Some people love to experience horror.
Feel their adrenaline pumping through their veins as their chased by an enemy, hiding
in a locker, or taking down a boss.
Luckily for us, there’s no shortage of horror titles out there, and today on Top 5 Scary
Videos, we’re going to be counting down the Top 5 Scariest First-Person Games.
Let’s jump in.
5 Outlast This first-person survival horror game revolves
around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who investigates a remote psychiatric
hospital named Mount Massive Asylum, located deep in the Colorado mountains.
It’s a thrilling ride from start to finish, as you maneuver your way around the asylum,
avoiding crazy inmates that want to kill you, while discovering clues about the hospital
as you seek an escape.
The jump scares seem to be endless in this game, whether you’re hiding in a locker
from a madman wielding a knife, or whether you’re hiding under a bed, trying to crawl
to freedom -- the game does not let up.
Not even once.
Outlast received generally positive reviews from critics and gamers alike, who praised
its atmosphere and horror elements.
Due to its success a DLS named Whistleblower was released, as well as a sequel, Outlast
2.
4 Amnesia: The Dark Descent This survival horror release back in 2010
focuses on a protagonist named Daniel, who is exploring a dark and foreboding castle,
while attempting to maintain his sanity, which is rattled by terrifying monsters and obstructions
throughout the game.
All that we know when Daniel awakes at the beginning of the game is his name, that he
lives in Mayfair, and that something is hunting him.
And the thing that is hunting him is downright terrifying.
Aptly named the shadow, this entity manifests itself through fleshy, acidic growths spreading
through the castle.
Throughout the game we learn of Daniel’s mysteries about his own past through notes
and diaries found scattered around the map.
Now what makes the game terrifying, isn’t because of jump scares, or the Shadow, but
because of the eeriness, and the unsettling feeling that no matter what, someone is always
watching you.
3 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard The Resident Evil franchise has always been
apt in making some of the most bone chilling, spine tingling horror games out there, and
Biohazard is no different.
Released in 2017, this survival horror game follows Ethan Winters as he searches for his
wife in a derelict plantation occupied by cannibals.
YUP.
No fun.
What tells this game apart from its predecessors is that it’s the first game in the series
to use first-person view -- making it all that more terrifying as you’re forced to
maneuver through swamps, through homes, and in bushes, avoiding being eaten while trying
to save your loved one.
Limiting your visibility means that you constantly feel exposed and vulnerable throughout the
entire game.
Now -- the most terrifying moments in the game come from the Baker family who are hot
on your tail, and they are absolutely horrifying.
Turning the game into a spooky version of hide and seek, as you’re forced to hide
from the members of the family.
2 SOMA Released back in 2015, this science fiction
survival horror takes place on an underwater remote research facility with machinery that
begins to take on human characteristics.
The game is downright terrifying, but what really makes this horror unnerving is the
sound design.
The sounds of footsteps approach sends shivers down my spine.
It’s incredibly atmospheric, pacing itself to begin before upping the intensity to a
ten halfway through.
You play as Simon Jarrett, a protagonist who finds himself at the underwater facility under
mysterious circumstances, and is inadvertently forced into uncovering its past while trying
to make sense of his future.
What makes this game horrifying, isn’t so much the jumpscares, but the existential horror
that goes along with it.
With the universe in the game not working the way you would reasonably expect it to.
1 Alien: Isolation Released in 2014, this survival horror game
is set 15 years after the events of the 1979 Alien films and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter
of Ellen Ripley as she investigates the disappearance of her mother.
Unlike previous Alien games, this version focuses on stealth and survival horror, requiring
players to avoid and outsmart the alien hunting them.
You are trapped on a space station with a xenomorph, and you need to find a way to survive.
The game is exhilarating, and downright terrifying.
Forcing you to hide in lockers and underneath gurneys -- quite like Outlast in that sense.
But, what makes this game even more horrifying, is the Xenomorph itself -- which is arguably
the most terrifying enemy we’ve ever come across in a video game.
It’s cunning, and wickedly smart.
Capable of using its eyes and ears to find where you might be hiding -- with the smallest
sound catching it’s attention.
It’s a unique tension that I haven’t experienced in a game before, and I suggest you all play
it.
Well, there we have it!
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Were there any that we missed?
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