What makes a scary game? There are many different ways that games can fry your brain. Some games put you on the wrong end of a deadly chase, where one wrong move can kill you. Others depend on maintaining a sense of dread and tension that can stick with you long after you put the game down. 

Last year, we offered some spooky games for the Halloween season that would give you the chills without necessarily having to crank up your heart rate. This year, we want to do the opposite—highlight the games that make you think twice about whether you should put the controller down and maybe walk away for good. And games that you should maybe consider skipping if you have a heart condition.

These games are best played with your headphones on and lights turned down, but we won’t tell anyone you played them with the lights on—if you don’t tell anyone that we did too.

Editor’s note: All of the games featured below are traditional “Web2” games with no crypto or blockchain elements.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Keeping up tension for 10-plus hours is really difficult, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard struggles in the later half. But the first half of the game is a masterwork that once again restored the series to its place at the top of the horror genre of vi

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Author: Eric Frederiksen