Before the creation of photographs, paintings were the best method for preserving a moment. Some paintings are calming; others are majestic. Some are downright scary, though. In video games, you run into the scariest of paintings. The kind that moves on their own, have things trapped inside, or a mind of their own. These are the kind of paintings that operate as portals to other dimensions or are the sourc🎉e of evil power.
The following entries feature some of the spookiest paintings ever♑ captured in gaming. These paintings are spooky enough to make you feel uneasy, uncomfortable, and maybe a bit discombobulated. You might even have to pause your game for a moment or take a break to process these paintings.
10 7th Guest
Perhaps the scariest painting of all time is this entry into the bizarre in The 7th Guest. After learning you are the 7th guest from 48 years ago, you try to flee Stauf’s house of nightmares. You can’t open the door 𓃲to leave, though, so you run up the stairs. At the top of the stairs is a painting. If you click on this painting of the outdoors, a pair of hands emerge, trying to get out of t♈he painting.
What made this painting so scary at the time is that it was before you had likely encountered film directors like Guillermo Del Toro 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:or David Cronenberg. As a result, this painting was the first time you likely encountered 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:body horror of this kind.
9 Amnesia: Dark Descent ꩵ ⭕
After entering Amnesia's study, you pass through a series of corridors and rooms until you come to an anatomy room filled with mannequins, lots of books, and a painting that will linger in your memory. The painting can also be found in the transept.
It shows Alexander, the chief antagonist and Baron of Brennenburg. If your sanity is low, Alexander is frightening. His orbital cavities are vacant, and his skin is stretched downwards. Where Alexander’s mouth should be is just a black hole. Truly the stuff of nightmares. Even if your sanit꧟y is high, it’s still not a nice painting to witness.
8 Fallout 4
It’s an understatement that Bethesda has placed some strange things in its games. In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4, you come upon a building strewn with corpses in Boston. In one room, you come upon a near dozen uneasy paintings. Through audio clues, you learn that the paintings are made from the blood of Pickman’s victims. Additionally, a c🌞an of𒅌 blood can be located in front of the painting depicting an eye.
There’s something unsettling about paintings made from the blood of people who were almost presumably killed. What’s even more of a giveaway that this is supposed to be unsettling is that the whole affair 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:references H.P. Lovecraft’s 'Pickman’s Model,' a short story in which a Boston painter creates horrifying images.
7 Scratches
Scratches is an Argentinian point-and-click game for the PC released in 2006. You play as an aspiring horror writer who purchases a Victorian mansion in an English town to inspire his next novel. You soon discover the mansion's horrible history, which includes murders and strange sounds at night.
One painting on the second floor is “The Hands Resist Him,” a real-life, supposedly haunted painting from 1972 that shows a young boy and a doll in front of a glass door. Many hands belonging to unsee꧋n bodies are pressed against the door. Another painting is of a Cthulhu, from H.P. Lovecraft mytho✨logy. Perhaps the most disturbing painting is Bruegel’s “The Gloomy Day.” The painting depicts a bleak atmosphere where ships crash against the shoreline and children prepare themselves against the approaching harsh weather.
6 Dark Souls
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls features a spooky painting in Anor Londo. This painting is not spooky due to what it depicts, though. The landscape portrayed would best be described as a barren, snow-covered scene with a ♏rickety wooden bridge in the foreground.
What makes this painting inside the cathedral spooky is that if you come to the painting with the peculiar doll, you will be pulled into the painting, where you can explore its world. This location is home to Legion, one of the most unsettling enemies in the game. There is🍌 something unsettling and just wrong 🥃with being drawn into a painting of an uncomfortable, somewhat haunted-looking landscape.
5 Clive Barker's Undying
Released in 2001, this first-person horror shooter sees you as a 1920s Irish paranormal explorer inves🍰tigating occult occurrences at his friend’s estate. The game was notable for giving players a series of spells to use. One of these spe🅺lls was scrying, which could reveal the paranormal in objects. If a player scryed several different paintings, they would turn into much more unsettling depictions.
One of the most unsettling paintings you can scrye depicts the Covenant Family, a fictional prominent Irish family that spanned n💜ine generations and incurred many tragedies. Before scrying the picture, you see a rather austere portrait of the family. After scrying a picture, each family member’s portrait changes. One family member is wearing occult-like horns, one has a hole in their stomach, and one is headless with their head fallen to the floor.
4 Red Dead ♑Redemption 2 ꧑
In the bayou section of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2's Lemoyne territory, you can come across a cabin called Bayall Edge. The cabin is situated north of Caliga hall. While the outside might give the appearance that the shack is dilapidated, t🍨he inside is actually well-maintained. The room contains a stuffed crow, paintings, candles, and a poem referencing Jimmy Brooks. Weirdly, the cabin changes based on your existing honor level.
Sitting at the center of the room is an unfinished painting, which becomes more complete𝄹 each time you visit the shack. Once you’ve reached the epilogue and visited the cabin a fourth time, the portrait is finished depict🍬ing the Strange Man. What’s even spookier is if you look into the mirror beside the painting, you can quickly see the Strange Man behind you. The next time you visit the cabin, the painting will disappear.
3 🍬 Eternal Darkness 🌸
Released in 2002, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem was one of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:great early psychologica🐎l horror games that wasn’t Resident Evil or Silent Hill. You play as Alexandra Roivas, a graduate university student in mathematics, who goes to her grandfather’s Rhode Island Mansion and ends up investiga𒁃ting a murder that leads to a hidden tome. The game is perhaps best remembered for its sanity meter, which decreases each time an undead creature spots you.
✤Depending on where you sit on the sanity meter, you can interpret various things differently, including painting. The spookiest painting looks like plain fields if you’re relatively sane, but if your sanity is low, the painting appears to be dripping blood. In another painting, a hanged corpse appears if your sanity is low.
2 💛 Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
Released in 1993, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:this popular sequel to Rondo of Blood takes Dracula's son, Alucard, as the protagonist. At the time, the game was viewed as a substantial change in the series due to non-linear levels and role-playing elements. Unsurprisingly, the game sold poorly at first because it’s nothing like the previous entry. Gradually, though, this became a cult classic.
In one sequence, Alucard fights the Hippogryph, a creature like a winged horse with an eagle’s head. Think Griffin, but more horse-like. The backdrop of the Hippogryph fight is a painting that꧅ shows winged skeletons slaughtering crusaꦇders. Its truly amazing Symphony of the Night managed to convey a spooky painting with the SNES’s 16-bit graphics, but it did.
1 ꩵ Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall
The second The Elder Scrolls game was released in 1996. The game occurs around the Iliac Bay Area, where several kingdoms struggle for power. The game marked the series' first entry into full 3D. The game is also very large and features multiple endings.
One mission sees you steal a painting. Using the painting of a tranquil nature scene changes the depiction of a man being murdered while meeting with diplomats. You later learn that the painting's second meaning refers to the death of King Lysandus, who was taken down by an arrow during battle.