To any unfortunate people who played that Rugrats game when they where younger, that game was riddled with horror nightmares. Not just the mentioned ghosts in this countdown. I was terrified of this giant purple gorilla who'd chase you in a creepy closed toy store. The creepy goose with grandpas teeth in its mouth, the mr. Friend toys you fought in the basement, and Theres a creepy mr. Friend mummy hidden deep in the pyramid in the golf minigame. And the music was horrific in most of these situations. (That game was like silent hill for 3 year olds.)
Yo, I remember now man. I had this game and I never finish this csuse some of the scenes freak me out. I had to be 5 or 6 man but the night scene got to me.
"Stu, what are you doing?" "Making *SHADOW MONSTERS.*" "It's Tommy's bedtime. Why on earth are you making shadow monsters?" "Because I've lost control of my life."
in the Ice Cream Mountain level there's a mummy hidden in the pyramid shocked me when I was younger have to kill it with a golf ball on the wiki its says one of those clown robots made to look like one
Watching the Lemmings freak out and scream in pain and terror as they realize that they will _explode_ in the next few seconds because an unknowable entity from another dimension wills it is far more horrifying than an unexpected boneyard. And Luke thinks it's funny.
@@ollikoskinen1 Well, Luke is substantially bigger than them, basically almighty in relation to them, and lives in a scale of decades, instead of the few minutes the lemmings have. Yeah, that checks out. Luke is a great old one.
No, the scariest part of Rugrats is when you're on the golf level. If you go deep enough inside the pyramid, you get chased by a mummy that's making weird sounds. It's so totally unexpected in a harmless looking golf area.
The "Toy Palace" level in Search for Reptar genuinely terrified me as a kid and I could never actually finish it - that giant mechanical gorilla absolutely haunted me for weeks afterwards...
Hey, at least they noticed Luigi. Noticing not noticing Luigi would be like DC not noticing one of the many Robins despite the fact that most of them get killed off. If you're a Robin, chances are you're going to die. The fans even voted to have Robin die in a warehouse explosion in one of the comics. It's not a good thing, it's just Batman tradition.
@@Gamer88334 but only 1 Robin actually died, Jason Todd. And then he came back to life Grayson became Nightwing and subsequently Batman (and Riddler figured it out almost immediately in Gotham City Sirens), Tim became Red Robin/The Joker depending on continuity, Stephanie was fired and became The Spoiler, and Damian was Robin until he quit following *SPOILERS* the death of Alfred and if any of them died in New 52, eff New 52
@@ChibiKami You forgot the Robin named Carrie Kelley. She technically died in the first Crisis event but then was reimplanted into the multiverse. (Could be misremembering though)
Rugrats: Search for Reptar freaked me out so much as a kid. I believe a big part of it was the music. The whole game just had this eerie tone making you feel perpetually uneasy.
Even I, a murderous psychopath in EVERY game only killed one Little Sister, and it was to see what the other option was. I immediately reloaded my most recent game and played the rest of my playthrough saving them all.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 In all my play throughs of Biohock, I have never been able to bring myself to kill one. And this is from a guy who killed everyone in a Hitman level.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 We all have a line that we won't cross, I saved all the little sisters cause my conscience would never forgive me if I killed them
Im so, so happy to see endless ocean mentioned. By far my favorite series of games. Nobody else seems to have heard about it and it feels like a fever dream
The entire Crocs Lair segment of Batman Arkham Asylum I’ve played horror games that weren’t as scary, never knowing when he’s gonna pop out and attack you...the atmosphere is so well done and I hate it but I love it...
I was playing at night in my room under my loft bed. My screen was a early "flat screen" monitor and I had the lights off at the time. Needless to say after about ten seconds after I entered Croc's Lair the lights were on and I was crouch walking like there was no tomorrow. That was truly one of the most intense events of its kind that I had and have experienced in gaming.
Arkham Asylum has a ton of moments like these. The Scarecrow sections, Croc's Lair, the crazy person jumpscares like when they fall out of a vent out of nowhere and charge at you.......
There is a second scary moment in the “Search for Reptar” game in the mini golf level on the pyramid course a mummified version of the Mr. Friend doll is wandering around inside the pyramid
I hated the pyramid part when I was young! The music and sounds creeped me out. And I love everything to do with Egypt, but nah. Hated that part every time. Lol!
The mummy Mr friend in the pyramid, The goose you randomly come across in the maze part of looking for Grandpas teeth. Rugrats traumatized me way more than it bloody should have.
9:09 Hearing the bubbles and the breathing from Endless Ocean brings me immeadiatly into a zen state....and then they had to remind me of the idol. Diving into the abyss was also quite creepy. I love to see some recognition for Endless Ocean.
That game gets dark on a gradual scale and builds up to utter insanity at the end and I love it. I remember beating it as a kid and when I tried to brag about it on the playground to my friends, who bragged about Mortal Kombat and Sonic and all that, they didn't care. Ecco was "that dolphin game for girls". If they only knew...
@@LizzardGirl713Yup! The False Hydra is a community favorite, mostly due to its ability to delete people's memories, which it usually does to make close friends and family of its devoured victims to forget that person's existence at all. It actually became such a staple of homebrew D&D that many people didn't actually know it was fan-created material, and some still don't!
A hat in time queen Vanessa’s manor is pretty scary the first time. One level your jumping through a cute as heck platformer and in the next your running away from the devils evil ex.
I've not played the game, but my family calls my paternal grandmother "the devil's 7th wife that he sent up here so he didn't have to deal with her" - so my first thought upon reading this was "But my grandmother's name is Gwen, not Vanessa...."
As soon as I saw Psychonauts in there I immediatley knew it was gonna about Milla's mind. As if that's the only spook in there. Like, y'know, Raz's family being cursed to drown, and him having t fight underwater as hands slowly wait for you to go near?
I see so few people talk about psychonauts that I now consider you a friend friend. Also that hand was fucking terrifying when I was younger and tried to swim to the boats to collect cards.
I actually watched oddheader's last video last week, so I'm kinda surprised that OXtra is actually doing Psychonauts. Well, here's hoping the sequel is worth it come next year.
Yes, between the weaponized sneezed-out brains, fighting the worst nightmares of multiple people who were drove insane, climbing a toxicly-mutated-rats infasted tower a the final level, it is kind of amazing that its still kinda kids friendly.
That Lemmings level makes so much sense now. I don't remember being scared by it as a kid, but it was confusing like, 'okay, I guess this is hell now??' I do like that it was a homage to their other game, and I think if I've known that back then it would've blown my mind to see a level from another game there.
What always terrified me as a kid were the metal sharks in Spyro 2. I had no problems with any of the other enemies or even the bosses, but those sharks... I was always getting lost in that underwater level and ended up swimming down the wrong tunnel right into the jaws of one of the sharks. That, plus the music, and the terrifying openness of the ocean above the towers where you got orb quests, utterly terrified me, to the point that I couldn't even watch my brother finish the level for me!
I feel like it has been mentioned before but is worth repeating - the Comstock House in Bioshock Infinite. Even the sound that the Boys of Silence make still causes me to jump
I fell like Arkham Asylum's last Scarecrow segment should be on this list. Not only does it start with the illusion that your game broke, it also just ramps up the spooky by letting you see images of insane Batman which if you ask me are extremely spooky.
OMG that level on Rugrats Search for Reptar freaks me out SO much! 😣 I didn't play horror games at the time this was released and this was the freakiest gameplay I had experienced thus far. But even when I started playing horror games I look back and THAT Rugrats level has freaked me out the most..lol I think it's because it's such a bright cheery house and to see it completely dark is just.. unsettling.
I've always struggled to beat Ocarina of Time because of the Wallmasters in the Forest Temple in the adult section. Seriously, I can handle ghosts and portraits but those creepy hands hovering above me and swooping down are just HORRFIYING.
Same, I could handle Dead Hand no issue as a kid but those wallmasters can fuck right off. That and I always got chills playing the alien bit from Majora's Mask.
the ocarina of time remaster is my first zelda game and tbh i was expecting it to be cutesy like Kirby o_o those things under the graveyard in kakariko village haunt me
@@insaincaldo If you mean Forest Temple, I feel the same. I’d always dread doing it and burn through ASAP. I remember the music had an irritating, grating quality to it for me. Although from an artsy standpoint, I’m just now thinking it kind of fits the temple’s wild, foresty-ness and the distorted parts like the rotating room/s and spiralling hallway/s. Still don’t like it, though.
Chateau d'Onterre in Dragon Age: Inquisition is not by any means an instant classic scare, but man, its slow burn brand of horror is still up there. Shame it's too easy to miss unless you're intent on clearing absolutely everything in-game.
Since you mentioned rugrats, you really should have included that one lone clown robot all alone inside of the pyramid on the minigolf level. That place scared the hell out of a young me because I never expected an enemy in that level, let alone isolated.
Might I add : Photoshop Flowey and the True Lab from Undertale? Especially when you have to have gone full pacifist to even reach the True Lab. As a pacifist you've seen the game at its least creepy and most funny and then...
Oh god, I forgot about that idol. And when you complete it all you get is the option to turn your hair while lol I don't actually remember finding it when I first played endless ocean, though what I do remember is that ghost ship. It terrified me so much, despite doing basically nothing aside from randomly appear, that I only entered it about five years after I got the game! It's a shame that I waited so long, because that area became my favorite for both looks and music soon after.
There's a moment of existential horror in the Protoss mini-campaign in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. You rescue a squad of troops at one point by powering a structure that had been shut down while they'd been teleporting to the battle through it. They're happy to get back into the fight, but the battle they'd been trying to get to was _ten years ago._ What's worse, they were fully aware of what was going on that whole time. Makes you kind of shudder to imagine how many others might be lost out there, trapped forever in the place between places.
@@addyxinwonderland1473 I feel like the void has an actual mental tractor beam where everyone who plays the game just decide to go to the void for no reason out of nowhere. Despite there being no resources or story-related things in the void, you suddenly want to go there and (in most cases) die. That's what scares me about the void. It lures you in to die.
@@lindatory1886 I actually have Megalo Thalasophobia - a fear of large creatures in the ocean. If I knew the ocean was empty, I could swim and dive in it all day. It's just faster & easier to say Thalasophobia in casual conversation. lol And as a testament to how much so - I played the first Endless Ocean until the drop off and had a crippling panic attack. When the second game drops you right into a pod of whales - I immediately and a panic attack and turned off the TV... Because turning off the console would have taken too long. I can laugh at it - you kind of have to - and I actually appreciate games like this as it allows me a way to try and deal with it at my pace without actually physically putting myself in real world "danger" and - let's be honest - danger. I did manage to beat Subnautica after spending months in the shallows accomplishing nothing. But in that game you get the Sonar and Prawn Suit and giant submarine. But there were plenty of times when a Beasty would surprise me and I'd turn off the game. I didn't care I lost an hour or work either.
I find it amazing that The Legend of Zelda can go from "The darkest game ever rated E10+" to "Oceanic adventure in a super cutesy art style that's held up since 2002" to *"NO TAKE MIRROR"*
For me, trying to sneak past Dark Bramble's anglerfish in Outer is one of the scariest things I have ever done in a game because the anglerfish are big enough to swallow your spaceship whole, and they have incredibly acute hearing despite being blind, meaning that if you try to rush past them, you're just gonna die
Oh man, Endless Ocean 1 & 2 were amazing. I really hoped they would make another (fingers still crossed 🤞 honestly). And Lemmings was my thing in the early 90’s, I’d forgotten about that horrifying level
I really want another one, but the Wii was just such a perfect console for them! I still have a Wii, so I'd be happy to get another game on it, but I really want more people to experience the series, so honestly, any console would be wonderful at this point. Also, IMAGINE THE GRAPHICS NOW - it'd be so beautifulllll
OH MY GOSH LEMMINGS!!!! My dad was so excited to have us play this. Drove mom crazy when my brother and I would act out being Lemmings because and I quote "I live with nerds, I'm all alone."
Lavender is a traditional color of mourning. It’s actually rather brilliant to name a Poké town after it. It has a cheerful sound and yet an association with grief and death.
I'm super excited to see someone else remembering the Endless Ocean series, though Blue World's interactions at the bottom of the trench as well as inside the ancient ruins were much more terrifying imo
They literally are being controlled by the ghost Pokemon. Defeating the ghosts releases them from the possession. That's why the non-possessed medium is in that protective circle that heals you.
Okay, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but despite the creepy idol emails and whispers in Endless Ocean, I feel that the actual scary part is diving into the Abyss; a pitch-black box canyon that houses various squids, sharks, and other deep sea residents to suddenly appear off the edges of your screen because your flashlight only illuminates so much.
When I played the Rugrats game on the play station 1, I barely remember the ghosts, which I guess means I wasn't scared of them, but I do remember this level where Tommy gets stuck in this animatronic play place (I think) and he wanted to get find the Reptar animatronic or something and there was this big-ass evil-looking gorilla animatronic that scared me shitless. I remember screaming and crying and having my Mom finish the level for me every time I encountered it. Now I kinda wanna play it again and see what the big deal was about lol.
I see this thumbnail of the Rugrats, and I know exactly which level this is gonna be. Damn shadow monsters, they scared 6 years-old me to death. (also fighting the Hydra in Heracles, I have no clue why, but I could not go past this level because I was so terrified of it)
@@Bastion90 Same! hearing its honk behind you or springing around the corners of the maze with the gnashers in its beak scared me as a kid way more than the shadow monsters.
Here's my list: 1. The Castle of Eliv Thade minigame, the choose-your-own-adventure haunted house in the Haunted Woods, and the Lair of the Beast on Neopets 2. The Samanta Myers house based on the movie Halloween from the game House Flipper 3. The haunted house in Markarth from Skyrim 4. A lot of sidequests from the Fallout series, but in particular part of the Old World Blues DLC from Fallout: New Vegas where you enter a building full of creepy killer skeletons in automated suits saying "Hey, who turned out the lights?" (admittedly they only say this if you have the Wild Wild West perk). 5. The Luna mission from Mass Effect 1 is pretty freaky, especially if you translate the binary code at the end. 6. Maybe I'm just a coward lol, but I got a bit freaked out when I ran into the aggressive slimes in a cave in Slime Rancher, an otherwise peaceful mellow game about raising adorable slime monsters. 7. Several sidequests from the Witcher series and its DLC, particularly Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.
Huh okay I thought this was either a joke or you misremembering but no, in Fallout New Vegas Old World Blues the Trauma Override Harnesses do just reference Doctor Who! Apparently there’s a surprising amount of references to the show in-game like the Securitrons occasionally shouting ‘Exterminate!’ Who’d have thought!
@@RealCryptoTest Ikr? Gotta love the amount of love and effort that went into this game, and the geekiness of the programmers. It's what makes the game so replayable, imo. 😂
Love the game now, but in the beginning I couldn't handle The Stanley Parable. First time I tried to play it I just couldn't deal with the creepy empty corridors and no background music whatsoever. (The fact that I was playing on my own in the middle of the night probably helped too...)
Hey, from a guy who traded in a masterpiece like original NES Zelda as a kid because he was so disturbed by the dungeon music, I feel some of that. Everybody can be different as to what really scares them, too, it seems. I think it’s kind of interesting.
Another thing that got me as a kid was in the Sims Bustin’ Out for the GBA, the sewers really freaked me out and then one of the exists lead to an actual haunted house that was equally as scary.
I don't get why is everyone saying the killer piano is creepy? Like, I don't find anything scary or creepy about it, it's the Eel that gives me the creeps
@@veight7 I don't know if it would look worse or better if it had more modern graphics, but needles to say, it looks much more terrifying than it has the permission to
i dunno why everyone was scared of the eel, it never directly went after you. the piano didn't scare me super bad either, but it was at least more of a threat than the eel
I feel like Skyrim's Frostflow Lighthouse deserves a mention. That place managed to give me nightmares twice. The first time, it happened to be my first encounter with the Chaurus. The second time, when I went to conquer my fear of the place, I found out Chaurus Hunters now existed. Still haven't gone back there.
Honestly, when I first found that place, it just made me sad. Like, here's this family, just moved into a new place, trying to live peacefully, aaaaaannnnddddd falmer. The chaurus hunters still genuinely freak me out though, even though I shoot all the pupae, it still shocks me when a hunter comes out, lol. I will say though, the first time I saw draugr in that game, I was so terrified that I didn't go back to Skyrim for quite a while. Mainly just the draugr that are "sleeping" (eventually I realized how to tell which ones to shoot, which made it far less terrifying)
Nice to see Search for Reptar being mentioned here!! Creepiest game from my childhood. I have an obscure example here: Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer, a game where for the majority you're given a pleasant tour around various real world surfing locations, only for a major tonal shift at the end where you are challenged by a Tiki God to a surfing contest, complete with threatening voice over and suddenly you're surfing in hell on an ocean of lava. Not too scary looking back at it, but certainly an unexpected shock for those not prepared for it. You never even see the Tiki God, which makes it even creepier.
9:59 “if you can even be arsed to pull on your wetsuit...” Oh dear, sweet luke, it takes a herculean effort of will, the strength of 50 men, a tremendous amount of wriggling, 40 acres of space and a horiffic realisation of paunchiness (if you are me anyway) to consider getting into one of those hellish, waterproof, skin condoms lol
Oh man, Endless Ocean. That brings me back. I've always loved the ocean and marine life, and that game might've been one of the catalysts for that. And it definitely belongs on a list like this, because as relaxing and beautiful as the ocean is, it's also somehow even more terrifying than the emptiness of space. But forget the creepy idol that gives you a new hair color, I've got one better: The Abyss. You swim down into the deepest, darkest, most empty place on the planet. The only thing you have is a flashlight that can only illuminate a foot or two in front of you, and a magical wetsuit that someone prevents the water pressure from immediately crushing all of your organs. When you're in total darkness and completely vulnerable, that's bad enough. But when you're encountering things like goblin sharks and giant squids while the default music randomly jumpscares you, that's much worse. Don't get me started on the sequel. When don't need to conjure up something like Subnautica. The real ocean has enough terror already.
Omg the endless ocean bit. I loved that game as a kid and I must've found one of the pieces because i have such a terrifying memory of the music kicking and some spooky ass words popping up. I got goosebumps all over and turned it off. Happened to me twice I think and I tried to research it a few years ago but couldn't find anything
I can't believe you glossed over the goose in rugrats so easily. That thing scared the crap out of me as a kid when it used to chase me around in the game!
At 2:09, Mario's like "Awww, a piano! Time to make some sweet tunes on it!" And then when Mario tries to play it, the piano comes alive showing fangs and when Mario saw it he's just like "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!" XD! I love that moment.
Wait, you are scared of Lavender Tower? Well all I have to say is: "You're not the one..." But seriously though, the ghost girls through out the Pokemon series are probably scarier than Lavender Tower because they are completely unexpected. With Lavender Tower, you have Lavender Town to build up the atmosphere and recieve a notice that there is a tower containing ghosts; but with the ghost girls, you just go to a place and they are just there. Like with the Luminose City ghost girl (who I was quoting btw), find her by triggering a random cut-scene after going into a random office building and going up to the second floor... she appears without warning.
Yes i mentioned something like that too. Also a lot of the ghost areas have simular spooky subtext in pokemon games, such as when you chase mimikyu in sun and moon, and the ncp that mentions a white hand is in lets go as well
I don’t really think these people know franchises very well. I think most of this list is a result of a quick Google search. Also, I think with the Lumiose ghost you have to go to the train station and interact with the back of a sign first, in order to trigger her appearance.
@@AverageGamerGuyPlays No, you don't because you can see the cut-scene before you access the train station. (The whole power-outage that blocks you out of most of the town until you kick Team Flare out of the power plant)
I’m legitimately surprised you didn’t mention the meat circus level in Psychonauts as well, that level always haunts my dreams. Not only are u in a circus of meat, but you’re also being constantly followed by the spectral form of Raz’s dad who constantly repeats the word “Rasputin” in an eerie voice, not only that but the second to last bossfight you have with the coaches father, the butcher which I still find absolutely terrifying… then it gets even worse when u fight him the second time as he’s now combined with Raz’s dad. But at least in the final phase you get to grow giant and beat the crap out of him.
The tunnel section in Journey - what had up to now been a calming, peaceful and joyful experience is shattered when the first creature wakes up, scares the absolute stuffing out of you and then patrols the level. Terrifying.
You know, I feel that horror works best with atmosphere and when you least expect it. The last place you expect to see horror is in a non-horror game, making these events more terrifying as a result.
I know I'm a year late to the party, but you should 100% make a remake of this video and include the Outer Wilds Dark Bramble. You can go look it up on Wikipedia, but to explain it bluntly, it's an empty white void with some weird vines growing. "Empty", except for the mountain-sized blind anglerfish that will screech and eat you. The anglerfish just fade in through the white fog, and you immediately know that you messed up when you see the bulb. The first time I saw that I ABSOLUTELY FREAKED OUT OF MY MIND. Great video btw!
I would say the Little Big Planet Wedding level had to be one of the scarier moments for me as a kid. From undead amalgamations to jump scares, it was definitely a tonal shift from the first two levels.
Why not Mimi from Super Paper Mario? I wasn't expecting her to suddenly start a creepy transformation sequence into a giant spider head thing! Absolutely freaked me out as a kid
So, Endless Ocean is actual the spiritual successor to the Everblue series. I never played the original, but I did play and beat (I use that term lightly) Everblue 2. First off, it’s an amazing game that starts off incredibly laid back. It’s got fun music and it’s very JRPG-esque. But when you get to the cruise ship dive, things take a very dark and very terrifying turn. I remember at one point you’re diving in an old wooden ship, and for seeming no reason this creepy statue suddenly shifts and blocks your exit. Everblue 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. If you think endless ocean gets freaky, you’re in for a real treat
Ellen is shockingly effective in horror games. Avoiding stab weapons like a ninja, shooting limbs of space zombies with precise strikes, sneaking around ice cold! 😊
Growing up I had two things that scared me alot. The first was in Ape Escape where you have to avoid the electric catfish in the level Thick Jungle. The second was in Spyro 2, during the level Aquaria Towers there is cave to the side where you can run into Robosharks that eat you whole in one hit. I had no idea this side room existed so as a child you can imagine my terror when I was suddenly killed.
That Psychonauts one reminds me of one of the stories my mother had told me about. In 2006, there was a tsunami in Indonesia that killed a lot of people. When the tsunami struck, she felt "that a thousand people cried for help and then were silenced".
I'll add: The first time you encounter Jenova in (the original) FF7. First everything goes quiet, then you get out of your cell and see trails of blood everywhere combined with creepy music, and then you come face to "face" with this headless...THING. ...but seriously, eff that boss in the well in Kakariko village. That thing was honestly probably the most terrifying thing I ever saw in a non-horror game.
that demo confused me and acualy made me think half life series was about the zombis and the combines were protecting humans from the zombies, althugh tyrannically.
A bonus from Search for Reptar, you can find the mummified Mr. Friend, AKA Mr. Fiend, in the pyramid on the Egypt themed hole of the miniature golf game. Very unsettling.
Oh my god, endless ocean. I spent a lot of time playing this on a friend’s wii (they had one, I didn’t.) I never thought I’d see it here. That idol is a bit creepy, but honestly, the dark abyssal area was a lot scarier. The idea of Giant squids and whales looming out of the darkness meant I spent very little time down there.
Did you ever play the second game? It was even better as a chill out after a long day. I would quite happily by a remaster of them. I just wish we could get a new game in the series there was something about them that just made me love them.
I had the same issue with Abzu. It made me realize that whales are huge, terrifying and goddamn unnatural. If you can exist down there you shouldn't be able to also surface up here.
MissingNo from Pokémon Red and Blue had me running out of the room screaming once. I had no idea that certain letters in certain positions in your character's name could alter the image of MissingNo. I was playing Pokémon Blue on TV via the transfer pack in Pokémon Stadium late at night with all lights off. I trigger the MissingNo glitch and it's a Kabutops skeleton. I was horrified.
Luigi's mansion game over screens scared the heck out of me. For example in one Luigi's mansion game he turns into a old man, Looking like something out of my nightmares!
It wasn't the ghosts that scared me in the Rugrats game. I was terrified of the level where you get trapped in a toy store over night and you have to take down Thorg the Gorilla.
In World of Warcraft, normally "Horror" isn't its usual deal. However, there's a location in Deadwind Pass called the Karazhan Crypt. Place is nightmare fuel... especially the Upside-Down Sinners
Anything involving the Song of Dragons in Endless Ocean: Blue World sends a chill up my spine. It's such an unnerving sound that even though I haven't played it in years, I still remember it!
I loved that game (and the 1st Endless Ocean) so much! I don’t remember it all and I want to play it again, now! LOL, I think the scariest moment for me in either was from the harmless Sturgeon fish, when I suddenly, unknowingly swung it into full view up close for the first time. I also deliberately tried to scare myself in the one with the undersea castle/mansion. I knew the Great White would be circling close past the windows but I put my face up to the glass as close as possible and waited for it to swim by. Deliciously thrilling!
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Here is a list to prove that you are never safe from spooks in any video game, sorry. 👻😱💀
what about that mythical shark from endless ocean blue world
PLEASE, guys! Do a PHASMAPHOBIA playthrough. (A live one... you might not be around to be 'live', after).
Thanatos and Okeanos's guardian
I need the cave sounds from Minecraft please
What about Mass Effect 2 and the Collector starship?
The haunted piano is just a chain chomp with class.
Piano for Mario tennis aces
ahh yes sir chainington chomp esquire the third,
At least it doesn't eat you the way it does in that movie. Here it just kinda sits on you.
@@glenfoster1820 That's the problem.
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To any unfortunate people who played that Rugrats game when they where younger, that game was riddled with horror nightmares. Not just the mentioned ghosts in this countdown. I was terrified of this giant purple gorilla who'd chase you in a creepy closed toy store. The creepy goose with grandpas teeth in its mouth, the mr. Friend toys you fought in the basement, and Theres a creepy mr. Friend mummy hidden deep in the pyramid in the golf minigame. And the music was horrific in most of these situations.
(That game was like silent hill for 3 year olds.)
I'd like to add something, the game over screens
God the mummy was the absolute worst
Believe it or not, I stil have that game XD
@@monikawischnewski as do i!
Yo, I remember now man. I had this game and I never finish this csuse some of the scenes freak me out. I had to be 5 or 6 man but the night scene got to me.
"Stu, what are you doing?"
"Making *SHADOW MONSTERS.*"
"It's Tommy's bedtime. Why on earth are you making shadow monsters?"
"Because I've lost control of my life."
in the Ice Cream Mountain level there's a mummy hidden in the pyramid shocked me when I was younger have to kill it with a golf ball on the wiki its says one of those clown robots made to look like one
Damn that was a good reference
It's four o'clock in the morning, why on earth are you making shadow monsters?
Soon as I saw Tommy in the thumbnail I knew EXACTLY which game this was😂 used to hate doing that part as a kid
For some reason I used to be afraid of the toy store level too. 😁
*Sees the piano grow teeth and chase Mario around *
Me: Huh nice to see that mimics are diversifying their forms beyond treasure chests.
@Logan Rogers do you seriously believe mimics were in terraria before any other media?
Minecraft is just 3d terraria
I bet green Mario could beat it!
Watching the Lemmings freak out and scream in pain and terror as they realize that they will _explode_ in the next few seconds because an unknowable entity from another dimension wills it is far more horrifying than an unexpected boneyard.
And Luke thinks it's funny.
Wouldn't that make Luke a Great Old One from Lemmings' perspective?
It is funny.
@@ollikoskinen1 Well, Luke is substantially bigger than them, basically almighty in relation to them, and lives in a scale of decades, instead of the few minutes the lemmings have. Yeah, that checks out. Luke is a great old one.
Luke: hahaha Lemmings go brrrr
@@tonhaogamergranudo And has unknowable intelligence compared to them. And lives in a dimension unknown to lemmings - in 3D!
The one with Milla and her nightmare room made me feel so sad and bad for her, I almost cried when I saw her backstory.
and dancing is her way to distract or cope up with her tragedy
No, the scariest part of Rugrats is when you're on the golf level. If you go deep enough inside the pyramid, you get chased by a mummy that's making weird sounds. It's so totally unexpected in a harmless looking golf area.
The scariest part of that for me was having to play golf. 😂
The "Toy Palace" level in Search for Reptar genuinely terrified me as a kid and I could never actually finish it - that giant mechanical gorilla absolutely haunted me for weeks afterwards...
You just brought back hidden memories. I loved that game as a child, but was haunted by it.
Luke: “Someone has to do the dirty work! It’s not called Super Luigi bros. after all!”
*year of Luigi flashbacks*
Hey, at least they noticed Luigi. Noticing not noticing Luigi would be like DC not noticing one of the many Robins despite the fact that most of them get killed off. If you're a Robin, chances are you're going to die. The fans even voted to have Robin die in a warehouse explosion in one of the comics. It's not a good thing, it's just Batman tradition.
@@Gamer88334 except for when he's solo.
@@Gamer88334
but only 1 Robin actually died, Jason Todd. And then he came back to life
Grayson became Nightwing and subsequently Batman (and Riddler figured it out almost immediately in Gotham City Sirens), Tim became Red Robin/The Joker depending on continuity, Stephanie was fired and became The Spoiler, and Damian was Robin until he quit following *SPOILERS* the death of Alfred
and if any of them died in New 52, eff New 52
@@ChibiKami You forgot the Robin named Carrie Kelley. She technically died in the first Crisis event but then was reimplanted into the multiverse. (Could be misremembering though)
It’s actually Super Luigi, that’s it. Mario is actually their last names.
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Rugrats: Search for Reptar freaked me out so much as a kid. I believe a big part of it was the music. The whole game just had this eerie tone making you feel perpetually uneasy.
Oh course Luke "I killed every Little Sister in Bioshock" Westaway has no regrets about exploding Lemmings.
Even I, a murderous psychopath in EVERY game only killed one Little Sister, and it was to see what the other option was. I immediately reloaded my most recent game and played the rest of my playthrough saving them all.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 In all my play throughs of Biohock, I have never been able to bring myself to kill one. And this is from a guy who killed everyone in a Hitman level.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 We all have a line that we won't cross, I saved all the little sisters cause my conscience would never forgive me if I killed them
Im so, so happy to see endless ocean mentioned. By far my favorite series of games. Nobody else seems to have heard about it and it feels like a fever dream
Same here! I absolutely loved it and Endless Ocean sequel.
Pretty impressive for a Wii game, very ambitious will definitely give it a go one day
I only knew about it from the Grumps.
("Thanks for bringing that up.")
The entire Crocs Lair segment of Batman Arkham Asylum
I’ve played horror games that weren’t as scary, never knowing when he’s gonna pop out and attack you...the atmosphere is so well done and I hate it but I love it...
I noped out of that level when I first played that. My friend was all 'You're Batman! Batman wouldn't run away!' Well, I did, and I don't regret it.
I was playing at night in my room under my loft bed. My screen was a early "flat screen" monitor and I had the lights off at the time. Needless to say after about ten seconds after I entered Croc's Lair the lights were on and I was crouch walking like there was no tomorrow. That was truly one of the most intense events of its kind that I had and have experienced in gaming.
So many good scares in the Arkham series and you don't pick any of the ones involving Scarecrow.
Respect. For me, it was the T-Rex.
The morgue was scarier
Arkham Asylum has a ton of moments like these. The Scarecrow sections, Croc's Lair, the crazy person jumpscares like when they fall out of a vent out of nowhere and charge at you.......
The scariest part of Endless Ocean was first descending into the Abyss, honestly. The music and the darkness is just the most ominous combination.
There is a second scary moment in the “Search for Reptar” game in the mini golf level on the pyramid course a mummified version of the Mr. Friend doll is wandering around inside the pyramid
I hated the pyramid part when I was young! The music and sounds creeped me out. And I love everything to do with Egypt, but nah. Hated that part every time. Lol!
Mr Friend had a level of its own too. And it's scary.
The mummy Mr friend in the pyramid, The goose you randomly come across in the maze part of looking for Grandpas teeth. Rugrats traumatized me way more than it bloody should have.
I loved that game and that level, the alien one, and the one in the video. What can I say, I like creepy things even as a young kid.
oh god I forgot about that, but I do remember that it fucked me up as a kid.
9:09 Hearing the bubbles and the breathing from Endless Ocean brings me immeadiatly into a zen state....and then they had to remind me of the idol. Diving into the abyss was also quite creepy.
I love to see some recognition for Endless Ocean.
Same! This was such an awesome and calming game, discivering different species of aquatic creatures, discovering treasures...the memories!
I want to dig up a wii and play it again honestly.
Ecco the Dolphin, the game about a frolicking dolphin with sonar powers has you fight a giant xeonomorph head thing and it's terrifying.
That game gets dark on a gradual scale and builds up to utter insanity at the end and I love it. I remember beating it as a kid and when I tried to brag about it on the playground to my friends, who bragged about Mortal Kombat and Sonic and all that, they didn't care. Ecco was "that dolphin game for girls".
If they only knew...
A lot of the sega genesis games gave off that melancholic, creepy feel to them. The one I remember the most is Kid Chameleon...
@@Joe_334 I think it’s the style of music
In my first D&D campaign our DM introduced the False Hydra, an absolutely terrifying mishmash of Dead Hand and Doctor Who's The Silence...
that sounds awful to deal with and simultaneously like amazing game design, good on your DM
@@LizzardGirl713Yup! The False Hydra is a community favorite, mostly due to its ability to delete people's memories, which it usually does to make close friends and family of its devoured victims to forget that person's existence at all.
It actually became such a staple of homebrew D&D that many people didn't actually know it was fan-created material, and some still don't!
A hat in time queen Vanessa’s manor is pretty scary the first time. One level your jumping through a cute as heck platformer and in the next your running away from the devils evil ex.
I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING MISSING ON THIS LIST!!!
I've not played the game, but my family calls my paternal grandmother "the devil's 7th wife that he sent up here so he didn't have to deal with her" - so my first thought upon reading this was "But my grandmother's name is Gwen, not Vanessa...."
I KNOW IT WAS SO FRICKIN SCARY
Bless you Ellen for keeping the Rugrats game memory alive (the ghost level was terrifying as a child) 🙏🏼
As soon as I saw Psychonauts in there I immediatley knew it was gonna about Milla's mind. As if that's the only spook in there. Like, y'know, Raz's family being cursed to drown, and him having t fight underwater as hands slowly wait for you to go near?
I see so few people talk about psychonauts that I now consider you a friend friend. Also that hand was fucking terrifying when I was younger and tried to swim to the boats to collect cards.
I actually watched oddheader's last video last week, so I'm kinda surprised that OXtra is actually doing Psychonauts.
Well, here's hoping the sequel is worth it come next year.
@@mimicingvamp1892 Good God, those boats were nerve wracking... I was always so scared of those freakin hands 😅
@@michaelandreipalon359 same odd header is a TH-camr I watch all the videos of
Yes, between the weaponized sneezed-out brains, fighting the worst nightmares of multiple people who were drove insane, climbing a toxicly-mutated-rats infasted tower a the final level, it is kind of amazing that its still kinda kids friendly.
That Lemmings level makes so much sense now. I don't remember being scared by it as a kid, but it was confusing like, 'okay, I guess this is hell now??' I do like that it was a homage to their other game, and I think if I've known that back then it would've blown my mind to see a level from another game there.
The father turning into a zombie and coming out of the closet in Majora’s mask really scared me for years >.
Mummy, not zombie
The Alien monsters in Majora's Mask scared me so bad I had nightmares about it up until I played the game myself, BTW I watched my sisters play LOZ MM
The lunar moon is scarier
@@destynkohn341Gibdo
What always terrified me as a kid were the metal sharks in Spyro 2. I had no problems with any of the other enemies or even the bosses, but those sharks... I was always getting lost in that underwater level and ended up swimming down the wrong tunnel right into the jaws of one of the sharks. That, plus the music, and the terrifying openness of the ocean above the towers where you got orb quests, utterly terrified me, to the point that I couldn't even watch my brother finish the level for me!
Redead’s the first time I ran into them in Ocarina of Time: 10 year old me “NOPE!”
25 yo me: "NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!"
@@epicureanbard let’s be real, 31 year old me: “don’t see me, don’t see me, don’t-No... NO NO NO!” *scream*
My child self couldn't even handle the skeletons in the field 😅
@@cortfoster1543 same here bro
Heheheh, I was like 8 or 9. It was the stuff of nightmares 🤣
I feel like it has been mentioned before but is worth repeating - the Comstock House in Bioshock Infinite. Even the sound that the Boys of Silence make still causes me to jump
I fell like Arkham Asylum's last Scarecrow segment should be on this list. Not only does it start with the illusion that your game broke, it also just ramps up the spooky by letting you see images of insane Batman which if you ask me are extremely spooky.
and the next mission after that is also kinda scary. Killer croc's lair lmfao
OMG that level on Rugrats Search for Reptar freaks me out SO much! 😣 I didn't play horror games at the time this was released and this was the freakiest gameplay I had experienced thus far. But even when I started playing horror games I look back and THAT Rugrats level has freaked me out the most..lol
I think it's because it's such a bright cheery house and to see it completely dark is just.. unsettling.
I've always struggled to beat Ocarina of Time because of the Wallmasters in the Forest Temple in the adult section. Seriously, I can handle ghosts and portraits but those creepy hands hovering above me and swooping down are just HORRFIYING.
Well then have I got bad news for you, they’re in the spirit temple too.
Same, I could handle Dead Hand no issue as a kid but those wallmasters can fuck right off. That and I always got chills playing the alien bit from Majora's Mask.
Never liked the music in there.
the ocarina of time remaster is my first zelda game and tbh i was expecting it to be cutesy like Kirby o_o those things under the graveyard in kakariko village haunt me
@@insaincaldo If you mean Forest Temple, I feel the same. I’d always dread doing it and burn through ASAP. I remember the music had an irritating, grating quality to it for me. Although from an artsy standpoint, I’m just now thinking it kind of fits the temple’s wild, foresty-ness and the distorted parts like the rotating room/s and spiralling hallway/s. Still don’t like it, though.
Chateau d'Onterre in Dragon Age: Inquisition is not by any means an instant classic scare, but man, its slow burn brand of horror is still up there. Shame it's too easy to miss unless you're intent on clearing absolutely everything in-game.
Lol. Okay. The “Holy F***ng Sh*t” line in the Lemmings segment got me to laugh the Gatorade right out of my mouth.
LOL 😆 I had to finally decide not to risk eating or drinking anything while watching funny stuff like the OXcrew.
Since you mentioned rugrats, you really should have included that one lone clown robot all alone inside of the pyramid on the minigolf level. That place scared the hell out of a young me because I never expected an enemy in that level, let alone isolated.
Might I add :
Photoshop Flowey and the True Lab from Undertale?
Especially when you have to have gone full pacifist to even reach the True Lab. As a pacifist you've seen the game at its least creepy and most funny and then...
The first time when Photoshop "Omega" Flowey crashed my game was quite a shock. All my friend had to say was, "Yeah, he does that." Not helping.
@@SupersuMC XD thanks friend.
Oh god, I forgot about that idol. And when you complete it all you get is the option to turn your hair while lol
I don't actually remember finding it when I first played endless ocean, though what I do remember is that ghost ship. It terrified me so much, despite doing basically nothing aside from randomly appear, that I only entered it about five years after I got the game! It's a shame that I waited so long, because that area became my favorite for both looks and music soon after.
There's a moment of existential horror in the Protoss mini-campaign in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
You rescue a squad of troops at one point by powering a structure that had been shut down while they'd been teleporting to the battle through it. They're happy to get back into the fight, but the battle they'd been trying to get to was _ten years ago._ What's worse, they were fully aware of what was going on that whole time.
Makes you kind of shudder to imagine how many others might be lost out there, trapped forever in the place between places.
Yikes...
There's a short story by Stephen King called "The Jaunt". Same kinda deal. That shit stayed with me for years.
In Star Trek, Scotty spent roughly 75 years as an energy pattern stored in a transporter system, only chance at surviving a crash.
Really feels like another cosmic horror story from Warhammer 40K.
As a person with Thalasophobia (fear of being in the ocean) I can assure you ALL of Endless Ocean was terrifying...
Ever payed Subnautica?
@@NoNo-xt8ku as someone who also has thalassophobia that game is my worst nightmare and the crash zone and void make me want to cry
@@addyxinwonderland1473 I feel like the void has an actual mental tractor beam where everyone who plays the game just decide to go to the void for no reason out of nowhere. Despite there being no resources or story-related things in the void, you suddenly want to go there and (in most cases) die. That's what scares me about the void.
It lures you in to die.
May you have a fear of water or just the sea
@@lindatory1886 I actually have Megalo Thalasophobia - a fear of large creatures in the ocean. If I knew the ocean was empty, I could swim and dive in it all day.
It's just faster & easier to say Thalasophobia in casual conversation. lol
And as a testament to how much so - I played the first Endless Ocean until the drop off and had a crippling panic attack. When the second game drops you right into a pod of whales - I immediately and a panic attack and turned off the TV... Because turning off the console would have taken too long.
I can laugh at it - you kind of have to - and I actually appreciate games like this as it allows me a way to try and deal with it at my pace without actually physically putting myself in real world "danger" and - let's be honest - danger.
I did manage to beat Subnautica after spending months in the shallows accomplishing nothing. But in that game you get the Sonar and Prawn Suit and giant submarine. But there were plenty of times when a Beasty would surprise me and I'd turn off the game. I didn't care I lost an hour or work either.
The scariest part of that intro was Ms Rose herself screaming out of nowhere... 🤨
Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess.
"NO TAKE MIRROR!"
I find it amazing that The Legend of Zelda can go from "The darkest game ever rated E10+" to "Oceanic adventure in a super cutesy art style that's held up since 2002" to *"NO TAKE MIRROR"*
For me, trying to sneak past Dark Bramble's anglerfish in Outer is one of the scariest things I have ever done in a game because the anglerfish are big enough to swallow your spaceship whole, and they have incredibly acute hearing despite being blind, meaning that if you try to rush past them, you're just gonna die
Oh man, Endless Ocean 1 & 2 were amazing. I really hoped they would make another (fingers still crossed 🤞 honestly). And Lemmings was my thing in the early 90’s, I’d forgotten about that horrifying level
I really want another one, but the Wii was just such a perfect console for them! I still have a Wii, so I'd be happy to get another game on it, but I really want more people to experience the series, so honestly, any console would be wonderful at this point. Also, IMAGINE THE GRAPHICS NOW - it'd be so beautifulllll
OH MY GOSH LEMMINGS!!!! My dad was so excited to have us play this. Drove mom crazy when my brother and I would act out being Lemmings because and I quote "I live with nerds, I'm all alone."
Lavender is a traditional color of mourning. It’s actually rather brilliant to name a Poké town after it. It has a cheerful sound and yet an association with grief and death.
The ghost ship in SW: Republic Commando. The whole level is spine-chilling.
The horror of not knowing what was going on is scary but seeing what happens to the regular clones was unnerving.
That was on their first list. So, no repeat. Sorry.
It won't be chilling anymore by the time Boss and his squadmates reunite.
The SBDs are still a pain in the butt.
It was? I guess me playing carefully got rid of most of the horror
No it literally isn’t
I'm super excited to see someone else remembering the Endless Ocean series, though Blue World's interactions at the bottom of the trench as well as inside the ancient ruins were much more terrifying imo
Yeah, I thought they'd mention that part of Blue World where you're being hunted by the shark with no way back to the boat
I think I was more scared by the mediums in Pokémon than the ghosts, they always looked possessed to me
They literally are being controlled by the ghost Pokemon. Defeating the ghosts releases them from the possession. That's why the non-possessed medium is in that protective circle that heals you.
And their REALLY weird facial expressions.
One of them in FireRed, if I recall, just straight demands your blood. What the hell?
Yeah...they usually ARE possessed
@@AJadedLizard that's also in the original gen 1 games
Okay, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but despite the creepy idol emails and whispers in Endless Ocean, I feel that the actual scary part is diving into the Abyss; a pitch-black box canyon that houses various squids, sharks, and other deep sea residents to suddenly appear off the edges of your screen because your flashlight only illuminates so much.
"We dont deal well with horror games"
Ellen in Phasmophobia when? Or if I missed said play.... where?
When I played the Rugrats game on the play station 1, I barely remember the ghosts, which I guess means I wasn't scared of them, but I do remember this level where Tommy gets stuck in this animatronic play place (I think) and he wanted to get find the Reptar animatronic or something and there was this big-ass evil-looking gorilla animatronic that scared me shitless. I remember screaming and crying and having my Mom finish the level for me every time I encountered it. Now I kinda wanna play it again and see what the big deal was about lol.
I got spooked when the first time I played minecraft and going in a dark cave while hearing those weird noises
Minecraft cave ambiance... A classic
I remember in a later update it was way worse with really creepy noises
Shoot my younger self was terrified of nighttime. Would flipping just dig a hole into the ground, jump in it, and just wait it out till daylight cx
@@medusathedecepticon I did the same thing to I just dig a hole and just cover the top until it is the morning
@@twinkie2096 Yee cx
I never got as far as that particular “Lemmings” level. The fire-breathing door in one of the levels creeped the hell out of me, though.
I see this thumbnail of the Rugrats, and I know exactly which level this is gonna be. Damn shadow monsters, they scared 6 years-old me to death. (also fighting the Hydra in Heracles, I have no clue why, but I could not go past this level because I was so terrified of it)
I feel you man. That level in Rugrats was really scary, so much so that I didn't want to play it 😂
I thought it was going to be the goose level. Every corner could have that stupid thing jump out at you.
@@SlyFan-mp8dc Agreed, the goose was far scarier :P
@@Bastion90 Same! hearing its honk behind you or springing around the corners of the maze with the gnashers in its beak scared me as a kid way more than the shadow monsters.
I thought it was gonna be the Mr. Friend level.....
Here's my list:
1. The Castle of Eliv Thade minigame, the choose-your-own-adventure haunted house in the Haunted Woods, and the Lair of the Beast on Neopets
2. The Samanta Myers house based on the movie Halloween from the game House Flipper
3. The haunted house in Markarth from Skyrim
4. A lot of sidequests from the Fallout series, but in particular part of the Old World Blues DLC from Fallout: New Vegas where you enter a building full of creepy killer skeletons in automated suits saying "Hey, who turned out the lights?" (admittedly they only say this if you have the Wild Wild West perk).
5. The Luna mission from Mass Effect 1 is pretty freaky, especially if you translate the binary code at the end.
6. Maybe I'm just a coward lol, but I got a bit freaked out when I ran into the aggressive slimes in a cave in Slime Rancher, an otherwise peaceful mellow game about raising adorable slime monsters.
7. Several sidequests from the Witcher series and its DLC, particularly Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.
Huh okay I thought this was either a joke or you misremembering but no, in Fallout New Vegas Old World Blues the Trauma Override Harnesses do just reference Doctor Who! Apparently there’s a surprising amount of references to the show in-game like the Securitrons occasionally shouting ‘Exterminate!’ Who’d have thought!
@@RealCryptoTest Ikr? Gotta love the amount of love and effort that went into this game, and the geekiness of the programmers. It's what makes the game so replayable, imo. 😂
Love the game now, but in the beginning I couldn't handle The Stanley Parable. First time I tried to play it I just couldn't deal with the creepy empty corridors and no background music whatsoever. (The fact that I was playing on my own in the middle of the night probably helped too...)
It's actually not that scary though.
It's not even supposed to be creepy. I think you were just being paranoid. That or you have a phobia of being alone in complete silence.
Very rarely you can see another person (with the same model as Stanley) walking through the office...
@@towelie1313 Must be some hidden mirrors...
Hey, from a guy who traded in a masterpiece like original NES Zelda as a kid because he was so disturbed by the dungeon music, I feel some of that. Everybody can be different as to what really scares them, too, it seems. I think it’s kind of interesting.
Another thing that got me as a kid was in the Sims Bustin’ Out for the GBA, the sewers really freaked me out and then one of the exists lead to an actual haunted house that was equally as scary.
I don't get why is everyone saying the killer piano is creepy? Like, I don't find anything scary or creepy about it, it's the Eel that gives me the creeps
The piano isn't so much creepy as it is shocking
@@kimballbelliston5925 That's one way of summarizing it
Totally agree with the eel being way worse than the piano
@@veight7 I don't know if it would look worse or better if it had more modern graphics, but needles to say, it looks much more terrifying than it has the permission to
i dunno why everyone was scared of the eel, it never directly went after you. the piano didn't scare me super bad either, but it was at least more of a threat than the eel
The Rugrats game was awesome. Yeah, the shadow monsters freaked me out too. And I could never defeat the lobster monster in the grocery store.
I feel like Skyrim's Frostflow Lighthouse deserves a mention. That place managed to give me nightmares twice.
The first time, it happened to be my first encounter with the Chaurus.
The second time, when I went to conquer my fear of the place, I found out Chaurus Hunters now existed.
Still haven't gone back there.
Have you ever played fallout 3?
@@goldenfiberwheat238 A lot, yeah. That game had its moments too, particularly with the Dunwich Building.
@@zero2hero402 yeah I’ve read about it on the wiki and seen TH-cam videos about it and to this day I don’t have the balls to go in there
Honestly, when I first found that place, it just made me sad. Like, here's this family, just moved into a new place, trying to live peacefully, aaaaaannnnddddd falmer. The chaurus hunters still genuinely freak me out though, even though I shoot all the pupae, it still shocks me when a hunter comes out, lol. I will say though, the first time I saw draugr in that game, I was so terrified that I didn't go back to Skyrim for quite a while. Mainly just the draugr that are "sleeping" (eventually I realized how to tell which ones to shoot, which made it far less terrifying)
@@goldenfiberwheat238 I had the luck to stumble across the dunwich building without knowing anything about it. Spooked me right out.
Nice to see Search for Reptar being mentioned here!! Creepiest game from my childhood.
I have an obscure example here: Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer, a game where for the majority you're given a pleasant tour around various real world surfing locations, only for a major tonal shift at the end where you are challenged by a Tiki God to a surfing contest, complete with threatening voice over and suddenly you're surfing in hell on an ocean of lava. Not too scary looking back at it, but certainly an unexpected shock for those not prepared for it. You never even see the Tiki God, which makes it even creepier.
9:59 “if you can even be arsed to pull on your wetsuit...”
Oh dear, sweet luke, it takes a herculean effort of will, the strength of 50 men, a tremendous amount of wriggling, 40 acres of space and a horiffic realisation of paunchiness (if you are me anyway) to consider getting into one of those hellish, waterproof, skin condoms lol
At least wetsuits are more decent than bikinis and swimsuits.
@@michaelandreipalon359 nah they suck
I read this just as he said it
Well never play subnautica then
Oh man, Endless Ocean. That brings me back. I've always loved the ocean and marine life, and that game might've been one of the catalysts for that. And it definitely belongs on a list like this, because as relaxing and beautiful as the ocean is, it's also somehow even more terrifying than the emptiness of space. But forget the creepy idol that gives you a new hair color, I've got one better: The Abyss. You swim down into the deepest, darkest, most empty place on the planet. The only thing you have is a flashlight that can only illuminate a foot or two in front of you, and a magical wetsuit that someone prevents the water pressure from immediately crushing all of your organs. When you're in total darkness and completely vulnerable, that's bad enough. But when you're encountering things like goblin sharks and giant squids while the default music randomly jumpscares you, that's much worse. Don't get me started on the sequel.
When don't need to conjure up something like Subnautica. The real ocean has enough terror already.
"Its not called super Luigi Bros."
Pulls up new super Luigi bros.
It's actually called Mario Bros because that's also their last name, it's Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
@@MrFutago87 in the incredibly different movie lore, there's nothing saying it for the games.
@@Winrarnt I think Miyamoto confirmed it as canon.
@@MrFutago87 any links to that?
@@MrFutago87 Also doesn't matter, they're referencing the Year of Luigi version of New Super Mario Bros. U, which was called New Super Luigi U
Omg the endless ocean bit. I loved that game as a kid and I must've found one of the pieces because i have such a terrifying memory of the music kicking and some spooky ass words popping up. I got goosebumps all over and turned it off. Happened to me twice I think and I tried to research it a few years ago but couldn't find anything
2:28
"tonal shift"
I see what you did there
I can't believe you glossed over the goose in rugrats so easily. That thing scared the crap out of me as a kid when it used to chase me around in the game!
Rugrats also had a pyramid with mummies in it... I can still remember that shit 20years later.
At 2:09, Mario's like "Awww, a piano! Time to make some sweet tunes on it!" And then when Mario tries to play it, the piano comes alive showing fangs and when Mario saw it he's just like "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!" XD! I love that moment.
Wait, you are scared of Lavender Tower? Well all I have to say is:
"You're not the one..."
But seriously though, the ghost girls through out the Pokemon series are probably scarier than Lavender Tower because they are completely unexpected. With Lavender Tower, you have Lavender Town to build up the atmosphere and recieve a notice that there is a tower containing ghosts; but with the ghost girls, you just go to a place and they are just there. Like with the Luminose City ghost girl (who I was quoting btw), find her by triggering a random cut-scene after going into a random office building and going up to the second floor... she appears without warning.
There was also bridge girl in Unova (I think?). You’re just cycling/walking along the bridge and this background NPC just up and disappears.
Yes i mentioned something like that too. Also a lot of the ghost areas have simular spooky subtext in pokemon games, such as when you chase mimikyu in sun and moon, and the ncp that mentions a white hand is in lets go as well
How about the Old Chateau in gen 4?
I don’t really think these people know franchises very well. I think most of this list is a result of a quick Google search.
Also, I think with the Lumiose ghost you have to go to the train station and interact with the back of a sign first, in order to trigger her appearance.
@@AverageGamerGuyPlays No, you don't because you can see the cut-scene before you access the train station. (The whole power-outage that blocks you out of most of the town until you kick Team Flare out of the power plant)
I’m legitimately surprised you didn’t mention the meat circus level in Psychonauts as well, that level always haunts my dreams. Not only are u in a circus of meat, but you’re also being constantly followed by the spectral form of Raz’s dad who constantly repeats the word “Rasputin” in an eerie voice, not only that but the second to last bossfight you have with the coaches father, the butcher which I still find absolutely terrifying… then it gets even worse when u fight him the second time as he’s now combined with Raz’s dad. But at least in the final phase you get to grow giant and beat the crap out of him.
God the sound effects from Rugrats brought on a wave of memories I haven't thought about in years
Baaaa ba ba ba baaa ba ba baaaaa
The tunnel section in Journey - what had up to now been a calming, peaceful and joyful experience is shattered when the first creature wakes up, scares the absolute stuffing out of you and then patrols the level. Terrifying.
You know, I feel that horror works best with atmosphere and when you least expect it. The last place you expect to see horror is in a non-horror game, making these events more terrifying as a result.
That’s why resident evil 1 scares people
I know I'm a year late to the party, but you should 100% make a remake of this video and include the Outer Wilds Dark Bramble. You can go look it up on Wikipedia, but to explain it bluntly, it's an empty white void with some weird vines growing. "Empty", except for the mountain-sized blind anglerfish that will screech and eat you. The anglerfish just fade in through the white fog, and you immediately know that you messed up when you see the bulb. The first time I saw that I ABSOLUTELY FREAKED OUT OF MY MIND. Great video btw!
The aliens in Majora's Mask were far too much for me personally.
Majora's Mask in general was a horror game disguised as an OoT sequel.
I would say the Little Big Planet Wedding level had to be one of the scarier moments for me as a kid. From undead amalgamations to jump scares, it was definitely a tonal shift from the first two levels.
Dead Hand was honestly my scariest gaming experience ever. More terrifying than the Booms or King Boom Boo in Sonic Adventure 2.
QUEEN VANESSA FROM A HAT IN TIME. MY GOSH.
Gone Home. Not a horror game, BUT THEY COULDA FOOLED ME WITH THAT WELL TIMED LIGHTS OUT
Why not Mimi from Super Paper Mario? I wasn't expecting her to suddenly start a creepy transformation sequence into a giant spider head thing! Absolutely freaked me out as a kid
Gyigas - Earthbound
When you look at the moon - Legend of Zelda: Majoras mask
I feel like the entirety of earthbound has an uneasy and creepy vibe to it
So, Endless Ocean is actual the spiritual successor to the Everblue series. I never played the original, but I did play and beat (I use that term lightly) Everblue 2.
First off, it’s an amazing game that starts off incredibly laid back. It’s got fun music and it’s very JRPG-esque. But when you get to the cruise ship dive, things take a very dark and very terrifying turn. I remember at one point you’re diving in an old wooden ship, and for seeming no reason this creepy statue suddenly shifts and blocks your exit.
Everblue 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. If you think endless ocean gets freaky, you’re in for a real treat
Ellen is shockingly effective in horror games. Avoiding stab weapons like a ninja, shooting limbs of space zombies with precise strikes, sneaking around ice cold! 😊
Growing up I had two things that scared me alot. The first was in Ape Escape where you have to avoid the electric catfish in the level Thick Jungle. The second was in Spyro 2, during the level Aquaria Towers there is cave to the side where you can run into Robosharks that eat you whole in one hit. I had no idea this side room existed so as a child you can imagine my terror when I was suddenly killed.
Lavender town's music in let's go sounds more cheery than earlier versions.
To be fair the very first version of the lavender town music is horrifying in more ways than one.
Give....me.....blood!
@@lacytaylor1501 It's like a melodic version of slasher flick screechy music
Still creepy though. I don't like it.
The old one also made kids sick with”Lavender Sickness” or something like that
The Minecart section in DK64's Creepy Castle. The background, the music, the sirens, and the DEMONIC SKELETON THROWING HELLFIRE AT YOU
World of warcraft: location: Karazhan the Upside-down Sinners. Once inaccessible except by glitch, they made it accessible in all its creepy glory.
That Psychonauts one reminds me of one of the stories my mother had told me about. In 2006, there was a tsunami in Indonesia that killed a lot of people. When the tsunami struck, she felt "that a thousand people cried for help and then were silenced".
I'll add: The first time you encounter Jenova in (the original) FF7. First everything goes quiet, then you get out of your cell and see trails of blood everywhere combined with creepy music, and then you come face to "face" with this headless...THING.
...but seriously, eff that boss in the well in Kakariko village. That thing was honestly probably the most terrifying thing I ever saw in a non-horror game.
Half-Life 2's Ravenholm that level is definitely more scary then any of the ones that came before it.
What about the the zombie infested tunnel in episode 1?
We don't go there anymore. ;)
Nice pfp
that demo confused me and acualy made me think half life series was about the zombis and the combines were protecting humans from the zombies, althugh tyrannically.
Dear god ravenholm was terrifying
A bonus from Search for Reptar, you can find the mummified Mr. Friend, AKA Mr. Fiend, in the pyramid on the Egypt themed hole of the miniature golf game. Very unsettling.
Oh my god, endless ocean. I spent a lot of time playing this on a friend’s wii (they had one, I didn’t.) I never thought I’d see it here.
That idol is a bit creepy, but honestly, the dark abyssal area was a lot scarier. The idea of Giant squids and whales looming out of the darkness meant I spent very little time down there.
Did you ever play the second game? It was even better as a chill out after a long day. I would quite happily by a remaster of them. I just wish we could get a new game in the series there was something about them that just made me love them.
I had the same issue with Abzu. It made me realize that whales are huge, terrifying and goddamn unnatural. If you can exist down there you shouldn't be able to also surface up here.
Recalling Search for Reptar, there's also the supermarket level where the final boss is a giant blue lobster. Creeped the hell out of me as a kid
MissingNo from Pokémon Red and Blue had me running out of the room screaming once. I had no idea that certain letters in certain positions in your character's name could alter the image of MissingNo. I was playing Pokémon Blue on TV via the transfer pack in Pokémon Stadium late at night with all lights off. I trigger the MissingNo glitch and it's a Kabutops skeleton. I was horrified.
Luigi's mansion game over screens scared the heck out of me. For example in one Luigi's mansion game he turns into a old man, Looking like something out of my nightmares!
5:45 Luke swearing in shock. Well worth hearing, gonna repeat constantly
It wasn't the ghosts that scared me in the Rugrats game. I was terrified of the level where you get trapped in a toy store over night and you have to take down Thorg the Gorilla.
In World of Warcraft, normally "Horror" isn't its usual deal. However, there's a location in Deadwind Pass called the Karazhan Crypt. Place is nightmare fuel... especially the Upside-Down Sinners
I was so terrified of that Rugrats level when I was a child!!!
And the Mummy inside the Minigolf level!
Anything involving the Song of Dragons in Endless Ocean: Blue World sends a chill up my spine. It's such an unnerving sound that even though I haven't played it in years, I still remember it!
I loved that game (and the 1st Endless Ocean) so much! I don’t remember it all and I want to play it again, now! LOL, I think the scariest moment for me in either was from the harmless Sturgeon fish, when I suddenly, unknowingly swung it into full view up close for the first time.
I also deliberately tried to scare myself in the one with the undersea castle/mansion. I knew the Great White would be circling close past the windows but I put my face up to the glass as close as possible and waited for it to swim by. Deliciously thrilling!
@@1Holbytla That and the night mission in the castle where you see the black manta had a good scare to it!
Lemmings! OMG that just unlocked childhood memories I didn't even know I had.