Horror games are supposed to terrify us and leave us checking over our shoulders as we play. They should make you feel uneasy even after you’ve shut down your PC.
However, some horror games are actually so bad that they loop all the way around to being unintentionally funny.
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Whether it’s because of terrible voice acting or game-breaking bugs that are more terrifying than the monsters themselves, these games just miss the mark.
From games with stories that make no sense to bizarre gameplay mechanics, you’ll certainly find your next favorite bit of comedic relief on this list. Enjoy!
8Agony (2018)
Disturbingly Bad
It’s ironically funny thatAgony, a game about being in Hell, is so terrible to play. And not because it “throws you in the midst of hell”, but because it’s so bad.
To be fair, the visuals are great, but only for about the first five minutes. Unfortunately, you can’t really appreciate the visuals because of the horrific motion blur.
On that note, the developers clearly spent a lot of timeperfecting the atmosphere. Yet, it can’t truly be appreciated because everything else ruins it.
The story is laughably bad, the keybindings display incorrect keys quite often (which is hellish), and the map often leads you down the wrong route or suggests there is a path forward when there isn’t.
Oh, and the developers removed the unrated version from players' libraries and proceeded to sell it as a separate version (despite the players already having purchased the game).
There’s a special place in Hell for that type of behavior.
7Greyhill Incident
Horrifying Game Design
Greyhill Incident
I was super excited about theGreyhill Incident, right up until I actually started playing the game. A survival horror about an alien invasion should be terrifying, right?
Well, unfortunately, this game ended up being a comedy of errors.
The aliens are goofy, to say the least, and the voice acting feels like an amateur drama club production.
The gameplay itself is a combination of awful stealth mechanics, janky movement, and terribly scripted AI.
I mean, it takes 2 hours to beat - that is laughably short.
If you’re not getting stuck in objects, you’re being ignored by the aliens - it’s an unintentional masterpiece of bad horror.
6Until Dawn
An Interactive Horror Movie
Until Dawn
There’s a special charm about 80s slasher movies – you just know the characters are going to make the worst decisions.
Now,Until Dawnis basically that, but you control the number of terrible decisions being made.
The biggest issue with this game is that it tries too hard to be scary. However, when you’ve got a mix of cringe dialogue, classic horror clichés, and weirdly exaggerated facial animations, it just doesn’t work.
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The awkward one-liners are the best unintentionally funny thing I’ve seen in horror games. So, props to the writers.
Also, props to the artists who created such amazing visuals, in this versionand the enhanced one.
The best way to describe Until Dawn is that it wants to be scary, but it can’t help tripping over itself.
5Friday the 13th: The Game
The Bugs Are Scarier
In theory,Friday the 13th: The Gameshould be one of the scariest games ever made – you’re Jason Voorhees himself.
However, the game is only fun when playing against human players. The AI for counselors is janky, to say the least. They just jump in and out of windows (most of the time).
Jason himself moves like a boulder, and while playing as him is pretty fun, it’s also frustrating - splitting a skull is possible, but climbing over a rock is not.
What makes this game hilarious is the interactions between Jason and the counselors. Especially when those counselors don’t communicate, and when they do, it’s to rage.
It’s like a game of cat and mouse, except it’s a really, really slow cat, and many annoyingly fast mice.
This could have been one of the best horror games, but, the real fear comes from never knowing if you’ll encounter bugs during your next session.
4Michigan: Report From Hell
Terrible Journalistic Survival Horror
Just imagine there’s a supernatural disaster happening right before your eyes, and your job? Film the horror.
Michigan: Report From Hell is the equivalent of playing Resident Evil, but the protagonist refuses to do anything except hold a camera.
Want to save the lives of citizens dying around you? Well, no, that’s not your job.
The reason it’s funny is that you’re able to beat the game by filming random nonsense while people are actively dying around you.
It’s comical, to say the least, but it would appear as if that was what the developer was going for. Apparently, there’s supposed to be underlying social commentary. Perhaps it wasa bit too ambitious for its time.
If you may get past the unintentional humor, there is actually quite a bit to appreciate about the game.
3Escape From Bug Island
A Horror With Bugs
Escape from Bug Island
Escape From Bug Island is a go-to game if you’re looking for a laugh. It’s definitely not a contender for anybest horror gameaward.
It was meant to be a terrifying horror survival experience on Wii but ended up being one of the funniest fails.
Never before have I heard such bad voice acting that sounded borderline AI-generated. Hitting the bugs felt like swatting flies with a pool noodle.
In terms of the bugs themselves, I’ve seen scarier things in my kitchen.
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But, the bugs in the game aren’t the only enemy. You’ll be fighting the controls just as much as the giant spiders. It’s definitely a horror game, but in the sense that it’s horrific to play.
2Apartment 666
The Rent Is Cheap
The developer clearly wanted to make a game likeP.T.I mean, who wouldn’t? It’s one of thebest horror gamesas of today, and it’s not even a fully fleshed-out game.
Unfortunately for us, it didn’t work. At all, and this is no P.T. 2.0.
For one, the level design is shoddy, which immediately breaks immersion. And on that note, you don’t even have complete access to movement. Plus, there’s no real direction in this game, and you’ll spend most of your time wondering what to do next.
Actually, that’s not entirely true - the direction is forward. Through the same corridors, again and again.
The tension is nonexistent because you quickly realize nothing actually matters- you’re just stuck in a repetitive loop of nonsense.
There was an update that brought about some voice acting, but the game was better without it. At least it brought a few laughs.
1Fear of Clowns (2017)
The Equivalent of a Student Film
Let’s begin with what Fear of Clowns promises – a “breathtaking horror atmosphere” and “unpredictable enemies.”
They were right about the horror atmosphere for about the first 15 minutes. After that, it quickly loses its charm.
As for the unpredictable enemies, that was correct. Either they don’t react to you even if you’re right in front of them, or they see you, and it’s game over.
There’s also very little in the way of knowing what to do at any point in the game. In between running (without hope) from the most athletic clowns known to man, I was left pondering what I was doing with my life playing this game.
This game is ironically funny, from the occasionally blind and deaf clowns to thejanky stealth mechanics, and utterly predictable jump scares. What scared me most was how often the game crashed.
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