Horror Games
Images are sometimes not shown due to bandwidth/network limitations. Refreshing the page usually helps.
You are currently reading a thread in /v/ - Video Games
You are currently reading a thread in /v/ - Video Games
Give me all your horror game ideas, /v/
I want to hear them.
>>342143636
You are trapped in an underwater facility the goal is to escape.
The only enemy is the slowly but steadily rising water level which as it gets higher and higher affects your movement.
REMOVE:
no stealth horror
no invincible enemy that stalks you throughout the game
IDEA:
>a survival-horror game where you just go through mundane life. having a family. going to work. jump scares would be banal things that horrify you in their everyday-ness.
>>342144016
You want to talk anon?
>>342144016
>Open the fridge
>Sudden loud noise
>The Milk has gone bad
>>342144163
I'm fuckkin spooked
>>342143916
Tense but not scary
>>342146526
Poor guy.
>>342143636
A simulated web browsing game focusing on a simulated anonymous message board populated by bots. They mostly ignore you and talk amongst themselves, posting links to in game shock sites and horror stories
The end
>>342143636
I'm more of a psychological horror kind of guy, like Silent Hill
>first or third person
>the most unbearably tense atmosphere
>maybe some monsters
>combat is slow and sluggish, your character fearfully hits monsters with either bare hands or pipes etc.
>every kill lowers your sanity, and makes you reckless in the story
>every kill gets more and more brutal
>choose between killing monsters or escaping/stealth
>no good ending because fuck you
Fuck yeah, Ito thread
rev up those shit endings
>>342146353
And there's a skeleton there with you who mimics your every movement!it's YOUR SKELETON!
If you opened this image you are haunted by the evil Ito Spirit of the Mountains UNLESS you dump a full Ito chapter
>>342146892
what
>>342147392
It's Ito.
Don't question it.
>>342147247
>>342147583
I have read some of his work, but this last one really left me wondering, how the fuck do you get under the pole of a fucking house
Survival horror, sentenced to a year in prison can you make it out with your cherry intact
>>342147619
Sorry but kitty doesn't work on ito.
>>342147769
It's a metaphor.
He died "supporting" his house.
It's about Japanese men working themselves to death supporting their families.
>>342143636
>Distant future
>Some diver or some shit in a high-tech diving suit
>On a diving run looking for something
>Line gets fucked or some other shit
>You get dragged off into the abyss
>Have to roam about the deepest parts of the world's oceans alone with no weapons
>Have to avoid and hide from horrifying sea creatures, some of which are enormous
>They are attracted to your light source so you must turn it off to avoid being seen
>Objective is to make it to an underwater research facility
>>342144163
>do an order of pizza for dinner
>the pizza is agressive
im a spooky noob, but what is the spookiest vidya that has come out? Ill be playing SIlent Hill, Parasite Eve, Amnesia, Fear, etc.
What should i play?
>>342144163
>writing on a post-it note at work
>*SNAP*
>the pencil lead breaks
>>342144163
>come home
>wife's cucking you on the couch
*Scream loudly*
>>342144016
>enjoying a nice afternoon of fapping and shitposting
>*KNOCK KNOCK*
>"And this is our son's room....."
>>342147769
>I have read some of his work, but this last one really left me wondering, how the fuck do you get under the pole of a fucking house
It's a criticism of Japanese society. This along with The Enigma of Amigara Fault were both stories criticizing Japanese society that were published at the end of Gyo.
Basically the post is about how Japanese men work themselves to death to support a household.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault is about how Japanese people feel compelled to go into a life that someone else determined for them and how it twists them and tortures them into something that they can't even recognize as themselves anymore.
The holes in the cliff face terrify the people, yet they can't avoid the compulsion of climbing into them.
>>342144016
>>a survival-horror game where you just go through mundane life. having a family. going to work. jump scares would be banal things that horrify you in their everyday-ness.
>Yoshikage Kira Simulator
A game in which you are a grave digger who has to dig graves at night In preperation for the next days funeral services. You would need a variety of diffrent tools to do your job when it came to preping the graves such as shears to clip tree roots, pickaxe to split and clear rocks, a wheel barrow to haul away loose dirt, flood light to illuminate you work area, a generator and fuel needed to power the lights, a head lamp that needs it's batteries changed from time to time.
You have a quota each night of how many graves you have to dig and in what areas of the cemetary. For the first few night of work everything would be more or less an intro to how things are done and the grading system based on the quality of grave dug and how well cleared the sight was of debris. All of this is loosely timed as you need to meet your quota before sunrise.
Eventual you start to hallucinate. You go to clip a thick cluster of roots and when you do they turn into limbs that cut with a sickening crunch and splatter of blood but not even a second later they're back to being roots.
You generator for your flood lights is running out of gas so you go to refill it and instead of pouring gas it's thick blood but it quickly changes back.
You go to break a rock and it turns into a human face in which your pick axe can dynamic enter the skull depend on how you had swug at it sending gore every which way. But then it's just a split rock.
As your digging you uncover what appears to be a skeleton but it's really just roots.
Etc
Cont.
Later on the quota grows and you come to realize that you can no longer use the flood light and generator as their setup and maitinence cuts into your time too much. So you are left to to using the dinky head lamp. Which before it goes out dims and then starts flickering. You only have a limited number of replacement batteries and unless you wanna work in the dark (nearly impossible and when the really freaky shit starts)
You can't spam battery replacment.
When this starts as your light dims you will ocassionaly here whimpering and frantic whispering but not always. (the game will be silent in regards to any music, with only ambient noise of the area around you, your actions, the wind, etc. The use of silence as a true horror enuducer will be key. You will stop hearing wind rustling in the trees or cars on a near by road while digging out a grave but other sounds will still remain. This will be dynamic in the spirit of replay ability.
As your light dims you might be shoveling dirt out of the hole, look up to toss it out and see an outline of a person hanging from a noose in a tree (your light will flicker and when it comes back the silhouette will be gone)
Towards the end of your sanity you will be digging and clods of dirt will be pushed back into the hole and you will go to toss them out only to realize nothing is on your shovel.
You will hear things moving outside your hole some moving quickly others very slowly, if you look nothing will be there.
As time goes on the previous illusion you first saw (the limb you cut, the skull you pickaxed) will persist longer. The head might come of and stick onto the pickaxe after you hit it. The limbs might twitch when cut.
Cont.2
>>342149586
>A game in which you are a grave digger
>grave digger
>GRAVE DIGGER
On the final night there will be a storm and the rain will come down hard covering up to your knees as you dig the illusions will permeate as you look away. You might find one arm look away and there will be another at a diffrent angel jutting into your hole. Thunder storm raging about in what was once a very quite game. As you try to cut away and throw limbs out of the hole more will just appear floating in the water at your feet mixed in with body chunks. When finally you go to get out of the hole you will not be able to move your feet. The water will have risen another few inches and you will be able to splash it about with your tools (doing so at the right angle around your feet will reveal a multitude of hand below the water line holding your legs in place)
The storm get insane loud and the water will be comming down really hard and filling the hole. When you inevitably start hack at the hands holding you dirt from the walls of your hole will start to cave in around you water rising all the while. Enough dirt caves in hands and faces protrude from the dirt walls all in various states of decomposition. If you swing at them you will be able to beat them away and hack them apart before finally they will grab your tool and you pulling you close to them. If in these last moment you turn about you will see cascades of dirt and body parts and heaps of flesh filling your hole in a gore mud slide.
You will die in this hole.
It will cut to a news report on TV about the death of a grave digger (you) who had dug himself into a mass grave. Only to die when run off water pushed his dirt pile in on him smothering him. No info will be given as to why a mass grave was there.
End
you walk round an empty house the inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared
then nothing happens and you looks at some random shit and find out you're a lesbian
oh wait that's gone home didn't see the game bit
>Hey /v/ I'm making a game, give me all your ideas for free
Nice try OP you'll have to pay me first
>>342149429
>>342148018
the metaphor was the first thing that came to my mind, but it seemed too simple yet it made sense, so I was thinking in a more textual development. Guess it was just that, thanks anons.
>>342150071
put the idea in spoilers so no one can see
>>342148420
start with amnesia if you're completely new to spooky vidya
Someone posts the holes one.
who /giantpussy/ here?
even this thread is making me sweat
>Ito thread
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG
>>342150316
Ok I will
>>342150795
Aw yeah.
>>342150769
Jesus Christ dude, spoiler that shit.
>>342146526
>>342146650
>>342146786
>>342146892
I am convinced Junji Ito makes up these stories while he's baked.
>>342149875
It's a cool concept but I'm not seeing much of actual gameplay. The idea of you being a grave digger, slowly losing his mind could work though, even if you went with a Visceral Detail Cleanup sort of game. Doing the same task over and over again as things slowly change.
>>342150956
Sorry.
>>342149461
>the goal if the game: having a quiet life
>>342143916
woah
>>342150917
I think I'll delete this doujin from my computer. I masturbate to a lot of shit (and masturbated my fair share to this one, too) but this one is by far the only thing that actually makes me uncomfortable. Even having it on my harddrive is making me uncomfortable.
>>342149461
>Your fingernails grow too fast
>>342144016
This is actually an incredible idea. A good way to add meaningful gameplay instead of it just being a walking simulator would be having a "stress" meter that makes it harder and harder to complete your everyday tasks (naturally causing more "horrifying" jump scare events) like >>342144163
I would really fucking play that.
>>342151082
Very much visceral cleanup duty style work the gameplay comes from more of a race against the clock in the later days combo'd with the amount of freaky shit you come across. But unlike VCD this would have to be very high fidelity In teem of the dirt digging aspect and over all texture quality
>>342150368
>>342146892
>how did this happen
>dunno
great writing Ito
>>342152105
The post you were replying to mentioned "giantpussy"; lacking context, I expected a gentle giantess with a puffy vulva, only to get this hideous monstrosity. Came buckets, thanks.
>>342152105
OH SHIT NIGGA WHAT R U DOIN !
>>342152105
aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>342151958
Do you have any game dev skills? Or are you just an idea guy?
>>342144016
That sounds incredibly fucking boring.
>>342143636
Somebody start dumping some Ito stories. That's the only thing these threads are good for.
>>342152474
Idea guy, but the issue I have is understanding the level of quality I'm asking for rivals that of a lot of triple As in order to pull off with the feel I have in mind. Not to mention it would not have a in regards of profit as it would likely be PC only very cult following, in which the small company that makes to goes bankrupt due to the assets invested and the minimal return.
>>342151372
>get disgusted with myself after fapping
>proceed to delete a handful of disgusting shit from my hard drive
>proceed to save that shit again when fapping again
My mind and my dick are constantly fighting for the degeneracy that dwells within me
Who played The House ? I think it was a good horror game with a nice story I hope they make a third one
>>342152908
I feel guilt for nothing but this particular doujin. If I can get myself to delete it I'll never ever search for it again.
Which is more important for horror, visuals or sound?
>>342143636
Cross-country roadtrip. Game takes place in night vignettes. Spooky abandoned gas stations and wilderness. Slight procedural generation in that different areas would have different beasties or threats.
>>342143636
Free-roam Five Nights at Freddy's-esque defense game. You're in a house at night, can peek out windows, turn on generator lights to shine on the driveway / front yard / front door
As the night goes on, the things will start to get into your house and you'll be forced to use less of the house and lock yourself deeper inside.
Don't peek out the curtain if you know something is right behind it.
>>342143636
I've yet to see a good driving based horror game now that I think about it.
>>342152906
If you managed to rally a few developers, even small-time ones, to help, you could make it work. If you had a specific art style and not just realism you could achieve a good level of dirt detail and not look out of place.
>>342153449
you're right actually
could have to stop for fuel and repairs while whatever your driving away from catches up on you
>>342153169
There was some kickstarter game that you just reminded me off. You were hitching a ride from strangers and you had to make sure you weren't killed. There was only one character, if I'm not mistaken, have to look it up.
>>342153162
I would argue sound. If you see a scary thing it might startle you but that's all. Sound alone can make a seemingly safe space feel scary.
>>342153376
something like this?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/446910/
I have a soft spot for shitty unity horror games
>>342152160
the father said it was a long story
>>342153376
this would be awesome
>>342148287
Actually good
>>342148420
>>342150289
No
Start with a classic before you move onto new, sophisticated graphics and mechanics.
SH2 is top tier.
>each episode is a different horrifying short story with different characters, gameplay and art style, each lasting about 1 hour
>at the very end of the final short story the game suddenly switches to a person listening to the end of the story, tied to a chair
>he has been captured by the "short-story killer", a lunatic who tortures his victims while recalling creepy tales
>the player must escape using hints hidden in each of the short stories to solve the puzzles/situations he faces while escaping
>>342149875
I hate to be that guy, but as someone who spent time as a grave digger this shit is redundant. Dig that shit during the daytime, not like anyone who comes to the cemetery isn't going to be like "yeah that's his job let him do it."
Also, not having a backhoe indicates that you're in a shitty rural cemetery with low funding so your quota would probably be like one grave a month.
I guess if you don't care about immersion then you're fine as I'd, but right now that shit isn't fooling anyone. Good try though.
>>342155939
As is*
>>342155241
I'd like that. It would also be cool that since you're just hearing them as stories, it could be the same characters in different situations. Like having the same "actors" playing different roles in each story. Potentially playing with your expectations based on each character's previous "roles"
post spooky shit
>>342155939
Not the original poster, but it mentioned that at the end it mentioned there was no explanation for all the graves. I figured that meant his quota was all in his head as well
Idea2: VR GAME
You are a world war 3 medic. The game consists of a far more realistic surgeon simulator but with more inutive controls and physics using the touch controls and devices most VR gear setups are showing off these days. You work with fellow medics assisting you at times but for the most part solo. The story is rich and you come to meet and know all of the people in your squad well before any real shit goes down.
Mechanics involved, such as cutting or tearing away gear of wounded to better get at the wound. Subduing the wounded so you can work on the whether by administering drugs or holding them down / getting squad mates to help hold them still too even yelling at them to stop moving via your mic. You may have to preform minor field surgeries to remove bullets, pinch arteies, extract shrapnel, amputate appendages and limbs etc, apply simple bandages treat burns, transport wounded, insert IV's, preform compressions, apply splints and neckbraces whipping away blood with guas to see what you are working on and so on.
First patients will be wounded from another squad you meet up with. So it doesn't feel too personal when you inevitably loose them as its your first time. It will be made personal when one of the medics assisting you turns on you shoving you and throwing his helmet at you sobbing about how he saw what you were doing and you could have done more, before his squad mates pull him off you. You quickly the man you failed to save in the tutorial was that guys brother.
You will treat a lot of people some if your own squad. Some wounds will be simple others will be very complex you Wil largely be guided by a junior medic who constantly is remarking about "how the fuck did you pass medic training" and similar banter.
Eventually you will be treating your squad mate more and more, how well you do and whether or not you save them affects the outcome of the story.
Cont.
>>342146892
The man died supporting the house.
It's actually brilliant.
My life.
>>342156732
What the fuck is local 58?
You wake up in a house unfamiliar to you. You find a VHS tape that shows a Filmteam visit the house and one of the guys, lets call him Andre disappears and you cant follow him because of hillybilly magic. So you wander around the house endlessly, trying to get out of it alive, but a hillybilly zombie father always welcomes you to the family, because you are his wife's son.
Field medic cont.
Some wounds will not be treatable (direct head wounds, legs blown off at the belly button, arm up to and including shoulder blown off) but you will just have to do the best you can. Each wound can be treated diffrently while others have false options that only lead to the death of the patient. As more people die under your care your squads dialogue and tone will change when talking to you, you once almost enthusiastic junior medic will feed you instructions bitterly and with a tone of frustration.
The only fighting you do will result in the wounding of civilians and or your squadmates depending upon how you dealt with previous situations. Depending upon how you shot them you will have to patch them up, put two to thier head? Guess what they died.
What's so scary about it? The horrors of war. The intesity of the atmosphere the high stakes pressure. The gutteral screams for mothers as blood fills air ways with arms out stretched; one arm with a compound fracture missing fingers the other torn off but hanging by a thread of flesh bone protruding from the stump blood gushing.
End?
>>342156607
>Like having the same "actors" playing different roles in each story. Potentially playing with your expectations based on each character's previous "roles"
Go watch American Horror Story
>>342156732
I don't get it.
I feel like the best horror is voyeur horror. Like you're looking in at something awful but it's every day for people. Like the game opens up and it's a phone screen. Get an email, or text from a friend saying do this shit, come on. You download the app. You get on see a black login screen and use his login.
I guess webcams of serial murders and stuff but you get to choose how they hunt and kill other people. Give the victims a chance to get away without drawing attention to yourself. Draw too much attention and the next time you log in the webcam shows your front step. What you select to get away, he does the opposite and kills you dead.
>>342156732
fuck, man, that was tense.
do you have any other of the videos from the last thread?
>>342149429
>that Enigma analysis
Holy shit, how did I not realize this before?
>>342157313
got the full thing here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_HKzo9Ync
also this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0I-iA5lJU
>>342157624
thanks a lot, Anon!
>>342152105
bastard
got so spooked I had to turn on the lights
why did i even click that
>>342152105
What is this from?
>>342152105
She look like she about to give a real toothy blow.
>>342149875
I like it, could be a VR title!
>>342157207
Well yeah. But I'd prefer the story not be as shit
>>342154702
>playing SH2 before playing SH1
bruh...
>>342147797
Prison game could be seriously interesting.
I like the idea of I am a Hero: a zombie apocalypse where MC is batshit insane to begin with on top of being infected resulting in a lot of hilarious shit.
>Create your character male or female
>only thing you cant customize is skin color
>spawn in black neighborhood.
>the gender you choose equals the difficulty of the game: Male=Normal, Girl=Nightmare mode.
>survive
>>342158696
Survive unsodimized.
>>342158828
Yeah, id add in mini games kind of like assassins creed blend mechanic. Except the blacks can sniff you out, and the only safe place would be near a group of cops chattering.
>>342155939
The real back story would be quasi world war three but it's over and done before much happens but the loosing country to start the war used bio weapons over pretty much the entire planet. The limbs and what not would all have sores on them and the TV reporter would have very faint scars hidden mostly by makeup in the same fashion as those on the bodies this is more or less for the fan base to connect the dots on.
Also most grave digging is done in atleast small groups no? Another audity is this guy is solo digging. Not to mention the lack of any interaction with any sort of managment. Just a pocket book with a list. He is crazy. Each graves assignment log will list waaay too munch info about the person and what area they might to have wanted to be buried in.
This because he's digging graves for people he knew and is digging them more or less illegally on the cemetary property.
>>342152105
I opened the image only to see a sliver of the top. After that, I knew not to progress any further.
>>342149429
Yeah but how did post?
>>342157871
forgot to post this one, if you're still looking for these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CvjdbQ29qU
someone start a dump
>>342143636
A game that physically binds you to your chair and won't let go until you 100% every Assassin's Creed game.
can some one post a link to those spooky boogy comics with the iffy endings please?
>>342160379
Slenderman warnings are always so helpful.
The protagonist has a shitload of mental issues and needs his meds regularly to keep their shit together. Obviously, meds aren't available so you end up with severe symptoms which turn your life into a living hell. Add in some paranormal mindfuck and player has good time deciding whether the bogeymen are real or "real". Additionally, player's inner voices could randomly give them instructions and advices, half of which help them while rest lead them straight towards their doom.
>>342149586
>>342149731
>>342149875
the concept is very nice, (especially the muting outside noises when digging the graves, that's downright brilliant)
However, I don't think besides the atmosphere itself that it's very scary, blood, gore and dead bodies aren't really scary. What's scary is something alive that could very well hurt you.
If you had to dig graves while you had the sense that something was off in the distance constantly watching you and on occasion showing itself more, it'd be fucking scary
>digging a grave
>it's really deep, so your head is below ground level
>hear a strange noise
>look up
>monstrous entity leaning over into grave
>disappears after like 2-3 seconds with a flash of lighting, just long enough for the player to get a good look and to absolute shit their pants
>>342160630
I'd sooner starve to death.
>>342150795
stop this
>>342150795
What is it?
>>342164315
you don't wanna know
>>342164315
No anon delete this post don't be curious I'm serious
>>342153162
visuals only matter for monster design, something most games severely lack.
Sound is a very important aspect overlooked in most games and is hands down the most important aspect of design in a horror game.
Sound itself is excellent at setting a mood, with certain musics and sounds being able to draw out certain emotions alone.
With the right choice of sound you can turn a comfy, cute little area into something that just feels off in the worst way and keeps you tense.
It can turn a decrepit sewer into a rather happy place.
>>342155241
So V/H/S the game? Could be neat
>>342164362
>>342164475
You guys are making it sound like it's Shindol tier
>>342162943
I was thinking about something but over all.i was looking to break the stereotypical monster kill person jump scare stuff and for a more psychological thriller type vibe. The steady decent into insanity vs the waking nightmare.
>>342164562
It's just disgusting
The girl scratches her leg and pimples start growing and oozing all over her leg and ass and they open up into gaping holes
Or something like that
>>342164963
Fuckin japs.
>>342164954
The entity doesn't necessarily have to kill you, it just has to be present for it's affect to freak the fuck out of people and to really put them on edge so that as they dig the graves their constantly checking their surroundings, tense that the entity will reappear
Descents into madness are great, but the way you would intend to go down it just isn't scary and honestly playing through your game would leave you with a serious case of blue balls to be immersed in such a spooky atmosphere the entire time for it to only pay off with some moving limbs. You'd really just end up with that "That's it?" feeling
>>342164963
just saw it on imgur. What the fuck is this
>>342165517
Hmmmm good point, didn't look at it that way. Will revise.
>>342157115
Throw a finger in there and you're on to something
>>342164562
Look up "Mai-chan no Nichijou"
>>342165810
glad to help anon.
Keep in mind for the monster though, that the best way to get people spooked and and keep them spooked is for the creature to be so intensely scary that they dread just seeing it again. Something like this >>342152105 is a perfect example.
I clicked on that once and saw it for a split second and I know for sure that I would live better never having to see it again.
Lots of games that go for the straight up scare factor just tend to completely lack in the enemy's design, and in the end the only horror it has is out of pure shock value.
>>342153162
>>342164546
also, another thing I always think of as a perfect example of sound design being an absolute necessity for horror games it that Slenderman game that was popular a couple years ago.
Slenderman himself isn't scary, he's just a tall guy with a blank white face. There's nothing inherently frightening about him, however the entire horror of the game comes from the sound design, with it starting off silent but slowly growing in it's tenseness and oppressiveness as you collect each page, until the ambient music reaches a point where it feels like without you even having to look to know Slenderman is right on your tail, relentlessly chasing you. If you take that sound away, the game will instantly lose practically all of it's horror value
