6 Horror Games That Will Make You Vomit If You Don't Pee Yourself First (GRAPHIC)

6 Horror Games That Will Make You Vomit If You Don't Pee Yourself First

We love to be scared -- but movies don't do it anymore.

Video games give us a more immersive experience. And with absolutely gut-wrenching advances in graphics engines and story lines, we can now have our brains and eat them, too. Check out some of the scariest games on or coming to the market, but be ready for a lot more gore, torture, and nightmare fuel than you're used to. There's a reason why the video game industry is bigger than film, and why our clean underwear is in short supply.

The Evil Within
Shinji Mikami, the man behind the creme-de-la-creme of the survival horror genre, Resident Evil, took a page out of his own book, threw in a dash of Silent Hill, and covered the whole thing in disemboweled corpses with The Evil Within.We got a chance to sit down (and promptly jump up) with the game -- which was released on Oct. 14 -- and within 25 minutes we had already stolen a knife from a tortured corpse in a meat locker, swam in a pool of blood, broken our leg...
... got beheaded by a chainsaw-wielding freak ...
... got dismembered by a wall of spinning blades ..
... burnt a zombie's corpse with matches ...
... and got our neck ripped out by that zombie's buddies.It's not enough to scare gamers with a few screams and an unexpected jump anymore. New survival horror games like The Evil Within are being hailed as stressful and exhilarating from all angles. Whether it's handing you two bullets and an axe to take out several terrifying foes, making you hide inside a closet to avoid your instantaneous demise, or truly screwing with your mind when you see death staring back at you from a mirror, The Evil Within makes you want to turn on a light and blast 90s pop music to keep you from soiling your couch.
Silent Hills
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Yes, that's a demonic fetus in a sink. Disgust aside, there's a lot to look forward to with the newest game in the Silent Hill series (called Silent Hills) whose release date hasn't yet been announced. Norman Reedus starred in a playable teaser trailer called P.T., and it's already being called one of the freakiest games of all time.
The Silent Hill series has always done what most video games could not: Give players nightmares long after putting down the controller. Silent Hill never relied on computer-generated graphics to frighten gamers; it used a relatable story that questions your idea of sanity and waking life. Silent Hills will be no different. The playable trailer nods to all of the scariest films you've ever watched, but the nightmare is happening to you.
I mean, just look at what the game did to this Gamespot employee:
SOMA
We're all a little scared of the deep ocean. The pressure down there will kill you, if a giant swimming beast -- invisible in the black depths -- doesn't get to you first. SOMA throws you into a deep, dark ocean base and puts a corpse on a medical table in front of you. Well, it looked like a corpse at first. Only then does SOMA introduce you to the creatures lurking around the corner.It'll be released for PS4 and PC sometime in 2015.
Until Dawn
Everyone's excited about this teen-slasher-flick-gone video game. IGN calls Until Dawn a gory mix of "Eternal Darkness, Heavy Rain, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the Saw films," and we can get behind that. It's pretty standard horror fare: Eight young kids trapped in a mountain cabin with a gruesome killer. But this time, you get to decide who you try and save from various acts of bloody torture. Its release date has yet to be determined, but you can watch 24 minutes of gameplay RIGHT HERE.
Dying Light
Parkour and zombies in the same game? Awesome. Dying Light's scares are less cerebral than its counterparts, but its graphics allow for extremely realistic -- and gory -- kills. Worse still is the fact that other players can enter your game as a zombie and stalk you in the night.
Check out the gameplay trailer for dying light, which is set for release on Jan. 27, 2015:
Alien: Isolation
Too many "Alien" games give you a big-ass gun and a wish. Alien: Isolation gives you nothing but the ability to hold your breath and try to sneak your way out of the alien's grasp. It's a true survival horror that really puts you in the driver's seat of Ridley Scott's legendary film. And there's good news: You can play it right now. It was released earlier this month to plenty of praise.
Check out the gameplay trailer below:

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