8 Video Games That Kept Me Up For Weeks And Gave Me Nightmares
There is nothing to be afraid of it’s just a video game! These are the video games fill you with fear.
They keep you up at night, and give you nightmares. They make you question your sanity, lock all your doors, and sleep with the lights on. They make you fall off the couch, hide behind pillows, and shut your eyes. They low-key make you want to run to your mom, and ask your dad to remind you that there is no such thing as monsters. Game developers have been trying to scare the pants off of us since the beginning. Horror games especially have a way of getting under our skin. Video games unlike scary movies, or television allow us, as players to really get into character. We are transported into the horror of a game, and it’s not the characters running around in fear, but us. These are the games that were the best at making us feel like there are monsters in our closets, that ghosts are going to appear at any moment, that if we turn around, if we stop running, we might actually die. This is a list of the video games that gave me nightmares.
1) Alien Isolation
This 2014 game by Creative Assembly is based on Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien and it’s amazing. If you loved the movie alien this is the game for you. This is your chance to immerse yourself in the Alien universe. Alien isolation is a first person horror survival game. You play as Amanda Ripley- daughter of Ellen Ripley. This game focuses more on stealth than going in guns blazing. You are trapped on a spaceship, wrought with dangers. There are weird monsters that grab your face and explode instantaneously, questionable android robots, and hostile humans and, if that wasn’t enough the Alien stalks you the entire game, ready to kill you, if you take one wrong step. So, be careful playing this game or it might be “game over man, game over” for you.
2)First Encounter Assault Recon(F.E.A.R.)
Alma a ghostly little girl with questionable intentions stalks you in F.E.A.R
3) Layers of Fear
This 2016, psychological first person, puzzle platformer game made by Bloober Team puts you in the mindset of a crazed Victorian painter. Have you ever wondered what it was like to be Vincent Van Gogh? This game could be the closest we get to that whole artist with a tortured past cliché. At first the game seems simple, your goal is to complete the painter’s piece de resistance. You must search the painter’s expansive mansion for objects to help complete his final painting. Each piece allows you to learn more and more about the painter’s haunting and horrifying past. The closer you get to accomplish this goal the, the more you understand the painter’s madness. And start to experience the madness yourself. Each time you walk through the mansion, its rooms and walls change in correlation with the painter’s increasingly unstable mind. Everything that was once beautiful in the mansion starts to turn grotesque. And the once safe hallways, and rooms in the mansion become dangerous and unnerving. Slowly but surely, you unlock the painter’s as well as your own layers of fear.
The more you play layers of fear the more horrifying the painting turns
4)Amnesia: The Dark Descent
One of the scariest games of all time, Amnesia the dark descent places you in the shoes of a guy named Daniel who, you guessed it has amnesia. Daniel is lost in a castle, that is of course haunted and full of horrific creatures out to kill. As you make your way through the castle you start to slowly uncover Daniel’s past. Deranged monsters roam the castle halls blocking your path. That wouldn’t be so bad if you could beat them down, but you can’t. Daniel doesn’t have any weapons; You actually can’t harm the monsters at all. This game forces you to run, hide, shut doors behind you and wait. Wait for the monster to pass, the closet you are hiding in. To make matters worse,
hiding in the dark, causes Daniel to slowly lose his mind and succumb to his fear. The more secrets you uncover, the more you must run and hide, the more and more terrifying the castle becomes. Turning, not only Daniel, but ourselves into a big psychological messes.
Steam gives this survival horror game 10/10
5) Five Nights at Freddy’s
6) Outlast
Journalist trapped in an asylum full of secrets, Outlast is a cliché worth playing. This first person horror survival game forces you to look through your video camera to see in the dark. There is a limited power supply, so if you run out of batteries good luck because the asylum is dark and full of terrors. Using your camera to record everything you see in the dark, makes you feel like you are creating your own found footage recording and it just might be your last. Outlast forces you to run, hide, and evade all the enemies in the game. Since, apparently journalists stuck in asylums only have the power to record things, and no fighting ability whatsoever. If you want to play hide and seek in an asylum Outlast is the way to go.
7) Alan Wake
8) Resident Evil Series
This concludes my list for the games that gave me nightmares. While there are plenty of other games out there that make me want to cry in fear, I would never have time to list them all here for you. Every game pretty much has the potential to keep me up at night, make me forget I am a grown up, and act like that little kid still afraid of the boogie man. Writing this article has put me into a horrible state of mind, I keep waiting for one of the monsters on this page to come out of the computer screen and bite me. I am pretty much waiting for the jump scare, and I hope you are too.
Stay safe, bring a flashlight and don’t forget the batteries people.
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