While plenty can be said about the overall experience of a horror game, if you fail you'll face the dreaded game over screen and horror games have some of the scariest ones of all time.

Alan Wake 2 is pure survival horror by way of Remedy, and the studio has created one of the most terrifying game over screens in games this decade.

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The dreaded game over screen is something no gamer ever wants to get familiar with, but something they all must. Tears of the Kingdom has one that everyone has seen. However, did you notice that ...

A GAME OVER is usually the last thing any gamer wants to see. In 99% of cases, the death screen merely displays the words ‘Game over’ or ‘You died’ or something to that effect ...

From Dark Souls’ YOU DIED to the stark “DEATH” screen in Death’s Door, game over screens are some of the most iconic parts of games. So how do game devs make them less frustrating to see?

Palmer Luckey created a virtual reality headset that will actually kill the user if they die in the game.

It's never game over in Super Mario Odyssey, quite literally. Nintendo has revealed that the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey will not have a Game Over screen. When you fail or die for any reason, you ...

Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse will have no game over screen, like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human, where protagonists can die along the way.

But how about a list of some of the scariest game over screens through the ages? The scene at the end of your rope telling you, you've died.