What your best retro horror game that you've ever played

[tunezlovfull]

haunting ground, to make a huge understatement it got overshadowed at launch by re4, but features a way more elaborated upon buddy system between fiona and huey than what we got in re4. if this game got a rerelease today everybody would be clamouring for it as a huge example of why video games count as art. the story is second to none in video games in my opinion. kojima could never

 

[KenShjIN]

Fatal Frame 2
Amnesia
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth
Silent Hill
Siren
White Day
Outlast
Iron Lung
Clock Tower

 

[Deleted member 746185]

Nocturne is like a buffet of all the gothic monsters we love. Vampires. Check. Werewolf. Check. Goblins. Check. Zombies. They somehow made zombies gothic and check. Lovecraftian monster in volume 2 that just hangs around and does nothing. Check. Ghostly women. Check. Naked Succubus. Check. Check. Check. How come this game doesn't have 13 different sequels is beyond me. Like, this kind of buffet of monsters is hard in modern horror game, and this was like a game made by 13 people back in 1999. The fact this isn't an expanded series like Vtm with tabletops, comics, and what not, and only have the bloodrayne and blair witch games as some sort of expansion that doesn't expand much, and that cliff hanger that's never solved, is beyond fucking criminal. We live in a society man. We live in a society.

Another retro horror I love is White Day A Labyrinth Named School (2001; not to be confused with the 2016 remake of the same name). This game, is legit the most scared I have been of any game in my life. The scratching ghost still gives me nightmare, and it actually managed to kill my sleep for a single day, because of how scared it made of things, that any noise resembling jingling keys (like slow moving fans) or scratching (like some cat outside probably scratching against a wood or metal plate), just made me scared of sleeping. This game and its sound design is beyond impressive.

While I consider Splatterhouse more gorey action than horror, I will definitely say that it has some really awesome creature design and can be really tense at moments.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Rule of Rose is a top-notch retro horror game that has a really unique vibe. A lot of the game is set on an airship but everything feels very victorian/Edwardian in design.

I also love Clocktower but its already got enough love so far. I guess my second slot goes to Ripper on PC. Its like a cyberpunk thriller horror about a killer who can make you explode with his brain/computer.

 

[Mago]

Hellnight/Dark Messiah!

 

[Lowpoly Kenshiro]

"The siren" on playstation 2!
amazing game with a really cool gimmick and ambience
I dont wanna spoil anything tho its just that good!

 

[Bomberman]

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

 

[Tonberry]

Resident Evil 2

 

[DrunkGecko]

the most retro horror game that ive played to the end is slender: the eight pages
it wasnt very good lol

 

[NovumVeritas]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for me.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Clock Tower (1 First fear and 2)
Haunting Ground
Obscure 1 and 2
Alone in the Dark (Ps1)
Dino Crisis
Echo Night
Resident Evil (1,2,3,4 Veronica Dead Aim Outbreak 1 and 2)
Silent Hill 2
Fatal Frame 1 2 and 3
Galerians

Honor mention Deception 3 (I don't if I consider Horror but the atmosphere it feels like it)

 

[NobodyHere]

Misfortune: A Story of Suspicious Friendships (Ps1)

I mean just look at it, the visuals are just so disgustingly good. The game is janky with its repeating handful of short music tracks, unskippable text when you’re ment to replay it many times, the laughably poor skip for animation, password saves, and more! I wouldn’t want it any other way, it’s all so essential to the whack ass twisted atmosphere, dragging you into its insanity.

Otogirisou (SNES)

It’s like playing a classic horror movie. Cheesy but classy, how I like em. With some delicious sound design and visuals.

Galerians (Ps1)

Don’t think Galerians is scary, it does have some moments though . I love it for its atmosphere, the unapologetic drama of it all, it’s so camp and I absolutely adore it.

 

[Bonkers225]

Corpse Party and Siren

 

[Tbest25]

Silent Hill 3, one of the few horror games that actually made me fearful while playing it

 

[petran79]

Ecstatica: released in 1994,similar to Alone in the Dark but with much better graphics and music. You are in a demon infested village in medieval Europe and have to save the witch Ecstatica, who caused all the mayhem calling the demons.
Nudity, religious sacriledge, horror, gore, blood etc. Graphics made it look very kiddy but it was one of the most atmospheric games. Relatively short too. Had a much bigger sequels that was inferior but still grand in scope.

Bad Mojo: part Interactive part fmv game were you control a human turned cockroach and have to find a way to return to normal and reunite with his past. The spirit of his mother as well as small animals and insects help or obstruct your path.

Harvester : One of the most depraved horror games. It even includes violence against kids and babies. It takes place in 50s America small town but as you progress you'll realise things are not as they seem. Makes 90s Mortal Kombat look like kindergarten and even today no mainstream game touched many of the themes.

Elvira games: classic horror rpgs that share more in common with dungeon crawlers as all feature mazes where you 'll need pen and paper at some point. Saw them first on an Amiga in early 90s and realised why computers were far ahead when it comes to videogames

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Galerians (Ps1)
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Don’t think Galerians is scary, it does have some moments though . I love it for its atmosphere, the unapologetic drama of it all, it’s so camp and I absolutely adore it.

You ever have a chance to try out Galarians: Ash? I've had it on my shelf for over a decade and I've not touched it yet despite liking the first game.

 

[dizzypixel]

corpse party

 

[RetroSTG]

I like house of the dead 2 and carnevil.

 

[petran79]

I like house of the dead 2 and carnevil.

playing hotd 1 on arcades for the first time was a revelation.

 

[ThunderBoy]

The first Aliens vs Predator from PC (Rebellion -1999) scare me a lot.
Overwise the marine campaign.

 

[Isegrim]

It's already mentioned but yes, Siren for PS2 definitely. Only game that got into my subconscious and gave me real nightmares. I had to stop playing for a month and resumed it. I still enjoyed every minute of it.

Clock Tower on SNES and the sequel Clock Tower on PS1. I remember playing this with my sister who just happened to have the same name as the protagonist and has the same high school uniform. I used to drive her crazy by telling her it's a game about her. In the end, the PS1 version really creeped her out and she just ran off mid session.

Clock Tower 3 is memorable for several things. One...her best friend who looked exactly like Ron Weasley from Harry Potter (It was a constant joke when I played it with my sister). Two, like the previous games, the heroine gets chased by killers and evades them by hiding but then the last thing I expect happens. Eventually, she turns into a magical girl that reminds me of Akazukin Cha Cha Magical Princess Holy Up and obliterates them with magical arrows and a killer lightning atomic bomb from the heavens.

Alien Isolation was...unggh...this game had me on pins and needles the whole time. The Alien's AI is really terrifying and unpredictable. There seems to be no way to exploit it and the way it follows you and only you all the time is nerve wracking. I only wish I finished it but our PS3 broke down before I could.

There's this free downloadable horror game called Akemi Tan. It had a jump scare that was so unexpected and disturbing, my nephew played it and never touched it again.

 

[Captain Murphy]

I always found the eerieness and isolation of Myst to be exceptionally unnerving to the point that it became a horror game. I was constantly waiting for something to jump out and eat me and it never did.

Monster party was my first "horror" game and I loved it. Still do. Clock Tower og was amazing.

My new kick is watching weird Mario and Sonic.exe titles.

Earthbound has the scariest endgame for me. Giygas along with that music. /Shudders

It is sublime horror. On one hand, the tonal shift is so brutally unexpected but the danger is always nearer than you realize... the darkness always hiding underneath the surface throughout the story that is always revealing its presence in subtle ways - and that is always threatening to explode out into the open, scarring our minds in the process.

That is Earthbound in a nutshell. A horror game masquerading as a sweet and innocent journey, which is the point

As terrifying as Earthbound gets, it doesn't hold a candle to "Buzzbound" in terms of catastrophic pure terror conveyed.

I absolutely wish I could actually play this thing.