Creepiest glitches in video games
30.10.2023 - 22:15
/ destructoid.com
Some games provide intentionally scary moments, while others turn into horror masterpieces entirely by accident. In honor of the sentiment, here’s a list of regular games turned into horror masterpieces via the miracle of video game glitches.
The world of Skyrim is a magical place, though not all the magics contained within are necessarily good ones.
Remember that guy who gets beheaded right at the start of Skyrim? Well, he does lose his head every time, as there’s no way to mess with that scripting, but the wound isn’t always fatal. This guy — as well as other enemies who wind up headless — can just get up and go on with their lives.
While there’s no recording of this headless horseless man going on a vendetta against Dovakhin for doing nothing to prevent his execution, I would keep my eyes open on a playthrough where that happens.
Chances of it happening on your playthrough: Low
The Sims series is as far as it gets from a horror experience — or is it? Well, it turns out that babies in The Sims can become pretty hellish. There’s a glitch that turns the babies in The Sims 3 into what feels like an early version of the necromorphs from the Dead Space series.
Putting our offspring in this world can be scary, yes, but I doubt this was an intentional allegory for the fears of parenthood like in David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
Chances of it happening on your playthrough: Low
The original Red Dead Redemption could sometimes mix up human and animal models, which resulted in human NPCs behaving like animals. No, not in the Wild West sense where we expect everyone to play like barbarians.
I’m talking about people literally behaving like animals. Some move like four-legged animals, some others even fly as if they were birds. Sure, this sounds fun when you’re just reading about it, but it’s probably not as fun to get mauled by a bunch of suit-and-tie-wearing coyotes.
Chances of it happening on your playthrough: Low
AC: Origins has a bizarre animal spawn bug and I'm really hoping it doesn't get fixed pic.twitter.com/mcQbhASZe5
Video games have gotten better over time, and that’s why Assassin’s Creed Origins features an evolved version of the Red Dead Redemption glitch shown above. Now, instead of having humans behaving like animals, we have some animal NPCs that adopt human mannerisms.
This might not be ancient Egypt done right, but it sure as hell is ancient Egypt done cool.
Chances of it happening on your playthrough: Low
The Tower of Mice is already one of the eeriest places in the entirety of The Witcher 3, but it gets even worse if you pay attention at the wrong time.
If you stand in the specific spot shown in the video above, you’ll get to see a weirdly lean creature phasing in and out of existence. What is