10 Scariest Hidden Encounters In Open World Games

Metro is a fantastic series of games, loosely based on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky about a post-nuclear war Eastern Europe and its inhabitants.

The first two games take place almost entirely within the Metro Underground - a series of subway tunnels and stations linked together under what little remains of the capital city, Moscow. Exodus eschews away from this setting to go to the irradiated surface. One of the surface levels is a village on the Volga River.

And that is where we meet our new friend - a term I use very loosely here - the Tsar Fish, also called the Water Tsar. Lore in the game suggests it is a giant, mutated catfish - though it also has several reptilian and amphibian features. Have you ever played a game where the regular enemies are scarier than the boss enemy? Because the Tsar Fish, the closest thing to a 'boss' the level has is kinda scary.

But the Tsar Fish avoids the mutated shrimp. That's because it's smarter than you. As Artyom you find yourself on a boat, paddling around the Volga, only to be upended by these mutant shrimp who are almost totally immune to bullets and will totally eat you.

It never stops being scary, no matter how many times they flip your boat - which they can, and will, do more than once.