Most scary or sick computer/console game of all time?

[Kyriakos]

People most of the time think that the new games are the sickest, and in some cases they do have the most obvious gore-centered plot or storyline. However the old games were most the time just as sick, and the limit in graphical capabilities of the old computers meant that only good artists were used, and this in effect made the scary games even more sinister...

Let me start

Altered Beast

Anything from the coarse animation, to the theme of the game, seemed scary to me when i first saw it (i was 11). You are someone who turns into a lycantrope from time to time, and keep on fighting even more horrible beings around you

You can post any horror game, new or old, as long as you consider(ed) it to be quite scary/unsettling etc.

 

[Sonereal]

This thread couldn't be complete without Harvester.

 

[Kyriakos]

I googled Harvester. Seems it is a company (?) since there are several games which are not part of a series. Your pic does not show up, sadly :/

 

[Sonereal]

I googled Harvester. Seems it is a company (?) since there are several games which are not part of a series. Your pic does not show up, sadly :/

Harvester is a game that came out in the mid-90s set in a creepy 1950s town with a creepy 1950s population.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Most scary or sick computer games ever are necessarily Polybius or Killswitch. Sadly probably they never existed.

But speaking about real games with creepy craures but also filled with great beautiful art, i remember Deliverance for amiga. Where you were some sort of nordic semi-deity with the mission of freeing captured fairies from a castle filled with demons and torture chambers. And it had some sexy graphics too...

I also liked Agony, while not very scary it was still pretty fantastic.

Particullarly the loading screens which (along with the music) were inspirational for my infantile imagination and invited the mind to travel to strange worlds:

 

[PhroX]

Harvester was the first thing that came to my mind too, at least from the point of view of "sick". IIRC, the "good" ending was reached by murdering your girlfriend...

I remember being rather disturbed by parts of System Shock 2 - the midwives in particular were really creepy. Other things? Well, if you count visual novels as games, Saya No Uta deserves a mention. Really messed up but very very good (even if it does have a couple of H-scenes).

 

[Sonereal]

I thought the good ending came in not murdering her because of the way the rest of it played out.

 

[Kyriakos]

I saw some stills from the Harvester game. Indeed it looks quite demented...

Here is another game, considerably less hardcore but had a nice atmosphere and gruesome issues to deal with:

Its called Sanitarium

Considering that being in the barn was called "Mother", and back in the asylum some patient kept mumbling about being away from mother, it had quite a dark sense to it. I never played it much though...

 

[PhroX]

I thought the good ending came in not murdering her because of the way the rest of it played out.

Well you are trapped in a virtual world if you dont kill her. Which would typically be seen as a "bad" thing (although morally, of course killing her is worse).

 

[Sonereal]

Well you are trapped in a virtual world if you dont kill her. Which would typically be seen as a "bad" thing (although morally, of course killing her is worse).

Except they wouldn't know they were in a virtual world. The "good" ending has the main character becoming insane. They lived out the rest of their lives unbothered, not hurting anybody else, etc. In the real world, he attacks and eats a woman.

 

[The_J]

I guess you can't get that game anywhere legally anymore, right?

My selection of sick/scary games is sadly pretty poor.
You might consider using a cut off arm as weapon sick, but it's not *that* bad in a game (both Vampires 2 and Plansecape: Torment).

Else, there's a visual novel called "Narcissu", which's end is pretty disturbing, but not sure if it counts as scary.

 

[PhroX]

Except they wouldn't know they were in a virtual world. The "good" ending has the main character becoming insane. They lived out the rest of their lives unbothered, not hurting anybody else, etc. In the real world, he attacks and eats a woman.

I was thinking he was aware it wasn't real when he made the choice. Ah well probably just my memory failing me again

 

[Sonereal]

I guess you can't get that game anywhere legally anymore, right?

Unfortunately probably not. I think Harvester is Abandonware, but that's of course murky waters even for a game that came out in the mid-90s with a company that probably doesn't exist anymore.

I was thinking he was aware it wasn't real when he made the choice. Ah well probably just my memory failing me again

He was aware it wasn't real when he made the choice, but once he made the choice it was like taking the blue pill in the Matrix.

 

[sherbz]

I always recall night slashers as being particularly gruesome. I used to play it on an arcade machine after swimming lessons when i was 10

 

[Samez]

Postal/Postal2 qualify for the most sick game - I remember setting a herd of elephants on fire to make them trample a crowd of people in a stadium and IIRC there was also some pissing /vomiting on priests.

 

[shadowplay]

I loved Altered Beast when I was a kid! Like most of those old games, I couldn't make it very far, though.

 

[sherbz]

This was also pretty damn scary. The spiritual ancestor of resident evil. Alone in the dark.

 

[Kyriakos]

Colonel Buster Monroe!

 

[Disgustipated]

Custer's revenge was my first thought upon seeing the thread title. Not that I have played it. That's a different definition of sick.

I have never actually played a scary game. At least not since the 80's. It's not a genre I really dig. But I did like Forbidden Forest back in the 80's. Anyone know that game? What I really loved about that game was the music. C64 probably has the best sound back in the day, and I loved the music for that game. Scariest thing I've seen these days is stumbling upon Brood Mother on Dragon Age: Origins. That whole section is pretty dark. Of course then Bioware sold out and made the next two games PG13 style.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Resident Evil

The first original survival horror game
Come on peoples, how has this not been mentioned ?