The Skyrim mannequin bug literally gave me nightmares as a child. There's nothing worse than realizing that you're not safe in your own home, because those guys were not your friend. I never touched the house with them ever again after my first encounter.
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This is a recent one -- we were playing Half-Life Alyx on my friend's below-min specs computer. The game was mostly running fine, but in the wide open areas it would run out of RAM, and the texture memory would corrupt and cause a game crash. So occasionally, we'd be moving through City 17 having a grand romp until my friend would turn around and we'd both get jumpscared by something in the environment having turned to the black-and-magenta default texture, meaning we'd have to immediately stop moving forward, my friend would have to freeze with their head pointed the way it was when we spotted the textures, and they would have to save and exit out to reload the area. Failing to spot the textures corrupting would mean that the game would just suddenly freeze and close itself with no warning. The thing that made it so creepy was that there was no logic to which texture, big or small, significant or insignificant, would corrupt first, so basically any time we were moving through an "outdoors" map we'd be on edge and playing "spot the crash trigger". Sometimes it would be something big, like we'd walk up some stairs and all the transparent grass textures would be garishly pink. Sometimes it would be something subtle like the buckles of a Combine supply box being kinda off. One very memorable time, it was the helmet of a dead Metrocop. On an even more memorable occasion, it was the background texture of the floating pause menu. It was very Kitty Horrorshow. Surprisingly effective way to create a creeping sense of discomfort and alarm.
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To me, the creepiest glitches are always the ones that you don't realize. The ones that make you think it's an intentional part of the experience. It leaves you on edge for the rest of the game.
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When the Sims move after the game is paused and when they look "at you". It gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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For me it was My Singing Monsters. I was maybe around 7 to 9 years old and occasionally I’d close the game on my phone or iPad intentionally or unintentionally, and when I came back all the monsters would just be quiet. Not even sound effects of ambient noise, all just idling. On a couple rare occasions their animations would bug out too and I was left with silent statues of once energetic monsters. Occasionally it would be almost all frozen except for one idling and I’d notice after on an island for a while and it would scare the crap out of me because I thought all of them were inanimate at that point. It was even worse on DOF because your structures and decorations would freeze too in the middle of doing something so it genuinely felt like the world just hard stopped and died.
2 months ago | 24
After growing so attached to the world of RDR2, leaving the bounds of the map and having everything so vacant and eerie had my stomach in knots
2 months ago | 16
I was playing Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader on my wii and when the ai miis showed up it looked like they had their vitilgo… until I realized it was every single mii texture morphed into one. Creeped 11 year old me out enough to never play the disk after that.
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On my launch title Xbox One, I bought and played Subnautica the day it released on consoles. For some reason though, I encountered game-breaking chunk errors (similar to those found in Minecraft) that would start roughly halfway across the map, to the point where it was unplayable and impossible to progress because important structures simply didn't exist. Unlike Minecraft though, these chunk errors kept the game's skybox. It was basically like that open ocean scene in Finding Nemo, actually terrifying :(
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I can’t remember any specific examples, but I think whenever the music cuts out it can suddenly turn most single player games into a horror game
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When I first played GTA 5 in 2013 as a kid new to gaming, there was a glitch during the mission where Michael wakes up in a hospital and has to escape by killing guards. Every guard turned invisible. The mission was already creepy since you wake up in a body bag with doctors assuming you're dead, but having to fight invisible enemies who could still shoot me made it even worse.
2 months ago | 10
In the original Mass Effect after recruiting Liara she did the mind meld thing. When that happens an effect comes over the screen that somewhat distorts the colors and lighting and turns Liara's eyes solid black. Well, after the meld this effect stayed on. It was rather creepy speaking to Joker, Ashley, and such with everyone having black eyes and the lighting being distorted. It was like something out of Event Horizon.
2 months ago | 7
In Majora's Mask 3D while attempting to protect the ranch [fending off the invasion on horseback], I was suddenly transported to the twisted corridor you go trough before first entering the clock tower, but I was still human Link on Epona instead of Deku Link. The cutscene played out after which my 3DS turned off / crashed. Still no clue on how or why that would happen, but it still scared me 10 years ago.
2 months ago | 12
okay this was on a custom map, not the base game but it really stuck with me. There was a map for Portal 2 called Don't Make Lemonade (I think) and it was mostly a pretty standard map set in old Aperture, I remember enjoying the puzzles and atmosphere tho. Anyway at the end of the map you need to find a way into this office to unlock the elevator you typically exit through. I later learned there's a cutscene that triggers here that would normally play, some bit about the multiverse being born. But that didn't trigger when I first played, so I turned around and there was Chell standing in the doorway with completely white eyes. I was really immersed in the level so seeing suddenly that I wasn't alone, and that Chell had some zombie doppelganger gave me chills. It didn't help that this bug left me softlocked so I had to force quit out of the level. I took a break from custom levels for a little bit after that haha
2 months ago | 16
being flung trillions of lightyears in kerbal space program, no idea why it creeped me out so much
2 months ago | 22
the out of bounds graphics in portal (and i think other stuff with that engine) where the screen itself does not update and instead just consists of the artifacts that were there in the previous frame feels so damn odd to me it feels like there is less then nothing... that this pixels don't even show empty space
2 months ago | 16
That one where the pets in Sims 4 suddenly start doing human animations is pretty crazy but I feel it's more goofy than creepy This was more so my hardware causing a bug so I don't think it counts but while playing Yes, Your Grace my PC kept blue screening and it was a major anxiety spike every time
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that slenderman, mutant, stretchy goat thing in the cemetery in the first goat simulator. as a kid that gave me nightmares
2 months ago | 15
In The Sims 3, using cheats on a baby may cause it to stretch its model to match adult animations. Believe me, once you've seen it, you can never unsee it.
1 month ago | 2
Creepiest is a interesting word I once had an AI truck in ETS2 spawn right inside of mine, causing a massive physics destroying crash I once froze Ancano in Skyrim and left the room he was in. A while later there is a scripted scene where he talks with you. Because the game still thought he was frozen, he came sliding over the ground towards me. Equal parts funny and creepy.
2 months ago | 8
One that made all characters in fallout 4 look like that one morrowind creepy pasta The one where people are looking at the stars Yknow the one
2 months ago | 5
The Cursed Judge
What's the creepiest glitch/bug you've experienced in a game?
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