I love horror games, though I'm often left disappointed by them. Whether it's because they use the same old tricks, they are just trying to be over-the-top shocking, or they try to emulate a good horror game and fail at it (think Visage. AKA "'Mom? I want P.T.' 'We have P.T. at home.'"). Either way, most horror games are pretty "meh". Too many devs seem to think that terror means turning the music down to build up the tension, then dropping a jump scare. Flinching is not horror. Flinching is a reflex. It gets your adrenaline going, but then you laugh it off. It doesn't make you question your own sanity, or make you suddenly aware that you're alone. A good horror game is one that'll get under my skin and stay there even after I put the controller down. With that being said, when I was thinking about the scariest game I've ever played, it came down to a top 2 rather and a top 1. P.T. and Pathologic 2. These games are absolutely terrifying, but they couldn't be any more different from eachother. I think everybody knows what P.T. is by now, the surprise interactive teaser for the canceled Silent Hills game. P.T. was a masterclass at using every element in order to create a sense of paranoia for the player. The lighting, the ambient noise, the sound design and the surreal dreamlike feel of the game were all utilized to slowly work their way under the player's skin in order to make them feel like they were being haunted. As you walk through the ever-looping hallway, it prods you just enough to get your imagination going. It makes you paranoid, it makes you feel like there is something always walking behind you. P.T. is about pure primal terror, a fear of the unknown. Pathologic 2 is completely different. If I were to make a comparison, P.T. is the kind of terror you get from being along in a haunted house, pursued by a demonic entity. It's primal and it goes directly for our flight-or-fight instincts. Pathologic 2 is like waking up in a world where everything is stuck in the uncanny valley, where everything seems lifelike, but not quite so. People speak in riddles, there's a lot of symbolism that doesn't make sense, and there's some really -blam!- up imagery. But what Path 2 does best is it instill a sense of existential hopelessness. Without using any jump scares...or any conventional scares for that matter, it's made me feel emotions no game has ever made me feel before. The basic premise is that you're a doctor who's come back to your hometown because your father's been killed. You have to figure out who killed him. Meanwhile, a plague begins to spread. Your resources are limited as is your time. Every day that passes, the plague spreads further, the economy inflates, characters who have vital information can eat it if you don't save them fast enough. On top of all that, you can catch the plague. If and when this happens, you have to manage you own symptoms while racing around trying to find out what in the hell is going on. So you have a sense of hopelessness as you're trying to both control and cure a pandemic getting out of hand, you're trying to find your father's murder, and in addition to all of those, there's some weird -blam!- up cultish -blam!- going on that may have something to do with the plague. Pathologic 2 is a bonkers fever dream that caused me a lot of sleepless nights and it's one I don't think I'll ever play again. It's also an incredibly difficult game. I had to use cheats , but even then it was...it was an experience. It's far different from any horror game I've ever played...and I can't say for sure if I can recommend it or tell people to avoid it. Well, I went off on a tangent there. I forgot the purpose of this thread. So...what's the scariest game you've ever played?