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Something Wicked This Way Comes

There's nothing like a game that is so twisted and fucked up that you can't help but admire it.  It's ability to make you shudder and feel ill at ease is truly something special.  I've selected a few games with character and setting designs that are truly morbid.  If you can think of some others we'll add it to this list.
 

 Everything is more messed up when viewed through a chain-link fence.
 Everything is more messed up when viewed through a chain-link fence.
 And you thought Silent Hill was messed up.
 And you thought Silent Hill was messed up.
 Want to come out and play?
 Want to come out and play?
 We're coming to get you!
 We're coming to get you!

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  • If you hate the gameplay, that's fine. But this game has featured some of the most fucked up monstrosities I've ever witnessed in a video game. What's worse is that at best you'll be able to hide from them or whack them with a frying pan. Probably the best would be the dudes with slug-like giraffe necks.

  • Ah yes, a point and click adventure where in the second level you can have your eyes pecked out by crows and you do battle with an evil scarecrow that is controlled by the slug beast in the barn. This is the finely cruel stylization and story route that I wish Shutter Island had taken. Who knew an adventure game could make you feel uncomfortable?

  • You'll be fighting a dirty and sexy candy striper that wants to sever your vocal chords with a saw-blade lollipop. Stick her head in the machine press and we'll all feel better. This game has some really demented character designs and downright ugliness to it overall.

  • That green rock you're carrying? Yep, you'll be able to see how some folks met their untimely demise. Once you cut off some of the bosses heads with a scythe, you'll be carrying it around with you. Hell they'll even keep talking till you chuck it off a cliff.

  • Once you get past its steampunk, retro-fifties stylization, BioShock 1 & 2 have some really twisted splicers running around. Feet that are warped in the shape of a high heeled shoe. Surgeons that want to "fix" your face. Rapture residents that have hung themselves in their own home. It all makes for a grueling good time.

  • Forget that Tim Burton, Chronicles of Narnia-styled crap. Here we see Alice chasing enemies around with a butcher's knife and a croquet mallet. Hell she even turns into a demon.

  • Here piggy, piggy! Seriously, some of the characters that'll be chasing you around in Manhunt are some of the most sick and twisted out there. All the better to smother them with a Wal-Mart shopping bag. The audio in this game and some of the things the characters say are truly frightening and help add to its "snuff" film stylization. Brian Cox's voicework is stellar.

  • The third iteration in the series wins it simply because the protagonist is running around from penis monsters wearing a mini-skirt. All the more vulnerable, wouldn't you say? This is the kind of perverse game that wants you to hide from demon dogs by throwing jerky on the ground.