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00:00Are you counting them? It's going to be all right
00:03Dr. Lavinia is going to help us
00:06Welcome to mojo plays and today we're taking a look at the 20 worst horror games ever made
00:13There are absolutely
00:15fates worse than death
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00:37nighttrap
00:38We got big big problems. What the ogs are here
00:43Some may fault nighttrap for being part of the reason why the ESRB exists
00:47But that's not necessarily the game's biggest problem all the game is a big part of video game history as a whole
00:54Nighttrap really isn't much else outside of its part in the birth of video game age ratings on its own
00:59It's a really schlocky kind of game. Do not expect a decent plot
01:04Do not expect believable characters or engaging gameplay
01:08It can only be enjoyed as another corny slasher flick with some audience participation and poor controls
01:15Integrated into it had it not caused such a stir among politicians and parents alongside Mortal Kombat
01:22Nighttrap would have most likely been left behind in the 90s along with that admittedly catchy theme song nighttrap
01:29Watch out behind you nighttrap
01:38Dino crisis 3
01:44Common problem triple-a publishers have had with horror games is straying too far away from the horror aspect and leaning too
01:51Heavily into the action
01:53It's almost like you shouldn't rely on sequels too heavily and too often or else the games just don't get scary anymore
02:01While Capcom hadn't crossed that rickety bridge with Resident Evil just yet in 2003
02:07It quickly did with Dino crisis ask any fan and they'll tell you how much Dino crisis 3
02:14Face-planted for one of three very big reasons either they grew frustrated from the awful camera controls
02:20They hated how action-heavy the game was compared to its more puzzle centric nature in previous games
02:26Or they'll go on a tirade on why Patrick just sucks as a protagonist
02:30Whichever rant they go on you'll know the negativity is warranted
02:42Ju-on the grudge
02:44In
02:49All honesty Ju-on the grudge may be the least offensive game on this list as its crimes could only be described as
02:56Simple misdemeanors if anything, it's not that there isn't anything actually bad about the game
03:02But more so the fact that it makes the same
03:05Simple mistakes as so many other regular bad games even by the Wii standards
03:10The visuals are abysmal and like so many other shovel where we titles we saw back then the controls
03:16Barely work half the time we could forgive the lack of interesting environments if Ju-on
03:22Utilized more of the Wii's motion controls for things other than moving your flashlight around like I don't know
03:28Maybe more interactions with the environment, you know
03:32immersion
03:35I
03:40Michigan report from hell. That's why we've got to keep going for her
03:46Let's go out there and capture the truth before they became known for killer 7 lollipop chainsaw and shadows of the damned
03:53Grasshopper manufacturer developed this dumpster fire of a game. Okay, maybe dumpster fire isn't super accurate in describing
04:01How bad this game is it is technically sound after all the big problem though
04:05Is that Michigan report from hell wants to be a campy horror game like the original Resident Evil but deviates from its focus
04:14So so frequently there is so much sexual innuendo
04:18Much of it aimed at Pamela one of the main characters that it makes the game kind of uncomfortable to play
04:25We're not prudish
04:26But if the innuendos were a lot less frequent it wouldn't feel like Pamela was being objectified all of the time
04:33Consider this the plumbers don't wear ties of the horror scene
04:47Remothered broken porcelain
04:50The
04:55Funny thing about
04:56Remothered is that the original game from 2018?
04:59Tormented fathers was actually a good step in the right direction with its narrative and presentation
05:05So where did broken porcelain go wrong?
05:07well cutscenes run about as smoothly as ps1 FMV sequences and
05:13Not sure if a 2020 game should be functioning that way
05:15But then again most modern games also don't have awful checkpoint systems and make the player endure challenges built
05:23Entirely on just guessing broken porcelain just gave no sense of direction here when your combat offers nothing interesting either
05:30There just isn't much of a reason for anybody to play your game. I have to go back. I
05:36Have to return to my parents
05:39But what about the contest
05:43I'll be there. I promise black soul
05:51Look we can understand what black soul was trying to do at the time of its release
05:56survival horror games were waffling about with fluff bloat and
06:00Action game mechanics rather than stay true to the genre and you know be scary
06:05Black soul wanted to rewind the clock back to a time where things were more simple and more
06:11Focused on scaring the bejesus out of us
06:13But in its own ambition, it lost the plot of what made older survival horror titles great to begin with
06:20It isn't enough to look the part with updated graphics and walk the walk with tank controls
06:25You need good music to match your tone
06:27You need your combat to have some kind of oomph behind it and most importantly you need interesting environments
06:34That aren't your run-of-the-mill
06:36Graveyards and catacombs black soul just didn't get any of that and wound up looking like generic steam green light fodder
06:43That somehow got enough votes to make it onto the store
06:53The walking dead survival instinct Jimmy Blake last standing officer of the Sedalia SO go for you
07:01Sure, we could have put destinies on here
07:03But that game is kind of missing a lot of horror in its action-heavy gameplay
07:08Wouldn't you say no survival instinct is still the worst horror centric game in the IPS history
07:15The cheap budget is on full display here and it'll either make you laugh or cry
07:20Depending on how much money you burned grabbing this game or how much you care about Norman Reedus looking good like he does in real
07:26life, but what made things worse was just how stupid the AI was as zombies would often run into each other or
07:34other objects
07:35Sorry, but you can't sit there and tell us AMC couldn't fork over enough money to make a solid walking dead game
07:42Not after all the money the show was printing back in 2013 and before that
07:47A
08:07Title like that could invoke some curiosity in your average customer even more if said
08:13Customer was looking for a game on a shoestring budget
08:15Alas, this is one of those you get what you paid for scenarios two bucks may not seem like a bad deal
08:22But when the assets are about as detailed as Pixar's the adventures of Andre and Wally B
08:27The letter looks like it was made within a single afternoon. What's worse is that there's absolutely nothing interesting about the story
08:35Whatsoever the big plot twist feels like a lazy cop-out really it was all just a dream
08:41That's the big reveal. Come on, you can do better than that
08:51Stray souls
08:59Doll houses can be scary, but in the case of stray souls
09:03It's the least of your worries on the surface
09:06This game looks like a successor to Resident Evil 4 or at minimum a game heavily inspired by it
09:12But all that footage you see in the trailers
09:15Well, that's what the game would look and play like if it worked
09:21Stray souls suffers from so many audio and visual bugs that it is virtually impossible to play sure
09:28You can try but after how many times you fall through the map or how many times you die because an audio cue didn't play
09:34correctly until you uninstall what's even more sketchy are the
09:39allegations against developer Jukai studio and publisher versus evil who were accused by users to be banning and
09:46Removing negative steam reviews that said what redeeming qualities could possibly be left that would earn our 30 bucks
09:54Just stop
09:58Can't let you do this garden of ban-ban
10:05I
10:09Ever since five nights at Freddy's became a new horror icon in pop culture
10:13So many copycats have come and gone to write its coattails and get a slice of that horror for children pie of them
10:20all garden of ban-ban is the most egregious and
10:25Suspicious if the game looks cheap to you with its visuals and audio design
10:28Well, we're willing to bet it was cheap to produce after all
10:32How else do you manage to belt out?
10:35seven games
10:37Within the span of 18 months. That's a year and a half a year and a half in seven entire games
10:44Plus when each game holds so many empty rooms and not a lot happening between story beats and enemy encounters
10:51Well, why do these games cost five to ten bucks a pop? Hmm? Why?
10:57Slender the Arrival
11:07The whole fad behind Slender Man was in our rearview mirrors by the time Slender the Arrival launched
11:13But hey, maybe this could rejuvenate interest, right?
11:17Not on your life sport. What were you thinking Slender?
11:20The Arrival is more technically sound than the original Slender the Arrival
11:24The Arrival is more technically sound than most of the games on our list, but that's really not a high bar to surpass
11:30Everything here was just the eight pages game
11:33We all played in 2012 just with a higher budget for better environments and a more focused narrative
11:39Maybe in other words, you've played this game before we all did
11:44The only difference here is that the camera could miraculously break and refuse to move whenever it decided to do so
11:50I know this because it happened to me several times and I managed to repeat it without fail
11:56So yeah, good luck trying to find even page one
12:09Saw 2 flesh and blood
12:11Hello Griff
12:13You were a promising college student
12:18The first Saw video game wasn't super decent. The sequel? Oh, the sequel was way worse
12:25Whereas the first game had some semblance of a combat system and unique environments, Saw 2 said nah brah
12:32Watch this. The puzzles incorporated were about as clever as a leapfrog tablet while the environments felt just
12:39So ungodly generic like they were assets from an unfinished Silent Hill game
12:44And just when you thought the story might be decent with its two different endings
12:49Well, hope you have a guide nearby because guess what?
12:53Saw 2 refuses to give you any hint whatsoever as to how you even get the other ending and
12:59Get this your ending is entirely determined by your actions in the very first segment of the game
13:06How is that fair jigsaw is that part of your sick game?
13:15Aliens colonial Marines on your feet Marines for any new recruits
13:21I'm Captain Cruz and you are my crew on the USS
13:24Sephora when your game turns out to be a technical disaster all because of one little typo
13:31Dude, that egg is never gonna get washed from your face
13:35Aliens colonial Marines turned our once terrifying xenomorphs into a
13:40Colossal comedy punching bag ever wanted to see a xenomorph walk around normally you could do that
13:46Want to see a xenomorph casually strolling into a wall or crate though got an attraction for you right here
13:51Or perhaps if the game figures out how to work properly
13:54Would you maybe like to see some of the most awkward combat encounters between an NPC and a xenomorph?
14:00ladies and gentlemen
14:02Colonial Marines is the shadiest Cirque du Soleil you can find on this side of the USS Sulaco and
14:09Gearbox will never live it down
14:21Rise of nightmares
14:23Remember the Kinect
14:29Remember how awful the controls were for so many of the games made for it
14:34Well rise of nightmares despite its promising appearance was among those games
14:40Granted there is something terrifying here and how it forces the user to nearly physically interact with its grotesque
14:46Environments and fight off enemies you might find some fun here
14:51But here's the thing as we said before this is a Kinect game and like most of the other games in that library
14:57Rise of nightmares has some horrid controls
15:01it almost hurts to witness because you can see the ideas Sega's staff had here alas a
15:07Functioning Kinect game is like asking for money to fall from the sky. It's just never gonna happen
15:13Joshua you still have time
15:16Your wife is at the ritual site. Hello neighbor
15:21Ah
15:25We've all had that one neighbor that looks like they're always up to some shady activity
15:30That was the day-to-day conspiracy. Hello neighbor wanted to lean into and it's what got so many of us invested now
15:37imagine a game that took that concept and went
15:41Absolutely nowhere with it the design of the neighbors house felt like a hodgepodge of random assets crammed into a single building
15:49Removing almost every ounce of realism the game could have had believe it or not
15:54You do need some kind of realism in logic regardless if you're using cartoony visuals, you know
16:00Combine that with the abysmal technical performance and you'll discover the true mystery behind. Hello neighbor
16:06How has this game spawned so many sequels and an animated TV series how?
16:12Agony
16:27The only good thing you could say about agony was that it was one of the most
16:32Imaginative depictions of hell and that's pretty much it. That's the only good
16:36That's really the only good thing you can say about this game as for the negatives
16:40There's a whole laundry list we could go through it would take all day
16:45But here's the summary broken stealth no proper means for the player to defend themselves or avoid danger upon being spotted
16:52Scenes that come off like they were only there for shock value in shock value only messy storytelling
16:59What else more can we say?
17:00It's a game that had a ton of potential when we first saw it
17:03But now insert obvious joke about agony being agonizing to play
17:11You
17:17Alone in the dark illumination
17:24If there is one thing we'll give
17:272024 is alone in the dark credit for it's that it is nowhere near as dreadful as
17:322015's alone in the dark illumination. What a surprise a franchise composed entirely of single-player games
17:39Suddenly pivoting to co-op multiplayer. What could possibly go wrong?
17:44well
17:45Everything went wrong while the game borrows Alan wakes idea of harming enemies with light the level design and technical performance
17:52Caused the entire game to implode on itself
17:54The randomly generated environments are too bland to keep track of the layout
17:58Enemies are constantly spawning in with no respite in between and there is just absolutely
18:04No replay value of any kind for such an insanely short game
18:08Honestly, if you really want a co-op multiplayer experience
18:12Just go play left 4 dead or better yet
18:15If you just want to play alone in the dark go play that awful 2008 reboot if you want a schlocky good time
18:26Silent Hill the short message
18:28Don't worry about what people think
18:34Be proud a new single-player Silent Hill game and it's free
18:39Something's up sure enough. Our suspicions were correct as the short message was one of the worst games we played in
18:462024 for starters nothing about this game was mildly scary in any way shape or form
18:51Oh, we're supposed to be scared of paper notes with mean things written on them
18:57Brilliant second the game desperately wants to talk about mental illness
19:01But says absolutely nothing clever nor meaningful during its time on the mic
19:06It all just boils down to Wow guys isn't mental illness so awful
19:12I mean, man, it sucks that people go through this. It's so horrible
19:17Yes, Silent Hill mental illness is bad. Is there anything else you would like to say about it? No. Oh, okay then
19:27Who's this
19:30Find it
19:36Five nights at Freddy's security breach show time already. I
19:41Am experiencing a malfunction
19:44The recharge cycle is not complete
19:46This should have been the easiest slam dunk for steel wool studios to make yet
19:50They found every way to fumble it in the worst ways possible
19:53A FNAF game done in the style of first-person survival horror would have made bank
19:59Security breach probably did make bank
20:01But holy crap did it disappoint stealth is broken and how enemies will spot you from miles away
20:08Or somehow figure out where exactly you're hiding
20:11Even if you did manage to lose them in a chase
20:14button prompts to interact with objects are finicky and will require you to sit still and hold a button down for several seconds at a
20:21Time and good luck making sense of the layouts of each area
20:25Seriously, how do you mess this up?
20:34Amy
20:36Okay, I'm not gonna hurt you. I need to find a little girl. Have you seen anyone despite its age?
20:43Amy will forever be known as the worst horror game to ever
20:48Exist some games may be forgiven by some players for having a messy story had that been Amy's only problem
20:55Maybe it's ugly mug wouldn't be on this list
20:58However, the worst crime Amy committed was just being broken
21:02mechanically in every
21:04Single possible way picking up items landing hits on enemies getting this dumb little girl to heal you
21:11Everything you do in this game is practically determined by God as you'll never know when the game decides it wants to function
21:19Decently Amy was in such an abysmal state that many reviewers at the time
21:24Including former IGN editor Colin Moriarty refused to suffer through another minute of this game
21:30It was that bad
21:34Hello
21:35It looks like you could use some
21:38divine
21:40Did you suffer through any of these titles yourself don't be ashamed we've all played a bad game before I played security breach
21:47It was horrible. I suffered through it and
21:50I don't want to go back
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