Silent hill 2 is probably the best non-indie horror game
edit: There isn't anything wrong with Jump Scares in theory. Jump scares by themselves are bad. They almost need buildup before the jumpscare, otherwise it's just a cheap tactic to shock somebody.
Five Nights at Freddy's achieves a good jump scare through the buildup. You know it's going to happen eventually, that's what makes it creepy. The jumpscare itself isn't what's important, the tension and buildup is.
seriously, if we used the "buildup" argument for any jumpscare game, than practically any game could be here. plus, FNAF really isn't the best of games due to it's ridiculous overcompensation of "oo spooky robots"
and don't give me the argument that the story is interesting, because it's literally all speculative
I could say gmod is an allegory for a coma, and give millions of reasons why, but it'll still be gmod
it's just a regular, second - project game that got popular off of youtubers that said things were spooky like the millions of other horror games; it's just that they made multiples over multiples