10 Horror Video Game Moments That Will Scar You For Life

The whole Dead Space franchise is full of pant-crapping moments, but you'd be right to take a look at this Dead Space 2 entry in particular and cry out: "what about the NoonTech Diagnostic Machine!?" To that, dear reader, I say we are all absolutely traumatised to the point of oversaturation with that particularly nasty scene. I posit there's an earlier one that has just as much potential to stick with you.

Upon Isaac passing the Sprawl's elementary school, he peers in through a window as a woman coos to a baby worming its way across the floor. This is clearly no normal child - in fact, it's a crawler - that works its way into the mother's arms before exploding upon impact as she fawns over its presence.

The window is smeared in goopy viscera, and we're left considering quite what a mother's love is worth in this hellhole of a future.