The darkest game ever made?

What do you think is the darkest game ever made. And by dark I don't mean as in "I can't see anything". But in terms of overall atmosphere, hopelessness, mature themes, violence, or just disturbing things etc. So the overall darkest game you ever played.

Mine is "The Witcher". For any who have played that game, im sure I don't need to explain my reasons, but please state yours!

Mine would have to be manhunt. That game is so violent that I stoped playing it! To violent meaning allways cutting off heads,limbs ETC...

Dunno about being the darkest, but Deus Ex and Bioshock certainly rank pretty high up for me.

Bioshock definitely was a dark game

"The Darkness"

See what I did thar?

if you decreased the brighnise just abit in stalker

i garentee you won't see anything

even with the light on

this is why i love it

here's my list:

Bioshock

Silent Hill 2

Manhunt

American McGee's Alice

The Suffering

RE4, The Warriors

No one mentioned Postal yet? O_O

Postal series is incredibly violent and grim, killing off the parade in Postal 1.. oh man.

However I would have to vote for Silent Hill 2. The atmosphere is incredibly dark and surreal.

definetely bioshock.

Silent Hill was really scary and disturbing. :shock:

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I'll say Manhunt.

Silent Hill 4 : the Room - Fatal Frame (Project Zero) Series

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American Mcgee's Alice is very grim,especially when you consider the source material. Maybe not the darkest ever,but I think it's up there.

Mine would have to be F.E.A.R. 2, Bioshock, and Dead Space

the dark eye (based on the works of edgar allen poe)

that game was like playing a dream

VERY surreal and creepy

need less to say (but i say it anyway) i LOVED it :D

Scary monsters and beasts are great....but the best monsters are humans, which brings me to a game like Velvet Assassin and its final level and ending. If you think this game is Splinter Cell with a female...think again.

[spoiler] The final level, the Germans are rounding up villagers (a village that was hiding Violette from the Nazis while she was seriously wounded) and taking them to the church, killing all those who resisted. They then lock them inside the church and set it on fire. Violette doesn't get there in time....the villagers horrifically burn alive. The whole level, the sound and visual design give this level a horror feel. The Nazis look like monsters, not humans. In an earlier level, they show the Nazis clearing the Warsaw Ghetto (you see executed families against walls) and a Gestapo Prision, where you can hear a woman being tortured and sobbing. This is by far the darkest WWII game ever made [/spoiler]

Pong. The background is just dark as hell.

Lame jokes aside, mine would have to be Doom 3. It was so scary that after the first couple of hours, I developed an irrational fear of the dark.

Pong. The background is just dark as hell.

Lame jokes aside, mine would have to be Doom 3. It was so scary that after the first couple of hours, I developed an irrational fear of the dark.

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edit: DOOM 3, not pong :P

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Bioshock, RE4 and Doom 3

Silent Hill 4 has always really bothered me

also i like how the warriors is a verry dark game

I found the Soul Reaver games to be incredibly bleak.

American Macs Alice very creepy, That still makes me wonder what they were smoking when the developers made that one. Slient Hill is definately up there too.

It's hard to see stuff in Doom 3.

The Path by tale tails games was definitely the most scary game yet. It was scary in a psychological way that other games haven't done.

Stalker

Silent Hill 3

when I was a kid it was definetly doom (yeah I know what you think, but being 5 years old and playing it when it was new, it was gory , and very evil andscary)

the absolute darkest, creepiest game I have ever played would have to be manhunt

my vote goes to System shock 2 (which ironicly is very bright graphically).

It is a game where you feel Isolated, alone, always scavanging to stay alive, With the world crashing down around you, and your only friendis the voice records left by long dead crew members.

The thing that make me say SS2 tho, is because of the enemies. Normally an enemy means nothing to me at all, theyre a target, a thing to be put down as fastand brutal as possible.

But it really got to me how these... "creatures" still retained some of thier brain funktions, and emotions.

When they plead you to run away, because they do not control thier bodys anymore, how they begged to be killed, and how some of them just lost thier sanity.

I have never seen or heard that in a game before or since. And it may have something to do with me specificly thinking that that single fact of not beingthe one controling your body, is just about the single most scary thought to me.

Honerably mentions go to: CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, Realms of the haunting, Silent Hill, and Manhunt.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Realms of the Haunting

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