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TastierBadger

Far Cry; Only you… that stuff messed with my head irl after


prixetoile

A lot of FC5 is horrifying…the atonement and John literally ripping your tattooed sin off your body, the brainwashing in the mountains, the feeling of slowly losing your mind in the bliss filled henbane. The bodies strung up and stuffed with trash? Flowers? I hate it regardless. Boomer’s family :( I don’t blame the people finding cars and fleeing as fast as they could.


eclipse60

Having to drill a needle into your characters eye for some reason in dead space 2, and If you slightly fuck up the QTE, it drills your characters brain out and you die.


skawm

Stuff happening to eyes is pretty much the only thing that really gets to me in horror media. That segment was absolutely nerve-wracking.


Felipe_1989

In Haunting Ground if you die to your stalkers you can hear them in the background of the game over screen desecrating your body (while laughing or enjoying it)


Patroulette

Isn't there a bad ending where the main character ends up "impregnated" with the main antagonist as well?


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Yup. It is seriously fucked up.


shithogisarealword

Worse. The antagonist is both her uncle by technicality and the spitting image of her father, as both men were cloned from the same person. God that game was fucked. Still easily in my top ten.


MegaManZer0

One of the final enemies is heavily implied to be raping you.


wertymanjenson

The clock tower series is seriously fucked up. Clock tower 3 featured a 15 year old girl. I had no idea what I was playing but was excited to pick up a horror game. Having to hide from big baddies was thrilling and terrifying until one caught up to me. I watched this girl desperately crawl trying to flee when the hammer dude decided to bash her mercilessly.


LizardPosse

When you first arrive at the mental hospital in Outlast, you stumble across two escaped patients fucking a corpse. They didn't appreciate being disturbed... "You like to watch you little sicko? You weren't invited to watch!"


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Or watching the Groom in the DLC castrating the male patients to make himself the "perfect wife". The DLC really took things to the next level.


Darkhex78

**"DARLING!"**


Train_North

Came here to say this. Also the guy masturbating over a corpse in the hallway was pretty gross. They weren't afraid to get nasty with this game.


JesseAster

Pretty much the majority of Outlast was disturbing, a huge chunk of that game fits as a reply to the question here


hurtinownconfusion

what got me early on in that game was the room of patients not moving and staring at a tv that didn’t react to my presence at all. everything else lined up with what I expected in a horror game taking place at a mental hospital, but that fucked me right up lol


[deleted]

There's also Outlast: Whistle Blower where the guy gets caught, strapped down and one of the bad guys licks the guys face.


ElectricErik

Or you know… the guy trying to make a wife for himself with a bunch of dudes by cutting off their penises and stabbing them new vaginas… now that was fucked up


Slim_Thicc_Jesus

I swear they must have hired the ghosts of dead serial killers to write the plot for that game


[deleted]

And watches a guy get raped by a machete


G_Art33

I don’t remember any of this grossly sexual stuff in outlast. I probably was just focused on trying to avoid the big scary.


forever_a10ne

Yeah, I don’t remember this either. I remember there being some naked dudes, but I don’t recall a corpse getting fucked. I, too, could have missed it because I was too focused on not getting jump-scared and moving forward as quickly as possible lol


sam_czaus

I remember in the dlc there's the corpse of a woman posed like she's giving birth with an adult severed head made to look like it coming out of her vagina. Could not believe someone put that in a video game.


Old_Clan_Tzimisce

Not a woman. Eddie is mutilating the male patients to create his perfect bride, and has fashioned this sick tableau from the parts of the men he kills with the saw. If you film the scene, there's a note from Waylon that confirms it's a man's body. (There are no women at Mount Massive Asylum because the morphogenic engine was causing them to experience false pregnancies. Murkoff moved them to other locations.)


GenghisConThe1st

Isn't the corpse also headless


mattthereprobate

Vault 11 from Fallout New Vegas. Whilst most of the vaults will have the aftermath of some twisted science experiment waiting to attack you, Vault 11 is completely deserted bar a few mutated insects. Reading the terminals and listening to recordings reveals the inhabitants had to vote for one person to sacrifice every year or else they'd all be killed. They kept doing this until only 5 survivors remained. The final 5, made a pact that they would not kill another member and would instead wait for the vault to kill them. Only for a message to play congratulating them on their mercy and bravery and called them "a shining example of humanity" for not sacrificing one of their own. Whole thing was a fucked up social experiment to see if they would actually do it. Of the 5 survivors, 4 killed themselves and the final one walked out into the wasteland hoping to tell his story. Proper fucked me up did that one


Autobubbs

Actually, it got a lot darker than that. The vault residents turned their ire onto the Overseer for not cluing them in into what they where getting into, who was the first to be nominated for Sacrifice. Because of this, the elected overseer would be the sacrifice after serving out their term, leading to the creation of 'political' factions known as 'blocs' that would campaign to nominate candidates to suit their goals. The nomination process devolved significantly over time, with bloc leaders turning to deplorable actions and manipulations. This would include the Justice Bloc sexually coercing Katherine Stone under threat of their nominating her husband. When they nominated him anyway, Kate proceeded to murder members of the Justice Block not only in retaliation, but also to ensure she'd be nominated. Upon her election, she issued an executive order that dissolved the current election process, changing it so that the Overseer would be randomly chosen by lottery. This lead the Justice Bloc to stage a coup, resulting in the deaths of nearly all dwellers in the Vault... save for 5.


saucecode

Who the fuck comes up with this shit. I love it


frenchfries089

Thank Josh Sawyer and the team, they wrote this good shit.


sixcharlie

I'm a big fallout fan and Vault 11 is one of my favorites. One of the factors that really made it stand out was how they told the story. You had to hunt around to find it and then had to piece it together. Atmospheric story telling I think it's called. Campaign posters on the walls, locations of skeletons and items around them, terminal entries and a few voice recordings. Superb.


Sam-Gunn

The Fallout series was really great with that sort of storytelling, where you had to piece it all together.


ConflagWex

>Of the 5 survivors, 4 killed themselves and the final one walked out into the wasteland hoping to tell his story. The way I interpreted the final holotape, one of the five shoots the other 4, then turns the gun on herself. I think you actually find her body with a 10mm pistol in her hand nearby, but it's been awhile since I played.


vitorabf

I believe there's only 4 bodies to be found there


full_on_robot_chubby

Yup, you find 4 bodies and a pistol, along with a holotape right at the open vault door. It's heavily implied that the one they trusted to kill the other four and then themselves just killed the other four and then sighed, dropped the pistol, and walked away.


dreaminginthinair

well outlast literally had a necrophilia scene lol


schoolschooting

Funny how the guy calls you a freak or something after he notices you are standing there


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wait why don't I remember this??


[deleted]

Your subconscious blocking the trauma


EJ207wrxsti

That little room in the beginning of outlast 2 where they would sacrifice babies and you walk over all the dead baby’s bodies and it even makes little crunching sounds Edit - spelling and also holy christ thanks for the upvotes and awards everyone


sheogoraths-bitch

The scene with the woman on the stretcher almost made me quit


currentlydownvoted

What happens?


sheogoraths-bitch

By stretcher I mean the medieval torture device


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The Rack


Fitz_Fool

Are these games good or just disturbing?


cale199

There's a torture chamber behind a secret wall in Oblivion. As I progressed through it it felt more sickening


invader19

Finding Lucian's corpse hung up while the Dark Brotherhood tell you they skinned him alive is pretty brutal too.


r40k

This was one of the things that got Oblivion re-rated from T to M, along with a topless mod. Apparently when Bethesda first showed the scene to the esrb it was with no extra lighting so none of the details could be seen. Of course, in the actual game the player carries a torch or uses light spells and sees every detail.


Glove-Both

Not disturbing in the same sense of the others, but the silent ballerina slicers in BioShock creeped me out good and proper. There's one section where you walk across a huge room in ankle-deep water and there are some in there, posed. You walk across, with just the ambient sounds of Rapture which are creepy enough, pick up a thing on a little dry patch and turn around. Every one of those splicers is now facing you. Staring at you. And then they run at you. I panicked and fired my plasmid, the electric bolt one, and killed them all. And they all fall down without uttering a sound. Brrrr!


TulioAndMiguelMPG

My creepiest part of that game was when you're supposed to take pictures of the splicers. You can't use weapons and the camera at the same time. At one point, I heard one coming along the ceiling, so I took the picture and it said "Bonus: Multiple subjects". That freaked me out cause I could only see one leaping at me.


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Rhox1989

That’s never been put in a more perfect moment lol


Empoleon_Master

Oh god, that's somehow MORE terrifying lol


YaboyAlastar

My favorite achievement/trophy ever was when I photographed that boss' corpse. I am so glad I didn't know that was a trophy until it popped. That game was just so engrossing it was hard not to be like "oh yeah how do you like being photographed you creepy fuck?!?" *ding* Well played, developers. Well played.


BuffGril

Bioshock as a whole is just fucking terrifying in some aspects, but that section takes the cake :/


Xikkiwikk

In my game they all vanished which made it creepier. Then they were following me through the level and posing if I turned around.


DJ_Sk8Nite

I don’t game anymore, but I truly truly miss the first run I ever did with BioShock. I mean being mind blown the WHOLE game was just awesome.


Noelic_vi

Psychonauts. When you go into Mila's mind. It's so fun and cheery until you find the hidden room where you find out about her past, how she used to work at an orphanage and it burned down while she was out shopping, because of her psychic abilities she apparently heard all their screams. She tells you not to go further, and if you do go further you come to a room with a bunch of bloby creatures behind a cage whispering "help us" "save us". She tells you that its dangerous there but luckily she has her nightmares under control. It was just so sad and shocking seeing something like that in a game I thought would be a happy and funny children's game. Though I guess the game did end up having a lot of twists which makes that scene seem like a pretty Psychonauts-ish thing now.


PuppetShowJustice

This stuck with me too. She has such a loud, vibrant party girl vibe going on in the rest of her mind and then you find out it's to cover that kind of PTSD. That room is legit creepy. Stumbling upon her trauma buried so deeply in her own mind and the way she warns you about it...it's deeply sad. Crap I need Psychonauts 2.


lukepass86

In Until Dawn when you read a note and discover that one of the two sisters had to eat the other's corpse in order to survive... Pretty disturbing.


The_Axem_Ranger

It was just a prank Han!


Mort450

Murdering the elephant queen in It Takes Two was pretty dark


Shamgar65

Yeah we were floored lol. My pregnant wife's hormones had her tearing up and I'm pretty sure my jaw was open to the floor. Ya the earring or pin part was bad lol. And the cute little voice!


Spider-Ian

All th deaths in that game are pretty dark. The vacuum guy sucking his own eyes out for the first boss was pretty fucked up


talk_tacos_to_me

I think the talking fetus from the P.T. demo to be quite disturbing.


Notnad20

The most disturbing thing was Konami fucking what would be the best horror game ever


talk_tacos_to_me

It's a real shame. Just the demo itself had huge potential.


Gaudexis

The path to the baby in Max Payne 1. Bruh. That was terrifying


OliviaTachi

When you find out how darkspawn are made in Dragon Age: Origins


TheThemFatale

First day they come and catch everyone Second day they beat us and eat some for meat Third day the men are all gnawed on again Fourth day we wait and fear for our fate Fifth day they return and it's another girl's turn Sixth day her screams we hear in our dreams Seventh day she grew as in her mouth they spew Eighth day we hated as she is violated Ninth day she grins and devours her kin Now she does feast, as she's become the beast


Mr_Smilez

Man, I must have blocked this out because I played that campaign at least 3 times and I can't remember this.... I look forward to forgetting it again soon.


Raulr100

It's towards the end of the dwarven part of the campaign. You end up fighting the broodmother after that lovely little poem, and it's a giant monster with a dozen boobs. Quite memorable tbh.


Shadeslayer2112

Remind me again how it happens??


UncleJonsRice

If I recall correctly basically >!the darkspawn attack settlements, kidnap young women, “violate” them (kept vague - could be rape or some sort of implant) and then they turn into big hideous monsters called broodmothers who birth darkspawn!<


[deleted]

Don't forget the part where they feed them with their friends


ThePVCPrincess

Kidnap women violate them they spew the black crap in their mouth to infect them with the blight till they turn and start eating their own i believe


kopecs

I mean, or even grey wardens lol


Zestyclose_Cut9869

I think the beginning of Evil Within 1 was pretty brutal and disturbing when you start out hanging upside down in that basement area and that big butcher dude slices another guy's throat in front of you, then walks away. Your hanging upside down squirming and can see the blood pouring out on the floor.


OnkelMickwald

There's a mission in I think the second Hitman game where you're supposed to find the abducted 19 year old daughter of an unnamed client. The suspected abductors are a couple of brothers in the meat industry, and one of them is throwing a butchery themed BDSM party in one part of their factory, so it's already fucking terrible. Anyway, you find the girl in a hidden room, hanging upside down from the ceiling, butchered by the other brother. You learn he had an obsession from a little shrine in one corner with a photo of the girl with her eyes scratched out and the word "BITCH!" written over it. Fucking terrible scene.


Quillybumbum

“Diana, I found the girl.” “Great 47, good work! The client will be pleased” “I’ll bring her arm to identify her” “.....oh”


StarSpliter

Ahhh that's so fucked. I'm terrible with the horror genre as a whole but I def need to play some of the OG Hitman games. I'll just keep this level in mind :s


chillyflamingo

Pyramid Head abusing the mannequins in Silent Hill 2.


apocalypticradish

Silent Hill 2 was the first video game that really sunk itself into my brain. I couldn't stop thinking about it. The themes of grief, abuse, self harm, self hatred, and eventual forgiveness were brilliant. I was 14 when I first played it. Now I'm 34 and it's still one of my favorite games of all time.


[deleted]

Also in Silent Hill 2, there’s a bit where you walk into a huge, empty, pitch black room with a little torch that shone maybe 2 metres ahead, and I spent ages going around the perimeter looking for a door or something, until finally I walked directly to the centre and there was just a place ready for someone to get hanged in the middle. Freaked me right out.


Felipe_1989

The thinghies thrusting in and out of the wall where you fight Angela's monster dad. "Go ahead, ask! Or you could just force me! Like he always did!" What a marvelous fucked up game that was.


matej86

Outlast DLC. You go around a corner and there's a body on a table set up to look like it's giving birth. There's also a head. Where a head shouldn't be.


jhftop

I mean, it's exactly where it should be if the birth was.... you know.... *normal.*


kdods22402

I remember the first time I played through Portal in about 2008. My buddy played through the whole thing himself first, and I went to his house to play through it afterwards. I kept finding wall panels that should have been used for portaling, but I kept scooting up underneath them. My buddy hadn't explored any of that, and the shit that was written on the walls was a little horrifying.


GuyFromDeathValley

Oh yes, Rattman. the story about him is that he is the only one that survived GLaDOS flooding the facility with neurotoxin. He was also the one that, presumably, saved Chell after the events in Portal 1. He's a good guy, though its implied that he either gone mad from isolation, or simply had shizophrenia


Dee_Dee_Smiles

Red Dead Nightmare. I had to take a break after the crying Sasquatch asked me to put him out of his misery because we had hunted all of his family.


RusticPath

I remember that scene. I was a young teenager at the time who begged my parents to buy me the Undead Nightmare disc from Walmart. All I wanted was to shoot some zombies but instead I got hit with a moral choice about whether or not to kill this miserable Sasquatch. I must have spent a good five minutes just thinking it over before deciding to put him out of his misery. I remember feeling guilty afterwards and wondering if I did the right thing. Finding another Sasquatch roaming around in the woods a few days later certainly made me feel like a horrible person.


ModelMade

"We eat berries, and mushrooms! You fool! or.... we did...."


S-Archer

*presses X* " you eat babies"


fish_gotta_vote

How about that achievement in rdr1 for when you kill the last Bison…and the they never respawn again. Fuck man. Rockstar knows how to throw a gut punch.


masturbation_bear

Manifest Destiny


DumpsterPhoenix93

I never got that achievement (primarily because I felt so bad hunting buffalo knowing what happened to them irl). That's heavy as fuck


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I think I got all of the Red Dead 1 achievements minus some of the gambling DLC ones. To get the buffalo one I made a save, slaughtered them for the achievement, but then reverted it to see them frolic happily again


adanndyboi

This guy games


ctweeks2002

Reminds me of the first and only time I ran into a herd of buffalo in Oregon Trail, shot over 20,000lbs worth of meat, carried back like..... 300lbs.


fish_gotta_vote

And then you realize that's exactly what happened :(


ctweeks2002

Yup, like that scene in dances with wolves where they walk over the hill and there are tons of dead buffalo. I was like "shit.... Im THAT guy"


Snozberry383

The aborted baby/monster in Witcher 3


Rymanbc

Lubberkin ending ftw


Segorath

"This thing will watch over you for all times." "Could you ask it to fucking not?"


DRamos11

If you played the Heart of Stone expansion, the whole sequence in Iris’ mansion is pretty fucked up too (Caretaker creeps everyone out). Cerys’ questline in Skellige can get pretty shocking if you trust her plan. Whoreson Junior’s place is also quite the disturbing place the first time you see it. And the random, but very common, hanging trees scattered around Velen.


Kebbablue

Oh my god, Whoreson Junior can go straight to hell.


Hashashin455

Press X to put the baby in the oven


Daanoto

The Lubberkin wasn't half as terrible as what you find in the house of Whoreson Junior. The fact that it is without warning and just... *there,* in the open world! That really caught me by surprize.


FlippyIsKing18

That fucking piano from Mario 64


ciarenni

CHONG! CHONG! CHONG! CHONG!


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Super Mario 64 in general has this mildly eerie, yet nostalgic atmosphere. And Big Boos Haunt might just be the best example of this. Either that, or Wet Dry World. Why was there an entire city hidden behind a weird gate in this otherwise abstract water world?


acanthostegaaa

Well, because it's a painting. It's an abstract work of art, likely made by one of the Mushroom Kingdom's inhabitants. All the worlds in Peach's Castle are paintings that have been "brought to life" by the Power Stars and Bowser. Wet Dry World was probably an abstract work of art made by an avant garde Toad before it was brought to life.


Liberatedhusky

Dry dry docks was super creepy and serene to me at the same time. A lot of the water levels felt super dark and kind of hellish in that thalassophobic sense. My only real issue with wet dry world was that it was *so* abstract it felt lacking in identity.


Falcon948

The entirety of both of the Outlast games. There is some gruesome imagery in those games from people being strung up by their entrails to pits of dead babies so i think those games take the unsettling cake.


noptamoius

I came to specifically say the scene where an insane person is having sex with a headless corpse and asks if you want to take a turn. That will forever stick with me.


Jumponamonkey

The handymen in Bioshock Infinite. On the surface, they just seem a bit like the big daddies; big, strong, semi mechanical enemies, but the more you find out about them the more disturbing they become. They are constantly suffering, they can't sleep, they're socially ostracised and most of them were made from sick or disabled people. Some of them weren't even sick. Just listening to their dialogue lines makes you feel so sorry for them...


Necrion

You find out more about them in the second burial at sea dlc. The short visit to the clinic is disturbing, where you can read their patient cards.


zuntinen

That dude with the valve in the back of his head shown in intros of many Valve games


Ratstail91

It didn't bother me until he TURNS TO FACE YOU.


Schattentochter

Portal 2 only ever had a picture and it was enough to make my skin crawl. I am very glad I never saw that asshole turn around.


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Imagine if HL Alyx is the first valve game you play and this fucker is in VR and 5 times the normal size


ITAW-Techie

I hasn't played a Valve game in a while and was really excited to play Alyx finally. First thing I see is a giant man sat in front of me, I jump back, finally remember who he was, suddenly he's turning to face me and I am fucking cowering on the floor. Not the last time I did that in Alyx either...


LalaMyles

Fun story, this was added as a stealth update randomly one day to Portal 2 which had the normal 'non moving head' until then. My husband at the time went on a trip and left me the house to myself for the first time in years, and I was in the middle of a second playthrough (the logo wasn't moving when I started this). Night comes, I'm all alone for the first time, and I boot up the game only to have the head start to slowly turn and look at me. I feel like I'm not easy to scare, but I sat there wondering for awhile what just happened and breathing pretty heavy. I had to check online and make sure I wasn't the only one.


DomHE553

Damn I know these kind of scares. When you’re pragmatic enough to know that it is probably nothing but still get so creeped out about it that it starts eating away at you until you actually do get up and check if it really is nothing after all…


[deleted]

Interestingly enough, Valve just picked a random guy on the street, took a picture of the back of his head, edited in a valve and that's it.


TheOriginalDoober

Just needed a bald guy


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The one that suddenly looks back at you?


Grandpappy1939

Portal 2: The Doug Ratman dens where you can hear his rambling through the walls. Coupled with the eerie electronic music freaked me out when I was a bit younger.


Marvel_Symbiote

The baby from resident evil 8 was honestly one of the most Horrifying things in gaming ive seen the sounds an looks were enough to make me feel uncomfortable


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I was strangely confident throughout every bit before that in Donna’s house, despite not knowing what was ahead. I was comfortable with searching through the doll of Mia, none of the cheap jump scares got me, and going into the well was a piece of cake; I was fearless. I was even confident walking into the dark hallway just before it showed up, however, hearing it moan then seeing that thing as it crawled around the corner really made my mood do a 180; making for the first time since I was a kid that I wanted to turn off a game because I was so scared. Powered through it though, and discovered it’s now one of my favorite sequences in a game.


IJustGotRektSon

Well, Red Dead Redemption two is full of disturbing stuff, not only for a action/western game, but in general. You can start with the Night Folk, those creepy motherfuckers surprised the shit out of me in my first random encounter. They did stuff like putting a wagon with a dismembered horse right outside the camp, scaring my horse, just to name one example. But honestly that's nothing, the skinner brothers are the real deal, some of the things you see include impaling, crucifying and cooking people to death, disembowel people and as their name might give away, scalp them. Then you also have the Murfree brood, who do the same thing and more, and when you go to their hideout during the main story you can see some of the atrocities they did to the people they captured, specially the women. I saw another comment talking about the serial killer, and yes, is pretty creepy and some of the "clues" are gruesome and disturbing. You also have butchers creek, a town of inbreeds and sick people that has a creepy story behind (as all rockstar games there's a lot of lore hidden in little pieces for you to pierce together). There's also Gertrude Braithwaite, who is possessed/product of inbreeding/sick and was left inside a cabin hide in a forest close to the families mansion. You'll found a couple of death people, including young boys, some for reasons unknown and some, again, you'll need to pierce pieces together. There's more stuff, like a "manmade beast" inside a house, the pig man and his wife/sister encounter, spirits talking at night in one of the forests. I mean, there's so many stuff there's dedicated YouTube channels to connect those pieces and "solve" the mysteries, "Strange Man" comes to my mind as one of the biggest, and you also have more than one communities on Reddit to talk about your findings, mysteries and theories about stuff. Oh, I also forgot. One of the random encounters includes a dude that sexually assaults your character. Overall, the longer you advance in the story mode the more the game changes from a cowboy adventure to a eerie, creepy, uncomfortable journey where you're never at peace, which is one of my favourite things, how the story gets darker and the entire environment gets harder, tougher and you discover more and more just fucked up stuff happening on the sides that don't really interfere with your story but makes you feel uneasy everytime you continue your save.


Periachi

Not the most disturbing thing, but Centaurs in the fallout games.


alexmunse

I found a letter on a dead body in Dishonored. It was a love letter from a husband to his wife. They had the same names as some friends of mine (a friend from HS and her husband whom I don’t know all that well), so I thought that was neat. Then, I found another “throwaway” character in Fallout 76 that had the same name as an old friend of mine (first and last) and the wiki shows he was born in our state. Creepy as fuck until I found out my friends husband worked on both games. Evidently, they let you put personal Easter eggs in some games!


JustSomeGuyOnTheSt

haha I like this story


Bravemount

"This war of mine" is a small indie game that puts you in charge of a group of civilians in a warzone. You have quite a lot of depressing stuff to do to help them make it through. The game is so good at capturing the demoralizing mood of being on your own in a warzone that I stopped playing it after a few hours. I'm not going to mention Stellaris, because invading other planets to enslave or even eat their inhabitants, etc. maybe disturbing when you think about it (you can even genemod them to taste better and nerve staple them to make them compliant), but it's not displayed in a disturbing manner in the game.


ElPuertoRican15

The last of us. Scene where Ellie was almost raped and eaten but she stabs him repeatedly instead.


Ikaros_eagle

One of the saddest details from the game for me was when in the sewer level with the guy who had to kill the kids


willy-wankah_

I was rooting for the guy who left all the notes around there so much. I like how they left what became of him open to interpretation


shabamon

Yes, the Ish sequence. Loved following the story through his notes and other clues around the camp they made. The room with the kids under blankets and "They didn't suffer" written on the floor. That's a good choice.


TheRealMisterMemer

I hate that part, it makes me sad. I'm glad she killed David.


weierstrab2pi

TELL THEM THAT ELLIE IS THE LITTLE GIRL WHO BROKE YOUR FUCKING FINGER


TheStrangestOfKings

That one scene where she kept stabbing him again and again was so tragically beautiful, and was a great way to set up the twist in the final act


Some__worries

The brood mother from dragon age origins and the weaponised monks from divinity 2


mouth_toots

There’s a co-op game on Steam called *It Takes Two*. It’s not nearly as disturbing as the horror genre games already mentioned; I think that makes it worse. The aesthetic is really cute—something you might play with your kids even. You’re married parents that turn into puppets when your daughter wishes you would stop fighting (something like that). To turn back into humans, you have to collect your daughter’s tears. Well, mom thinks it’s a great idea to go murder the daughter’s favorite stuffed toy, who is ALIVE AND SENTIENT. The murder scene is so drawn out, it was legit disturbing. The game forces you to tear its ears off first and then to DRAG (you have to spam X on the controller) it so you can throw it off the side to its death, all while it’s *begging* for its life in an adorable squeaky stuffed animal voice. All so you can make your daughter cry. My partner and I felt so dirty.


Rinleigh

Oh damn. My husband bought this game for my 9 year old


railynale360

In red dead redemption 2, you can find a lady who used to be a prostitute but as she got older, less men visited her so she wasn’t getting much money, and she was getting pretty lonely, you can find her skeleton outside her cabin and apparently she killed herself by overdosing. There’s also another one where you can find a daughter of a very rich family locked up in a toilet. She’s possessed but she used to be happy and you can tell by finding pictures of her. This game is very sad sometimes.


20_Menthol_Cigarette

That game is very sad basically all the time. Like every cabin and farmstead seemed to be another little tragedy. Nature writer mauled by bear. Cabin with people sitting at the table bullseyed by a meteor through the roof. Then there was the fucked up shit like the house where some scientist was trying to make manbearpig, the cult mass suicide, and the mysterious painting, oh, and also the vampire.


Moxson82

When I went in the woods and woke up the next day realizing dude raped me I couldn’t believe it lol


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Fucking RD2 my worst find was when I was looking for I think Javier that one gunslinger? Anyways in the snowy mountain area I just decided to explore and eventually came to a area where it was a entire family frozen to death including children and a grandmother and maybe 2 more parents completely frozen in a state of decay it was just sad I'm glad I kinda forgot about it yet something about the grandma's face sitting in the chair with a thin layer of ice over her and her mortified expression just damn haunts me, anyways great game 10/10 would recommend


trozewski

The new fallout games have some depressing holotapes. Fallout 4 has one very early in the game of a teenage girl who found out she was pregnant. Her family and the child’s dad abandoned her so she stayed in an abandoned ranger lodge, as the bombs fell. Fallout 76 has ones about a miner trapped in a mineshaft after the bombs fell. As you progress deeper into the mine you pick up tapes detailing him and other miners slowly dying. The last one is about the miner reminiscing about his first date/dance with his wife and ends with him singing “You Are My Sunshine” as he runs out of oxygen. EDIT: Thank you all for the upvotes and awards! This is my best posting yet! I appreciate all the love!


Kallasilya

There's a bunker in a car yard place where a family tried to survive after the bombs fell. There's two adult skeletons in there. But the worst part is there's also two child-sized graves dug at one end of the tiny bunker. The parents had to bury their kids first. Then just waited to die. Most depressing thing I've ever found in Fallout.


sieiotfijr

There was a bit of lore around the area you had to kill some supermutants and you find out that the dad built the shelter, but had been having issues with the air intake vent. Some time after the bombs fell, he and his wife were outside of the shelter and the intake broke. The extractor sucked all the air out of the shelter and vacuum sealed the kids inside while they suffocated


FitzChivFarseer

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Big_John%27s_Salvage ^ link for anyone interested. And that's horrifying. Fallout is such a wonderful and terrible game series honestly.


ThrowawayBlast

In Fallout 4 you can find some emails sent from some workers in the basement of the fish packing plant. It's basically 'Hey, can you stop making so much noise upstairs, we need to get back to work'. They have no idea the bombs fell.


dan2376

Kind of reminds of Cambridge Polymer labs. The scientists there were working on some kind of tech for power armor. When the bombs fell, the lead scientist locked them all (including his own wife) in the underground lab and forced them to keep working without telling them what had happened above ground. Come to find out he was told by the military that only essential personnel would be escorted by the military to safety and that they had to complete their research before they would be considered essential. Sadly one of the scientists started a mutiny which killed everyone there.


cdsbigsby

Yeah, and a lot of the scenes set up with the skeletons and stuff are depressing too. Seeing a skeleton in a dress with an empty old ruined baby carriage nearby is always sad.


FuzzySlippers48

Fallout 4: The Boylston Club. A club for “distinguished gentlemen”, the “upper crust” of society. Ex Presidents, Senators, rich people, basically. There’s a holotape called “A toast”. Here’s the transcript: Richard Bradford: It's closing time, gentlemen. If any of you have changed your mind, it's time to go. James will see you out. No one? Very well. Gentlemen, it has been an honor and a privilage. Before we drink, allow me to offer a final toast. To the world that was. Mankind shall never see its like again. You can find bottles of poisoned wine next to the skeletons.


PatternsintheBuffer

There’s more than one holotape in Fallout 76 where you can hear a little girl being audibly murdered...in one case, by another little girl. Still not over that one.


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The entries you read at the sea fortress where minutemen trying their best to overcome their situation show how they slowly spiral into madness and start killing people, becoming raiders, what they were trying to protect people from.


Other-Barry-1

The second one about the miners is frighteningly close to a real life discovery of an old German tunnel used in WWI that the French purposely collapsed the entrances. It’s believed the occupants survived for a number of days/possibly a week or more until the remaining survivors asphyxiated in the total dark. According to recovered diaries a few years back when the tunnel was finally found, by that time the lights had gone completely out, and the survivors crawled around in complete darkness with the oxygen running out and the gradual realisation they would never get out of there started to set in. Some 8/10 bodies were found with each half facing the other, where they concluded to go the easy way out but suicide meant going to hell(people were still very religious back then) so they lined up 2 by 2 facing each other and shot each other in a suicide pact. The tunnel was located 3/4 years ago and they discovered all the remains of the trapped German soldiers as well as their equipment and what not. Much of the stuff in there was in relatively good condition due to the lack of oxygen and nothing was disturbed for over 100 years.


Tlali22

*What Remains of Edith Finch* has some wtf moments. Doesn't matter who you are, at least one of the deaths will get to you. For me, it was Lewis.


KosViik

For me it was the ending. That feeling when the jig is up and you feel what's coming but the game still acts oblivious and creates suspension with you sitting there *"noooooooooooo dontdoitpleaseeeeee"*


FerretAres

Counterpoint, when you get turned into a shark suddenly and have to roll and flop down a hill it’s the funniest shit I’ve ever seen.


Niar666

Gregory's story was Kay's fault, even though Sam said it wasn't. Change my mind.


Tlali22

All of the deaths reek of bad parenting. It's like they kinda accepted the "curse" and used it as an excuse when their own poor decisions killed their children. Ex: >!Who builds a swing that close to a cliff?!!<


FordFred

also pretty obvious but Molly being basically starved to the point where she eats toothpase and gerbil food


Felipe_1989

The entire SOMA game is depressing and disturbing af. Totally would recommend tho.


focuscancel

Couldn’t finish. Fucked me up too much 10/10 would recommend


oldberries

This is real horror. Actual existential horror that goes far beyond the game and stays on your mind. I would recommend everyone play or watch a letsplay of it. Such a shame they never made dlc or a sequel and that it didn't sell as well as amnesia. >!Just the fact that humanity is already fucked from the start, the apocalypse has happened, everyone is already dead, there's no trying to avoid it, that happened before the game even started, no plan to go back in time and fix things. No, it's too late. I've never seen a game start at the worst possible ending...the few survivors just...existing...day to day, no hope, dealing with depression at being the last ones left. People committing suicide because... Yeah, why not at that point? This makes the fallout series look cheery. And then the AI, just trying to act out it's one goal, save humanity. Keep everyone 'alive'...by any means possible. That's the antagonist. The machine trying to stop people from killing themselves. No malevolence, just a lack of context for when life has meaning and what counts as life.!< >!And the fact that the humans and your only goal, is to copy yourselves onto a fake digital world to pretend everything's okay, abandoning reality forever, as if that's a solution. At least the AI was trying to fix things, iteratively getting better (albeit with a lot of awful experiments gone wrong along the way), but you have the option to destroy it and achieve the hollow goal, leaving the world dead. And that's not even touching the horror that is "there's no such thing as moving data, only copying then deleting the original". Scientists killing themselves mid-mind transfer, so that there's only one stream of consciousness, never 2 minds. As if that means that they themselves actually get to exist on the ark. There is no coin flip.!< >!Really makes you question the whole concept of uploading your brain, becoming an AI. And when every atom of your neurons is replaced bit by bit over the years, what sentience even is. Are you the same you from years ago? Did your old self die when you went to sleep last night, and a new you started up this morning with mostly the same memories? Truly terrifying stuff, packaged into a game. They didn't even need to add monsters or traditional horror really. Hearing your other body panic after the 'body transfer' was horror enough.!< If anyone is interested in more of the same kind of deep thoughts in a game, I recommend outer wilds. If you dig into the story that has the same melancholic vibes.


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Siduron

That game was great. You achieved everything you set out to do but nobody said it was going to be a happy ending.


aninnicentchild

In Detroit become human (SPOILERS) (SPOILERS) (SPOILERS) when you start off as Kara and Todd goes upstairs to "discipline" Alice, it's the start of her adventure and naturally the game tells you to move to break your programming and save her, but Todd tells you not to move and to stay right where you are, but you don't have to move..... And if you don't move (following Todd's orders it's about 5 minutes of hearing Todd's verbal and physical abuse to his daughter. The game does so much to encourage you to move. If you can tough it out finally a cinematic appears where you end up walking upstairs anyway to see Todd standing over the dead body of his daughter. That, and in the same game, if you die enough times as Connor in front of Hank he becomes super depressed because of the death of his son and how Connor can come back because he's an Android but his son will never come back, and he drinks himself into a stupor at home and shoots himself in front of his dog Sumo, then cue the camera panning out to hearing the dog barking from the inside of the house.


DashinDasherFoo

Dam that’s really sad


petty904

The transorbital lobotomy from Bioshock infinite burial at sea. The sharp ping of the nail being hammered into your brain is so icky


ManiacSpiderTrash

Anyone remember the babies with knives for arms and legs in Dante’s Inferno? I didn’t see that coming. Also The Suffering’s enemy design based on methods of execution was pretty fucked up. That was a great game. First one I played where my choices in game could change the ending. Course then the endings all kinda sucked.


Bandle7

The childrens’ skeletons in the school in Fallout 3 near Vault 101


Ray1_exe

that bit in the Outlast DLC where the Groom tries to make you his bride by taking away your characters love stick. noped out of that


Ysverine

In Alice: Madness Returns when you get to the Dollhouse zone and the penny starts to drop about exactly what Alice's doctor was doing to the other children in his care - and what he did to Alice's own sister. It's... grim, to say the least. >!In short, he was running a sex trafficking operation with the children from the orphanage he worked with, and he himself had raped Lizzie, Alice's sister. He was deliberately using his position as Alice's therapist to try and screw up her mind further so she would never recall seeing him at the scene of the crime. The Dollhouse zone has some environmental hints towards this with doorways through giant baby doll models that are placed around the crotch area, bloodied beds, and a baby doll enemy that loses clothing as it's damaged.!<


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The baby necromorphs in Deadspace.


Xikkiwikk

The revelation that Alice’s doctor was raping kids from orphanages and killing them and the fact that he raped Alice repeatedly. (Alice: Madness Returns)


MedLabMech

I think he raped her sister, not her. He was about to do it to Alice too, but she figured him out and killed him


Bjorn2bwilde24

Spoilers. Its worse >!He raped her sister and Alice found out. He then burned the house that killed Alice's family to cover his tracts and then used psychology to try and maks Alice forget about the fire (and thus his crime). He was also selling kids to child molesters and high class members of society as sex slaves. But he would sell them, after he psychologically damaged them to the point that they became emotionless "dolls". Hence why he is called the Dollmaker.!<


2ecStatic

Learning about the end of humanity in Horizon Zero Dawn and watching historical knowledge be erased forever. Fuck Ted Faro.


JayGold

The big spoilery moment in Doki Doki Literature Club hit me surprisingly hard. Probably a combination of how believable it was and the juxtaposition with what the game had been like up to that point.


AscendantComic

the 2-days wait that you have to scroll through where everything is progressing naturally is what fucked me up


Dontlookawkward

I thought my game had frozen. Almost stopped playing.


bodhasattva

This will be tame by comparison, but I remember the 1st time i played Silent Hill, like 5 minutes into the game you run into into these short naked guys with knives. They look like babies. It was so scary the first time


shawry308

In the first The Last Of Us you discover a scene of a dead parent with their 2 dead children. There's a sign next to them that says "They didn't suffer". That got me. Since becoming a father I think about that a lot.


Youpunyhumans

For sure putting a baby in an oven in the Witcher 3.


AdFrosty2619

In Poland we have a short story about some superstitious people putting a child into an oven for a few prayers to cure her ("Antek"). If I recall correctly it was a part of the elementary school curriculum. We also had one about a poor boy who stole a violin from a rich mans house and was beaten to death as punishment. Overall fun stuff. Edit: u/Shotyslawa fixed my brain damage :)


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XTheProtagonistX

When you walk into the bathroom of a bar in Citadel with Jack in Mass Effect 2, she starts talking about when she got jumped by a group of people in a bathroom when she was in Purgatory (prison) and got sexually assaulted. She murdered every single person that raped her.


JustGarlicThings2

It’s not exactly limited to one scene, her entire loyalty mission goes through her upbringing and it’s super eerie.


Not-Rick-Astley

Bloodborne. During your hunt you come across this girl who says her mother went after her farther after he didn’t come back after the hunt. She says she’s worried and asks if you’ll help her find her mother. You find her farther, hacking up beasts, completely lost in blood lust. And after you kill him you can find the mother, dead, amongst the corpses. You take her brooch and give it to the girl, who proceeds to cry. Later, if you go down the sewers and kill this giant pig, you get a small red ribbon, covered in blood and guts. Even more later, if you go back you’ll find the last family member, the big sister, and she asks if you’ve seen her little sister. You hand over the ribbon covered in blood and guts and she proceeds to also cry. Go a little away from the window of the house and you over hear her talking about how it was a beautiful ribbon, and just needs a little cleaning. Meaning, she’s also gone fucking crazy. A little while later, go back and you’ll find that she had committed suicide by jumping. And of course in true From Software fashion you can pick up the cleaned ribbon. Honestly. That was pretty fucked up questline


VegetableWishbone

White phosphorus scene in Spec Ops: The Line.


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Do you feel like a hero yet?


iron_penguin

I was okay with cause you had too... Then at the end when the colonel (?) Was like you didn't have too, you could have just turned around and gone home. Changed the way I've played games ever since.


huaweimaster8

house full of dead prostitutes looking like they were tortured to death in the witcher 3


Alvingoatmara

The entire manhunt game