10 Unbelievably Scary Video Game Locations Discovered By Hackers

10. Silent Hill - P.T.

P.T. remains one of the most talked-about video games of the last decade, originally intended to serve as a prelude to Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro's Silent Hills as it was.

Enthusiasts have spent years tinkering around with P.T., and back in 2019 YouTuber Lance McDonald modded the game so that he could explore the exterior world of Silent Hill briefly glimpsed in P.T.'s in-engine final cutscene.

Because the game was coded to trigger a Game Over sequence if you managed to glitch outside the central haunted house location, McDonald had to elevate the player slightly off the ground to make exploration possible.

The results are terrifying and add further fuel to the fire that Silent Hills would've been a masterpiece of atmospheric game design.

Though the environments are obviously incomplete given that we weren't ever supposed to see them in detail, the lighting effects in particular paint an oppressively bleak vibe that improbably makes P.T. even scarier than it already is.