What are some good scary adventure games?

Lisa

The brand new "The Lost Crown".

Darkness Within,
Last half of darkness series,
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.

to mention a few.


Bernard

Barrow Hill

Dark Fall: The Journal
Dark Fall: Lights Out

Scratches is spooky too.

I have to 2nd the choices of:

Last Half of Darkness Series
Barrow Hill
Lost crown is excellent so far but not an edge of seat kind of scary like the others.
Dark Fall The Journal

Ana

Phantasmagoria is pretty spooky but the game is old and only available via ebay. Second the choice of Scratches; I think that's the scariest game I've played up to date. The Awakened is a great game as well, as far as I can tell - am in the midst of playing it

Hey Lisa

The most scary that i played is:

Dark Fall: The Journal
Darkness Within
Barrow Hill
Scratches
Lost Crown

Love Maria

SHIVERS - but as it is an older game I don't know if it will play on XP or Vista - check that out with Inferno.
Love, Betty Lou

Shivers will play on XP. Great game.

Deleware St. John series is good too. Haven't played the 3rd one yet.

Bets

Delaware St. John 1 & 2
Darkness Within
Scratches

All these games made my nerves bad.

• Anything of Jonathan's
  Dark Fall
  Dark Fall: Lights Out
  The Lost Crown
• The Delaware St John Series
• Scratches
• Shivers 1 & 2
• The Phantasmagoria Series
• 7th Guest
  11h Hour
• The Gabrial Knight Series
• Alone in the Dark
• Amber (Works with Virtual PC on XP)
• American McGee's Alice
  The Undying
• Are You Afriad of the Dark
• The Goosebumps Series
• Bad Mojo (very creepy if you have issues with creepy crawlies)
• Barrow Hill
• Blackstone Chronicles
• Cameron Files: The Secret of Loch Ness
• D
• Dark Eye
• Dark Passages Vol1
• The Dracula Series
• Evidence: The Last Rutual
• Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of a Monster
• Indigo Prophecy
• Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel
• Last Half of Darkness (The original)
  Last Half of Darkness: Shadows of the Servants
  Last Half of Darkness: Beyond The Spirit's Eye
• LightHouse: The Dark Being
• Mystery of the Druids
• Necronomicon
• Oblivion
• Pathologic
• Post Mortem
• Realms of The Haunting
• Ripper
• Seven Games of the Soul
• Temujin
• The Unexplained
• The Uninvited
• The Vampire Diaries

inferno

Wow Inferno, that is quite a list

Great list, great games Inferno

Love Maria

Also both the Penumbra games, amazing.
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Black Plague

For me, the scariest so far has been Lost Crown. I'm sure the black and white has something to do with it. The old black and white mystery thriller movies, with shadows, innuendues and gloominesss were far superior for tingling the spine than full color. Certainly the lack of color provides a good backdrop for evil. Teddo

Shoould either of the Jack the Ripper games be included?

Hi ya all,

I'm new here. Just finished The Lost Crown. A real ADVENTURE!(loved the cats). Amazing what this Boakes fellow can do with atmosphere. I thought Darkfall II was excellent as well.
Scariest game, though, for me is still The Darkness Within; even when played in the daytime it gave me the shivers sometimes.
Been playing adventures since 1984, so I'm a real veteran you could say, and glad that the genre is still alive and kicking today.

mousecats. Pleased to meet you.

I thought inferno named every scary game I know, but then I noticed Sanitarium was missing. I thought that game was really creepy with the mutant children, the pumpkin patch, the cyborg insect/Cyclops creatures and all those dead Aztec warriors.

to Gameboomers mousecats.

Ana

Hey Guy i not think jack ripper very scary, is a good game but not very scary, the true i must to confess that i was much disappointed with game..

Hey mousecats welcome

Love Maria

I didn't find Jack the Ripper very scary either - although that crow made me jump a couple of times - but I do love it. It's chilling and sad, with a real tension as you progress towards the end of the game.

to GameBoomers, btw, mousecats!

I have to go along with Jehane... Phantasmagoria. I still remember being so creeped out in the house that I'd 'drive' across the bridge over to the little town square & try to talk to some of the shopkeepers just to get off that property.

Game-wise, I think it still holds up to many of today's scary games. Unfortunately, according to our own Infernoj13usa, Phantasmagoria...

@Phantasmagoria: There's an installer that copies all files from the seven cds to the harddrive, afterwards, you can run the game without having to insert or change the cds. It worked fine for me, except that after I installed some other programme, Phantasmagoria wouldn't work any longer. I don't know why; something got messed up there. But basically speaking, the installer works just fine, even though it's only been tested with the German version of the game. I own the English version and had no problems starting the game at first, played through almost all of the first chapter I still haven't found out what caused the problems afterwards; I don't think it's the installer, must be something else that's messing up things
On another board, I also found a hint that disabling the system check will allow you to install the game; here's the link: http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/5268/t195881-phantasmagoria-in-windows-xp/