What are the things that kinda creep you out in games. Like, not generally frightening, but give you chills?

Submitted by Paraprosdokian9411 t3_10pny2u in gaming

Personally, I find spooky the situations when I pull a lever in one room and there's a cutscene showing a door somewhere else opening. Especially when there's a time limit to reach then, like in Jak 2/Jak 3 when you have literally 10 seconds of giant rolls and leaps. Or, even weirder, when there's a note on a door saying that I should find another way around 'cause they are locked by some power. You know, those "out of blue" instances when the game is subtly telling you that things are about to get nasty.

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anonymouszack t1_j6llkcg wrote

The enemies in the forest made my skin crawl and darkwood had an amazingly horrific atmosphere

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yax51 t1_j6lmlgd wrote

Path of Exile: Lunaris Temple level 2. In the background you can hear the tortured screams and the sheer terror. They did such a good job, it makes me so uncomfortable.

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Small-Kaleidoscope-4 t1_j6lweut wrote

when it gets quiet like something about playing a game at night and in the game the soundtrack is taking a pause or some cutscene is going on and it just feels eerie that the surrounding sounds pause for a reason.

Loading screens with nonchalant quotes on it.

Character creation...that souless stare When npcs call out to you .

WHY AM I BEING TUGGED INTO A CUTSCENE WHY IS MY BODY TETHERED TO THIS INTERACTION?!

Idle animations. Its giving "Player self aware theyve been standing there for 45 minutes"

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marto17890 t1_j6m21g8 wrote

Things that come from underground unexpectedly - like Molerats and Radscorpions in fallout

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CompanionJar t1_j6mk0p2 wrote

In Elden Ring, at the Shaded Castle, there is a Revenant hidden under the poisonous water. It comes out only if you approach it and attacks you. If you go on the roof of the nearby building, close enough, stealth, the Revenant will come out and stay there motionless, waiting for you to approach it.

This scared me, knowing what the enemy does, and knowing that I have to go there and fight it, seeing it just sitting there making that heavy breathing noise, waiting. (I attacked it from afar, and it teleported behind me spitting venom, killing me instantly lmao, me being like "oh shit oh shit oh shit").

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SD456 t1_j6opx3r wrote

Those f&$@!#+ skeletons in Minecraft. Whenever I’m discovering a cave system, they shoot at you from the shadows, I always jump a little.

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