Someone Has Worked Out The Scariest Game Of All Time
If you want to get your pulses racing for Halloween, supposed science has determined the scariest game of all time. And it's not what you're expecting.
07th Oct 2022 14:19
Capcom | Bloodious Games
Someone Has Worked Out The Scariest Game Of All Time
If you want to get your pulses racing for Halloween, supposed science has determined the scariest game of all time. And it's not what you're expecting.
07th Oct 2022 14:19
Capcom | Bloodious Games
Ooh, we love a good scare. There's a very particular experience that you can draw from horror games that you won't get anywhere else. Horror is an art in itself, which is refined by the Silent Hill and Resident Evil names of this world.
Even though we seem to be in something of a drought at the moment, the next few months bring a DLC for Resident Evil: Village, the release of The Callisto Protocol, and the remake of Dead Space - so we have plenty to be excited for. That clearly doesn't matter because a scientific study has apparently determined the scariest game in the world.
What Is The Scariest Game Of All Time?
According to a new scientific study called Scare Project 2022, we finally have an answer to the age-old question of which video game is officially the scariest to play. The survey was conducted by measuring gamers' heart rates as they played.
The experiment documented the highest spike in their BPM and their average game heart rate compared to their average resting heart rate of 65. As such, the game that topped the leaderboard was MADiSON, with a gameplay heart rate of 97. That's a whopping difference of 32 BPM when compared to when resting.
Although some of you might be shocked that Bloodius' 2002 game soared straight to the top of the list, it was in some good company. Following it is the terrifying Alien Isolation from Creative Assembly, coming in just behind it. The list is rounded off by Visage (94 BPM) and Five Nights at Freddy's 4 (92 BPM). But, there's one crucial title that didn't make it to the list. And if it did, it would have won.
P.T. Doesn't Count, But It Would Have Topped The Study
The iconic P.T. from Konami actually turned out the best result of the entire study. Sadly, because it is only a demo of the canned Silent Hills game and there is no legal route to download the title to test it, it doesn't count for the study.
Either way, P.T. would have topped the study with a whopping 34 BPM jump to a 99 BPM average for the whole game. The Hideo Kojima demo has certainly proven its point, but it's not good enough for the study itself. While we've given up hope of ever seeing Silent Hills again, it will always be the winner in our hearts.
About The Author
Joseph Kime
Joseph Kime is the Senior Trending News Journalist for GGRecon from Devon, UK. Before graduating from MarJon University with a degree in Journalism, he started writing music reviews for his own website before writing for the likes of FANDOM, Zavvi and The Digital Fix. He is host of the Big Screen Book Club podcast, and author of Building A Universe, a book that chronicles the history of superhero movies. His favourite games include DOOM (2016), Celeste and Pokemon Emerald.
