Scary Game Overs

[ciro64]

Get ready for some nostalgic nightmare fuel in this thread. I recommend posting videos so people get to experience it for themselves.

 

[Yousef]

Someone celebrating your own death is pretty scary.

 

[Denmdm]

This always got me the chills

 

[Iguana-0]

anything with my face on it

 

[ZengarZombolt]

 

[Not_Red]

I only played this one a couple of times on arcade machines but is one you don't forget

 

[zacharinolongpants]

All the DKC game over screens are weirdly disturbing lol

 

[ciro64]

 

[Yuki Senoue]

Someone celebrating your own death is pretty scary.

And it's not a random someone, it is TAKENOBU FUCKING MITSUYOSHI.

This happy looking fella:

And about a game celebrating your death, how about Total Distortion's game over song?

Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey shows what happens what you fail your mission:

 

[Virtuafighter]

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Waxworks had some of the most gorey and freaky Game Over screens for it's time.

Spoiler: Video Game Gore

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

"And the future refused to change."

 

[The insignificant]

Shadow of The Colossus - Dirge °10 boss
It's a shame that atmosphere, was lost in the remake.

 

[Teone]

 

[Denmdm]

Shadow of The Colossus - Dirge °10 boss
It's a shame that atmosphere, was lost in the remake.
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Damn that's eerie af! I never played much of that game but that makes me wanna

 

[BlissfulBandit]

It's funny when you're older, but imagine experiencing it as a kid.

 

[Bacon Eater64x]

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Beign forced back to the title screen was the scariest part.

 

[valosagutas]

I'll just say "Outer Wilds". For me no creature, no monster, no situation was that as scary as what happens in Outer Wilds and its core game over loop. It's meaningfully scary for me when you deal with cosmic celestial objects, man. How to run away when all fabric of spacetime collapses on you lol. The game plays with your sense of astrophobia by going beyond of basic fear you feel from what you saw and all.

 

[SecretStrategist]

While technically not a game over, the bad ending of the arcade game Spinal Breakers is pretty much one of the scariest things you'll ever come across to the point that you probably won't be able to get any sleep after seeing it. Due to the severe intensity of it, I'll only post a link (click at your own risk) while also explaining on what had happened:

Spoiler

https://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/f/spbr.htm

It's heavily implied that after being forced to kill his wife and daughter, Captain Waffle commits suicide using his gun.

 

[Denmdm]

While technically not a game over, the bad ending of the arcade game Spinal Breakers is pretty much one of the scariest things you'll ever come across to the point that you probably won't be able to get any sleep after seeing it. Due to the severe intensity of it, I'll only post a link (click at your own risk) while also explaining on what had happened:

Spoiler

https://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/f/spbr.htm

It's heavily implied that after being forced to kill his wife and daughter, Captain Waffle commits suicide using his gun.

Never played that, but that's creepy af. Guess I still gotta go deep the game over rabbit hole

 

[Pokenami]

This one scared me when I was a kid. I had this happen to me when I was playing the arcade version.

 

[Denmdm]

Also, not exactly scary but made me tear up a bit when I got it. The music adds up really nicely, and the total darkness on the credits is too eerie.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

When Valtiel pulls Heather's body to who knows where if she dies....

 

[Bakuma1997]

 

[ArkenDev]

Gothic was always intriguing and terrifying to me because it has NO GAME OVER SCREEN at ALL.
The game tries to be as immersive as it can be which means that whenever you die, you're just left starring at your main characters corpse, lifeless and still, forever (until you reload your save file at least)