# It's Halloween.  Recommend me a good horror game.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819 "2007-11-01T02:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819/1 "2007-11-01T02:42:22Z")

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I’m in the mood for a dark, creepy video game for PC. Got one?

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819/2 "2007-11-01T03:09:35Z")

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I’m a fan of the System Shock games, though I dunno how much fuss you’ll have to go through to get them to run in Vista, I do know that both ran in XP with some doing (IIRC, the original System Shock, a DOS game, could be made to work in DOSBox or by replacing the exe with a fan-patched one, and System Shock 2, a Win98 game, required a patch to run in Windows XP and has some fanpatches available that touch up the graphics and such)

Other than that, the Ravenholme level of Half Life 2 is doing it for me right now. Freaking poison headcrabs!

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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819/3 "2007-11-01T03:33:12Z")

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XP man here. Thanks!

I may have to go back and play through Clive Barker’s Undying.

Any others?

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819/4 "2007-11-01T03:43:29Z")

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I’d say check out Portal from Valve. Not really a horror game, but they’ve got the “Something is very wrong” general mood setting down pretty pat, plus it’s just generally an awesomely fun and darkly funny game.

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-halloween-recommend-me-a-good-horror-game/424819/5 "2007-11-01T03:44:29Z")

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Along with the System Shocks, I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the recently hyped to all get out Bioshock.