I’m after game recommendations.

My situation, I used to enjoy gaming but stopped maybe twenty years ago when my PS2 died and I moved abroad. Until last year when I got a steam deck and I’ve been catching up on the good stuff I’ve missed. Played bioshock (great!) and soma (decent), I’m playing prey (think I’m nearly finished, just got to the military operators) and resident evil 7 (just got away from that nasty bint Margheritte).

Most of y wishlist had come from stuff I’ve read on here, so I thought I’d ask - what next?

Back in the day I really enjoyed silent hill (can’t remember which one, would have been early 2000s, the one with the school and hospital). I’m enjoying resident evil 7 - haven’t played any of the others - and I like the atmosphere but most of the scares seem to be jump scares.

Jump scares can be good but I kinda feel like they’re a cheap scare. I’m looking for something more fundamentally upsetting.

No idea why, I can’t watch horror films, I get too frightened! But this seems to be a game genre I enjoy. Any suggestions?

  • Hasherm0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s pretty different from the other games listed so far, but I’ll toss it a recommendation for Oxenfree. At least for me, that game did oppressive creepy atmosphere better than just about any other I’ve played. When it first came out we were dealing with a massive heatwave and I would be shivering while playing it in a 100f+ apartment.

    An older one I always really like as well was the very first F.E.A.R. game.