10 Video Game Areas That Scarred You For Life
7. Baldi's Schoolhouse - Baldi's Basics In Education And Learning
When you first begin playing Baldi's Basics, the whole thing seems like a bit of a joke - a weirdly rendered, strangely styled joke, intended to weird you out but maybe give you a chuckle.
In actual fact, the game ends up being one of the more surreal horrors you'll likely have ever played, taking things that by all means shouldn't intimidate you and making them deeply, deeply unsettling.
Take, for example, the schoolhouse this all takes place in. While it initially appears like a regular school, it increasingly grows strange and jarring, especially after you gain all the notebooks. But it's a weird kind of horror, without any blood or monsters, that leaves you twice as creeped out because by all means it shouldn't be having the effect on you it is.
Baldi's Basics is somewhere between the silliest game you'll ever play, and the one most likely to give you a phobia of ever doing maths problems again - especially if you find the human person who's trapped in the game.