Oof, many examples I have, let's go one by one.
First time I got dread playing a game: Metroid Prime series. My cousin has the steel book trilogy for the Wii, and young me who lived in the Wii era was curious about the game with a cool man (I didn't know then) wearing an armor and a arm cannon, I freshly watched the first Iron Man movie and I was into the whole sci-fi asthetic, I wanted to try the game so I took it home, I got farely far into the game, not without getting spoked playing trough the Frigate Orpheon (space). I stoped playing once the Chozo Warrior Ghosts became regular enemies, you have no ideia what the feeling was for a 10 year old to try and leave a room, the door is locked, he turns around and sees 3 specters in a dim lit room, safe to say I only recently finished the game due to the remaster lol.
Second experience: SMT 4. I don't think I have ever played a game with such an opressive atmosphere like this, Even in your first dungeon, you are thrown in a underground dungeon to fight your way trough a trial to prove you are worthy of the Samurai's Gauntlet, and not even once you see the sky in the whole game, and it only gets worse when you go to Tokyo, it's eternaly dark and there are very few humans walking the streets, the demons have made the streets their home, and you are the only motherfucker that can go toe to toe with them... Perfect.
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