10 Terrifying Video Games Where You Can't Fight Back

10. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009)

Silent Hill may have lost its muster in its waning years with later entries making players too powerful and losing its inventiveness, but the Wii gave fans one last taste of just how strong the series can be with one of the franchises most overlooked gems.

Shattered Memories is a reimagining of the first game in the series, and it shakes up the formula through its innovative use of motion controls. It allows players to really feel the actions their character Harry Mason performs, and this includes shaking an otherworldly horror that has latched onto your back.

The atmosphere is also the demented, dark Silent Hill experience fans have come to enjoy with the soundtrack particularly good at getting under your skin.

Previous entries contained combat that was appropriately ineffective to heighten the scares, but here combat is stripped completely. This makes the sequences where the player enters an icy dimension filled with monsters all the more frightening as you can only run, hide and block their path for temporary relief from their clutches.

It contains some psychological elements that divided opinion, but there's no denying that when you are spotted by a disturbing creature in a realm your not welcome in, waggling yourself to freedom is a scary rush.