20 Most Intense Video Game Moments Of The Decade

20. Layers Of Fear - Realising The Changes

Layers Of Fear won’t be remembered as one of the best games of the last ten years, but it’s certainly one of the most intense. A first person psychological horror, you play as a painter trudging through your own house, but nothing is quite as it seems.

There’s no real enemy in the game, although you always feel like there’s something lurking behind you, just out of sight. That doesn’t stop the game from being absolutely terrifying though.

If you go in blind, there’s a particularly intense moment which will give you chills right off the bat. As you figure out exactly what it wants you to do, you venture through a door. There’s nothing of interest in this room, so you go back into the corridor you’ve just been in... and it’s completely different.

With your protagonist unhinged, you’re never quite sure of reality. The house changes around you, so it’s impossible to know where you are or ever retrace your steps.

Other house walk simulators like Gone Home rely on red herrings, misunderstandings or creepy scenarios for a scare, but Layers Of Fear just tricks your brain into eating itself.