IMSCARED – The game that acts like a virus



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This has to be the most unique horror game I’ve seen yet. It’s a secret virus.

Discord: https://discord.gg/GFyG92PakN

IMSCARED is a pixelated horror game that intentionally messes with your head and puts files on your desktop. It’s a unique take on “retro style” horror games. This one intentionally acts like a virus to spook you. So much so that it sometimes IS detected as a virus.

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Downloads:

IMSCARED: https://store.steampowered.com/app/429720/IMSCARED/

OBS (what I record with): https://obsproject.com/

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Music:
(In order of appearance)

.Kevin MacLeod – Fluffing a Duck
.Opposing Force – Planet (Soundtrack)

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22 thoughts on “IMSCARED – The game that acts like a virus”

  1. Other games put files on your computer, off the top of my head there's OneShot, Doki Doki Literature Club, and Masochisia, but I think IMSCARED did it around the same time as those anyway.

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  2. i want to make a game that doesnt jumpscare you until a while later when usually you arent scared anymore since nothing happened but in that time give really fun puzzles but it still has that creepy ambience

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  3. I think another game that did this was ONESHOT, it wasnt a horror game, but it did constant fourth wall breaks, and really messed with your mind, apart from a couple youtube videos on it, it went below the radar unfortunately.

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  4. The creator of the game could put an actual virus in the game and people would probably not notice because they thought that the warnings they got are for the fake virus lol

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  5. Pretty sure we are more scared of pixelish depictions of monsters more than actually detailed ones due to how our mind tries to imagine how must the monster truly look like, but yet we cant for that would be a fan interpretation, and would just be a thought of yours, not an "official" one. Maybe its just me though

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  6. When you find more out-of-the-box games, this kind of stops being minblowing and you begin to question why isn't it more common. Probably because it's not convinient to not have everything in the same window.
    Games are software, so they naturally have a near-full access to the computer when you open them. If a game can create and read saves, it has full interactivity with the file system. More clever tricks would be changing your wallpaper, detecting what your mouse is pointing at or playing audio despite the window being closed. Which are actually basic functions and technically the process of showing animations in a window is more complicated.
    I wish for more games like these, but once you start expecting anything unusual, the horror of "fake viruses" and "meta villains" goes away because you can tell everything is going as designed.

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  7. 4:37 Well clearly you haven’t played DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club). The most clever and most terrifying horror game you’ll probably ever play. Please try it. It will seem innocent in the beginning, but you’ll slowly start to notice things, and then it’ll go downhill from there. Please check the game files often if you play.

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