13 Severely Underrated Horror Games You Must Play For Halloween

3. Eternal Darkness

There's a reason so many gamers rave about Eternal Darkness: everything you've heard about this game is true - it's brilliant, it's unrelentingly terrifying and it'll have you questioning your sanity every minute of your playthrough. Spanning several eras and locations, Eternal Darkness grabs you by the gullet and doesn't let go. But where other horror titles are content to simply pile on the blood and guts and call it a night, Eternal Darkness goes a step further - the game's sanity meter fosters an atmosphere of perpetual paranoia, and smashes through the fourth wall by utilizing an array of hallucinatory effects such as: simulated system crashes, randomly exploding body parts (try staying calm when your noggin bursts like the dude's head from Scanners) and data corruption. Can you remember the last game that punctured the fourth wall effectively enough to have you jumping at shadows? That's not an easy thing to pull off.