrifying later on, in a creepy sorta way. Not sure if thats the whole title.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth?

System Shock 2 is very good if you can find a copy, although not entirely scary.

Not scary? I guess you are made of sterner stuff than I.
I don't think I've tried playing since the last time when I was looting a corpse and an enemy snuck up and whispered in my ear.
Fell off my chair and quit the game.

Not really, I had my fair share of jump moments from SS2.   "Babies need meat..."     It's just not an unrelenting spiral that makes you go to bed and curl up in a little ball that some of these games are, though.  Actually, that may be a point in its favor...

Call of Cthulu is pretty terrifying later on, in a creepy sorta way. Not sure if thats the whole title.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth?

That one was also a good scary one, but it's horribly broken on PC, unfortunately, due to basing character movement on FPS.  There's a trainer/speedhack available that lets you fix some of the timing problems, but without it, there's two sequences that are virtually impossible.

KG

[Ivefan]

Clocktower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_Tower_(series)
Fatal frame/Project Zero, preferably a not completely translated copy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Frame
Early Silent hill games

[Twerty]

Call of Cthulu is pretty terrifying later on, in a creepy sorta way. Not sure if thats the whole title.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth?

That one was also a good scary one, but it's horribly broken on PC, unfortunately, due to basing character movement on FPS.  There's a trainer/speedhack available that lets you fix some of the timing problems, but without it, there's two sequences that are virtually impossible.

KG

I disagree with both sentiments: CoC:DCoTE became very much unscary as the game goes on and devolves into, more or less, into a generic shooter. In the beginning, you come into the town and you have no weapons and no idea what's going on. You deal a lot with chase scenes and stealth segments, and the periodic placement of checkpoints that protect you I think worked very well. The puzzles and point-and-click adventure-like components I thought shined especially well in the beginning. These elements are more or less phased out after you pick up a gun, and the game, I feel, lost a lot of the feeling of helplessness and terror.

And secondly, those segments (the chase scenes) are very much possible on PC without trainers or hacks. :p Just takes a few tries to figure out what you're supposed to do first. Pulling it all off in the end felt incredibly satisfying.

[Haschel]

It's already been mentioned a few times, but I strongly recommend the second Silent Hill if you have a way of playing it. It's just great.

[Dohon]

Clive Barker's Undying made me shat my trousers. Repeatedly. Quite an old shooter by now, but by Armok, still scares me.

[Akura]

Fiend is freeware, and pretty damn scary. (according to the link, it's the same guys who made Amnesia)

The controls are a bit hard, since the game doesn't pause while in the menu.

[Hawkfrost]

Clive Barker's Undying made me shat my trousers. Repeatedly. Quite an old shooter by now, but by Armok, still scares me.

That is indeed a good one, shame almost nobody knows about it.

[kg333]

I disagree with both sentiments: CoC:DCoTE became very much unscary as the game goes on and devolves into, more or less, into a generic shooter. In the beginning, you come into the town and you have no weapons and no idea what's going on. You deal a lot with chase scenes and stealth segments, and the periodic placement of checkpoints that protect you I think worked very well. The puzzles and point-and-click adventure-like components I thought shined especially well in the beginning. These elements are more or less phased out after you pick up a gun, and the game, I feel, lost a lot of the feeling of helplessness and terror.

I've heard that complaint about it, but found it didn't detract much from it.  However, I started playing expecting a generally creepy shooter along the lines of FEAR, not expecting something like Amnesia.

And secondly, those segments (the chase scenes) are very much possible on PC without trainers or hacks. :p Just takes a few tries to figure out what you're supposed to do first. Pulling it all off in the end felt incredibly satisfying.

I personally tested it with and without the trainer at various resolutions, since I normally hate the things.  I found character movement dramatically increased when running in 640x480 as opposed to 1024x768.    Before applying the trainer, I also went and looked up video walkthroughs so I knew the exact path.  Under 1024x768, the fish-men sequence was barely possible by cutting every corner perfectly and not fumbling any locks.  The end-game escape sequence was indeed impossible.

I was running it on a laptop with integrated graphics at the time, so I was not getting very good FPS.  If you look around, there's other people who've had the same problem with not being able to complete sequences as intended on PC in resolutions 1024x768 or higher.

KG

[Neonivek]

Clive Barker's Undying made me shat my trousers. Repeatedly. Quite an old shooter by now, but by Armok, still scares me.

That is indeed a good one, shame almost nobody knows about it.

It is probably because of one very good reason:

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The game starts to collapse into "crud" close to the halfway point. No honestly as good, or bad, as it is... it starts to become pretty BAAAAAAAD after a certain point.

[Cthulhu]

I don't remember Undying getting worse at any point.

Also, I never beat Call of Cthulhu, I gave up in the final sequence, couldn't do it.

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It took me about fifty tries to beat the shoggoth chase through the long straight hallway.  Contrary to the claims that it's satisfying when you finally win, I was no longer anything resembling scared and not at all satisfied when I finally got through it.  It completely destroyed the pacing of the scene.

[Neonivek]

I don't remember Undying getting worse at any point

It turns to crud right around the point where it proves that ALL anthropologists ever wrong.

Then again I read the book the game came in so maybe I was expecting more intelligence from the game. Undying seems to almost make a better novel then a game.

[Neonivek]

Going to add

Waxworks

And maybe... The Void (though it isn't EXACTLY a horror game)

[Alkhemia]

Super Man 64 >_> <_<
 
the Clocktower games are good for scary

[nenjin]

CoC saps all the potential horror out of the game by a) making the scenarios the worst of Resident Evil's "Do or die" boss strategies, like Cthulhu said, and b) they give you the fire power and the ability to kill Mythos stuff. Not just here and there, but a whole level filled with Mythos creatures that you gun down. Despite the fact the first half of the game takes place in the most boring environment of the game, and is practically event for event a recreation of A Shadow over Innsmouth....it's MORE interesting than the late game to me.

The injury system is also shit. It should be a great piece of realism enforcing mechanics, but in a world with virtually NOTHING else going on it, it's more like an elaborate penalty for EVER screwing up.

Undying is an OK game. Sort of scary but has this layer of semi-cartoony graphics that can ruin it for you. I agree the game starts well then basically falls apart later on. When you're running across the damn mansion 4 and 5 times to try and figure out where to go next, you're not scared anymore and most of the "tricks" game devs pull to scare you have long since stopped working.

Undying seems to almost make a better novel then a game.

That's because Clive Barker is a better novelist than he is a gameplay creator. Jericho, anyone?

[Neonivek]

Oddly enough I think I really understand Jericho quite a bit.

The biggest mistake I feel the game made is that its end game wasn't ambiguous enough especially given the context which I shall say in this spoiler which features HEAVY GAME RUINING SPOILERS!:

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Namely that the main villain of the game... was a villain. Honestly given that the entire story is about how apperantly there is a being that predates human beings who was cast away by god into a box of eternity in because it is perfect and wanted flawed beings.

When I say it in action I thought the game was about how the box and the being were ultimately incompatable creating a situation where people were living without life and dying without death creating an endless torturous undeath for all those within it but couldn't avoid doing so because there was no other way to escape its bonds.

I thought the ending was going to be something along the lines that both sides ultimately couldn't be fulfilled and a fight that was the metaphorical equivilant of two starving dogs fighting over the last peice of meat, it isn't moral it is just survival... but nope it was that what was essentially satan was sealed in a box for our protection (essentially) and wanted to escape because it couldn't fulfill its evil quota.

I will say that if I understand how the game functions the Jerico team are trapped in the box for eternity anyhow.