10 MORE Scariest Levels In Non-Horror Video Games

6. Ocean House Hotel - Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

It’s hard to be scared of anything when you’re a sexy vampire. That’s just science.

No matter how grim the setting, being a sexy vampire is just rad, and due respect to Blade and Buffy, nobody’s nailed that quite like 2004’s “Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines.” It’s the incarnation of the pre-Twilight “I am a vampire; I brood and dance to gothwave in malevolent fashion” idiom.

It wasn’t, however, particularly scary. It had moments: the organ harvesting operation and the Tzimisce encounter both bring the body horror and the Alaistair Grout house was a righteous mindscrew topped with a frightening (and frustrating) boss. Those asides aside, the game mostly stuck by its YA urban fantasy vibe, empowering the player to handle its horrors without mussing their immaculate Hot Topic duds.

Not in the Ocean House Hotel. Here are neither mooks to murder nor NPCs to seduce, just a raging poltergeist wielding the house itself as a weapon. The only way out is through, delving heartbreaking horror at the Hotel’s heart. The climax implicates the protagonist in the horror, forcing an end that, while still subject to player choice, makes them part of the hotel’s chilling story.