What is the biggest element in a scary game?

[Skip]

for me it's not explicitly helplessness, it is actually the act of being devoid of weaponry

as long as i have some sort of hurty killy thingy on the right side of my screen i can literally go through entire games without being scared at all

(until of course jump scares)

Take a soldier's gun, and he's just an interactive target.

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[ShadowStep]

THOSE MOTHERloving BOO MOMENTS

cauz it could like be looking like a good game in a happy neighborhood and you have friends and family and all of a sudden boom

those moments and stuff
and

creepy maps like gm_scream on gmod

[dawngaward0110]

I'd definitely call Minecraft a survival horror game. It has a cold atmosfear, with earie cave noises, monster noises while you can't even see them, and worst of all THE loving JUMPY MOMENTS. Seriously, I go into a cave, it's dark, I hear a lot of water, and suddenly CREEPER BEHIND ME.

I usually survive, it's just the moment I see them.

[ShadowStep]

I'd definitely call Minecraft a survival horror game. It has a cold atmosfear, with earie cave noises, monster noises while you can't even see them, and worst of all THE loving JUMPY MOMENTS. Seriously, I go into a cave, it's dark, I hear a lot of water, and suddenly CREEPER BEHIND ME.

I usually survive, it's just the moment I see them.

Creepers scare me to death in the dark.
And zombies, and blobs, and spiders, and... whatever else there is

[Tokthree]

For me the biggest element is probably actually being scary in general.
Things can be scary without all this general classification you've got going here

[Pengie]

I would play scary games, but I know that I would be creeped out and then never touch the game again.

[blaman]

I absolutely love the atmosphere in Stalker Call of Pripyat
Even though I generally don't find it very scary(my opinion, a friend of mine is scared stuffless most of the time playing it), it's pretty creepy at times and just awesome.