Game does cosmic horror right

Bloodborne

kys

Black souls 2

Mass Effect 3

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I'm actually writing a story and it kind of takes a unique approach to cosmic horror in that the monsters are so fundamentally alien that it's insane

Every night when I lie in bed get deeply afraid of stopping to exist.

Same except every time I wake up.

Outer Wilds

cosmic horror as in existential horror, or le spooky aliem

pyw

Yes

Same but deeply hope

For example, there's this monster that starts out as a signal that makes people build a body for it out of anything they find. From wood to plants to metal and even flesh.

Well, for me this thing often happens
>go to bed
>drift to sleep
>wake up again from the "shock" of realizing that my consciousness is leaving
>hit by the feeling of complete lack of control
>break out in a cold sweat
>existential crisis for ~30 minutes
>fall asleep

Recently it's not as bad, but some times this fucks me up HARD.

archie.wad

All that shitposting and berating for following every single /g/ meme still haunts my dreams since 2016.

>Evil Fairies! BUT FROM SPACE!
no

What's that?

Factorio

Post it notes are not cosmic horror.

>game has moon in it
>must be cosmic horror

Try taking melatonin, only one pill per day. It helps you relax when going to sleep.

This.

Jokes on you; I'd just awaken at a lantern.
Check.
And.
Mate.

Bloodborne did this exceptionally well.
I honestly doubt it could be topped. The way you progress through the game and slowly realize that there are forces beyond your comprehension is just amazing.
The game was advertised and started out as an homage to old school horror, and when you first realize there's more to it, it's so memorable.

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It's hard to explain. It started as a joke wad, making fun of 2014's /g/ (with most of the memes still applying to this day). At some moment in development, the author just went deranged and totally delusional, starting to deeply resent /g/ and /vr/'s doom purist.

The gameplay is pure garbage on purpose, being literally impossible to beat in certain difficult modes (some keys and lines just don't work in a few levels).

Just can easily find the wad in the zdoom forums. Use the gzdoom version provided by the author, as NO other versions work properly and will instantly crash the game.

It's the best way to do lovecraftian games, don't advertise it as one at all. One of my favourite vidya in recent years did it this way, but recommending it in these threads counts as a spoiler and ruins the surprise. Black Souls btw

Holy fuck Yea Forums is just like r#ddit but way more weeb.
>Muh scary space nihilistic squid
My sides, dead space is the only decent "cosmic horror" game.

Elite: Dangerous also had this effect on me
warping in to a system and coming right up to the star really spooked me for some reason
as ashamed as I am to admit it, going anywhere near Jool in Kerbal Space Program also makes my hair stand on end for some reason

FFXIV Final dungeon, trial, and zone do it pretty well, visually of course.

Can you prove that your cosciousness doesn't die every time you go to sleep? Maybe the 'you' reading this only lives ~16 hours and a new version is rebuilt every time you wake up. You just assume you are the same consciousness because of the memories you can access. But then what causes the rebuild? Much like breathing or the heart beating, its an automated function of the body/brain.

No. Space Engine is boring as fuck

If you knew about the lovecraftian twist before playing Bloodborne, you didn't beat the game.

I had no idea the game was going to be about aliens when I started it, it was so cool to figure out

pic related does it well enough. I'm mainly thinking of the eye of the universe stuff and it's signals

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Also, the author pitched a puzzle game in Steam Greenlight based on one of the levels in ARCHIE.wad, where you control an RC Car to unlock different parts of the map. It was never released, due to nobody giving a fuck.

youtube.com/watch?v=Z6U--F0yncE

I read one item description early in the game and it said something about "eldritch madness" or whatever.
and at that point I knew there would be cthuhlhu alien bullshit.

I loved getting to the sixth location on the quantum moon for the first time and realizing the ground is something completely alien to anything you've seen before.
And when you finally reach the Eye itself.

What if I can lucid dream.

This is the only right answer.

Even if this were the case, given you retain basically all knowledge and memories from your yesterday self, would it truly matter?

Because it's meaningless

Perhaps accessing your partially constructed consciousness early? Dunno.
Depends on who you ask really. Thats a bridge humanity will have to cross when teleportation/quantum entanglement happens. If it turns out to be true and we only live 16 hours at a time, the moral and ethical questions surrounding teleportation become somewhat moot.

I've used Space Engine plenty of times and have spent hours exploring and taking screenshots of interesting sights, but I remember specifically one of my first times playing Space Engine in VR, I started off on earth starting with a slow zoom out from where I was sitting getting faster the further I got until I was so far gone from the galaxy, (then eventually every other galaxy in the game) that I was surrounded by nothing but darkness and had lost direction with no way to return to anything but that darkness. I can't tell you how that made me feel without coming off like a pretentious fag, but it was a frightening sense of loneliness I felt.

What horrifies me even more, adding on top of the vastness of the universe, is that the lightcone of humanity since we invented the radio is insanely minuscule. To most of the universe, we don't even exist yet.

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I bet that's what happened to God. Just flung himself outside the playable area and got lost out there

Kino Elysium

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Every thread i come into and no one mentions The Last Door Seasons 1 and 2 (play 2 first and then 1 as a prequel story, just TRUST)

Its one of the best most atmospheric games for lovecraftian kino youll ever play and only games better are Eternal Darkness and bloodbourne

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Myst

Quake 1, in a very basic and pure way

Any time people say Bloodborne is cosmic horror I get angry. It shares very surface-level aesthetics with Lovecraftian ideas but the execution is completely off.

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look at this massive faggot

> t. mad cuz bad
git gud