It’s that violent suddenness of Laura’s arrival that makes this moment so memorable.
The Evil Within is a generally creepy game, but nothing in the title’s earlier moments quite prepares you for the horror of running into “Laura:” a spider-like creature with a human face who emerges from the floor like she was shot from a gore-filled cannon. It’s a brilliant example of the many ways simply wandering around Fallout 3’s Capital Wasteland feels so intimidating.
Whether you’re unfortunate enough to stumble into this place organically or you see it taunting you on the map after walking a bit too close to it, few open-world locations in gaming history loom quite as large as this one. An entire part of the map filled with Deathclaws has to be one of the biggest “nopes” in video game history. Discovering Deathclaw Sanctuary – Fallout 3įallout 3 is filled with genuinely terrifying moments, but few compare to discovering the Deathclaw Sanctuary. If you make the mistake of trying to help her, she’ll attack you and summon a group of zombie-like hillbillies known simply as the “Night Folk.” Wander around Red Dead Redemption 2’s swamps around 2:00 am, and you may stumble upon a woman crying next to a fire. Horror gaming has always been elevated by the fact that you’re the one who has to navigate these nightmare scenarios, and that already intimidating arrangement tends to backfire on you whenever you encounter these shocking scenes that force you to ask whether you’re really brave enough to press on.įrom swamp folk to needles in the eye, these are the scariest moments in horror gaming history. Well, few horror moments are more memorable than the scariest sequences in gaming history. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we often come to associate those genre masterpieces with that one scene. There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre.
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