I always considered TLOU2 to be the most impactful, the one that really through me for a loop at times and I had to put down the controller and walk away but then someone recently reminded me of The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners and...

Saints and Sinners is a simple zombie game but it allows you to do that Walking Dead trope of grabbing heads and shoving a shank in their skull and this is so brutally visceral that I had to stop playing the game mid way, not only was I feeling shit even though they are zombies there is something so personal in the VR aspect that it made me feel extremely ill, eventually I was having night terrors and waking up sweaty and screaming cause my brain must have actually thought we done that shit even though logically I knew the disconnect. The feeling of repeatedly grabbing zombies heads and puncturing their skull will stay with me for the rest of my life, I feel It right now writing this and wanna gag. 

The first time I blew someone's arm off in TLOU2 and had to watch them writhe and scream in agony as they bled out was very sobering. It's part of why attempts to pull the 'ludonarrative dissonance' card with the game always rang hollow with me. The killing isn't meant to be satisfying in the way an action movie is; it's meant to be horrific and reinforce how destructive hatred is. 

Anyway, we've got a new contender: 

As a little kid I watched 80s gory horror films and loved them. So playing games like Splatterhouse. Mortal Kombat and Doom. Blew my mind how gory games could be and thought it was fucking awesome! Doom the bodies stayed on the floor. Hell Mortal Kombat along with Night Trap went before the US Senate hearings in the early 90s. It was a massive deal how much US politicians panicked. It gave us the ratings system. ESRB. Never been scared by a game. Startled by the Piano in Maro 64 but scared? No.

Not so much ultra violence, it's 'fear' that can sometimes get me.

I'm slightly claustrophobic and this definitely raised my fear level in VR



It's worse when reading about getting stuck underground though and for example, I could not watch this video while high

Still haven't got up to watching how it ends while sober...


Violence in games is mostly comical although I also did not enjoy hacking zombies to pieces in VR. And walking around with a half bitten off hand in VR in RE8 was also pretty yuck. However when I was drowning a patient in a toilet in Hitman VR with the medic walking in on me all shocked I couldn't stop laughing about how absurd it all was.

But the scene where Abby takes revenge on Joel was hard to stomach, and I didn't even care for Joel (imo he did wrong end of TloU1) I was glad he was gone but not in the way it happened. Torture scenes in games are the worst. Heavy rain comes to mind where you have to cut off your own finger.

I haven't played much horror and even that more often action horror, so only truly disturbing thing that comes to mind are the eye scenes in Dead Space 2.

The problem with horror games is that jump scares easily kill player and then you're not actually afraid of the story/horror but game over same as in any game and that's not a fun kind of scary.

Super Meat Boy…kinda lol. There’s also Binding of Isaac, though i’m not a fan of this game.

From what I played Postal 2.

Hard Bullet some new game I am yet to try people say has ultra violence.