10 SCARY Levels in NON-HORROR Video Games

[@JamesBrisnehan]

In the first Uncharted game, the environments and atmosphere got creepier and creepier as you go. A level towards the end of the game called "The Bunker" was pretty scary.

[@jinsakai2047]

I handed the controller to my cousin cuz it felt like i was about to get a heart attack

[@josejaimes8856]

It does get creepier as you go through out the island it gets darker and it does feel like you’re being watched and when you explore the underground missions its creepy

[@jinsakai2047]

@@josejaimes8856 true Just creepy

[@brianm2242]

I came to the comments to post this exact moment. Happy to see I was beaten to the punch.

[@chain_links]

Finally, somebody said it. Why can’t I find that moment in any of the videos with this topic?

[@connro123]

Subnautica: "Do you have a fear of the ocean" Player: "No" Subnautica: "Would you like to?"

[@tripletimeace609]

Exactly, that shit is terrifying

[@andulasis6283]

it actually rather helped me

[@killingfields6599]

When a reaper is detected

[@ScreaminSeahawk]

I can’t play that game due to anxiety of drowning in deep water. Blood kelp doesn’t help, lol. He nailed it with this one.

[@skatinpeyton7212]

Am I the only one who didn’t find Subnautica scary at all?

[@bjornb.9370]

Every Dahaka chase in Prince of Persia 2 : Warrior Within. Anxiety.

[@prajjwalvinodh968]

I came here looking for this comment, there is nothing scarier than dahaka!.

[@RevenantMain1]

Dude fr

[@daigengtr6806]

We need a remake of that already

[@RAXN12]

@@daigengtr6806 Yes. No modern game has better combos and melee fights.

[@dantecarette209]

The dahaka used to scare the shit out of me

[@DarkJon001]

Uncharted Drake's Fortune caught me by complete surprise when it suddenly pivoted into horror territory

[@pilgrim273]

I was playing Drake's Fortune a while back and as soon as zombies were introduced I taken aback (normally uncharted games are known for their adventure and action set pieces, zombies don't fit there but I loved it) and legit scared to explore the levels as they were damn relentless. The part where you have to go to the generator room is the toughest I think. I really enjoyed the tension in that level.

[@JithinJacob333]

Exactly! I thought Uncharted would be on this list.

[@JamesBrisnehan]

I was thinking of Uncharted 1 too.

[@Samfhire]

same!

[@njthegreat4039]

Came here for this!

[@wideboi5179]

In the game Vampires: Bloodlines, the Masquerade, there was this one level with an abandoned hotel that was haunted. It was like a tip of the hat to The Shining, and even though you play as a vampire and aren't really in any danger, it was pretty unnerving because it's tone was so different from the rest of the game.

[@katheryn6748]

this should be the 1st in the list no doubt

[@kitkami]

I was coming to the comments to point out this game, lol.

[@Anarkst]

I was coming here to point it out as well. Should he on this list for sure. You turn around in the dark hallway and the guy with an axe is right behind you.

[@caffeinedelusions]

I've died on that level before. There ARE some parts that are potentially lethal even to a vampire (the falling chandelier in the lobby, the kitchen and the punishing bursts of pans being thrown and the gas fire coming off the stove, the falling elevator in the shaft). Mostly the level design punishes you for going too fast in areas where you're meant to soak in atmosphere, and for lingering in areas where you're meant to feel hostility and tension.

[@animaelisa9594]

first time i went through that one i was scared out of my mind

[@mightymistermike]

I have two words for you... "Unwelcome Guests" from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Still haunts my dreams.

[@Ryno-xt7jv]

Also those spiders in Uncharted 3, gave me the heebie jeebies when I first played it

[@zerophantomyt433]

Farron keep in ds3 was dark, poisonous swamp where need to eat purple moss like it's candy, and the tree monsters with basilisks all combine to make it less horror but more intimidating.

[@Mustafa_9628]

Fuck this chapter Scared the shit out of me in 2012 and 2020 Damn i hate it

[@Tiki7391]

Seriously why was this not on the list?

[@gabez6395]

HOLY SHIT YES

[@MrBluSpyda]

Oblivion, the character creation screen. Hideous things await

[@zJoriz]

lol

[@whoopityscoop5029]

That’s where I created Carfonda Hotpan. The flat faced, overweight, green haired lady elf. What a beauty.

[@antoniogriffin7135]

Where prisoners begin the journey

[@cherrydragon3120]

Lol

[@beanface7408]

I think when Urinal Septim says he saw you in his dream he meant to say nightmares.

[@T-Rex_Slap]

I was waiting for “343 Guilty Spark”!!!! The build up was incredible, the blood splatter all over the walls, the bodies, the fact that the grunts and jackals run out of the facility and through out the level until the reveal were huddled together in areas instead of patrolling. Thank you Gameranx

[@catatemat]

Also the library

[@crocodiledowny2191]

Wasn’t scary lol

[@DanielQuan97]

Yup, but the classic edition is the best one. The anniversary version isn't really scary anymore. It made some weird changes to the atmosphere in general; like the place looking more like a rainforest than a swamp, the entire place being way brighter than the original version, and toning down some of the details like the blood splatters over the elevator's walls, which are supposed to imply that the flood is throwing bodies down there to collect biomass.

[@T-Rex_Slap]

@@DanielQuan97 is so true, it’s a shame that the anniversary really missed all of those awesome details. I hope if they ever do another anniversary that they stay true to the original

[@Ge0rge_0rwell]

@@crocodiledowny2191 it was at the time, especially because I was in grade school when it came out. It was scary.

[@eatsleepgame3467]

Really liked the "Thief" signature horror missions. They had one in every game in the series, adding up to the already foreboding and dark world.

[@DominicWH]

that Moira Asylum level in Thief 4 dammmmnnn nutsss

[@xxzippy_zebraxx4067]

@@DominicWH god I love that game but I have NEVER been able to complete that level. I get way too damn scared!

[@LightOfReason7]

YES, second part of Robbing the Cradle is way good, couldn't play it in the dark

[@monchbacs]

It's a pretty old game, but one of my 'scariest' moments was being chased by Evil Samus in Metroid for the GBA

[@j_freak-1327]

Yes! Running from that thing made me so scared as a kid.

[@wesadams5128]

Sa-x scared the shit out of me back then. But then again the whole game was pretty freaky

[@MightyNick100]

Scarecrows nightmare and fighting Killer Croc in his lair in Batman Arkham Asylum was terrifying as hell.

[@ht4236]

The whole game is a scary level

[@batmanhood_]

And the crazy inmates that would roam around the asylum and jump on you

[@FelipeKana1]

Yeah the Killer Crok section takes the cake for the whole franchise

[@xaviergordon1343]

@@FelipeKana1 Yeah I used to shit myself playing the croc level and to this day it still fills me with dread playing it, just shows rocksteady did a fantastic job

[@SaadKhan-sg1ki]

that is defo up there for me!

[@Jerryx29]

The first person horror "level" in Arkham Knight came to my mind immediately, such a good one

[@GooseMoosen]

I was honestly horrified by that level. And that’s when I learned real horror games aren’t for me

[@LLJWLLLP999]

Could you refresh my memory??

[@SeanDaSilva10]

@@LLJWLLLP999 near the end of AK when Scarecrow gives Batman the Fear gas and Joker goes crazy in his head and gets scared of people forgetting him, then you go around in 1st person in a smoky church with a shotgun

[@LLJWLLLP999]

@@SeanDaSilva10 ahhhh, ok lol my memory is sometimes shit lol. Yeah that part was dope. I knew he was going to get gassed and RockSteady couldn't have executed it any better imo.

[@bobbysworld281995]

@@SeanDaSilva10 I thought you meant the last blood victims of Joker.

[@Mortred99]

Ravenholm is legendary. The lighting, level design, enemies, one badass ally, sound design, music, all just perfect. Also, pretty much any X Laboratory in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

[@t6amygdala]

Bro. Go further down and further right

[@t6amygdala]

Or at least just further down

[@spartakip9507]

get out of here s.t.a.l.k.e.r.

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

Lab X-18 gives me the creeps

[@Orefugiado]

Mercy be upon those who ventured in th lower levels of X16 and X18 labs...

[@KillianJenkins]

Batman Arkham asylum scarecrow encounters, wasn't paying attention to the gas so caught me by surprise. Still think thats why its my favorite entry in the series, its sad knight butchered it so much

[@bigbobbacharcoal]

Knight was corporate Warner Bros interfering with that game. They cut most of the boss fights because of that

[@Deuterium52]

Haven’t watched yet, but I’m Uncharted: Drakes Fortune is on here for the zombie level on the nazi ship lol

[@justkallmej2983]

Brooo yesss I recently replayed that the anxiety for when u hear like screaming and zombies coming around the corner

[@matthewkey689]

I was thinking the exact thing when I was watching this video. I hated that level!

[@Freestyle80]

well its not because thats not what this video is about, that aint anywhere close to scary

[@jesterbomb123]

Oh god not the bunker

[@quiringuenther6594]

@@Freestyle80 Well but swimming in a pool of blood and fighting ordinary goons is No they just forgot about it

[@nerdycoconut1344]

Killer Croc’s Lair in Batman: Arkham City scared the hell out of me when i first played it and it still scares me now

[@proffessorX]

Agreed, it is the only bit of the game where I "speedrun" through to get out of there as fast as possible......I'm 47 btw and love horror films but I find some games far more scary than films. Games can do horror so well, even when they don't mean to haha.

[@DisableTransMan]

First Batman in scarecrow mission. My fuckin god :(

[@muscleman3478]

@@proffessorX I loved every bit of it, until that point you are the terror in the darkness and you watch goons become terrified of you. Croc's lair mission switches the game from action adventure to survival horror. agreed some games encapsulate horror in a way that film never could.

[@enternamehere2027]

Killer croc in arkham asylum was creepy aswell

[@sbwan]

@@proffessorX Don't forget the first time Man Bat appears when you are traversing the rooftops, that ish made me want to walk everywhere in the game from then on 😂

[@scottsmith9192]

The baby crying scene in Max Payne had me shook way back then.......

[@lickmygooch1013]

Yeah I can’t play that game, the whole game is creepy to me

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@lickmygooch1013 The whole atmosphere of the game. I remember watching my uncle play it back then and it was just off putting.

[@RevenantMain1]

@@JonatasAdoM I watched my uncle play it too, and I think me shitting myself every 3 seconds helped him progress without shitting himself at the same time Guess I took one for the team

[@TheTerryance]

I was so on edge the silhouette of the baby crying coming on the screen actually jump scared me

[@shzze]

it had me shook till about the 5th time i fell off one of the sharp corners or messed up the jump then it just got aggravating, i both love and Hate that level so much

[@ONYX-365]

_The Butler from the Tomb Raider training level, Lara's mansion, used to creep me out!_ 🤷🏼‍♂️ 😂

[@chrisg4016]

Bro lmao I can STILL hear the cups rattling on the tray as he slowly walks towards you 😂

[@archardor3392]

Man, I used to run away from him in fear! Probably didn't help that with PS1 graphics he looked more like a monster than a man.

[@nickhall_music]

Yooooo

[@Churi_Venatriss]

Guys, just lock him in the walk in freezer. That's what I did. XD

[@BharathRamMS]

Wow! The moment I saw this video's title, I immediately thought of Thief: Deadly Shadows' Shalebridge Cradle. I didn't expect you'd actually include it especially at no.1. Great job, gameranx.

[@ceridwenaeradwr8105]

The Deep Roads in Dragon Age Origins. Starts off as being pretty rote, fighting your way through Darkspawn in a series of not-the-nicest caves, but nothing too bad. The further in you go you feel more and more isolated and cut off from the surface (even though in reality you can quick-travel back almost any time you want). You then get closer and closer to a darkspawn nest, and hear a woman chanting in monotone the gruesome way in which they transform people into Darkspawn Broodmothers... You find the woman who is obviously both sick with blight and just mentally shattered after her and her companion's time in captivity, and the whole thing is just HORRIBLE.

[@petrkisselev5085]

Definitely !

[@willbuckley9139]

Thief 3 was my childhood and the cradle gave me endless nightmares. That level is surely one of the most unsettling and scary levels in a video game.

[@johndoe7766]

yes yes !

[@BadBoy65t]

I remember finally finishing the level ass a kid and right when I was about leap from the window (or roof, my memory's a bit fuzzy ), Garret says something about not being able to progress. After doing some digging I found out that since I had the game on hard difficulty, I had to get 80% of a level's items to progress through it, (AND I WAS ON 79%!!!). A then, already defeated, me realised that he had to descend towards those depths once more to find the last piece of treasure. I ended up not being able to find it and I had to lower the difficulty and RE-DO THE ENTIRE LEVEL. Good times

[@hankpog3907]

Having never played Metal Gear before, I found the first mission in MGSV quite creepy. I was just expecting a normal military type game lol

[@IskenderCaglarM41B441]

Was metal gear ever been normal?

[@MS-ru5gp]

Dude, MGS2; there's a section where you have zero gear (not even clothes) and your commander and your girlfriend start telling you to turn the console off because you've been playing for too, long among other really creepy things.

[@amarson2322]

@@MS-ru5gp Thats just the tip of iceberg, the shit the Colonel says during the last codec call before Solidus fight is prophetic, it is ahead of it’s time, scary how that codec call told us the modern society and the laws that work around it. It’s simply breathtaking

[@TheDonovanMcCormick]

If you had never played or heard about then I can totally see how it would be weird lol. I thought it was a military game when I was a kid too until the shape shifter and the insane cyborg ninja showed up lol

[@arthurpendragon8192]

you ant military type game? theres cod, battlefield, modern warfare...number of any other games more militaristic in their atmosphere than metal gear.

[@ChrisOsberg]

The initial flood attack scared me a lot, despite the fact that it was mostly a swarm of balloons.

[@XBucefaloX]

And the friggin soundtrack... i was 12 years old back then and scared the pants out of me.

[@chambeet]

I love how much of it was based off Aliens. Made me appreciate it a lot more than I normally would have.

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@XBucefaloXscared the pants out of you??? 🤨🤔

[@jacky_b_0363]

The first part of the ghost ship in star wars republic commando always scared me when I was a kid. Just wandering around on a seemingly empty ship constantly seeing things out of the corner of your eye while you hear your squad mates go down one by one.

[@WmAHaynes]

YUP

[@abramsullivan7764]

Oh yeah

[@joshgourel5034]

Ravenholm, one of the most unforgettable game levels for me. Stunning pace and atmosphere change; creepy mobs, sounds and environment.

[@Schwertfisch13]

Own kind of evil atmosphere getting amplified if you know about the sucking headcrabs soundfile.

[@Windowlicker545]

Detroit becomes human, when Markus is in the junkyard

[@H3LLPH03N1X]

Ehhh it's more trippy than scary

[@mindfreaks46]

It freaked me tf out. I play horror games and watch horror movies 24/7 but it caught me so off guard that it got me lol.

[@DarkShadow87003]

Facts

[@demonic_granny8455]

Yeah, you forgot the most important one. Minecraft: *cave noises*

[@44almm]

i dont think you understand what a level is

[@demonic_granny8455]

shaddupppp

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

Minecraft is a horror game, screw everyone who says otherwise

[@sonnyhughes4862]

@@44almm I don’t think you understand what a joke is

[@razor5268]

@@44almm r/whoooosh

[@teddster8711]

I call it, the bunker chapter in uncharted 1

[@nohazwan8717]

I hate that part, I almost threw my controller

[@goldfishtactics8813]

I used to make my big brother complete that level for me all the time. I still get spooked whenever I play it nowadays

[@HappieDima]

When i saw the nazi submarine, i had this theory in my head that there would be some zombies. Well i wasnt 100% wrong there..

[@nohazwan8717]

@@HappieDima I mean,my first uncharted was uncharted 4,when I play uncharted 1 I did not expect to find a Nazi zombie in a jungle on an island somewhere near panama

[@madmanwithamic4396]

I didn’t finish uncharted 1 for 2 years I was so scared of that leval

[@b.y.o.p.9035]

That "Surprise!" sticker at 13:04 was the best part. Never really finished a scary game before, but its one of my game goals one day. Nice video.

[@SilverWolfRacing]

The bunker level in uncharted is a good example too. Very dark and the “descendant” zombies very tense and scary my first play through. I was not expecting that to happen lol

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah that was incredibly unsettling also the music was creepy the way I got through it was shouting ahhhhhh the whole time and grabbing every bit of ammo I could and blasting anything that moved instantly, it worked

[@carpemkarzi]

The Blood maze in Max Payne really through me when I hit it. The crying, the blood etc was just damn creepy and fit the story.

[@bartterp88]

On top of that I was like 10 years old back then. Quite disturbing

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

And the worst pard is that its hard asf, i cant count how many Times i fall down there

[@biobabper123]

@@bartterp88 same here bro😭

[@trager8933]

The ragnarock level creeped the hell out too. Distant screams and some cult satanic rituals. Creepy.

[@outlaw4318]

The crones (3 witches) in the Witcher 3 were really scary when you hear the soundtrack

[@garrettferrell6821]

They were creepy

[@teteachhakx4655]

they were'nt.

[@دبيدورمشاكل]

They were more annoying than creepy tbh

[@CoolHandLuke7]

Scenes from a marriage is the most unsettling level in Witcher III.

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

the crones were amazing, I didn't find them creepy, more un-nerving. as in I wasn't scared of them, I was scared of their unpredictability.

[@arokh72]

Falcon: "Octopus headed creatures" Lovecraftians: Sacrilege, may Cthulhu drag you to the depths and feast on your eyeballs for eternity.

[@cherrydragon3120]

Take their souls for eternal torture and Cast their fleshy husks into the depths of the void!

[@maninthecamohat2735]

The unexpected Spaniard ghouls from Uncharted 1. It turned from a ordinary action-adventure game into a Resident Evil game in a snap.

[@davidcounts6175]

I was paralyzed with fear on that Thief level! The only way I could finish it was with all the lights on.

[@harrydbastard]

The plant vault in new vegas feels like something out of alien. You know you're being watched but you dont know by what.

[@BraddahSpliff]

Ah yes, good old Vault 22. 22 is my favorite number, so I know that vault well.

[@singleplayermoments]

Yes! I knew there was something like that from New Vegas, but it’s been years since I played it so I couldn’t remember. It totally deserves to be on here.

[@barbaracoelho8532]

And the creatures are camouflaged and jump on you when you approach.

[@harrydbastard]

@@barbaracoelho8532 you walk right past them and they wont attack until the vault wakes up. It really adds to the creep factor

[@barbaracoelho8532]

@@harrydbastard oh yeah, that's right. I didn't remember that detail. It's been awhile lol

[@kok3139]

Mad max : the mission when savings the little girl "Glory" It was creepy

[@yeastxtract1853]

I hated going through that dimly lit airport just waiting for the buzzards to jump out at me

[@connorweir1993]

Fuck that mission

[@calvinmartin1305]

Anything with the Buzzards or feral Warboys is bad juju. Driving around in a muscled out car in an old airport was both fun and anxiety inducing.

[@adorokij7157]

Lmao played it yesterday 😂 tbh mad Max has a couple of “creepy” levels. Damn buzzards

[@eetuaa]

no uncharted 1?

[@tripletimeace609]

No in the video but the comment section, definitely

[@aidanmac2002]

The Thief 3 level freaked me out the first time I played it. I ended up running across a table and jumping out the window just to complete the level. Great level in an OK game. The earlier ones are so much better

[@CodeMorseMusic]

I would make the case for quite a few areas in Mass Effect 2 & 3. Off the top of my head ME2 the derelict collector ship, the Reaper IFF. ME3 The Mars area Sur’Kesh and a few others that seriously skirt the sci fi/horror line, admittedly they don’t always go whole hog which is a pity but it does make for some very tense and atmospheric build up

[@TheBakerDB]

For me it was ME3 at the Ardat Yakshi temple mission. The banshee screams and the complete darkness made me shiver

[@asharadayne1355]

YES the ardat yakshi temple was very creepy. Especially in the dorms near the beginning. Mass effect has quite a few missions where I was like "When did this become a horror game?!"

[@Vortexzz1]

That rugrats game on the ps1 with that “power outage” level was terrifying

[@obertrop93]

I came here to say this! Glad to see I'm not the only one!

[@duckblock]

Wow! I love that game. And I specifically remembered that mission, which lead to me to re-play rugrats a couple of years back.

[@buggiemara4902]

I'm struggling to remember this! Does someone have a KZbin link for that part?

[@Austin_V]

Yes! Find them batteries to keep your flashlight working or else the ghosts are gonna get you and try to get to the fridge coz light stays inside the fridge! Very nice.

[@adhidev1254]

Basically missions in every stealth game when u get caught eg: mgs

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

When I was younger, Fable's 2 Wraithmarsh always creeped me out. It was always dark, foggy, and eerie music, and was filled with the two toughest monsters/longest ones to fight in the game. Just didn't match with the rest of the otherwise jovial and funny tone of the game

[@Cheese-wr9lc]

Just knowing that it used to be Oakvale and finding little teddy bears or decrepit houses really made spooky

[@jakedewey7864]

And near in the caves with the dark in fable 3,when I forgot his name who's with you gets the torch blown out and then he lights it up again to see that things face right next to him, that made me jump

[@Cheese-wr9lc]

@@jakedewey7864 oh yeah. I think his name was Walter? The story of why he was afraid of caves really got to me

[@PulpChristian]

The survival horror aspect of the Distant Future chapter from Live A Live definitely was a massive surprise

[@takablepigon9686]

I remember the final mission of batman arkham knight as the most scary mission on an already spooky game, the statues of batman just apersing behind you and overwhelming you was terrifying.

[@crookedbuns]

Unwelcome guests in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. That should have it's own section xD

[@Johnny_frost]

How about Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - Ocean House Hotel?

[@Yitoyitos-n2d]

Yess, I wasn't expecting that part in the game

[@thejomah]

OH yeah totally, you know if jake wrote this one that would be in there

[@noone6812]

Exactly.

[@TheCivildecay]

haha yeah, you are the vampire and still you are scared of ghosts :D

[@zJoriz]

Once you know how and where you'll get jumpscared and hurt, it's not so bad though. I've tust taken to running through it and ignoring the sounds. Because the sound design is maybe 70% of what's scary about it.

[@Spetsnaz271]

Will never forget my first time playing Ravenholm.. absolutely immersed and scared as hell, always skipped the level during playthroughs. Now it's revered as one of my favorites

[@PiterDeVries]

idk why people think Ravenholm is scary, specifically, or even HL2 is scary as a whole. Half Life 2 is a great game, maybe even the best game ever existed, but tbh it almost didn't scare me at all. Disgusting monsters? Absolutely! Horrifying? Nah. The only really scary part for me was under the bridge passage. I'm afraid of heights.

[@MsKeylas]

@@PiterDeVries This video explained it. You don't need to idk, just listen to explanation others give you

[@yashtandon7460]

The Become as Gods section of Nier Automata was seriously scary when you first got to it. The visibility constantly shifts from being good to being very dark. Exploding enemies can attack you out of nowhere and there is a hauntingly scary music in the background. The entire sequence was quite scary since it was a serious change from the regular tone of the game until then which was mostly just action.

[@LuriTV]

I personally think in Tomb Raider 2013 Himiko's Grave was much more scary for two reasons: 1. Lara is still very inexperienced in this level and 2. it is the first time the game throws that level of gore and gruesomeness at you. Also the worst part for my personal primal fear of heights was the climb of the radio tower. It might have been the most intense moment for me in the entire game.

[@vipset87]

100% agreed

[@iverpagente3391]

Have you heard of dying light?

[@yeastxtract1853]

First time coming across the librarians in metro 2033, that was freaky

[@josecbritos]

Yeah, but tbf it’s a scary game altogether.

[@geojimz]

I just played that whole series and that section in the first game was the most intense sequence I’ve ever played.

[@JBrotsis1]

Not necessarily scared, but I used to be pretty intimidated to play the level Cortana in Halo 3.

[@shototodoroki8937]

That mission was horrifying for me but i did eventually beat it

[@Technosel]

I absolutely hated that level when Halo 3 came out haha

[@non1263]

The worst part is that hallway about halfway through the level.

[@Someone89a]

The scariest part is that is is really easy to get lost when you play it first - makes everything feel like you’re going insane!

[@fragul8tr]

Bro, Gears of War 1 - Act 3 "Belly of the Beast" or better yet, Gears of War 2 - Act 3 "Gathering Storm". What a shame.

[@BananaBrainsYYZ]

Yep. New Hope was creepy as fuck.

[@laomein6199]

I just commented this! Waking up the Sires and seeing them squirm in their glass cases made my skin crawl

[@cobrajammin7316]

Ah, a man of culture I see

[@songgoddess09]

There are a few Mass Effect missions that can be really freaky. Meeting the Banshees for the first time in Mass Effect 3 was pretty unnerving.

[@rorikjrclaybourne]

Better yet, when you play as joker when the collectors attack the Normandy Thats the worse mission, in a good way, in the trilogy because you play as shepard for almost the entire game, a badass except for this one time

[@foxracing8973]

Even though this isn't necessarily a level (more like a unlocked place) in a video game, when you open the demon door in Bloodstone in Fable 2 that takes you to a place called Winter Lodge, it was a fairly big jump scare for me and most players. You are running down this path at night lit by old street lamps in the snow. Peaceful music is playing as you come upon the Winter Lodge which is lit up and looks warm, inviting and cozy. As soon as you walk through the front door, a loud "DUN" in the music plays which has now turned creepy sounding while at the exact same time, all the lights shut off and now there are skeletons laying around. Some of these are on medieval looking torture devices and one is laying in the fireplace. It continues to get worse as when you walk back outside there is now a skull with an ax through it sitting on a stump in the front yard as well as a big bloody bag hanging from the front tree. It happens so fast and the false sense of security/peacefulness that you have while walking to the lodge, makes it very unexpected and scary. Would love to see you guys cover this in a video!

[@gamingwithseamusthe2nd884]

I JUST played the scary level in A Hat in Time

[@Shy_Spaceman]

May your soul rest now

[@fortress61]

did you know there is a way to skip the entire house right are you enter the basement it teleports you to the attic/ ending

[@cookieinhaler]

How was it? I haven't played it and it interests me cuz the turn of the gameplay is so sudden.

[@hammy9906]

@@cookieinhaler i played it myself a while back. I loved it. The game itself is absolutley amazing (coming from someone who hates puzzle and platform games) but that level is something else.

[@jicudi]

That level in Thief had my hand shaking so badly that I had to take multiple breaks.

[@The-Blue-Knight]

Never played. Sounds spooky. What happened?

[@ThecrazyGaer]

The asylum... Man i remember it was the scariest shit i have played

[@ka6nashi666]

Dude, first time I played I ended up quitting lol.

[@WebbanationX]

I was hoping to see Max Payne on here. That scream when you fall of the trail... I remember playing it at night when I was younger and my heart would drop every time

[@SeekerOf7ruth]

I am thrilled to see Deadly Shadows on this list! I highly recommend nabbing the game on GoG, and modding it with the Sneaky Upgrade mod whether you are a first time player or a Thief veteran. Modding it on steam should be fine as well(?), but I know the GoG versions of the series (we don't talk about the fourth entry though...) are the preferred versions nowdays.

[@thatgeekdad]

Agree with the first time meeting the Flood in the OG Halo. Up until then everything was run and gun. Suddenly you are in a temple that is quiet. Everything is quiet. It’s like going from a whole day at Disney to a sensory deprivation tank. Then you watch what looks like the main scene in Aliens where the Marines first encounter the Aliens down near the thermal core and then BAM! FLOOD! And it’s a run and gun fire fight with them coming from everywhere. I have played all these levels and games save the HAT one and yeah, this was number one for me because I easily remember where I was when I first played the temple that introduced THE FLOOD.

[@juncagurangan9485]

The Library

[@simonasobcarskas3323]

Hospital level in Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

[@guitarninja416]

literally creeped me out when I was a kid

[@WaskoDaFox]

Reminds me of the hospital level in Postal 2 : Paradise Lost, where you wake up from a coma and have to fight mutated Gary Colemans and tornado cats

[@GAZAMAN93X]

The Max Payne baby crying stage freaked me out as a kid. Especially when you fall off the blood trail.

[@CasepbX]

Same here.

[@ezrafaulk3076]

I remember playing Half-life 2 and going through Ravenholm, and something that made it really scary for ME that you forgot to mention Falcon, is that there's NO MUSIC playing the WHOLE TIME! THAT, above EVERYTHING ELSE, is what made the level so scary to me.

[@jamsywamsy]

The Geothermal Caverns in TR: Reboot were definitely a shock to the system. I had never played the original Tomb Raider games, so this made me legit fall in love with Lara Croft. 1st time through, I'm like "what the fuck did I just get myself into?!".

[@cajunseasoning1846]

ngl TR Underworld scared the shyt out of me trying to play it as a kid. I noped out at the giant spiders.

[@jamsywamsy]

Something else I forgot to mention: If you were paying attention during some earlier sections in the game, Lara has a legit open wound in her side. I mean yeah, she did manage to close it when she got to the Shantytown, but still..... I wouldn't want to be in a BLOOD POOL with a wound like that.

[@expiredpilot2448]

I recently replayed Half Life 2. All was going fine until I got to Ravenholm and from the very first image, I felt my heart just sink to the bottom of my stomach. Exactly the same feeling I got when I was 12 years old and playing for the very first time. Love that level.

[@HappieDima]

The mission in skyrim with Molag Bal in the this creepy house. Almost shat myself when i went there unknowingly with my headphones on.

[@GooseMoosen]

I was a sophomore in high school the first time I played that level over a decade ago and about stopped playing the game I was so freaked out

[@Gentleman_Orange]

I was about to comment that! I didn't expect it to turn horror ambiance and the worst (best) is that I went out of the house. Then the game Turns red and keeps making a low sound like an alarm until you go back to the house!

[@zJoriz]

@@Gentleman_Orange I didn't know that! Always just did as Bal said.

[@marko2mamic]

I was actually realy frekad out by staff of magnus quest

[@tripletimeace609]

The underground areas of shadow of the tomb Raider, those demons I call them (because what else do I call them) terrified me. To be fare a scare easily but still...

[@gabestowe5094]

Nah your right I just started playing like a week ago bc it was free on PlayStation but I was scared af tryna figure out the puzzles and try and watch my back the whole time...

[@cruzofficial1]

When you rappel down a hole full of skulls and bones, you know it's gonna be bad...

[@bobbiscub]

Duuude, the Flood scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid and first played that level in Halo Combat Evolved.

[@juliamarquinez4775]

I know that the video was posted 2 years ago, but if it had been posted today I would have added the sewers from stray. They’re not particularly disturbing or anything, but when you spend the entire game playing as a cute cat trying to find its way home, in what’s a nice, short story about humanity and our legacy, that place catches you completely off guard. It’s not even a hard level, it just feels like it belongs in resident evil far more than stray.

[@MoonJung82]

The Hym in Witcher 3 sends chills down my spine.

[@sbeve0107]

The side quest for Fyke Isle forced me to take a break from the game. That "thing" in the 2nd floor scared the shit out of me.

[@dickdeoreo]

The Witcher has some freaky areas man..

[@592Johno]

@@dickdeoreo WHERES THAT NOBLE always scares me. 3 in the morning and you suddenly you hear that😭

[@nerdstark9002]

The mission with the lady who couldn't use spoons should be on this list.

[@Adriann577]

The Far Cry 4 chase section in the mountains is my pick

[@MrGanjie]

Sneaking around in the jail part ?

[@Adriann577]

@@MrGanjie yeah

[@garrettferrell6821]

Yeah,that shit was creepy af

[@bbk9742]

I need to lower the sound at that part so creepy

[@AdityaSingh-jv3cp]

In which ajay had to Espace the prison??

[@mohammadabdulmannan2656]

Escaping kailash prison in Far cry 4. Searching for the hook while running from the demon was seriously scary.

[@TaylorARichards]

The Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion - the suspiciously good deal house you buy, that turns out to be haunted! When you sleep in that bed, and get woken up by violent ghosts...

[@antoniogriffin7135]

Hahaha!!!!.... Yooooo, that was do crazyhyy😲😂😂😂😂. Its funny now, but not then lol

[@JustJustKen]

I 100% agree with the Top 1. That mission absolutely caught me off guard back when I was a kid. lol

[@dennissinned6299]

The only scary thing in the geothermal caverns in Tomb Raider, was finding those 5-6 sacks, hanging somewhere high, in the darkness, containing who knows what. Shalebridge Cradle is indeed scary, i love the first 3 Thief games and that level has been featured in a lot of videos as one of the MOST scary levels in any game ever.

[@apollomacgregor6534]

Bout crapped my pants when I couldn't leave The Cradle...because it remembered me.

[@charliewhelan9488]

I think the cenote section in SOTTR was a lot scarier though

[@dennissinned6299]

@@charliewhelan9488 Haven't played SOTTR yet , so.....no opinion but thanks for the input, much appreciate it, now i am looking forward to play it, I did love the first reboot TR, still playing it :)

[@charliewhelan9488]

@@dennissinned6299 imo the best of the three. First is second best

[@bronzin1445]

Ocean House Hotel from Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines .That level alone gives modern horror games a run for their money.

[@ryser6801]

and it does it without jumpscares

[@sakimom99]

Yesss. Ocean House was so unexpected and awesome. The story of the level was great too.

[@paulthomas319]

@@ryser6801 idk I kinda consider the kitchen a jump scare i loved the game regardless

[@ryser6801]

@@paulthomas319 you mean the flying plates and stuff?

[@InkWarrior]

I was waiting for Ocean Hous and was really disappointed it didn't make the list. Completely unnerving atmosphere. I love it.

[@TevyaSmolka]

I love hat in time and that Manson Level is really creepy and freaked me out

[@NinJoo117]

The Ardat-Yakshi mission in Mass Effect 3 is personally my favorite creepy mission in any game. took me completely by surprise, the tension was awesome, and the final cutscene genuinely creeped me out. Damn Bioware really nailed that mission!

[@Bran_robbie]

Agreed . Or that other side mission where the AI took complete control over this abandoned space rig . The subtle jump scares. Yikes 😬.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Was not expecting to see SWAT4 on this list. What people don't know is the entire level and dialogue builds up to that point as you try to clear out threats and save people only for it to end up like that. I think there's some nice lines that are said there. For me the scariest part of this game was actually right at the beginning when you rescue a woman who had literally been held in a dungeon, kept as a torture/rape toy for a psycho and treated worse than an animal. Absolutely horrifying, and mostly because this is all happening in an average suburb looked over by his kindly old mother...

[@TimSlee1]

Also it wasn't necessarily a horror level but the Mad Max mission where you have to turn off the gas in Gastown was pretty eerie. You had to navigate through the tunnels of this massive oil refinery and you see less and less people the deeper you go till you're completely alone, you then get to this section where you have to turn off all the gas valves before becoming intoxicated. If you succeed you simply escape through a door, but it's a generally tense and creepy mission.

[@thegamingbat2104]

Joker exists Rocksteady:-its a free real estate

[@thefertilizer3060]

Yay arkham series fan

[@MS-ru5gp]

Yet the scariest part in the entire series is when you play as the Joker being stalked by Batman!

[@thefertilizer3060]

@@MS-ru5gp nah....

[@MS-ru5gp]

@@thefertilizer3060 really? That bit with all the Batmans appearing the second you weren't looking was the scariest bit in the series for me! Each to their own!

[@thefertilizer3060]

@@MS-ru5gp I mean the game has a lot of scary stuff through the series but that's your opinion so in gonna respect it 👍

[@edgardocastaneda9402]

The ward in bioshock infinite was creepy af

[@garrettferrell6821]

All 3 Bioshock games are extremely creepy

[@thisiswhatido8920]

They always implement horror tho

[@LadyViscera]

That and the memorial garden

[@sirownzalotgaming3025]

I was gonna say, the entirety of the bio shock series haha. I’m pretty sure it’s unintentional horror. Right.

[@ariadneraynor]

Oh..good choice! The Boys of Silence were especially unsettling..and the jump scare!

[@satanworshiper1950]

When the non horror games are scarier than the horror games o.o

[@tornado6911]

🙋

[@chillieice]

I remember that in Thief. I almost didn't continue the game when that level started. So scary.

[@leisher]

"We don't go to Ravenholm" should be higher on the list, but glad you called it iconic.

[@juicedbruce2081]

It took about about an hour for me to build up the courage to swim into the mouth of that giant metal shark in Bango Kazooie. Remember lining myself up and swimming through with my eyes closed, because I just knew Bango would be torn to bloody shreds when I got close enough. These are the moments that strengthened us as kids. Also the eels in Mario 64 was the fuel to my nightmares lol

[@kfirpopilis4846]

I watched the video with Thief 3 asylum level in mind, thinking "they better include this one". This level just made me stop playing the game when i was younger. I almost pissed my pants

[@t6amygdala]

Mortal Kombat X’s Krypt was scary asf for me on my first time

[@Greeninja-jj4ot]

The generator level in uncharted 1 with the Spanish demons is pretty scary. That would be my number one because it was so unexpected.

[@guitarlesson666]

A game moment that really creeped me out in a non horror game was the mental asylum in Indigo prophecy, controling the breathing of the girl and try not to encounter the psychopaths running all over the place

[@timaben23]

The opening level of Metal Gear Solid V was the first thing that came to my mind

[@dav3nasty448]

not so much scary as un-nerving, the depravity of humans with "orders" such a good level.

[@tonywhitmore9943]

Gears of war 1. The kryll level, terrified me when I was a young lad haha

[@fernie5574]

Gears of War 2s sire level terrified me more

[@troyhubbler9874]

Oh yeah the little things that can't go in the light

[@JetNix]

Uncharted. When you meet the mutants in the old bunker. A colorful jungle adventure game turned in to dark horror. X_X

[@ThatDudeDelv]

Yessss. I forgot about that one. I loathed getting to that part of the story mode cuz it made me feel uncomfortable.

[@JetNix]

@@ThatDudeDelv Yeah. That was a really creepy surprise. I didn't expect that from a game where you jump around in a colorful jungle for treasure.)

[@FreshMootz]

Soma had some great unnerving parts. Great video!

[@KeithMakowka]

6:33 "oh-bel-isk" this dude's mispronunciation of words never ceases to surprise me 😂

[@justNinc]

Fallout 4 Museum of Witchcraft, that is one scary location

[@lickmygooch1013]

Mehhhh fallout has loads of scary locations, vault 22 from new Vegas is up there for sure

[@frenze6632]

Lmfao I found fallout 4 to be a pretty scary game, and that location just topped it all off

[@howaboutsomesoyfood]

fen's street sewer is pretty eerie.

[@Sgt.Dornan117]

The Dunwitch building in Fallout 3, the swamp folk of point lookout and Dunwitch borers of Fallout 4 are pretty spooky too

[@Blocparty01]

I was always scared of the haunted house levels in Timesplitters Future Perfect. Also agree with those that mentioned the Scarecrow bits in the Arkham games

[@ironwoodkid9577]

"Chains of Harrow" quest from Warframe is pretty scary if you ask me

[@BraddahSpliff]

Yeah, that was a great quest.

[@oneevilchef]

Rap... Tap... Tap... ... ... Hey there, kiddo. Edit: (SPOILER WARNING) Let me elaborate, the mission itself isn't scary, most of the time you just survive an endless army of faceless attackers, and the ending is pretty tough to use precision aim while things try to murder you. But I always tell lower Mastery Ranks, do the mission during the day on a sunny day, DO NOT PLAY THIS MISSION AT NIGHT YOU MASOCHIST.

[@thevibinshark9539]

Rell’s Rap Tap Taping is amazing

[@BraddahSpliff]

@@oneevilchef To add on to your edit. Yeah, the missions aren't that scary besides the darkness, but the actual lore & story behind it is pretty creepy.

[@strykerryder2346]

I will replay any quest EXECPT for Chains of Harrow. Between the darkness and invincible enemies chasing after you it was definite nightmare fuel for me

[@tizzlevang3596]

The Harrow. "Warframe" Got my blood rushing a bit during that mission.

[@seanallen7900]

I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD COMMENT THIS!!

[@Flea2404]

The Shalebridge Cradle in thief 3 literally terrified me. All the horrible experiments on the patients and the notes just add to the atmosphere. When you realise it was an asylum and an orphanage at the same time also provides a deep unnerving. The flickering lights when a puppet was near crippled me though.