I feel the scene where you're running away from the huge baby monster in RE Village should've been mentioned. Game was still scary at some points, but those rooms you run around while the monster chases you is a moment ill never forget

@isaiahlashley885

5 ай бұрын

Did my first playthrough of village in vr and man that baby fucked me up

@patmalloy3569

5 ай бұрын

The buildup is more terrifying, and if you're in the proper headspace, getting chased by that baby thing is awful lol

@Oneiroi0

5 ай бұрын

Probably because it's a level instead of a room? Anyways, yes, That baby level is super scary.

@walterppk1989

5 ай бұрын

Diablo 1, the butchers room

@youtubeisracist890

5 ай бұрын

@@isaiahlashley885 first one to watch from Russia.

PT has made such an absolute imprint on people's minds that even today it's mentioned somewhere someday in some video. Wish we got a game out of it.

@dickward1090

5 ай бұрын

some people want to go universe hopping just for that game

@Ruddline

5 ай бұрын

Its unbelievable nobody freaked out and did whatever they could to have Kojima make that game, from the legendary buzz it would have probably sold 10 million copies minimum.

@kotzpenner

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately gambling machines pay more

@jujuchonk

5 ай бұрын

I honestly just wish PT was still available to purchase and play if you already didn't. I have so many people who don't even know what it is - and I want them to experience the horror.

@custos3249

5 ай бұрын

Give what Konami was at the time only to get worse, I'd say this is the best case scenario. I doubt they would've allowed the full game to be what it needed to be.

Yes, the Silent Hill 3 mirror room really got me when I played it. I felt SO unnerved by it. Modern game makers could learn a lot from a scare like that.

@drewtheunspoken3988

5 ай бұрын

I came to say that too. I forgot about it after my first playthrough so it actually got me a second time. I haven't forgotten it since.

@sugreev2001

5 ай бұрын

The horror games released during the 2000's still scare better than modern ones, and that's including the amazing games released this year. Silent Hill, during it's height, encompassed every single thing that makes the horror genre so unnerving.

@CEREBRALWALLSY

5 ай бұрын

The thing that sets SH3 from a lot of modern horror games is the audio. Some of the sounds they put in the game put you on edge, even though there's nothing around.

@Marcusml333

5 ай бұрын

@@CEREBRALWALLSY Audio, but also the visuals. They're right in that sweet uncanny valley spot. Also, subtlety was a thing back then. Games are not very subtle today. Sometimes, less is more.

@gameranxTV

5 ай бұрын

👍🏼

I liked the room in the dilapidated department store level of Condemned 1 where dozens of mannequins suddenly start appearing all around you and behind you, just staring. In general thats one of my all time favorite levels in any game because of the unsettling Christmastime ambiance of the store and paranoia of the mannequins

@DGneoseeker1

5 ай бұрын

And if I recall correctly there was NEVER any explanation for this happening.

@gameskyjumper1721

5 ай бұрын

the whole cabin level in Condemned 2.🐾

@ModestPavement

5 ай бұрын

That part will be forever burned into my memory.

@Rykiz_Vidz

5 ай бұрын

Easily one of the scariest games I have ever played. The high school level. The scene with the guy in the locker room jump scare had me beyond dead.

@bababooey9825

5 ай бұрын

It's a shame we never got another condemned game. The whole dilapidated urban setting was so well done, I could smell the mold and trash thru my TV in almost all the levels 😂

I think the fetus whole scene in RE8 is terrifying. The fuse room when you hide under the bed is just horrid

@CryptoGod-il6nb

3 ай бұрын

Exactly this! That whole scene kept me frightened lmfao. Great game though one of my favorites in the series.

The dying light 1 night mission was by far the best horrific experience I'll never forget

@ray24051

5 ай бұрын

I was afraid to go outside in the dark in that game LOL!

@donnydogpiss4533

5 ай бұрын

This game how can be Car of Year?

@watersounddelights3550

5 ай бұрын

@@ray24051literally everyone after that experience but then they figure out they can just vault zombies later on

@adamgill5907

4 ай бұрын

Yeah running towards the blue light zone as fast as you can

@Spraytaint

3 ай бұрын

Very rarely has a game made me the same way as when I run up stairs faster to get away from the "monsters". This night mission and also being chased by Mr. X in the RE2 Remake

The one flooded room in BioShock in the area where you meet Sander Cohen. You go into the empty flooded room, grab the loot out of the box, lights flash off then on, you turn around and there are splicers right behind you that look like statues. Scared the hell out of me the first time I played it.

@Pentazemin7

5 ай бұрын

Just started replaying the remaster, earlier in the game you go into a dental office that fogs up, a corpse appears in a surgical chair the first time, then you go to pick up a key item off a desk and the fog happens again. You turn around and there's a splicer right behind you, it didn't scare me this time but when I played the original I jumped pretty hard from that.

@VyxelOP

5 ай бұрын

Def a solid submission. Also the other commentor with that plastic surgeon room, will never forget that one.

@boredhazel

5 ай бұрын

Same thing I said

@brentanthonylevy

5 ай бұрын

Similar jump scare happens in Bioshock Infinite in the control room after you restore power

@Killmelmfao

2 ай бұрын

It was the Houdini splicer that shows up in the shadow for me. I can’t remember if it’s 1 or 2

The morgue in Arkham asylum before the first scarecrow nightmare was freaky to me when I first played it. I didn’t know what to do so I was in the morgue for like 20 minutes just listening to the ghostly "get out” and “you shouldn’t be here” before I went back through the doors again

@Myinfectionwontgoaway

5 ай бұрын

lol yup I remember that

@gslinger93

4 ай бұрын

Yes

I wish Monolith would remake or, heck, even just remaster the Condemned games. They were super underrated, fun, scary and beautiful for the console generation. They were a perfect amalgamation of Mystery, Action-Horror, Investigative Thriller. Some amazing set-pieces as well, like the one mentioned in this video, ALL the crime scenes of the first one and the "Bear Lodge" in the second one.. the way you slowly make your way through the snowy wilderness, finding tracks, hearing growls, finding the half-dead agent then hearing the bear above you, dust falling from the ceiling as it ominously moves around, DEAD quiet as you walk up.. I have no issues going back and replaying my Xbox360 copies, but a remake or just an enhanced update would be so awesome. Condemned, FEAR, The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick, those are the game series from that generation that I would LOVE to see remade, remastered or continued. I wont ever expect to see them, probably doesn't make sense from a sales standpoint, but it would be welcomed and I'd be willing to pay $20-$40 for a remaster bundle of each

@adamgill5907

4 ай бұрын

I agree - condemned and FEAR id love to see remade on a new one. That bear scene in condemned and the elementary school in fear 2 were definitely two of the scariest parts in any game

I find it funny Capcom didn't change the regenerators breathing sound effect from the original. Was a nightmare back then, and is now. Also that part in Eternal Darkness got me too. Wish the game got a proper sequel.

@FoxSullivan

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, no kidding. As soon as I heard the breathing in this video, I went "oh fUCK" as Vietnam flashbacks happened. Such a well-designed enemy.

@voshadxgathic

2 ай бұрын

​@@FoxSullivan*heavy rattling breathing intensifies*

i vividly remember looking in the mirror in a restroom in doom 3 when you get a jump scare. i have the biggest respect of bathroom mirrors in every spooky video game since then.

@ledumpsterfire6474

5 ай бұрын

Between Doom 3 and Silent Hill 3, which I played in early childhood, I still don't like mirrors as an adult.

I can't emphasize enough how scary Reginerators were in Og RE4. The way they moved...was the nightmare fuel, nothing else in the game moved like that and it was the contrast between, zombies and predictable behemoth monsters and...the reginnerators odd slow walk with weird shaking and then fast jumping bites from nowhere (and the need to hit it in weak points not just its head) that made me feel like after hours of playing the game and not being too freaked out, I suddenly didn't have any idea what I was doing and how to not die, and the sheer fear of how that thing walked, turned this stage into the most memorable thing in all RE4 for me as a kid. So much so, they became memes between me and my sister, us pretending to be Reginerators hiding in the corners. It's also why you don't give a 4th grader an M game.

@natejohnson9738

5 ай бұрын

Dude I damn near shit my pants when one out of no where became mr fantastic and impaled me on its body

@azureknight729

5 ай бұрын

Damn, your sister must be terrifying at night walking around like a regenerator in the dark while heavy breathing.😂

@rourkes1412

4 ай бұрын

I would enter an area, hear the breathing and just quit playing for a week 😂

@NHY6CK

3 ай бұрын

Yeahhh, nothing is gonna be scarier than the original regenerator

For me one of the most terrifying gaming experiences was TLOU II where there’s a dark office space with a bunch of stalkers just crawling around. I was tensed up the entire time. 😱

@adamprice5008

5 ай бұрын

I HATED that part. And then you finally get out but then have to ultimately go back in and--surprise--now there's clickers in there too

@JS-1222

5 ай бұрын

@@adamprice5008 the ending to that part of the game was greatly executed for sure. I hated and loved playing that part, such a rush!

@boladaoxp

4 ай бұрын

Isnt this on the first game?

@JS-1222

4 ай бұрын

@@boladaoxp well, to be fair, the first game has some similar areas. But it’s the 2nd game I’m talking about. You play as Ellie and I feel like this area I’m talking about had way more stalkers and it’s so much creepier.

@n0rbinator

4 ай бұрын

Saaame, in my first playthrough I just tried to run past all the stalkers to the end of the room. Creepy as hell

Whoa, I was not expecting Scratches on here or in any video. Such a great game. I bought it at Walmart back in like 07 on their tiny little PC gaming rack. Good times and a hidden gem.

@jennaloesch

5 ай бұрын

Same! It absolutely terrified me as a kid lol.

@bucketogix

2 ай бұрын

Same here! I never buy games at Walmart either, it just happened to be on a shelf and caught my eye as I was walking by. I figured wth it's cheap and it looks cool. Holy christ, I was not prepared.

@jennaloesch

2 ай бұрын

@@bucketogix I definitely had nightmares for the next few night 🤣

Can't believe you missed out RE7 with the children's room, where the lights are out and a ball moves across the room as you enter. The sound design is so creepy and you can here a Mold nearby and you have no ammo after the boss fight with the Sister. Clutter everywhere in the darkness so hard to make an escape in a hurry

@Baobao-qf3wv

5 ай бұрын

That's literally the most horror experience I have been through

@nehemiahpouncey3607

5 ай бұрын

That happened on the p.t. trailer as well.😮

@De4dend

5 ай бұрын

or the giant baby monster in RE Village

@nehemiahpouncey3607

5 ай бұрын

@@De4dend Vietnam flashbacks.😱

@tonito_el_tigre

5 ай бұрын

Then you get the item from under the little cut out in the wall and when you turn around you see her legs on the other side of the wall

Not a horror game, but the first room when you encounter the Flood in Halo was absolutely terrifying. I ran around with a pistol and shotgun panic firing before ultimately dying to the little creeps.

@VyxelOP

5 ай бұрын

Was coming down to the comments to leave this exact sentiment.

@shooby117

5 ай бұрын

The room in The Maw when you grab the rocket launcher before the engineering room gives me ptsd because of the camo flood lol

@ihavegymnastics

5 ай бұрын

Completely agree with that choice.....

@CoryG1981

5 ай бұрын

really i made it out with a shotgun and pistol np

@IceCube179

4 ай бұрын

true, that was the first scare for me as a kid. And it did start with the video tapes from the helmets... could only play it in coop

In resident evil 7 at the beginning of the game when Jack busts straight through a wall to cut you off was horrifying the first time playing because he doesn’t always do that!! The entire baker house was extremely unsettling but yea that was a massive clinch and run backwards moment when he came through the wall!

Resident Evil 2 on PS1 ALWAYS put my heart into overdrive when you're in the interrogation room and then run to the other room on the other side of the mirror 🥶

The 1st hallway in RE1 where the infected dogs jump thru the windows, just did not expect a jump scare there.

@LordSaiya

5 ай бұрын

I feel it was even worse in the remake if you happened to have played the original first. Going through that hallway the first time you're expecting it, the windows crack, but nothing happens beyond that. Coming back through that hallway at a later time after feeling like it's safe now, THEN the dogs burst through.

@NHY6CK

3 ай бұрын

Yeaaaah, re1 is another level 😭

@voshadxgathic

2 ай бұрын

First time with Yawn. Oh, what the fuuuuck...

Fatal Frame 3 was the first game of the franchised that I played. In the game, you can wander around your home and your bedroom is basically your game save spot. You would think that you'll feel safe in your own home but sometimes you'll be seeing ghosts around your house makes it unsettling. Not to mention the "screen saver" after being idle for too long.

The last of us in the hospital basement.

Making something genuinely terrifying truly is an art. I don't think there's a lot of genres that have missed the mark as much as horror has. Imagine trying to frighten a player that's already used to horror games, from the comfort of their home, without overusing cheap tricks like jumpscares.

@brodriguez11000

5 ай бұрын

Introduction of liminal spaces.

@drewtheunspoken3988

5 ай бұрын

I think jumpscares can be done artfully. Of course, I also think they're overused these days.

While not a great game, the scene in Silent Hill: Downpour on the cart (roller coaster?) got me. You cone across the scene with the mannequins when the cart stops and the light goes out. What follows is similar to the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. The light comes back on and the mannequins have moved. Then it goes dark before coming back on and reveals they're approaching you. And just repeats until they're right on top of you. And there's nothing you can do. I kept spamming the attack button to no avail. And was greatly relieved when the light came back on for the final time and those mannequins were back in their starting positions. If only the rest of the game could have been that intense.

Tlou2 jump scare got me so good. I heard the footsteps and started spamming circle then when they grabbed me I practically pissed myself

what made TLoU2 workbench so effective with the locked door is that if youre already an explorer and come across the door, it put you into a false sense of security that you were gonna have to access the room from another angle and unlock the door that way. I remember going to bench and I couldnt press cancel fast enough when I heard those foot steps running up. "shit shit shit!!!!" lmfaoooo

For #8, there was a point in the original Dead Space where a necromorph attacked me at a save point, can't remember which chapter but it was towards the middle of the game. Not sure if it was intentional or by accident. But that made me stop and question, "Am I really safe here?" at various points throughout the remainer of the game.

prey (2017): king of underrated games

The apartment 3C in GTA vice City was scary as a kid.

@jaywo527

5 ай бұрын

What was in it? I don't remember.

@magikush

5 ай бұрын

@@jaywo527bloody shower and chainsaw. Scarface easter egg

@gameranxTV

5 ай бұрын

👍🏼

Here are two I never forgot from Fallout 3: In the small village of Andale, the residents are creepy and pretend to be nice, until you unlock the basement under a house and go inside. You see cut up corpses of people they were eating. Another one is in the Dunwich Building, and while the entire place is terrifying, in one room you see a ghostly apparition of a man, who then turns into a Glowing One. The audiologs are scary and explain what happened.

@rourkes1412

4 ай бұрын

Vault 106 terrified me. When you start hallucinating, walking down a hall and you see Amata running towards you and then multiple of her running towards you😭

@avalonjustin

4 ай бұрын

@@rourkes1412 Jeez I forgot that one! Remember the computer entries were messed up too? Lots of creepy stuff in FO3.

Silent Hill 4's titular room is much scarier than that silly Eileen head room. The Eileen head wasn't creepy; it just left me scratching my own head and wondering, "Why?"

the Doom 3 BFG bathroom cutscene scared the heck out of me. i was so into the game at that point and when the cutscene triggered. i was not prepared for it. However, the most fear inducing time i have had is playing Skyrim VR with a darkness mod and a mod that made bears much bigger. On the way to riften i was attacked by a bear. Nearly fell over while using a KAT C.

When I saw the title of this video I immediately thought of the mirror room in Silent Hill 3, glad to see it on the list, didn't think it would actually be up that high though. Also a bunch of these relied on jumpscares, which in memory are tied to the room, but weren't really about the room. Also when there isn't a jumpscare, but a room that has a really unsettling atmosphere or an event that gets under your skin, to me, is way more impressive than something quick and unexpected that goes "boo!" imho

Oh my GOD! I have been trying to track down Scratches for AGES! I played it once and then totally forgot what it was called! Thank you so much for helping me find it again!

The basement with the giant baby in resident evil village deserved to be on that list. It's a shame that it wasn't included.

@MrBrazil_

5 ай бұрын

Right? The whole Casa Benievento stage is scary as hell and it changes the whole style of the game during it

@BoNZoTheClown13

3 ай бұрын

Yeah!

A new Gameranx video?? I love you guys :)

@gameranxTV

5 ай бұрын

🤝

"Hi folks its Falcon!" Falcon is the man and he's better than the entire IGN

The gallows room in SH2 always terrified me he most. There are no enemies, just a black void with gallows in the middle, but every now and then you can hear creepy footsteps passing by and it never failed to send chills down my spine.

@JayJay-nr2gk

4 ай бұрын

If u complete and go down to the sewers there's prayraid head waiting for u

The RE4 Remake was my first survival horror game. Both the regenerator & the verdugo rooms were so well designed. I'll remember those tense moments for a long time. Such a good game.

@alwillk

5 ай бұрын

RE4 is not survival horror. It’s house of the dead. Try RE 1 or 2.

For me, the section of Amnesia: The Dark Descent that freaked me out the most was the prison section. I still remember that bit 10 years later.

@shashankgupta3549

5 ай бұрын

For me, it was the Torture Chamber near the end game. Still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

So happy you mentioned the Mirror Room from SH3. I was remembering back then. Some friends and I would never stop talking about the mirror room from SH3, Pyramid Head's first encounter from SH2, or the kitchen monster from SH1.

So with that TLOU2 example, I actually thought the same thing as Falcon, but I searched the whole damn apartment. They literally don't exist before you access the work bench, or at least they didn't immediately after release. I was surprised and honestly pissed when jt happened BECAUSE I'd gone out of my way to search for them.

@sobversion3

5 ай бұрын

You can't search the whole apartment because they're behind a locked door; they don't exit the room until you interact with the workbench 😅 then you can enter the room they were hiding in

Not a horror game, but I think my biggest "pucker moment" was in "Portal 2". Towards the beginning you come along the remains of GLaDOS, and I just froze. I knew I was heading there, but once she was right in front of me on the ground... I was honestly too scared to move. Until then, I had no idea what effect Portal and GLaDOS' character had had on me. As I inched by, I kept waiting for a jump scare or something, like her grabbing me. But it didn't happen. I walked by her, went into a little chamber, flipped a switch to power some stuff back on and just made my way back the door... and then she started to move slowly, piecing herself back together. I couldn't have felt more intimidated than if it was actually happening to me in real life. Brilliant work by the development team. Shoutout to the END of Portal 2 when GLaDOS, after having formed and odd relationship with her, deletes "the file". My heart sank through my stomach and into the floor. Also, I'm 44 and I'm STILL traumatized by the piano in "Mario 64". 😵‍💫

Nearly 23 years later, I still remember the blood maze in the dream/trip sequence of Max Payne.

you do in fact see the regenerator before fighting it, when you first enter the area and hang a right, it's at the end of the hallway and runs left around the corner

Falcon appearing behind the dark room was the most scariest thing in a video about games of all time! 😂

For me the interrogation room in Resident Evil 2 when a Licker jumps thru the mirror will always be the scariest room and moment ever. I know it looks like a cheap jump scare, but the preparation for this moment is just on point, the first time you visit this room you are still exploring the police station for the first time and you are wary of whatever might be waiting for you every time you visit a new room, but this is surprisingly a clear room with no nasty surprises waiting for you, BUT the second time you need to visit this room you already know your way and you cleared most of the path out of enemies, you enter confidently, pick the item you need, start walking your way out and then that fucking Licker crashes thru the mirror and forces your shit to abandon your body at match speed. I was like 12 or 13 years old when I played this, but at that moment I paused the game and felt the urge to smoke a cigar to get my shit together and I have never in my life smoked one single time. Up to this day I still curse the devs for this and I wish for a game that would make me feel this scary again.

@powercoder

5 ай бұрын

Yea also that room with a statue that requires two red gems. In the second play through a licker jumps off the ceiling!

@powercoder

5 ай бұрын

For the integration room I think the item that triggers the jump is different for Clair and Leon, one is a key item and another is a spray. That unpredictability makes the room even more scary!

The first Monster Room in Mystery Dungeon I stumbled upon as a kid traumatized me forever

@gameranxTV

5 ай бұрын

👍🏼

That one in TLOU2 is hilarious to piss around with. Just set up a bunch of trip mines lol

cool thing about tlou2 bench that enemies dont spawn behind you, they are actually in the locked room. So if you put a bomb under that door it will blow up dudes, when they try to leave it to ambush you.

Evil withing is absolutly no joke😢

In Resident Evil 4, if you're quick enough, you can actually get a peek at the monster before he takes off and hides, prior to his reappearance in the doorway.

@alessandrodeangelis9029

5 ай бұрын

Yeah i remember that i got a peek of the monster in one or two corridors before his real encounter. You can see him running if i'm not wrong.

@QvartzEDM

5 ай бұрын

Yuppp. I saw the bastard and I got goosebumps and was like “well that’s enough for tonight” lmao. That section was so difficult to get through, absolutely terrifying

@nethalar

5 ай бұрын

@@QvartzEDM yup, did the same thing, saw him go around the corner and I just said "yk, im beating this too fast. I should probably take a break" haha

I never had the pleasure of playing SH3 when it first came out but I did play SH2 when it did and the 3 rooms I will NEVER forget from that game (4 if you include the weird inuendo room where you fight the first doorman) would be the Bathroom in the Prison, the padded cell with all the blood and roaches, and the most unsettling for me was the weird grassy room with the gallows and the sound of galloping horses wayyy below ground. Even though nothing really happens in the room other than finding a key item, it was just so out of place for where you were supposed to be that it will forever be burned in my mind.

@Mr.Ditkovich.

5 ай бұрын

Same here. I played Silent Hill 2 on the PS2 but not 3. I decided to play 3 a couple of years ago when I saw it on PS Now, but then they removed the game before I could finish it. I finally played the whole game again this year on PC. I don't know if I would consider it scarier than 2, but I think the "Otherworld" was scarier and more chaotic compared to the depressed tone of 2.

Super happy to see Condemned 2 get some love. It is such a good series that deserves a remake.

RE8. House Beneviento... climbing up from the well, I knew some shit was about to go down... and it still got me. 😊

Man so happy to see scratches mentioned, one of my favourite games and no one I know has even heard of it

Gameranx do you have a horror playlist for your content? I'd like something to fall asleep to

I don't think this exactly counts as a room, but the stairs in Resident Evil 7, when Mia comes crawling up. I never experience any worse abject fear then in that moment and the game is relatively tame up to that moment.

Ghostwire: Tokyo, any room in the school, even the hallway was unsettling

Amazing video gameranx.

Dude, that mirror room was so cool. I can think of a million more, but I'm gonna mention the mall from Condemned, where the mannequins start appearing all around you, blocking your exit and (of course) some of those mannequins arent the inanimate objects you think they are. So creepy.

Love your videos man 😄

Solid list! Dead space 2's hanger with the ishimura in it messed me up the first time. I refused to go I for easily 3 minutes, hoping there was another way

how could you ignore resident evil 2? both the art room and the interrogation room are absolute bangers, for a jump scare that you know is coming and still jump every time.

@jaetee9570

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

not exactly a room, but the eye surgery in dead space 2 gets me everytime

that room in silent hill 3 where all you can hear is something... angry. I never played it again.

Scratches… wow what a blast from the past. Beat it with my high school girlfriend years ago. Great game.

I came here to see if the head from The Room is here. And surprise, it is. This scene freaked the hell out of me when I played it. Big up for putting it on the list.

Condemn 2 was one hell of a horror game 🔥 I really wish we would have gotten a part 3 like they planned

#8: Resident Evil 2 Remake did this in the RPD main hall. They removed the safety of being able to be left alone to save and use an item box in that room by allowing Mr. X in there. It was a great curveball.

Haven’t thought about Scratches since it came out, but as soon as the title popped up that scare came right back to me. It’s like the whole game was a build up to that one jump scare.

Great list!

Condemned 2 is such an underrated game. Its soooo good

This list was really unsatisfying. Many of the games were "you had to be there to feel it" level of horror which doesn't translate when many of the games are one or two decades old. By this metric, the fact that you missed out the _dead Hand_ zombie creature from the bottom of the well of Kakariko Village from Zelda AoC is incredible. That thing was really the stuff of nightmares for 8 year old kids..

Nobody can forget the terror that the breathing sound gave in the original RE4. Hearing it in the remake activated the survival mode for me.

@johnlawful2272

5 ай бұрын

There is one that runs through the breaker room but when you get there it's gone

For me it's Milla Vodello's hidden mindscape room in the original Psychonauts. Such a bright, colorful level in an already bright and colorful game filled with familiar cartoon voice actors -- and then you find this room, likely by accident, revealing that a group of orphaned children she once cared for had tragically died in a fire. The children even manifest as horrible, whispering nightmares that inform the player just how guilty Milla feels over the incident (though you'd never know if you never found the room). Stumbling upon this for the first time as a kid (at 1AM, no less) is something that has always stuck with me.

I knew at least one Silent Hill game was going to be on this list, and funny enough, the first room that came to my mind was the mirror room in SH3 also.

If TLOU part 2 attack during craft is unexpected, then RE2 where the zombies pop out during door loading screen also just as unexpected and memorable

I would've picked the mannequins from Condemned, but maybe that didn't really happen in a room.

@thestraydog

5 ай бұрын

Oh dear God, that's such a horrifying moment when you turn around and... There they are. And they brought friends...

@brodriguez11000

5 ай бұрын

@@thestraydog Bioshock had that level with the NPCs with the rabbit masks. Creepy.

In RE4/Remake, the zombie inside the furnace, in the kitchen, nearly gave me a heart attack. Best jump scare in history.

@gameskyjumper1721

5 ай бұрын

that final Ashley section in rooms full of armors gave me nightmares. Not because of any jumpscares. No. It's because playing on Profesional is near damn impossible. So scary. lol

@ARIXANDRE

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, that one was a nightmare too. 😅

So glad to see Scratches and Amnesia made it onto this list

I thought you would include the bunker with the red door from COD Cold War. That chapter was crazy and I don't think I will ever forget about it.

Kick ass list. And in my opinion what a PERFECT number one pick. Spot on.

I've played a lot of the games on this list but the SCU basement in Condemned 2: Bloodshot (5:23) was always my favorite level in the game next to the Black Lake Mountain Lodge for how simple and creepy it was!

The point is that it needs much more thoughts to make a single room scary compared to a whole area. Since there is not that much space to build up the horror!

The scare that got me in Scratches was the mask jump scare after checking out a small walk in closet. Normally the mask is in there but in this instance it's missing. When you open the door to leave it's outside the door looking at you. Very well done!

Oh I need another 10 rooms video! F.E.A.R. Bioshock, Dead Space, Fatal Frame... There are way too many to choose from!

Yep.... I still talk about this to this day with silent Hill 3. That part of the game scared me so much....I was actually able to escape it the first time though.

Max Payne was the first game I rented at blockbuster for my new ps2 and the room with the red tightrope style floor got me. Also I thought my grandparents house was haunted at the time haha❤

@nehemiahpouncey3607

5 ай бұрын

Someone just commented that.

@nehemiahpouncey3607

5 ай бұрын

On PS4 it's hard to go across.

PT hits hard . Shame the game got cancelled

@drewtheunspoken3988

5 ай бұрын

I'd be happy if PT was still available. A much better time than that weird Silent Hill mobile game they're doing.

Fallout 4: The Massachusetts State House's basement. As you venture through the place, you find it's swarming with mirelurks, but you know at least there isn't a queen in there, because those only show up outside, and, if not along the shore, then at least from pools many times bigger than the one in the middle of the room. So, you run around, looking for the terminal to open up the only door out of there, and then you find it, and you open the door, and drop down. Suddenly, the floor starts rumbling, and then from that tiny pool of water, out pops a queen! If this didn't scare the shit out of you your first time, you're lying.

@ronkerwick325

5 ай бұрын

Then you realize you’re not at all prepared for that fight and start to panic. I remember having to really cheese that encounter and burn through a ton of ammo and grenades

holy crap, finally someone mentions scratches. first pc game i ever owned and i literally almost crapped my pants at the final scene. thanks for bringing that back into my memories. that tramatized me as a kid. now im gonna sleep with the light on tonight lol!

Glad I'm not the only one who's played Scratches! Love that game

Honourable Mention : The Flood room from Halo Combat Evolved was so freaking terrifying when I first played it..

@IchabodCrane247

5 ай бұрын

I hated the generator rooms on two betrayals, popping my shields to then have a flood mob full of rocket jockeys. That terrified me so much when I was 6.

The mirror which reflection paused is brilliant. I wish that thing got remastered with the latest engine.

Gameranx just casually dropped the coldest opening montage 🥶

The game Scratches and the boiler room (nr 3) was literally that first thing I thought of when I clicked on this video. I haven´t thought about it for years or played in since it came out in 07 something. I remember playing it alone in my room in the dark at night (as it should be experienced) and to this day Iˋm too p*ssy to reexperience it lol. 😅Since it is a puzzle game it never got the attention it deserved. Highly recommend if you reading this want to play something that will be in the back of your mind for years to come! It says something that it was mentioned and ranked high in this video even tho the guy has played hundreds if not thousands of games since then but still remembers it. Also a nice change of pace to play a horror story game that relies on atmosphere rather than cheap jump scares like most modern horror games.

I'm glad the Eileen head room finally made a list. I was playing that with my aunt and uncle back in 07 and the minute we saw it, simultaneously we all went "Oh gat damn!" The funniest sheeit ever, but terrifying. And the dude said absolutely nothing about it, like it was normal.

@therunawaykid6523

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that is easily one of the most unsettling things in a game I’ve seen

As soon as I saw the title I was wondering if the bathroom from Eternal Darkness was gonna be on this list. I was just a young kid playing this bizarre game already on edge from everything and I was peacefully exploring the mansion when I stumbled into the bathroom. Not really paying attention to anything specific when BAM!!! Bathtub jumpscare lol

Visage had a lot of great moments especially the part where the old lady randomly peaks at you around the corner. I remember my heart stopping sheeesh

Number 1 is what I thought of when I clicked on the video. Good jub gameranx.