What was the most horrifying experience you've ever endured in a video game?

There was this game back in the day for GameCube called Eternal Darkness.

Your character had sanity levels, and as this meter dropped, more and more effed-up things would happen.

A scream that you couldn't find the source of.

Blood dripping down the walls.

An enemy attacks you out of nowhere and disappears as you realize it was a hallucination.

The thing is, some of these things happened outside of normal gameplay.

It would look like you were turning the volume down on your TV or changing the channel,

or like a cable came unplugged.

One of these was that it looked like you'd navigated to the

memory card. Remember those? And then clicked to format the card. That moment of panic. The complete

horror as I thought every save and every game I'd played was being erased. That is by far the

most horrifying thing I've ever experienced in a video game. Playing the first Sims game when I was like nine years old with some friends.

I covered a room in rugs because it looked neat.

Turned on a fire because it was cozy.

Immediately, the whole room was set ablaze like the rugs were soaked in oil.

No gradual fire catching like in the Sims 2 or onwards.

The parents of the family were trapped and died.

The kids on the upper floor couldn't leave the building because the fire was on the way.

We couldn't change to building or shopping or click any commands, not even speed up because it was banned during fires.

My friends and I were horrified and had to watch them die for like five minutes

straight until the fire completely died out. Ah, my first Sims game was Sims 2. The very first night

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