20 Scariest Video Games Of All-Time

7. F.E.A.R.

If you're going to call your game "F.E.A.R.", you damn well better deliver on the promise of such a title. Thankfully, this title from 2005 succeeded in what it set out to do... and then some. F.E.A.R. saw players assuming the role of a member of the "First Encounter Assault Recon," sent into action to stop a team of psychic soldiers who are causing havoc.

Thankfully, your character possesses a few supernatural powers of his own, marking this out as a wholly original game that exists primarily to make you want to hide in a closet. The fear factor associated with F.E.A.R. stemmed from the character known as "Alma," who - for all intents and purposes - took the form of a little girl. Who knows why little girls are so scary?

Has it ever been worked out, what, exactly, makes them so terrifying? Still, whenever she appeared (and she did so at very brief intervals - sometimes so briefly that you weren't even sure she had done) the game became really, really creepy. So much so, in fact, that it made you so paranoid it was actually hard to concentrate on shooting stuff.