{"id":75053,"date":"2020-09-15T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/family-friendly-games-horrifying-minecraft\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:30:26","slug":"these-so-called-family-friendly-games-are-actually-horrifying-including-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/these-so-called-family-friendly-games-are-actually-horrifying-including-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"These So-Called Family-Friendly Games Are Actually Horrifying, Including Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A game doesn’t have to be rated M to be terrifying. Sometimes, even the most innocent games\u00a0can have horrifying characters, grim settings, and even some pretty intense jump scares.<\/p>\n

RELATED: The 10 Most Beautiful Horror Games Of The 2010s<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From Nintendo classics to forgotten gems, these supposedly “family-friendly” games have all made\u00a0gamers regret playing them in the dark.\u00a0With giant sharks, cannibalistic pi\u00f1atas, and real-life diseases, here are ten games that scared kids and adults alike.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>Minecraft<\/h2>\n
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When Minecraft<\/em> <\/a>was released, it completely changed gaming. The massive, immersive, buildable worlds were groundbreaking and the game remained one of the top-sellers for literally years<\/em>. By day, the game is a beautiful feast for the senses, filled with towering mountains, lush jungles, and endless oceans. But by night, the game changes. Creepers lurk around trees, waiting to explode. Zombies wander freely. And Endermen<\/a> (inspired by the Slenderman legend) mischievously move blocks around. When attacked, these Endermen also become extremely violent, and emit terrifying sounds straight out of a horror movie. Every gamer has jumped at least once while playing Minecraft.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>Wiz ‘n’ Liz<\/h2>\n
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In this forgotten SEGA Genesis<\/a> gem, you have to\u00a0rescue\u00a0all the “wabbits” from an evil spell. The game places players under a very strict time constraint, causing a constant feeling of anxiety while playing. Furthermore, the game had a dark,\u00a0almost Halloweenish tone throughout, with many of the levels taking place in graveyards, abandoned mines, creepy castles, and haunted woods.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>Luigi’s Mansion<\/h2>\n
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While GameCube was seen as one of the weaker systems in Nintendo’s history, everyone agrees that Luigi’s Mansion<\/a> <\/em>was one of the highlights of the console. Despite being based in the cartoonish Mario universe, the game follows Luigi as he hunts down ghosts in an old, dark, haunted mansion.<\/p>\n

RELATED: The 10 Best Luigi Games Of All Time (According To Metacritic)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Armed with only a flashlight and a ghost-catching device, players must make their way through room after room of\u00a0the ghost-filled estate. One of the scariest aspects of Luigi’s Mansion<\/em> is the loneliness of it. There are\u00a0hardly any other living characters in the game, creating a feeling of isolation and fear.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>The Oregon Trail<\/h2>\n
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You don’t need ghosts or monsters\u00a0to create something scary. Sometimes, all you need is history. The Oregon Trail<\/em> <\/a>was developed as an educational tool for students to learn about the struggles of pioneer life. In the game, you need to traverse from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Throughout the journey, players can die in a multitude of ways, including starvation, broken limbs that get infected, cholera, typhoid, snake bite, drowning, fevers, dysentery, measles, and more!<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Viva Pi\u00f1ata<\/h2>\n
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In Viva Pi\u00f1ata<\/em><\/a>, players are tasked with caring for a neglected pi\u00f1ata garden, with the hopes of making it a joyous happy place for pi\u00f1atas to live. There are a few problems though… Some pi\u00f1atas eat each other, so players would sometimes discover pi\u00f1ata cannibalism happening right before their eyes. Pi\u00f1atas can also get sick,\u00a0in which they’ll then lay on the ground, breathing heavily, and moaning until help arrives, or until they die.<\/p>\n

The game also had Ruffians, which were bad characters who would come into the garden at night and start fights, drop toxic candy, or kidnap pi\u00f1atas. While the game may be cute and colorful, at its core, it’s a crash course in the struggles of life.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>Jurassic Park (SEGA version)<\/h2>\n
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Jurassic Park<\/em><\/a> has had many game adaptations, and confusingly\u00a0released two completely different games\u00a0on Genesis and SNES, both bearing the same name. In the Genesis version, players control Dr. Grant as he tries to make his way to safety. Some of the levels are downright creepy, taking place in dense forests and underground control rooms. But scariest of all was the dinosaurs. When playing, nothing could\u00a0prepare gamers for coming face-to-face with a T-rex<\/a>, especially back in 1993, when gaming was nowhere near as advanced as it is today.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>Super Mario 64<\/h2>\n
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Super Mario 64<\/em><\/a> had some very creepy levels. There was notably Big Boo’s Haunt, where you had to explore a haunted mansion (easily the precursor to Luigi’s Mansion<\/em>).<\/p>\n

RELATED: Mario 64: 10 Glitches You Never Knew About (& How To Pull Them Off)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

There was also the giant eel in the Dire Dire Docks level, which\u00a0never failed to\u00a0terrify\u00a0players. Water levels are scary enough, but knowing that a giant eel the size of two buses was swimming in depths below was enough to scare an entire generation of gamers.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>The Sims<\/h2>\n
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The Sims<\/em> <\/a>revolutionized gaming. Some loved vicariously living through their characters, while others\u00a0simply enjoyed building and decorating houses. The Sims<\/em> was also controversial – not only could you make your sims have sex, but you could also, quite literally, kill them<\/a> in a variety of ways. From forcing them to drown in the swimming pool, to setting the house on fire, to simply letting them starve to death, the game was full of macabre. And on top of that, your house could be broken into by burglars, the Grim Reaper could visit, and the ghosts of the dead could haunt the living.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/h2>\n
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Easily one of the most popular N64 titles, The<\/em> Legend<\/em> of Zelda<\/em><\/a> has long been a fan favorite. It was also, at times, quite horrifying. Case and point: Dead Hand. At the bottom of a well, Link must battle against a giant blob monster that’s covered in the blood of his past victims. Later in the game, you come across an abandoned Hyrule in the dead of night, where zombies called ReDeads emerge from the ground.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>Endless Ocean: Blue World<\/h2>\n
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In the Endless Ocean<\/em> games, players explore the sea. Throughout the dives,\u00a0gamers get to discover animals, search sunken ships, and enjoy the beauty of the marine world. And yet, despite the fact that you can’t actually get hurt in the game, there’s always something scary about coming across a giant shark in the darkness of the oceans. In Endless Ocean: Blue World<\/em>, players are even stalked by a notoriously aggressive Great White<\/a> named Thanatos. It’s easily the scariest game where nobody gets hurt.<\/p>\n

NEXT: 10 Scariest Games (That Aren’t Survival Horror)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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