10 Video Games Way Freakier Than You Thought

The original Tomb Raider is a really interesting example, because while it was largely built up to be a breezy, Indiana Jones-esque action-adventure game with light puzzling, platforming, and combat, much like the Indiana Jones movies it was also unexpectedly creepy as hell.

For starters, many of the levels generate an immediately eerie vibe by featuring only minimal background music, not to ignore the fact that you're often facing off against terrifying, gigantic animals - a T-rex even - which attacks seemingly out of nowhere.

But this is all perfectly manageable compared to the final Atlantis sections of the game, where you end up facing off against a host of inside-out abominations like the legless, gigantic mutant Atlantean.

If you played the first Tomb Raider as a youngster expecting a fun globetrotting adventure game, you got something far more terrifying, and not a single solitary soul saw it coming, least of all your parents.