9 Scariest Moments In Non-Horror Video Games

1. Man-Bat's First Appearance - Batman: Arkham Knight

WAY more games should make use of open-world spaces for horrifying visuals and jump-scares. The fact that we're exploring a large given space at our own pace frees up all sorts of expectations on when or how a creature, sound effect or whatever else can appear.

Step forward then, Batman: Arkham Knight, a divisive enough game story-wise, that absolutely NAILED its reveal of the fearsome "Man-Bat".

Handled in any other way, the very character of "reverse Batman" would've been a laughing stock. Here though, Man-Bat appears on a rooftop and screams right in your face, after you've manually grappled to a random building's ledge.

Finding out all of Kirk Langstrom's story and how he turned into this creature of the night is some icing on the cake, but the initial "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING OH GOD"-feeling, is the sort of jump-scare dedicated horror games dream of.