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Here's a great, very simple scare from the game Song of Horror
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it's an eldritch horror game where you're going around a spooky mansion solving puzzles and being chased by monsters and such
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the monsters are less like, here's a zombie
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and more like, mash R2 to close this door while hundreds of spectral hands claw around the edges
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and at one point
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you're searching around a small bathroom
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it's a fixed camera game, with the camera pointing down from overhead, the bathroom is very claustrophobic, with just the one door and very little space
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and while you're picking up clues, you hear something
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footsteps, at a dead sprint, getting closer and closer
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which get right to the door of the bathroom
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and then
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stop
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total silence
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if it ran up and banged on the door it would be way less scary
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but the implication that whatever it is just
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charges right up to the door and stands there
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waiting
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whoof
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after a while, it walks away
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the person talking about the game did not open the door
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so I don't know what happens if you open it
BF
Oh I can tell you exactly what happens if you open the door, if you would like to know
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honestly?
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I don't
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not knowing fills me with delightful unease
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rot13 it if anyone else wants to know
BF
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hilarious
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im glad that that happens