10 Video Game Moments So Scary You Stopped Playing

4. Dolores - Visage

SadSquare Studio’s 2020 psychological horror game Dolores is so scary it’s honestly hard to even watch clips of this game if you’re not a horror fanatic. The game is divided into several chapters and perhaps the most mind-breaking and terrifying is called Dolores. You’ll wander through a very spooky house, learn its layout, and see its stories unfold as you go. You have a sanity metre to contend with and paranormal events will occur as you move about the map.

The whole thing is quite honestly a nightmare, and the closest we’ll probably ever get to a full game of Hideo Kojima’s P.T.

Whether it’s creeping dread that gets you, psychological horrors that bury deep inside your brain, or highly effective jump scares, this game has it all. Everything is just a bit too quiet right up until it isn’t to the point where it feels like you’re being toyed with. While every chapter is terrifying in various ways, Dolores delivers a plethora of unexpected scares and an endlessly mounting dread that escalates to the point where you can’t quite take it any more.

Catching horrible things out of the corner of your eye that you can’t totally confirm you saw, hearing indecipherable unsettling things, and trying to press on is a serious exercise in being the baddest, bravest gamer around.

If you’ve found most horror games to be not quite scary enough and you haven’t tried your hand at this one, there’s a chance it’s made for you.