The 10 Hardest Horror Games (That I've Played!)

[@ErosXCaos]

Silent Hill 3 broke my streak of never looking anything up. I’ll never forget getting stuck on the Shakespeare puzzle. You literally need to know his classics! _Nothing_ is in game. No note, no clue, no guessing. You’ll need to be on Hard difficulty for that puzzle variation.

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

That was my first game in the series to beat so I had to use a guide. 13 year old me was dumb. But I feel I'll still need it. It's next on my list. I just rebeat 1 and 2. Playing through the entire series again. Curious if 3 is still my favorite. So far it'll probably be. 1 and 2 aged bad

[@brandisucks]

The part that got me was when the player had to be on fighting position with a melee weapon to avoid the ceiling from smashing Heather.

[@corniel657]

1:53 Fatal Frame 2 4:00 Silent hill 3 6:02 Evil Within 2 8:30 Alien isolation 11:07 Resident evil 1 13:40 Eternal darkness 16:04 RE Code veronica 17:55 The evil within 20:55 Pathologic 2 23:55 Bloodborne

[@jonbourgoin182]

Lol as if his thumbnails don't spoil the video enough. He even spoils number 1 in them.

[@corniel657]

@@jonbourgoin182 just helping

[@arthurdurham]

The Evil Within 2 is an underrated classic

[@ex_cathedra4237]

Agreed. I think it's better than the first.

[@steelbear2063]

@@ex_cathedra4237 In terms of gameplay for sure, 100%. In terms of atmosphere I'm not sure

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

Evil Within 2 is my favorite horror game. That's with me being a diehard horror fan. RE may be my favorite series but that game blew me away. Story and open semi open world. And perfectly gameplay. Much better than 1.

[@sureslick1]

It's on my all time top 5 horror games

[@RPC87]

The small chunk of town to explore was so fun!!! Great game

[@Drago-746]

Evil within 2 is just special. Such a masterful & tragically underrated gem of survival horror. Wish we would see a 3 but very doubtful.

[@issi529]

Very very underrated.

[@morphing-jug]

20:32 Correction: on Akumu mode if you die you don't start the whole game all over again from the start you just die in one hit and start from the previous check point. Akumu mode is basically the nightmare difficulty but you die in one hit.

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

I see, well shows how much I played it on this mode. I had a hard enough time with the normal difficulty!

[@stevenbrown4001]

Before playing and beating Bloodborne I would’ve said it doesn’t count as horror, but after playing it recently I definitely think it counts as horror. Maybe, not survival horror, but action horror. The environments are creepy and I would feel unsettled, and some of the monster and boss designs are disturbing. Really great body horror. It’s not scary like a silent hill or resident evil game, but I still count it as horror.

[@shootoman]

Agreed! Especially in some chalice dungeons the game can be more scary than most "pure" horror games.

[@Synthetic-Rabbit]

For me, The Evil Within 1 is the best. The more linear, focused level design makes it a lot more tense IMO and I thought the areas were more memorable. I didn't hate the "open world" in TEW2, but I found it pretty easy to cheese the enemy AI in a lot of situations and killing enemies around a corner while in stealth is very OP. I love the atmosphere in 1 and in regards to the story, it's one of those stories that is better when you know less about the specifics. I did beat the game on Nightmare on "new game" but I never did that other special "die in one hit" mode but I feel like I probably could do it with enough patience. I did beat hardcore "Dead Space 2"!

[@XXXXD]

I havent played Pathologic or Bloodborne but I played Forbidden Siren and for me it was the hardest horror game ever more than Evil Within, , combat can be hard but you can get used to it except aiming with rifle which is the worst aiming in any game I played , It is stealth game but the crrawling speed is so slow you will end up walking and alerting enemies, you basically need guide to finnish the game and get all collectibles and the worst one is that despite some levels having checkpoint if you previously picked up collectible or did some important step you need to do to unlock next level and you die and load checkpoint that stuff is removed and you need to restart an level. Yeah I went on a rant but Forbidden Siren is game that I liked but I would never recommend to anybody. Also the main antagonist is called DatatSUSHI.

[@neonpop80]

I finished both and SH3 😁

[@DemitriosRausus]

Resident Evil CV and Silent Hill 3 were the first ever in their series I've ever beaten. But not without the help of game guides. 😅

[@VelvetSky1102]

The Thing (PS2) version was very difficult, if your not careful with resource management, at some point could brick your entire playthrough. Glad we are getting remaster

[@adamc18]

Great list. Every game on here is fantastic, especially alien isolation. One game I would personally add to the list is Song Of Horror. That game can be brutally difficult. The permadeath can really screw you over, especially on the higher difficulties

[@JunJunMusume]

Fatal Frame 2 is easily among my top horror games. I never found it difficulty BUT for me it has been by far the scariest game I've played. I remember to this day my hear pounding out of my chest near the end of the game.

[@davidkozak9289]

I feel that fatal frame 3 is far scarier and more difficult, while also massively overlooked!

[@JosephWalker-ip7pd]

3rd is the hardest from what i remember. 2 was easy.

[@adikac7081]

Haven't noticed anyone mentioned this, Welcome to the game II and the whole Reflect's studio library is really challenging, beating the games on standard difficulty is already hard and nightmare mode is just made to be unfair. They are also really scary, considering you are might be focused on your task, forget to check the thread and then get jumpscared. Highly recommend if u like challenging games (runs are kinda long tho)

[@MadaraUchiha-ly8wr]

Alien isolation and Evil within is where I get hooked, the most.

[@hiramriveroll6587]

I bought RE code veronica like 3 years ago, I have never beat that game and I don't think I will soon tbh, great video man!

[@kaspersaldell]

Bloodborne is a survival-horror game, I'm glad to see you include it.

[@LordBackuro]

Alien Isolation and Bloodborne are aesthetically the best horror games I’ve ever played.

[@Jakco808]

I love your videos bro. The way you explain/describe stuff is great and you're funny

[@Kupo_owo]

Without a doubt, the hardest horror game is fear and hunger. Every random battle is a gamble where the odds are always against you, especially in the early game.

[@squeakypuff]

This. Also, The Void.

[@Macktube]

The evil within 1 was hard at first. Because you don't know what to do, but once you start leveling up your resources, it gets easier and easier. For the claustrophobic, levels you just have to play with a walkthrough

[@itsdemetri4282]

I played alien isolation and the evil within as a teenager tbh i struggled more with alien isolation as far as first playthrough. Evil within hard too but is worse on nightmare difficulty all the problems with the base game you mentioned is 3x more and having the ruvik clone early as chapter 3 in the game and appear more frequent. Grab attacks are instant death you can't escape them along with health taking a huge chunk if it's above the amount that regenerate leaving one more attack killing you. This becomes more of a problem chapter 6 during the abush scene where you and joseph have to escape that building while he picks the locks on doors and you protect him. I repeated that segment more than any part of the game. You are rewarded with the brass knuckles for beating the game which makes melee extremely buffed.

[@titaniumcranium3755]

Silent Hill 3 is definitely one of my favorite horror games. Simplistic yet horrifying, and even if I play on easy and normal, I just like the tanky computer game like controls, which makes the game so scary when trying to run away from enemies

[@jonbourgoin182]

You mean Silent Hill 3 is on this list? Oh wait of course it is because this guy insists on spoiling every single one of his videos by putting the majority of his picks in the thumbnails

[@maheshganta2625]

Yo i think i recommend horror games from Fictional games, especially, amnesia: dark decent, Amneia: bunker and soma. I think you'll love it, especially soma because of its story and atmosphere.

[@Cl_dzieciak]

Pathologic 2 (and other Ice-Pick Lodge games in general) is the kind of game where when you get into it, you get into it hard. Usually in RPGs moral decisions are based on picking between good and bad dialogue options. Meanwhile in this game you are forced by gameplay mechanics to do a lot of questionable stuff which has its reprecautions on the story. You got infected and used a medicine on yourself instead of patient? Tough luck, he dies the next day and you can no longer follow his story and quests. Do you wanna save kids or the high figures from the city that give you essential resources to save the others and not starve to death? No other game created such a grim atmosphere just by gameplay alone, no other has its difficulty connected so much with its story. Each playthrough could be played in different style and have different plot outcomes. Except from Frostpunk maybe (that game is also a golden), its a fantastic example of how survival games with hard moral dilemmas should look.

[@themastersword1621]

The First Evil Within I think I got to Chapter 5 before giving up. I checked online and could not believe there were 15 chapters when each chapter felt hours long.

[@QuestMode]

I can think of few games that deserve a remake more than Eternal Darkness

[@waltuh11121]

I'd replace SH3 with SH4, in SH4 there are way less resources, limited inventory, and the second half of the game everything goes nuts, the safe room is no longer safe, immortal enemies, protecting an NPC...

[@gilah718]

Darkwood.

[@convect9033]

on my first run i dies 142 times in evil within and it's my fav survival horror game

[@civoreb]

Only RE I have not beat is Code Veronica. I played Evil Within 1 on normal and it was hard af. Maybe I sucked at the time but so many deaths 😂

[@rorybell2161]

Nah, there's a stack of things that instakill you in that game

[@itsdemetri4282]

​@@rorybell2161 i beat it on nightmare difficulty it gets worse they spawn in the ruvik clone in early chapters starting at the third one. Grab attacks kill you instantly if your health is just the part that regenerates and you can never break out of them even with max health so you either lose a lot of health or all of it. Ammo is more stingy. It took me over a month to beat that just to get the brass knuckles weapon.

[@rorybell2161]

@@itsdemetri4282 brass knuckles? I think a, replay is in order lol

[@Jackthesnack520]

The horror game of rolling the dice on a fart vs shit while playing a tied team deathmatch game is the most difficult horror game I've ever played. Most of the time I lose

[@nickwoodfin2690]

A really difficult horror game that gets slept on because its a rts horror survival hybrid is Alien's Dark Descent. Definitely one of the most tense games ive played. Darkwood also being an honorable mention

[@lukebrunker264]

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[@antiristiu]

"Sushi" If you haven't tried "Darkest Dungeon", you really owe it to yourself to at least check it out. Admittedly it gets quite grindy, but it's a must play horror game imo(the first one, red hook kinda missed the mark with the second one). Also both "Fear & Hunger" games.

[@shibitoobscura3348]

I'm a horror game collector from the PS1 era to this day, and Forbidden Siren 1 was BY FAR the hardest horror game I've ever played.

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

@@shibitoobscura3348 I really need to try the siren series

[@shibitoobscura3348]

@@TotallyTubularJonathan You definitely do, it's one of the best, richiest and scariest horror game series ever along with Project Zéro and Silent Hill, but the first one is difficult as hell. The second one, the best of the series by far, rebalanced the difficulty and is much more playable and player-friendly, while still being somewhat challenging. I definitely recommand to dive into this criminally underrated trilogy and the extended universe around it (the mangas, the movie adaptation, etc)

[@fudgepopdog3854]

Was gonna say this, comparing bloodborne to dark souls 1 i found it much simpler in a user friendly good way

[@I_Am_The_Social_Reject]

Siren is hard but requires a guide to beat. The puzzles are like legit things you can't figure out normally and the combo of that with extremely difficult stealth made me realize it's not the game for me. Really heartbreaking as I always regretted not beating it but after playing it on PS4 I had to accept it's only for guide users.

[@shibitoobscura3348]

@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject Try the second entry. Believe me, it's much more accessible and player friendly (and à much better game overall). I almost never used à guide to béat it (only one or two times, cause I'm dumb), and the difficulty with the enemies is far more reasonable. You can choose the difficulty level too.

[@antonoakenshield7362]

Has anyone attempted the Insane difficulty in Outlast 2

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

id have to be insane to want to playthrough the game again LOL

[@equanimity92]

For me it has to be Silent Hill 4. Not just hard but also clunky. Which is a shame cos it really has some interesting ideas, great music and an amazing atmosphere, Not to mention it is genuinely creepy.

[@sozaj]

From what I've heard, if you had ever played "Fear & Hunger" it would have been in the upper part of this list.

[@anlraider1954]

id put fear and hunger above bloodborne for sure, one of the most brutal experiences ive had but also a really great game that you will fall in love with if you are crazy enough to try and get all the endings.

[@sozaj]

@@anlraider1954 I really want to try it but I dislike Steam's methods of "ownership". Is there any other place where I can purchase it to support the creator?

[@anlraider1954]

@@sozaj could try gog, not sure if theyre that much better for that, but at least you will have full ownership over games that that you buy there.

[@cameronutt6383]

Dead space 2. The combat got ridiculous toward the end from what I remember.

[@bmac9539]

Ain't no boss as difficult as Laura from Evil Within 😮

[@VarsityAthlete04]

Would love a Silent Hill franchise ranking. 4 is my fav

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

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[@jerrymarlatt6450]

The only form of defense against the alien the flame thrower the more you use it the more resistent he becomes to it. Top tier AI and game.

[@itsdemetri4282]

Weren't there also molotov and pipe bombs in the game too

[@rpgfan1187]

I know it's technically not a horror game (more of a stealth immersive sim), but Thief: Gold (or The Dark Project) has some of the creepiest atmosphere and moments I've experienced in gaming. Missions like Down in the Bonehoard, The Sword, The Haunted Cathedral, and especially Return to the Cathedral are incredibly eerie and have plenty of horror elements. It's also on the tougher end of the spectrum for immersive sims (though still easier than Thief II: The Metal Age). It might be a stretch to count the game as horror, though.

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

Nightmare mode in alien isolation almost broke me

[@cloudlesss]

Personally I’d have Silent Hill 4 on here over 3 simply because of the escalator segment

[@deadundead4810]

Hey tabular you should do a new sniper elite ranking because there making another one

[@333ryan]

the hardest thing about silent hill 3 is the controls

[@shenalrhxc]

Hylics 2 soundtrack in the background!

[@omarargueta2929]

Is funny because I didnt find the evil within 1 that dificult but the evil within 2 I started playing a couple days ago and dropped it after chapter 4 because I rather play ninja gaiden and other games I was playing simultaniously, enemies felt so fast and strong and I couldn be bothered to use stealth every single combat encounter.

[@MODDED7]

Outlast Trials would probably be on my list.

[@jwill7998]

Clock Tower 2 is insanely hard for all the wrong reasons.

[@RadicalSpikee]

Quick question: Would you consider "Gone Home" a horror game? I think it has a lot of characteristics of that genre.

[@Alex-wg7gt]

I had a fatal frame game on the xbox as a teenager and I thought it was really scary haha, but I did not find it interesting so I never got far in it. I have very little experience with survival horror games but I thought silent hill 4 was pretty difficult, but I also found that game scary and I think that played partly into that :p i was a very scared teenager.

[@conor9345]

I played almost all of these Code Veronica is def the hardest and it’s not even close.

[@johnk.2167]

What about re3? Since there's no "normal" difficulty if you play it on hard it's a pretty difficult game. (I think hard is considered normal difficulty since it's just easy and hard)

[@raysugarbelly258]

Code: Veronica was not that bad for me, it had difficult moments (the tyrant on the plane, nosferatu at the heliport, Alexia in the mansion) but if you explore and gather enough ammo it is doable..

[@bobbuilder155]

14 year olds getting torn apart in these games.

[@itsdemetri4282]

I was around that age playing the evil within 1 and alien isolation.

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

Can we get virtual tomatoes to throw for every jackass that copy pastes the obligatory “nuh uh that game isn’t hard, it’s so easy. It’s one of the easiest games I’ve ever played.” One of the most annoying groups in gaming.

[@FelixS.]

Funny, how Forbidden Siren isn´t even on the list and literally makes all the other games here look like childs play.

[@P2-D2]

Now I want sushi.

[@proggz39]

The 10 most games I’ve ever gamed

[@Dan-yk7lp]

I think re1 was the hardest horror game for me

[@KoolAidNarrator]

that how bloodborne is, kinda sucks is on 30 fps but bloodborne is still a masterpiece

[@Mr.Ditkovich.]

Do I have to play the first Fatal Frame before the second one?

[@JosephWalker-ip7pd]

No totally separate stories

[@morkgin2459]

What do you think about Darkwood?

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

I have heard about it but have no experience at this time tbh

[@daraonsharon]

Will you do will first person shooters 😊

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

do what about FPS games?

[@daraonsharon]

@@TotallyTubularJonathan sorry i misspell it i said rank wii Fps games

[@chunnisama6835]

Bloodborne is not hard (Outside the DLC). I played it with my brain turned off and just relied on reflexes and unga bunga. It was the 2nd easiest Fromsoft game for me .The others on the list were more challenging cause I had to use my brain with puzzles and memorization.

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

Here we go. We have another jackass that insists their experience with a game is objectively definitive. Thanks man, I had to go one whole day before seeing another one of these “so and so Isn’t hard. I played with my feet while standing on telephone pole and I didn’t die once.” What a clown

[@whiskeybuddha1995]

By the way you see that thing in the title where it says (that I’ve played)? I doubt it. Please go away, nobody cares what games you think are easy.

[@JosephWalker-ip7pd]

It is one of the easier fromsoft games, but by no means is it easy. Compared to most games on this list, it's more difficult.

[@chunnisama6835]

Nah. Still here. Johnny is just a slow unc so Fromsoft games are too much for him.

[@filipdrabiuk5089]

Bloodborne is not a horror game, in that case you can include ds2 on this list, it was pure horror seeing a game this bad

[@Viiniciws]

It is

[@Fluffychoupikkos]

Eat your sushi bro. So I think for me really the most difficult horror games are the ones where killing everyone isn't the solution (except Bloodborne) maybe because killing stuff is almost all I do in video games. So I guess those were Outlast, RE7, Amnesia 1, Alien Isolation. Bloodborne is really hard but it's a souls game more than anything else imo, thanks ! ❤

[@jonathanhayes221]

Jonathan, we have the same name

[@greatrulo]

Heyo man, wanted to comment that I really enjoy the video, but the generic electric guitar music in the background is super distracting with the topic being about horror games. Maybe use something more in line with the main topic? There's thousands of chill songs from horror games that you could've used.

[@octo190]

You forgot to put timestamps again Now THATS not Totally Tubular Jonathan

[@nitropulsegaming898]

You should understand that Bloodborne is not a horror game per se

[@derekj7468]

goat

[@natertotzop2860]

Visage is unplayable without a walkthrough there is no sense of direction at all and the final puzzle to get the good ending no way in hell anyone could have figured it out on their own, Cry of Fear has a MASSIVE learning curve with the combat and there are tons of enemies with different quirks. On top of that the weapons you get in general are dog shit even when you start getting the shotgun and the assault rifle. Also, the babies fuck my life I hate those little bastards. Hunt Showdown, get all the way to the carriage with the bounty then get merked by people who have 1000+ hours. Dead by Daylight, the knight, nuff said

[@devanloveland9515]

Right. I wanted to like visage, and it seems good, but it's too frustrating and loses all it's sense of horror for frustration.

[@natertotzop2860]

@@devanloveland9515 I completely agree having my phone always open while playing the game got me thinking, "This sucks I hate this I don't wanna have to look at my phone to play this." It just ruined the immersion for me and I got tired of it halfway through the second story I tried the puzzles are really really dumb in my opinion and what sucks is the beginning just hooked me but the execution man oh man this game just does not hit.

[@cybercatgaming6052]

Code Veronica? Really? I guess it is hard, I just remember beating the shit out of it on both Dreamcast and PS2. Renting it for the weekend and slamming through it.

[@Viiniciws]

The game is very unforgiven in some areas. Poison Hunters, you can lost the access to the magnum. You can go to Chris scenario with out any powerful gun. The back tracking is by far the most complex.

[@cybercatgaming6052]

@@Viiniciws I suppose it is hard. I just never saw it, to be honest. Still, one of my favorite RE games other than the stupid ass antagonist

[@Executi0ner246]

Sushi 🍣

[@DemonZell16]

Okay people that say that souls and souls like games aren't hard are lying to you to everyone to make it seem easy cause that's how people are they love to lie but even a season veteran of these games they are hard how do you know they are telling the truth too we can't see them playing the game which makes my point valid so don't listen to them they are lying

[@angelguzman477]

Man it was hard to read this

[@DemonZell16]

​​@@angelguzman477Cool wasn't meant for you why don't you get a life and not worry about my comment

[@DemonZell16]

​@@angelguzman477 cool get a life 😁

[@Jsobone]

It's all subjective, some people have an easier time than others.

[@DemonZell16]

​@Jsobone maybe it could go both ways

[@captainjaber5610]

CV, Alien Isolation and Parhologic 2 are not easy games to play.

[@asada4L]

bro said fatal frame 2 and silent hill 3 were hard

[@mehmetvursavas5922]

Evil within on normal was way harder than every soulsborne i've played

[@bigriz8809]

On god bro

[@soulzor]

Resident Evil 0 is the hardest RE game.

[@halilakgun9984]

Fr

[@WhalesLoveSmash]

Just reminding y'all im a Whale still