To me horror games these days are more about the jump scares instead of making you truly afraid of your surroundings and making you dread about what's ahead.
I will always point to Martian Gothic being a shining example of horror because you aren't given a weapon until like halfway through the game and the enemies don't actually die. It's so fantastic to me because you truly dread what's coming up.
Silent Hill was pretty good with creating really creepy atmospheres and a good soundtrack to accompany it.
A lot of people say Doom 3 is scary, but to me that game is such a one trick pony that there is no way it can really be scary. You enter a room, monsters spawn, you kill the monsters, you enter the next room, rinse and repeat.
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