6 Terrifying Moments In Non-Horror Video Games

Fable II caught a lot of people by surprise with this one scene.

True to its name, the atmosphere in Fable feels quite magical, as if you're living your own fairy tale while you're immersed within its world. This is also the reason why Fable received quite a lot of commendations, rewards, and sky-high ratings. But if you're here expecting a Disney-esque fairy tale from top to bottom, the game's got a fairly straightforward way to subvert your expectation with the Winter Lodge.

To access the Winter Lodge, you must first complete the challenge set out by the Bloodstone Demon Door, who proclaimed itself to have been a musician in the past. You must play perfectly on the flute for it to open and reveal the treasures behind for you.

Once you've played a song to its liking, it will allow you passage into an idyllic winter wonderland beyond: The thick snow on the ground looks inviting, warm lamp posts lighting the small pathway toward a winter lodge where wanderers can take a short rest from the cold. You, just like anyone who has come this far, would eagerly approach the lodge for your just rewards after completing the puzzle set by the door.

The thing is that the scene will change the instant you step through the door.

The lodge will transform from warm and inviting into a cold and desolate place with bodies and skeletons littering the place, blood smeared all throughout the floors. When you run outside, the lamp posts will be broken and bent. Upon the pines hang human limbs, sacks of flesh and entrails thrown over the branches.

But hey, in return for a dose of cold horror, you get a pretty sick new sword in a treasure chest in the attic.