7 Most Unsettling Things Found in Open World Games

Open world games let you go anywhere and do anything, but all that space and freedom to explore brings with it a darker side: creepy, scary or unsettling secrets, hidden in corners of the world that most players will simply breeze past, never knowing of the horrors that lurk just off the critical path. See for yourself with these 7 most unsettling secrets in open world games, and subscribe for more videos from Outside Xbox!
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[@aperson806]

What I always found a disturbing detail in Fallout 4 wasn't a single thing, but rather the amount of skeletons you find next to toilets - people who survived the initial nuclear blasts, only to die from radiation sickness, vomiting their insides up. Thanks for that lovely little detail, Bethesda!

[@johannord4778]

If there isn't anything disturbing or unsettling then it isn’t a proper fallout game

[@thijsv948]

You know, I never connected those dots myself. Pretty cool, so thanks!

[@philiphunn194]

At the very opposite of the scale, there are two female skeletons on the roof of the Nuka-World bottling plant. They both have wedding rings on, which suggests they were a married couple who wanted to die in each other’s arms instead of out in the wasteland 😭

[@aperson806]

@philiphunn194 For all the humour and irreverence in the series, Bethesda sure don't hold back on the tragedy of it all. And rightly so - the games are all the better for it. The remains of the runaway in the cabin near the Abenathy Farm is another poignant detail. EDIT: In fact, details like these would make a good video in itself.

[@aerthreepwood8021]

They didn't think that deep into it. They just went "toilet=funny"

[@Formoka]

I actually find Pickman least unsettling. The man was possessed by an Eldritch horror and still maintained enough of a moral compass to only target and kill the people who hurt civilians. Considering how scrambled your brains would be with an indescribable horror living in them, his restraint is freaking steel. Honestly the sandwich is scarier.

[@ArDeeMee]

OG Pickman didn’t go about hurting people as well, right. I remember late night strolls on the cemetery, and that dang well in his basement…

[@greenhowie]

He certainly coped with it a lot better than Lorenzo.

[@gyroscope915]

​Its pretty safe to assume lorenzo would have been a pyscho even without the excuse ​@@greenhowie.

[@stashmerkin9576]

Pickman in FO4 is a direct H.P. Lovecraft reference. Pickman's Model is one of his lesser known stories and is also about an unsettling artist.

[@incredibleflameboy]

I thought pickmans model was a bit of a fan favorite. It seems like the one story everyone knows outside of innsmouth, dagon and mountain of madness.

[@laurajones7858]

That is......uh......WOW, I didn't think anything could make Pickman even MORE unsettling and yet here we are.😰

[@stashmerkin9576]

@@incredibleflameboy that maybe so, I'm incredibly out of touch.

[@incredibleflameboy]

@@stashmerkin9576 it might be because it recently had an adaptation on Netflix with Guillermo del Toro. I can't remember what the show was called but they did dreams in the witch house too.

[@stashmerkin9576]

@@laurajones7858 glad to help out! Well worth reading, it's a good short story that will ahem, flesh out Pickman in FO4.

[@br1ghtf4ll80]

With the AC Valhalla one, you can actually notice that there are cracks in the earth around the area and gasses coming out of them, which you can burn away using a torch. It's a subtle way of telling you that the gasses are causing hallucinations.

[@docette2015]

I think at this point it would be more of a surprise to stumble across an isolated family or tiny village in an open world game. . .and have it NOT be full of cannibals. Like, these are just people who have carved out a life in a rather remote spot and are genuinely just friendly to visitors because they don't see people much. The player would be SO TENSE waiting for that other shoe to drop for the rest of the game. XD

[@GrahamChapman]

But, plot twist: They were actually *GHOSTS!* Because there _are_ no people who have just carved out a life in a rather remote spot and are genuinely just friendly to visitors because they don't see people much in ANY games! OooOOOooohhh~

[@ArDeeMee]

Just some average hunter-gatherers who, like the rest of us, have always known the fact that hunting humans isn’t worth the hassle, especially in an area where you are the only ones.

[@chrisball3778]

The stone circle mystery in AC Valhalla is actually based on folklore. There are several stone circles in England (e.g. Long Meg and her Daughters in Cumbria and the Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border) that are said to be uncountable, and myths about standing stones being people petrified by evil spirits or a curse are common.

[@Nicooriia]

I think the barrow hill series is based on these, i know it reminded me immediately of them, particularly the literal moving stones than incinerate you if uou touch them.

[@NoPrefect]

Not to mention the uncountable wandering stone of Lancre. Although there is only one, you still can't count it.

[@johannord4778]

Sounds about right. The same applies to statues in Greece are petrified people

[@phuzz00]

The Rollright Stones *are* really difficult to count, because, they're very close together and cracked, so it's hard to tell what's two stones, or two prongs of the same one. Also the bloody fairies get into your head.

[@lunasif]

There are tales of fairies moving stones around near me in the north of England, so I doubt that kind of story was uncommon. The main one I remember was they kept moving away stones people were going to use to build houses on fairy enchanted land. But once they surrounded the stone with iron the fairies couldnt mess with it and the houses got built.

[@grimmscuriosities9411]

Ah, yes. Haunted stones, ghosts, cannibals.....SANDWICH. Truly the most terrifying assortment of things.

[@Mini_Squatch]

the scary part isn't the giant sandvich - its the giant heavy who left it there.

[@thekeeperoftwindragons5976]

I mean did you see the size of that sandwich

[@johannord4778]

Someone was just very hungry for a sandvich

[@_Twink]

The 1 time my wife didn't have a sandwich ready when I was home. Still have nightmares about the sandwich that could have been 😂😅

[@danielmiller3596]

In their defence, they compared it to Subway. Some disgusting stuff, there.

[@LtBasil]

The reaper leviathan skeleton down in the inactive lava zone from Subnautica always disturbed me. Up to that point in the game, reaper leviathans have been the most terrifying creatures that you've seen across the entire map (aside from void leviathans, potentially). They can kill you in one hit, destroy your seamoth in three hits, and if they spot you, will pursue you relentlessly. They hunt by echolocation, not sight, so turning off your lights won't protect you like it would with most of the other predators, and they have no bioluminescence and thus can sneak up on you easily. And then you find a skeleton of one about 1200 or so meters down. If you scan said skeleton, your PDA will inform that the reaper was eaten. The biggest, scariest, most aggressive predator in the ocean that has been hounding you ever since you first crashed, got EATEN. By something bigger. And then the sea dragon shows up.

[@nonspiderweb]

Damn. That was a very well written comment. No joke, I was feeling uneasy reading it. And I've never even PLAYED Subnautica. I just had to google what the Sea Dragon looked like. But you did really good building tension.

[@soaringraven0]

I saw Reaper and Leviathan and my thoughts immediately went to Harbinger from Mass Effect

[@kamenanew9867]

​@@soaringraven0guilty as well lol

[@johannord4778]

@@soaringraven0all of them are scary and unsettling

[@Jedimeister17]

I get what you mean, but Reapers can‘t kill you one shot (at least not with full live). Only creature thats capable is the sea dragon

[@WildfireMagni]

The giant sandwich just screams 'we don't know who put that there but if we move it the game falls apart' to me.

[@Sunprism]

I was once driving down the train tracks in GTA Online, when I noticed something by the warehouses and had to stop to check it out. Two NPCs, women in medical scrubs and big aprons, covered in blood...Both smoking cigarettes outside a warehouse door. The warehouse itself had no interior, couldn't enter it...Just two calm nurses, covered in blood, outside a locked warehouse.

[@pedroportillo1585]

The “Gary” vault in Fallout 3 was horrifying! It so simple, yet so scary! Just a destroyed vault, with all the inhabitants being cloned Garys!!!

[@incredibleflameboy]

Haha, Gary?

[@pvtspoon]

Oh, I’d managed to forget all about the Gary’s. I’ll be hearing “haha, Gary” all night now.

[@TheZoenGaming]

@@pvtspoon Gaaaary. Gaaaryyyy!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

It gets worse in a featured episode of Shoddycast's Storyteller series.

[@davidburnett5049]

I think, once you realize it's just dudes. Human dudes with no special combat power or intelligence, all the threat just vanishes. But it's still got some nice voice work and a neat back ground story

[@ASLTheatre]

When you mentioned Halo I thought you were going to talk about the crazed Flood survivor you meet just before encountering the Flood. What you added really surprised me.

[@outsidexbox]

the implications of the sandwich are truly unsettling. who made it? why didn't they eat it? brrr

[@fredbyoutubing]

It's a big sandwich, m8!

[@kurotoruk]

Then it turns out that the Halo universe is just really tiny, and one of the devs just misplaced his lunch. :/

[@kamenanew9867]

I myself was expecting the monkey family.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

@@kamenanew9867Halo 3 isn’t open world though, by definition they couldn’t include it

[@inevitabletraitor]

I feel like the entirety of “Outer Wilds” could qualify as an unsettling mystery, but following the quantum stones gets especially spooky when you realize the only way to progress is to turn off your flashlight, plunging into complete darkness and quantum flux.

[@Lark88]

Lot's of crazy stuff in Cyberpunk 2077 too. I don't remember the details, but there was a part out side of the city where you could find find a dead man out side of a shelter and behind a locked door there was a man and a woman. Turns out this crazy guy kidnapped this woman in order to "protect her." He later kidnapped a young man to keep her company so she wouldn't be so sad. The man had a heart attack and died so his prisoners starved to death.

[@somniloquous0]

Very Ubisoft to have the player character explicitly point out, to no-one in particular, the very spooky thing that had happened, just in case the player was too dense to put it together themselves

[@modelmajorpita]

In a sewer near Diamond City in Fallout 4 there is a cave where a pre-war serial killer made art out of his victims because they did that twice in one game.

[@TheRealCodeBlack]

These are becoming a real mainstay for the open world genre. I can't wait for Star Wars: Outlaws to have the player discover some kind of ancient Sith torture chamber or take a detour into the Screaming Citadel or any number of horrifying things brimming under the surface of the Star Wars universe.

[@ArDeeMee]

That would entail Disney having to declare the EU canon again. God, so much good stuff just shat on by them. Smh.

[@jamiesettle4348]

I love the screaming citadel

[@philiphunn194]

Pickman’s knife is excellent in the early game, until you can go double-turbo-Lovecraft with the Kremvh’s Tooth dagger.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

Shame Fallout doesn’t let you dual wield. Double Lovecraft bonus! :D

[@philiphunn194]

@@CyborgCharlotte I’m sure there’s a mod for that 😎

[@badgerbane]

​@CyborgCharlotte I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Krenvhs tooth mod is just that, a weapon modification. So it absolutely can be added onto Pickmans blade and you can absolutely double lovecraft. Like I said, I'm not 100% on that though.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

@@badgerbane Eh, it’s not the same as dual wielding Lovecraft themed weapons

[@zacharysmith4856]

Two lists within 24 hours?! You spoil me Oxbox! 😌

[@Dradeeus]

I remember Valhalla having quite a number of them. Areas where a number of people are hanging silently from a large dead tree, some creepy liminal abandoned locations, and the areas that have spooky filters/sounds until you destroy an evil totem or something.

[@oliviawolcott8351]

ah, yeah the hanging. it was allegedly a way for people to get into valhalla outside of battle, by emulating odin in his quest for magical knowledge.

[@Dradeeus]

@@oliviawolcott8351 that's super interesting, I didn't know that!

[@noob1n8or]

I loved Pickman's Gallery because it managed to create a situation where the ethically correct choice was to rescue a deranged serial killer and allow him to continue his work.

[@TransGamerNerd27]

There's a cannibal couple in Witcher 3 too. They're in the village of Erde which was added as part of Hearts of Stone

[@fredbyoutubing]

They could make a full list of "secret canibals in open world"

[@dragour8723]

In Fallout 3 and 4 the Dunwich locations are just creepy, the idea of this Eldritch horror being an actual thing in the universe makes everything else feel less concerning

[@oddllamasquad9737]

Dunwich makes its reappearance in fallout four ! With a ancient sword that makes people go mad buried inside the dunwich mine

[@ASpooneyBard]

They've probably talked about this before, but the butcher shop in Vice City that apparently sells people meat comes to mind. There's even a grave behind the store (not that you would know about that if you only played the Defective Edition).

[@deannal.newton9772]

Wow, I guess that town that's run by cannibals might really get a kick out of that. Especially that lady that makes her meat pies that are made entirely out of human flesh. The weirder part is that they didn't even have to resort to cannibalism in that game.

[@BeanManolo]

The skeleton in the open grave lacking a arm, that you can find in the butcher's display alongside a literal donated organ cooler, and the fact the funeral house next to it is owned by the same people (both have Romero in their name, a clear reference to the famous zombie movie director) paints a creepy scenario that the bodies in the funeral house may not have been buried without any missing bits....

[@AngelBeatYunara]

In Star Wars Jedi Survivor, there's a cave that has a long narrow passageway that leads into a room where some B1 battledroids are painting while a space yeti is modeling for them. Spooky.

[@Ceece20]

New idea for an open world: fill it only with cows, who attack the player with weapons, while just saying moo all the time, and there is a cow king. Maybe make it into a level first, just to give it a test. Build a game first as cover for the level.

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

Yeah, and because it must be very tiring running around killing all those cows, maybe the King should drop a load of stamina potions when he dies ;)

[@kaelang12]

So like the cow level in Diablo?

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

@@kaelang12 I believe that was the joke, yes...

[@Ceece20]

@@kaelang12 or like any game ever created since all games have a cow level.

[@skilletborne]

@@Ceece20 And if you don't think all games have a cow level, you're not a real gamer Come on, it can even only take like 5 minutes to enter it in a lot of games

[@nonspiderweb]

I'm guessing the sandwich is a reference to the thought experiment "Could God create a sandwich so big even He couldn't finish it?"

[@zenthegeneral]

For Halo Infinite I thought you guys were gonna talk about the arcade room at Outpost Tremonius with all the dead humans and covenant, and the Halo Infinite arcade machine. But not gonna lie, did not see the giant sandwich coming.

[@pmonday]

A solo Andy spooky stuff list? What a treat.

[@BuildinWings]

The Planet Crafter - Turns out you weren't the first intelligent life on that planet. Or the second, or millionth. Lots of cool environmental storytelling for such a small team of devs (2 people).

[@WinchesterxNL]

Lots of bones to be found for being one of the supposedly few who might've gone on that mission.

[@BuildinWings]

@@WinchesterxNL Wait'll you find the big doors... If you haven't yet, you're in for a treat.

[@Kenjav]

I can't really explain why, but the most eerie, unsettling thing to me in rdr2 was the tiny chapel in the swamps.

[@Gimboid79]

In Kingdom Come Deliverance there are numerous creepy unexplained locations, top of which is a house deep in the woods with what can only be described as a torcheres table outside, several corpses inside along with a bath stained with blood, and a pile of bones poorly buried in a pit outside... oh and a book 'the joy of gutting' can be found there too... sadly there's no way to investigate!

[@ArDeeMee]

*torturer Also, you obviously already investigated it, there just wasn’t a quest telling you to. Does he maybe come back at night? Now I‘m curious… ^^;

[@pvtspoon]

The opening shot of the player taking someone out in GTAV made me laugh more than it should have done.

[@joshc5309]

That is incorrect, sir. That was every ounce as hilarious as you perceived. In video games, there is nothing funnier than candid, surprise ragdoll in slow-mo.

[@Brochnick]

Does the ghost train hit you if you stand on the tracks? Or do you get the Winston treatment à la Ghostbusters 2?

[@conradlecroy5821]

You forget, Pickman’s Gallery isn’t the only creepy Lovecraftian location. What about the Dunwich borers?

[@kaelang12]

And the Dunwich Building

[@conradlecroy5821]

@@kaelang12 yeah them too!

[@anthonyeaves4145]

Pretty much everywhere in Hollowknight’s deepnest location is incredibly unsettling. The abyss and the waterways are also creepy. Pretty much half the map is a horrible nightmare

[@mollymcintosh2090]

09:50 Funny you mention Guillermo Del Toro as he actually made a short film version of Pickman’s Model for his Netflix anthology Cabinet of Curiosities. Starring Ben Barnes!

[@DetectiveLance]

Hunt: Showdown isnt exactly an open world game, but on one of the maps you can find a barn. Inside is a home made model trainset and western town, a few interesting contraptions, and a car shaped object covered by a tarp. Somewhere in the cursed, rotting bayous of Louisiana is the barn workshop of Doc Brown and the DeLorean, meaning Doc and Marty are either out there as walking rotting corpses or are dead fellow Hunters.

[@random-unbreaded-commentor]

The ironic part that pickmans knife is one of the most broken damn things in that game too. The teleporting stabber build was hilarious

[@saraross8396]

I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention the Nope Nope Hands (aka Gloom Hands/Spawn) from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Those are definitely unsettling.

[@Maceman486]

There's a place in Cyberpunk 2077 out in the badlands where you find somebody dead buried up to their head in the sand. You also see what looks like somebody set up a chair and ate and drank in front of them till they died.

[@quelanathecrow]

ah here I was, enjoying another delightful oxbox video, only to be shocked and appalled by the cruel and deeply incorrect slander of red onions!! Andy, they are simply the most flavorful raw onion choice and they bring a charming crunch to any sandwich! And I was so on your side about oat soup too... admittedly mostly because of Luke's reactions ^.^ thanks for all the great videos!!

[@Stratelier]

It would be easy to find at least one or two examples from Skyrim ... the hard part is finding examples not already covered by some _other_ list.

[@Mulbert]

Another Valhalla one is the murder cabin you find with all the bodies in the water 😱

[@MySerpentine]

You do not recognize he bodies in the water.

[@smaug2981]

There is the elderly cannibal(does it still count for humans eating a halfling?) couple in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. As part of the Heart of Stone DLC, a contract titled Apprentice Gone Missing! (and secondary quest Without a Trace) leads you to Deadwight Wood in search of the missing herbalist apprentice Folkert and find the mostly abandoned village Erde. The village's only residents are a kindly old couple who claim to told Folkert to go home and was later killed by wolves. Following the scent of rotting meat leads to the dismembered corpse of Folkert and is too damaged to determine cause of death. After confronting the couple they confess to eating him but insist wolves killed him. If you let them live and lie to the quest giver about Folkert's post death fate. You can return later to find that in attempting to stop eating people, like Geralt insisted, the old woman has starved to death.

[@guillermogarciaaguilar6035]

I object the Guillermo del Toro's reference: he would never get rid of anything creepy, unsettling or macabre, and least of all on a garage sale, it's like saying he would sell one of his kidneys on e-Bay... other people's kidneys on a jar? maybe, but not his own!

[@darkstar940able]

Funny thing about the fallout 4 one is your character likely killed wayyyyyy more raider than pickman.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

Fallout New Vegas has the Ultra-Luxe Hotel and Casino. The White Glove society that manages it is the pinnacle of class and sophistication, however some of it's members are cannibals responsible for people disappearing from both New Vegas and Freeside. Talking to Marjorie the manager of the Ultra-Luxe has her mention the disappearance of a young woman. It's also possible to help the White Glove society completely revert back to cannibalism.

[@Mini_Squatch]

yeah, but thats not really "off the beaten path"

[@DistinctionDave]

...that's literally part of the main quest. I mean, it's technically optional, but it's hardly something you're likely to miss.

[@OptimusSledge]

All of its members were cannibals, some of them want to go back to the old ways.

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

I read the journal entry in this video and it wasn't the sight of blood that made him run off into the woods. The boy got tired of his father's beatings and decided to run away if his father gave him one more "lesson". He planned it and snuck off in the middle of the night inspired by a book he read in school where a boy does the same to escape his abusive foster family. Poor kid decided that living in the forest was better than living at home with his abusive father.

[@johannesk2852]

Weeping angels in the Witcher 3…

[@Khroniclas]

Wait... There are weeping angels in the Witcher 3?! Bro 54 hours and I've never encountered such a vicious foe. As a child the concept of weeping angels terrified me, I can't imagine an encounter with them in a game would go well for me.

[@doctorstrangepants6706]

They're in Remnant 2 as well. Kind of.

[@dahn57]

They are in there too? They are in Just Cause 3 as well! Damn things get everywhere!

[@jijiowen8267]

thi swear every now and again ill randomly watch one of your videos and literally be brought to tears at the sound of that music. i just love these videos so much and i dont know why i do this

[@artlessauthorite]

Murder? In gta5? Really! Wow. Surely no one would be so violent in Los Santos.

[@AndrewsYoutube]

The Frostflow Lighthouse in Skyrim shook me the first time I entered it, and went into the basement.

[@someinternetweirdo6953]

The Wolfman in RDR2 is the gunsmith's missing son. If you read the newspaper clippings and journal stuff when you find the gunsmith's "secret" in the basement, you'll see clippings of him taking his son hunting, reference to his disappearance, and (as I recall) mentions of his frustration with his son's aversion to hunting.

[@Bloodanna]

It's not. The timelines don't add up and the son drown. He didn't run away like the Wolfman's journal talks about.

[@highspotplays]

I like it when Andy says RDR2 because it reminds of the the time Bart Simpson went to the school for geniuses and he didn't understand the math joke.

[@charliegriffin2867]

That sandwich is the funniest possible inclusion in a list like this, treated completely seriously.

[@Lewa-tk4gq]

What about the Grandchester mansion in Fallout 4’s Nuka World DLC. Particularly what’s in the attic

[@danmoar94]

I'd say the giant face under stormveil castle in elden ring would suit this list well. I found it by accident and it creeped me right out

[@Radi_nce]

There's another, larger one later

[@danmoar94]

@@Radi_nce oh great...

[@sekritagentsam]

I wonder if the AC one is a reference to the king's men stones, which are supposed to be impossible to count and get the same number.

[@ApMignonne]

You should make a list of settling things found in small world games. For example, in Settlers, you can settle (on a very limited map). Very settling.

[@sohairtayyabbutt1456]

In Cyberpunk 2077, you can find a shack with a dead netrunner surrounded by cages inside who was up to some truly nasty stuff before another netrunner found and fried them. I think it's under a bridge in Wellsprings.

[@Feasco]

you mean to say something was taken care of by someone who wasn't your protagonist? Preposterous!

[@grindsaur]

While not exactly an open world as such - the Giant Claptrap setup in Scylla's Cave in Borderlands 2 is pretty disturbing IMO.

[@TheZoenGaming]

I'm honestly unsettled by the number of things that are "exclusive" in Rockstar games. From missions and gold bars that are only available if you bought the game on their storefront, to timed exclusives for people getting the HD version of the game after playing it on the X360 or PS3 before it was released on the newer gen consoles and PC.

[@sidnew2739]

Pickman is indeed a pick (hehe) from a H.P. Lovecraft Story called "Pickman's Model". He is, surprise, an unsettling artist there who depicts eldritch horrors.

[@jimmusthegrimmace]

pickman isnt creepy, hes a public servant. i opened his inventory and gave him better armor, a nice gun and an upgraded version of his own knife. less raiders out there means a better commonwealth and considering i travel with a guy with a minigun and an actual tank, once hes done, he can either stop killing or get dealt with

[@threethousandbees7260]

Really getting me in the mood for the impending spooky season

[@loka7783]

Two thoughts. 1) the giant sandwich is a reminder that players should take a break and eat now and again. 2) Pickman is just a version of the Sole Survivor that focuses and melee weapons and settlement building.

[@ericsaunders2485]

Years of great videos, thank you!!!!!

[@starmancrusader]

Frostflow Lighthouse and Yngvild from Skyrim

[@TheDimensionDweller]

Love to hear about creepy stuff like this, hate to encounter it myself

[@valiantrangerproductions-r8460]

I feel like the Yakuza Series was made for this list! in both 0 and kiwami there's the haunted video tapes as staples, but I feel like being jumped by some guys in Kiwami 2, only to brought into a baby-play session by their boss takes the cake (at least as far as I've seen in the series)

[@CowsAreIrrelevant]

Oh my God, I had forgotten about that substorie! Easily one of the most uncomfortable things I've experienced in a game LMAO!

[@BeanManolo]

The baby-play guy appears again in Like a Dragon, with Ichiban fending off some Yakuza trying to steal a guy's baby formula, and then both going to help after hearing a 'baby' cry... to find out it's the Yakuza boss again

[@Psyche_TH]

The mass grave in the Tierra Robada desert in GTA San Andreas is all but confirmed to be the ex-husband corpse dumping ground of K-Rose radio station DJ Marybeth Maybell, who frequently comments on the 'accidents' in which her husbands have died and conveniently left her with all the land and money.

[@BeanManolo]

There's actually a short movie that came with the Special Edition of GTA SA and that acts like a prequel to the game's events; There we see two Sindacco grunts dumping the body of Mickey, the Sindacco member who ran the Caligula's Palace cassino before Ken Rosenberg took over, in that same place; The movie mentions he was killed as part of the deal between the Sindaccos and the Leones to fund the cassino, showing the graves in Tierra Roubada are a dumping ground of corpses for the Las Venturas mafia.

[@Psyche_TH]

@@BeanManolo Ah yes The Introduction. I rewatched it after you said that and it turns out that pretty much the whole scene is always angled upwards and you don't really see the ground enough to confirm the exact place. You get enough to be sure they're out in the desert but you don't see inside the pit or if there are any other bodies. So basically there's no wrong answers, you could be right and so could I.

[@TheReaperMan123]

I would argue that the Boylston Club is the most disturbing thing in Fallout 4

[@Mini_Squatch]

Really, out of all the things in fallout 4 the club doing a suicide pact is what you find most disturbing? Personally, what i find amusing about the boylston club is that the "poisoned wine" has no additional effect beyond normal wine.

[@ciaralizabeth]

Besides the ones you find in Nuka World, Pickman's knife is one of the best in the game. You also don't have to help him and get the knife anyway

[@jeremiahthepisces5493]

your hot

[@fredbyoutubing]

Cyberpunk 2077 has a few. At leat one of the Cyberdock shop is a front for scavs and if you go downstairs, you'll see where they get the equipment.

[@Khroniclas]

One of the disturbing things to find around in open worlds has to be those crying babies (Screamers) from Dying Light 1. They are no different than Snitches from L4D or the Howlers from Dying Light 2 in functionality, however they disturb me about 58 million times more because they are little 2 year olds, completely warped, crying and snickering... It disturbs me on a more deep level than just "If they see me, all zombies will be here within 5 seconds." I even feel like the first encounter with these baby zombies in the main quest was more memorable to me than the first encounter with the very heart-attack inducing volatiles.

[@FriedProfile]

I'm sorry, "Snitches" from L4D? Oh, you mean Witches. Was confusing because you claimed they are no different from crying babies

[@Khroniclas]

@@FriedProfile I may bemixing things up, L4D is quite old. Whatever its name was it alerted hordes of enemies at least iirc.

[@TehCakeIzALie1]

@@Khroniclas Screamers were cut content in L4D. You might be remembering that.

[@Khroniclas]

@@TehCakeIzALie1 Ahhh I see

[@toratio8547]

Love the Spooktember creepies starting. The first entry has strong Stephen King's N vibes.

[@laninjachica]

I feel like half the side-quests in The Witcher 3 were creepy, unsettling, or messed up. The unfamiliar nature of eastern European mythological creatures definitely added to the unease as well. Off the top of my head, there are a few tragic ghost women, the three hags, and I think a haunted house.

[@oliviawolcott8351]

the one I loved the most was a quest to retrieve a ring for an old woman, and then she casually mentions a battle that's about a hundred or more years ago. geralt remembers it, but he's a long lived witcher. she's just a human. and when he mentions the fact, she just disappears. turns out you got a contract from a ghost.

[@brettvannier8247]

Your whole Far Cry 3 bit was excellent. I laughed out loud multiple times. Thanks

[@deohenge1865]

Though not really unexplained if you go through all the trouble to unlock the boss later, Nier: Automata got me really good wandering out into the desert sandstorm. I was trying to find an oasis area I'd been to before, only to suddenly start coming across enormous spheres, still in the sandstorm, with giant terrifying faces on them. (I hadn't even met Emil yet.) I nope'd out of that area faster than a rabid raccoon in a rainstorm.

[@travisspaulding5835]

You could do a whole lists of 7 of these moments just from RDR2

[@noahgibson4219]

For real, that crying lady ambush in the swamps still creeps me out

[@R.M.MacFru]

That was my thinking as well.

[@michaelsmith2619]

The massive sluaghterfish in oblivion. While a quest does lead you to it's home it doesn't tell you anything like that is there.

[@brandonp7503]

4:20 Surprised you didn't mention the mysterious stranger's (AKA Death's) cabin in RDR2.

[@nyperold7530]

Hmm... that one statue outside Hateno Village? About all I can think of... and no, I haven't played TotK yet.

[@alicevictorian3195]

Stumbling across a body under the tracks at the starting town in Red Dead Redemption 2 was extremely unsettling.

[@A_N1ne]

This one is unsettling and a bit funny. In Divine Divinity, there's a hunted church and after clearing the place you find out how the ghosts are made. A choir boy was peeing in the communion wine. Just how long was this going on for, is this how all ghost are made, who knows.

[@kingsleycy3450]

In the bottom of the Dunwich Borers in Fallout 4, there is an unexplained giant face buried in the rubbles

[@Alexifeu]

Cool video :) I loved fallout 3 on xbox 360

[@EmperorSeth]

It's even more "Easter Egg-y" than a lot of these examples, but one that comes to mind is in GTA4, where if you go inside their expy of the Statue of Liberty, there is a literal giant beating heart inside it.

[@anthonyeaves4145]

Skyrim has this lighthouse with an entire murder mystery, ice cave, and giant man eating bugs. Don’t remember the name though.

[@patdo777]

No Andy, the scariest thing in Far Cry 3 is the main character not the wildlife. He turned to casual mass murder way too easily.

[@MrMaxHauser]

In Arkham Asylum, near the elevator in the medical treatment facility, there is a head in a jar

[@madamminalost]

Lots of Control documents can fit in here...

[@GyorBox]

Holy crap! I actually found that cave in Halo Infinite, but I missed the secret cavern room with the sandwich...lol I was wondering what the cave was for..

[@KevinJ42]

This is the first video from the OutsideXbox crew that I've seen that doesn't have the obligatory "...and beware spoilers for the following games." with the title list scrolling by with jazz music playing.

[@claytonrios1]

Sometimes exploring off the beaten path in games can lead you to almost getting eaten by cannibals in the Outer Worlds. Other times it leads you to wondering if a person you talked to even exists like in Far Cry 3!

[@Pinkstarclan]

I wouldn't be surprised if the RDR2 wolfman is a reference to a glitch in RDR1 that gave animal animations to human models :O

[@alliestevens5264]

My creepy experience in an open world game is in Skyrim, Kagrenzel. What is that ball of light? What is it's purpose?

[@Jakeurb8ty82]

is there a category or term for the little diorama scenes of in game props and items arranged to tell a joke or story in games. Bethesda always comes to mind with these. -Kingdom Come Deliverance has a bunch of them on the outskirts of the map.

[@OTE_TheMissile]

"Environmental storytelling" I believe is the industry term

[@timelord6616]

So I know you covered gta5 , but what some people don’t know or remember is that there is a serial killer in the game. He left behind some clue which lead you to where he dumps his victim bodies