8 Awesome Video Game Moments That Happen When You're NOT Playing

Thanks to horror video games and their insistence to never let us sleep again, The Pause Screen might well become something of a savior of your sanity from time to time.

The ability to pause just when a horrifying new enemy shows up, giving you time to scream, settle and steel your nerves can truly help in a pinch, but of course, seeing as this is a genre that looks to remove any and all safety nets possible, even the moments of respite like this can be turned against you.

From SCP Containment Breach calling you a coward for pausing, and even unhelpfully unpausing the game for you, to other titles that mock your attempt to escape, taking a break can sometimes lead to even more unpleasant images, which is a gimmick the Fatal Frame series has run away with.

Across all of the games in the franchise, if you are to leave the game alone for a few moments, creepy images and sounds will start to infect the screen.

In the original, the screen would become covered in bloody handprints, in the sequel, images of a creepy face, and worst of all, in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, you'd not only see a horrifying face staring at you, but the game's image would distort in disturbing ways.

Cheers for that, I didn't need to sleep anyway.