20 Scariest Video Games Of All-Time

9. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Designed as a way of drawing more "adult-orientated gamers" to the GameCube, Nintendo published their first R-Rated game - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - as a competitor to the likes of Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

A psychological horror game in every capacity, Eternal Darkness offered a story set across 12 different time periods, as players were forced to try and keep their "sanity meter" up before it was too late and they went totally and utterly insane (the more insane you went, the more slanted the camera would become). Eternal Darkness also happened to be brilliantly meta, in that the game would often fake memory card errors or mess with the volume settings in order to trick the player into thinking they really were going crazy.

Eternal Darkness might've dated a little more than some of the entries on this list, but it was a bold and daring game that managed to be clever and scary all at once; there are likely very few who sat down to this and found themselves unscarred by at least one of its 12 demented stories.