Evolution of Horror Games 1982-2019
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 23. 06. 2024
- Evolution of Horror Games from 1982 to 2019
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3D Monster Maze 1982
Halloween 1983
The Evil Dead 1984
Friday the 13th 1985
Uninvited 1987
Sweet Home 1989
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark 1990
Alone in the Dark 1992
The 7th Guest 1993
Alone in the Dark 3 1994
Clock Tower 1995
Resident Evil 1996
Resident Evil 2 1998
Silent Hill 1999
Evil Dead: Hail to the King 2000
Silent Hill 2 2001
Eternal Darkness 2002
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly 2003
The Suffering 2004
Condemned: Criminal Origins 2005
Manhunt 2 2007
Dead Space 2008
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origins 2009
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010
Dead Space 2 2011
Slender: The Eight Pages 2012
Outlast 2013
P.T. 2014
Alien: Isolation 2014
Soma 2015
Layers of Fear 2016
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 2017
Visage 2018
Man of Medan 2019
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âRun, He is right behind you.â
For technically one of the first horror games, thats pretty unnerving.
Thats slenderman but opposite
Tbh it was kinda unsettling-
Exactly. I think that pixelated horror games just have a certain unnerving and even more scarier effect than a realistic environment with sharp looking mobs. There's nothing scarier than a blurry figure in a low fps, and low graphical quality horror game.
*Rex has seen you*
Not to mention the fact that Rex is one of the most creepy sprites I have seen in a while.
Ann: Jennifer help me
Jennifer: imma just stand here a bit
LOL
Jennifer: Well that problem solved itself (Ann drowns)
Very funny
glub glub glub
just like 'ol day when ppl dont have brain
The first game is actually scary on all aspects
The lack of details and imagination played big part on the atmosphere
The texts are on point for being unnerving
â@Text wtf?
It's amazing what minimalistic horror can do, especially when having that little element of reality that makes it all the more unnerving. It's like Pac-Man, but you're not running from ghosts, and we know what a T. Rex does to its prey...
He is behind you R U N
Fun fact about 3D Monster Maze:
Animated in real time at 6-frames-a-second, Evans built a random maze generator, assuring that players would never learn the path. Somewhere within the randomly generated maze is the monster - a massive 8Ă8 pixel black and white Tyrannosaurus Rex - looking to eat the player up!
As the player moves through the maze, the T-Rex becomes calmer or more excited depending on how close you are to it. On the screen, as you move about, come updates to help you get an idea of where the T-Rex isâŠ
REX LIES IN WAIT
HE IS HUNTING FOR YOU
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
REX HAS SEEN YOU
RUN HE IS BESIDE YOU
RUN HE IS BEHIND YOU
There is no map of the maze - you have to draw it by hand if you want to try and keep track of where youâve been or if youâre going in circles. The thing is, while youâre drawing your map, the T-Rex is hunting, and the longer youâre in the maze, the faster the T-Rex gets!
I imagine people in the 80s 90s saying wow those graphics look like real life
People from that era ARE saying that, as are you. Kinda the point.
But they do
One day people will say the same of us.
Same and they would think of how scary it was
Real life was like that back then I remember my old dad with his disconnected polygons, low rez face and terrible dubbing. still better then his dad who was a big beeping square.
Ann: HELP...IM...DROWNING
Jeniffer: *staring into the void*
*best friend ever*
@@bengalibahicbirseyi1080 trueđđ
@@peaceout8230 :)
âANN!â **continues to stare**
"Ann... Glub Glub Glub..."
*Staring*
Amazing how well 2008 Dead Space still looks compared to today's games. Still a great game.
good art direction will do that.
Any prefer the original over the remake?
Silent hill 2 and 3 also look amazing, especially 3
I remember one time I was playing In the dead of night and my dad saw me and started up a conversation about him playing the 7th guest when he was a kid. I love how much horror games have improved.
Jennifer: Ann!
Ann: h..hel..help
Jennifer: Ann!
Ann: he..help
Jennifer: Ann!!
Ann: *_JUST PULL ME UP GOD DAMNIT_*
Ikr
Are people in horror games/movies this dumb nowadays? I mean yes, she didnt help her because if she tried she wouldve died too, but god.
Ann: you know what!? I donât care if I live anyways
Jenifer: AAAAAAAAAANN!!
Annie are you okay are you okay Annie?
hahaha
0:43 *happy music*
0:50 *SCREAM*
0:52 *happy music continues*
ikr
I was so confused lol
Lmao
he wanna play in your mind to make you scared i think
LOL đđ€Łđ
Hahaha
Bro the transition from Outlast (2013) to P. T. (2014) was too perfect
Condemned and The Suffering are so underrated. Two of the best horror games I've ever played.
Fr, ive player the suffering since i can remember, my mom player it and when i could play on her laptop, ALWAYS THE SUFFERING, and Postal 2 :P
Run. He is behind you.
More frightning than the whole list
Sibartzy hell yeah heâs behind you. He supports you fully and knows youâre a good person.
Dm q alt account LOL true fact
True doee
Not to mention that the games graphics quality makes it more menacing.
Watched it in the middle of the night. Got it frightened harder than FNAF
everyone gangsta till you see "Press Shift to run" in a horror game
Lol
Oh hell no
Or irl...
What if its not a Horoor game?
@@isakayyik966 OOOOO
It's rather comforting to realize that horror has been represented in one form or another since practically the dawn of gaming.
For me, Resident Evil was born to revolutionize horror games. quite a game :)
the pioneer of survival horror shooter games
Imagine you were walking through the woods irl and you saw âpress shift to runâ graffitied on a piece of board. Now that would be scary lol
Bruh you saw this from janitor bleeds my mark implied right?
Ah another Markiplier fan. All likes and replies are thanks to Markiplier for his wonderful thoughts.
Hello luke
@Shreyas Bhadury Hello there
@@uglygymrat6024 general kronos 's vassal
2:30 Sees friend drowning, does nothing about it and just lets her die.
holy crap when did this comment blow up
the strange man should have killed her if she tried to help
Ikr
There was no saving tho
Scissors man was under her, most probably killing her using his long rusty scissors
If she tried, she probably would just get killed
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Remember everybody when you see someone drowning don't panic yell their name and stand their and do nothing
The 90s had some elite horror games. Resident evil, silent Hill, clock tower
The 1993's 7th guest's graphics was actually really good.
Jennifer: that was Ann!
Ann: Jenni...fer... Help!... glub...
Jennifer: *stand there and watches her friend drown*
Ann:.....
Jennifer: *keeps standing there and watching her friend drown*
Lmao
J4cK _S **Insert Friends Theme Here**
Ann: Could you please help me? JUST DO SOMETING, I'M FUCKING DIEING!
Jennifer: And to wet my clothes? Nah, i will just stand here.
Ann: I fucking hate you.
Jennifer: You won't be missed. Bye.
Lmao đ I was like , are you going to save her or?
Jaxon Garside That's how mafia works!
Is it weird that the first horror game seems to be one of the creepiest?
And the scariest.
thats basically stories untold
it seems glitched like it has a mind of its own.
Hm it doesnt look creepy for me bc its pixelated
It is weird, but itâs probably because behind those pixels reveal a really dark story
7:29: BEST F*CKING ELEVATOR EVER.
The evolution of horror games is just amazing!
The most scary things in old games was the graphics. Everything could looked like a damn monster
the camera angles were a close second
No. The most scary thing is the bad controls.
Chilla's Art games. They are horror games but with PS1 graphics. Works really well and in their favour.
Yeah LOL, sooo true and along with poor controls and bad camera angle.
Silent hill was the shit
what i hate about clock tower is that jenni just stands there and and just screaming ANN!
while ann drowns
Ikr
So cringe
Yeah bruh
Yup very cringe and Iâm like JENNIFER JUST GOD DAMN HELP HER
Sheâs so useless ngl
Wish, had flashbacks of playing silent hill at 2am on a school night when I was 14. That game was exceptionally well designed. (Shivers down the spine)
Great video!
Everybody gangsta until "Rex has seen you"
Lol
Lol.
Lie
@@table8306 what
Lol.
0:49 that one kid raging in the voice chat
đ
Xd
@ali flips shut the fuck up
@@darrlyl1 shut the fuck up
@@maru-dy5ld shut the fuck up
Thank you for adding resident evil 7 thank you so much
Something about the really old horror games is really insettling and I love it
'rex has seen you'
*run* 'he is beside you'
*run* 'he is behind you'
that is actually very unsettling
Waxworks is a great game too, I play through it every now and then
Footsteps Approaching....That Is Uncomfortable
I thought so too.
Waxworks is not really a horror game though.
Blady02 well it kinda is cause it gives you panic and it is kinda ment to be a horror game
â@@Blady02PL actually it kind of is. Elvira is less horror than WW and yet it featured in this video
Silent Hill series are the scariest games ever, it doesn't even need a jumpscare to scare the shit out of you.
Welp, Konami killed it and metal gear
*footsteps*
Me:AHH- oh itâs just mine
Yea, P.T. being just a demo is still the scariest fucking game ever.
But resident evil and dead space give it a good run for its money.
Outlast deserves kudos too
Loud Hill is still better
Great video! There are not some great horror videogame series, like Siren and The Evil Within.
But yes, itâs a great list!
7:05 a gem in its time
0:07 âRun he is behind you.â
Why is that unsettling to read? Lol
Cuz it's a horror game
Plus it's just really unsettling when you feel something at the back but nobody is is there
@@lag00n54 i feel that all the time
@@jesuiscrespo,It feels so ghostly
I would run undress myself and let him catch me :P (Half of my nightmares are like that i guess i secretly fantasize to be raped by monster :(
because heâs behind you.
Now the real horror game is life basically
Yep
Nah, the real horror game is watching cringy ads
Nah the real horror game is touching your pockets not feeling your phone
Yup~
Nah, the TRUE horror game is *Fortnite*
its amazing how everywhere horror games is so high quality even the mimic is so detailed
The "Forbidden Forest" games on C64 are also worth a mention. Great atmosphere and had me clinging on to the joystick with sweaty hands.
You know what's up when it says "Game saved" on a horror game.
True
GOD HELP ME
Autosave, in horror games? You kids dont have horror games you have Disney rides.
Ink ribbons are the shit
Ett You from Brawl stars
The first one is so scary wtf
+
IKR, I had a mini heart attack
IKR! It looks so cool!
lol
@@blessings.9886 i had a 8 bit heart attack
Old video games give such this creepy and blank vibe itâs actually scarier then some new horror games
like fnaf they kept the old vhs style
1983's theme is beautiful lol I love it
11:26 Not being able to jump through a window while being chased just gives off the highest amount of anxiety
Honestly and when you get stuck somewhere when the antagonist is right behind you and you just wanna throw your monitor is just the worst
Thatâs the worst! Especially, when you hear them right behind you.
Fr
To be honest the only scary thing about older games is the terrifyingly bad audio quality.
Ikr, people even make badly pixilated horror games these days, itâs like a trend
@@zzz_phyr A lot of the time it's because they have no clue how to program and just use cruddy game makers.
Lol
That sounds about white
@@thefakepie1126 Wow, okay. I agree with you but don't you think that's a little too harsh, telling him to kill himself?
0:59 Uninvited (1988)
1:37 Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1991)
2:07 The 7th Guest (1994)
3:06 Resident Evil (1997)
3:59 Silent Hill (2000)
5:04 Eternal Darkness (2003)
3D Monster Maze is actually better than many modern horror games, that is genuinely pretty terrifying
2:00 Exactly how my neighbour walks
LMFAOOOO
hip di hoo di hibidi hoo
1:55
Me running back to the fridge to get *cheese*
Ur in 0:13
Tanzim I indeed
Hey Laurie how's your brother
Shut up bitch
@@thegreatonethegreatone2641 Shut up bitch.
I still love the gameboy style games! So glad it has made a comeback and many new ones up to date :)
New sub
The first game actually was scary, tbh.
Yes it's was too horror and so many people died bc of jumpscare
@ĂdĂĄm BalĂĄzs yeah, that one.
Lol I have volume off
@@jokergamer3483 It's not..
@@jokergamer3483 what
To be honest, that first horror game is properly terrifying even for today's standards.
It basically is better than silent hill.
@@kaitlynwhalen5961 no
Kaitlyn Whalen opinion
What if anime was made in the 1920s.
@@kaitlynwhalen5961 then Hitler would probably have become a weeb himself
Can we talk about during Halloween part, The background music to when youâre being chased just sounds amazing?
1:37 Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1990) Amiga
2:07 The 7th Guest (1993) DOS
3:06 Resident Evil (1996) PS1
3:59 Silent Hill (1999) PS1
Ann: **is actually dying**
Jeniffer: **just standing there** Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. I could do this all day. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann.
Mama help me in water me breath of big blue thingy woowwee
"Foot steps behind you"
Deaf people:đ±
đ
2:54 she is just staring at her as she dies
Nosy people after u mentioned deafs as joke: *"Well,u have choosen death"*
@@nerfcontent9429 creepy
*Scretch*
Was born in 2004 but loved the games from 1980's, 1990's and 1995. We still have them in a box somewhere
Used to play them everyday when I got home from daycare. Now it's a huge upgrade, and play on psn3 and 4
I can't denied that when I first played outlast, it freaked me out. I felt the intense horror that has in that game when you're in the asylum.
Ann: Help
Jennifer: Ann..!
Ann: Help
Jennifer: Ann..!
Ann: Help
Jennifer: Ann..!
Ann: *Am i a joke to you!?*
Fax lmaooo
XD
glub glub
Jennifer: Ann oh no!
*proceeds to watch them drown*
haha love clock tower but its so cheesy
Honestly the first one seemed pretty scary
yea fr
Yeah right
Ennio Paone I thought the âRex has seen youâ and âdistant footstepsâ were the creepiest part for me
Yeah the text scared me more than the monster
0:
7:26 That Scared The Freak Out Of Me đ±
So the first ever "horror" game was about running from Barney? Sick.
well barney is kinda scary since he is always with children giving stranger danger and his look with only black and white would scare the shit outta me
@@sherlockisverytired3169 and when they say âRun, he is right behind you.â Is actually kinda unnerving
First of all Barney is purple and green second of all his name is rex
@@greysonmcmullen6014 the game is in black and white
@@sherlockisverytired3169 it ainât scary if you have yo volume on
RUN HE IS BEHIND YOU
80s kids: *screams*
I thought that game was a bit creepier than some of the others on this list tbh.
uJustGotSouped âą I agree
uJustGotSouped âą scary!
What console was that game on?
@@djoctorok1375 I think the console doesn't exists any more
0:28 The Evil Dead (1985)
0:59 Uninvited (1988)
1:37 Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark (1991)
2:07 The 7th Guest (1994)
3:06 Resident Evil (1997)
3:59 Silent Hill (2000)
5:04 Eternal Darkness (2003)
6:20 Condemned: Criminal Origins (2006)
7:06 Dead Space (2009)
8:29 Dead Space 2 (2012)
10:04 P.T. (2015)
12:08 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2018)
Clocktower was actually scary.
You never know, how, when and where the killer shows up. And always with jumpscares.
2:24
*Not a joke i just heard in this moment "Where is my sphagetti?!" in agony.*
*Ghost is hungry?..*
where is daddy
Your spaghett has been touched
*_whEReS mY SPhEgEtTi!?1?!1_*
dxx
*sOmEbOdY tOuChA mY sPaGhEtT*
10:41 What my cat sees under the couch when I go look for him.
Xd
9:41 when you finally catch the lil sumbitch
@@scorpionwins6378 LMFAOOOOOOOOOO BRUH HAHAHAHA SO TRUE
XD
@@scorpionwins6378 100% True
As they were showing Alien : Isolation I was like "Oh, they better show SOMA." glad they did, one of the most underrated games in history.
Its amazing how P.T was just a demo but managed to make history in the horror games scenario
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Iâve been playing horror games my entire life (almost all games from this list 90s forward) and nothing has come close to the scariness of P.T. It just hits you differently man. Lisaâs design is impecable.
@@denisruskin348 Have you heard about Summer of 58? I personally think it was influenced by P.T, it's the same kind of horror.
@@igordasilva1605 Actually, I havenât. Seems pretty good from the looks of it. Thanks for the tip.
To bad konami took it down
0:49 they managed to emulate an woman scream, even with the sound limitations omg
Brilliant
The background music sounds really Bach though lol.
Crookers bass
Iik!
Itâs good!
Great presentation. I would have added 2. Forbidden Forrest from 1982 and Scratches from 2006. Other than that very comprehensive list.
P.T is a piece of pure art.
Donât forget about the real horror game
Luigiâs mansion
Touchofdea7h lol but all jokes aside I jumped when king boo jump scared me when I was looking at that one photo
man that game is scary asf. Whoever doesn't get scared by the game ain't human
Dont even bring thats shit up. Cmon dude
Vanna banana lol
And eyes the horror game
Every horror game logic:
*if you hide in a closet, youre not actually there and they canât see you*
Ana Banana Unless alien pathfinding logic get glitch and make it get to your locker
Dead by daylight?
*ILLUSION 100*
Not all horror games, some horror games have smart monsters
Beaston Gaming đ
I'm just here to admire how the CGI has evolvedđ
the second one give me chills for some reason
I honestly feel like the first one is scarier than most horror games today, nothin but music and text sayin âRex has seen youâ and âfootsteps are coming towards youâ
SaintMUSIC *Rex has seen you*
EG_TrKelvin2323 jeepers
@@Masked_SVincent *footsteps are coming towards you*
@@LittleFilmsMC *the monster killed you*
I'd actually feel pretty panicked if I played that
I'm not scared when I watch other people playing horror games but when I play, I always get terrified.
I have never related to a comment like this before
Also related
Alex's Time dude Iâm always terrified ps Iâm 8
Same so much tbh
As some dude said âyou donât watch the victim, you are the victimâ
I couldn't help but imagine the first one as a minigame in modern horror game
Why do I always watch this stuff at night...
Ann: Jenni... fer... Help!... glub...
Jennifer: No, I don't think I will.
Jennifer you bitch
Cmon jennifer
Jeniffer: Oh no! Anyways
@@THETRUTHISHERE2030 Boss?
Glub
8:34
The true horror... That font size!
Lol why even bother to have it like that.
Ik! The font
My gosh
....
@@Rihcterwilker il
now in 2020 ....that looks like a cartoon...
The Halloween theme is so cool lol
So great to see Alone in the dark on there! I was only 11 when I played that, blew my mind!
My life is the highest quality horror game
This graphics is amazing! But story is soooo boring.
My life is very good and i'm very happy with my beautiful wife and my sweet dog... I love them sooo much because I also love scary video-games... Peace!!!
@@melisunnymellchris79 ok? đ Good for you đđ
n o m i n e
U mean, school? *:Ă*
you forgot minecraft 2009
(CAVE SOUNDS)
(ENDERMAN NOISES)
(NIGHT)
(h e r o b r i n e)
HAHAHA
same option XD
*flashbacks*
END FORGT FNAF IN 2014 RIGHT HOWS WITH ME
@@gigixhimo7718 breathe
Nice
-1982 âwow this is so scary!â
-2019 âHOLY SH-â
Jenni : ann!
Ann : Help
jenni : Ann!
Ann : *drown*
Jenni ; lol.
Ann : yeah your not laughing now bitch
Fr Iâm like donât just stand there and keep repeating her name geez
Glup glup glup :v
The most useless thing she had done just standing there and watching her drown in horror
At least Annie is OK.
Unfortunately Jenny has been hit by... I mean, drowned by a smooth water pond.
6:20 that actually really doesn't look bad for a 2005 gameđ€
First person shooters.
Walking dead in first person solo locked in mall
No one said it's bad
To be honest yeah, id never guess this would be a 2005 game
it was an Xbox 360 launch title
The second one got a Banger Music đ
imagine playing those games from the last century and suddenlly seeing a monster at 1080 p fully rendered, with shades, lightning effects and everything
1:05 ok, for 1987 this is really good.
5/10
Jennifer be like
"Ann!............Ann!..............Ann!"
*Ann dies*
"My job here is done"
lol đ
"Well I've done all i can do"
*Iâve saved the world*
*help me you stupid wimpy piece of shit*
glub glub
Condemned deserve a bigger reputation,this game is awessome
Solid compilation but i was hoping to see The Evil within in this countdown
When u playing a horror game and all of a sudden the game says hold shift to run
Oh crap-
Your pfp matches the comment
Damn you right lmao đ
*OH HELL NO*
And me being the clueless bish just keep on walking slowly and steadily
idk why but I think that the "old" games from like 2005-10 are even more scarier than the new ones because the have these dark atmosphere because of the grey and lifeless graphic
System Shock 2 is my favorite horror game and the dated graphics make it feel much more claustrophobic and eerie. The same can be said about Blood even if it's more silly.
You are actually right!
True~
yes! Silent Hill 3!
Agreed