10 Video Games That Were Secretly Horror Franchises

The sentence "Cookie Clicker is actually really creepy at points" is so ridiculous sounding that it's clear the main reason people avoid talking about it is because they don't want to physically have to say these words and mean them.

Although it sounds completely silly, though, it is true. The game starts out as just another "click to win" idling game, it slowly but surely gets way weirder. Turns out the lovely grannies you've been recruiting to help make cookies are actually ancient evil horrors, and if you don't help stop them, they will destroy the world - and your baked goods empire.

The graphics turn to twisted, creepy expressions of the safe familiar game you once knew, and at one point Santa can show up looking like he decided to fuse with a Christmas tree and approximately three of your worst childhoods nightmares.

So it might not be the relaxing time-waster you were expecting, in short.