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early flash horror games are so nostalgic to me. i remember back in 2010 when our teachers got smart boards and one of the first things our class used it for was the scary maze game. good times
I remember being terrified of this one Flash game called "The Ugly" as a kid. You come home from school to find your parents murdered. I remember there being a nasty jump scare underneath the bed. Probably doesn't hold up anymore, but it sure stuck with me
Omg, I remember playing that! There's a terrible ending you can get if you decide to sleep on the couch, and the murderer finds you and......yeah it's not good😓
Holy crap I *completely* forgot about that terrifying experience. The drawing style is a little unsettling, and that music sting at the beginning was horrific. It was really graphic for a flash game too-I think it showed the bad guy actually r*ping your mom. Really messed up for a preteen who’d just started to understand sex and what that means. Yuck. Side note tangent-turns out, the music sting is from the piece “Concerto Macabre” by Bernard Herrmann-he wrote for a number of Hitchcock films, including the famous Psycho theme! He also wrote for The Twilight Zone, Citizen Kane, Twisted Nerve (the song the nurse whistles in Kill Bill), Taxi Driver, and a ton of other classic movies. The piece itself is fantastic and a very interesting choice to use in that Flash game!
A personal favorite was the Alice is Dead series. It wasn’t explicitly horror, but the atmosphere was so unsettling that it always creeped me out. The trilogy really captured the dark side of the Alice in Wonderland books.
Bluemaxima's _Flashpoint_ is probably the most complete archive of Flash content I'm aware of, the team went to extraordinary lengths to preserve as much as they could in a fully functional state. Literally tens of thousands of games and animations can be accessed in that program. I'd start looking there for the missing titles.
It took me a surprisingly long time to realize that Bongcheon was like a real name and not like a stoner meme combining dungeon and bong. The Dong suffix didn't help the assumption.
Exmortis 2 was one of the first things that truly, deeply traumatized me for years. My older sister at the time forced me to play it with her, as well as watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the two in combination gave me long-term fears of several random things (air ducts/crawlspaces, empty rooms, the time 3:00 AM) and insomnia from the ages of 9 - 11. I eventually began to systematically wake up before 3:00 AM every night, sit in fear for an hour, then finally be able to go back to sleep at 4:00 AM once the Evil Demon Hour™ had passed. Like, we didn't even go to church and I started to pray and shit for a while because of it. It's all good though, since I love horror now!!
This game literally gave me dozens of nightmares throughout the years ever since I played it at 10 years old. That scene with the red clouds approaching and the cacophonous roaring of the exmortis was too much for me to handle as a child lol
A flash game I vividly remember is "Haunted Mansion" and the upgraded version "Haunted Mansion 2014". These were made on Stickpage and were basically a compilation of gory animations centered around the Mansion itself trapping and killing Stickmen in various ways. The thing is, I remember actually losing sleep because of the Serial Killer death. Now it looks grotesque, but as a kid? The creepy eyes, the weird smile, the lack of morbid humor as he just stabs his victim in such a ruthless and inhumane manner. Absolutely terrifying for kid me. Edit: I just remembered another one: "The Hair in the Wall". It's technically not a flash game but it was made around the same time period for a similar demographic. While the scare itself is pretty bad, and Junji Ito's original work was much better, as a kid who didn't know any better, the story itself was what creeped me out. A guy kills his wife and buries it inside a wall before forgetting about it altogether, and then getting obsessed over minor details related to this incident without remembering it. Chilling, just wished the execution was better. Second Edit: Regarding Exmortis III, you can actually play it on a database called Flash Point 11 Infinity. I tried it myself and it works. Just need to tweak a little bit using the advice a pop-up window give you to run it and bypass the black screen. (Setting the game on Play instead of the default Loop)
About some of the games not being available to be played; there is a program called "BlueMaxima's Flashpoint" that has thousands of flash games archived, including Stay In the Light and Exmortis 3.
The Exmortis series had me genuinely traumatised as a young kid. I don't think I'll ever forget the head in the microwave (and my mum shouting at me for screaming, playing it on the family PC in the living room). The Insanity was another series that had two games that relied on the same visceral gore. I feel weirdly nostalgic and fond of those rather terrifying memories now.
This! I know he clicked on everything in that room except the microwave for monetization reasons but that head in the microwave gave me nightmares as a kid.
Makes me sad to know Exmortis 3 is lost for now, because I absolutely loved that game, along with Exmortis 2. Equally scared the hell out of me, but satisfied those edgy kid cravings for classic exorcism horror.
@@anceptus Super late to the party, but Flashpoint has Exmortis 3. Look up like Flashpoint Archive or something like that. I can't link it here, but it's got a red triangular logo on the website.
Man I remember Hotel 626 being so popular at school. Whenever we stayed over at a classmate's house to do a school project, there would always be someone daring everyone to play the game. My favorite part was where you had to sing to a sleeping baby using your mic, we'd sing the dumbest shit just to ease the tension only to fuck it up and then the baby just jumpscares us.
I remember really enjoying the Gretel and Hansel games as a kid. They did really well at pairing a grungy, yet cartoony aesthetic with legitimate danger.
Rusty Lakes games are still going on and I have to agree they have a very surreal/unsettling vibe. Some of the more recent games (at least loosely) explain reoccurring things: The Cubes, the Shadows, The Girl in the Window (she does have a name but it's technically spoilers). Would recommend them if you liked the standalone ones.
The past is never dead it’s not even past Those games are so good. The full games made by the same company also are great though a lot longer but full of similar puzzles and all the stories connect
I remember playing this Grudge flash point and click game as a kid, where you play as a father who finds a motel, I think, to stay there with his family after they get stuck. Actually, when the game was doing a jumpscare, I tried to close the website in fear before it happened, but then the whole website froze and just stopped responding, with the game stuck on the screamer of the grudge. Definitely made it scarier for me.
The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost comic was always separate pages, what it actually did was scroll your screen down by the correct length to take you to the next panel along with play the sound effect.
I remember waiting til 6pm some nights to play Hotel 626 when it was still up an running back in the day. I don’t remember a lot of it explicitly, but I do remember it being a pretty decent game, definitely kept me up at night lmao
That one image of the free ice cream game gave so much memories of me as a ten year old getting super scared from watching let's players play these games.
I never realized how much will actually almost mourn over some of the lost or fragmented memories of mine of old lost flash (horror) games until the 5 min mark. what a rich trove of lost media this is. I can't wait to see what and how many of the games I have strong memories of will be adapted.
There was this weird flash game that I think was horror, but it was like the game Machinarium and you played as this little robot guy in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world
I remember there was this website called point and click horror games and it was literally never updated and only had the same 5 game link for literally years! I think these horror games are why I'm so obsessed with horror as an adult!
Oooh you teased me a little there Sagan. As someone who’s put hundreds of hours into Binding of Isaac I’d love to see you cover it as it’s one of my favorite games. There’s so much juicy lore content to unpack with it. I’d love to see your take and perspective on it.
Really fun video so far, your style and editing keeps getting better, dont stop improving. Also alien isolation retrospective when? Love the hour long in depth videos and that one deserves the saigan treatment
Would’ve been nice to see Antumbra covered in this video. Not sure if it’s even still playable, but *that* would be my definition of a classic horror webgame from the flash era.
Oh boy, The House! Still remember the first time i went through it. That creepy piano track is so fitting of the situation and the fact that it loops made it stick to my brain for a while.
When I was younger, my sister showed me a scary flash game that I remembered so distinctly, but I couldn't remember what it was called when I tried to find it again years later, my sister didn't either. It's called monster basement, and even though it can be a little wacky sometimes, it does a good job with the ambience and keeping it unsettling and mysterious the whole way through.
does anyone remember Hotel 626? i remember it was made by Doritos and it scared the life out of me as a kid, especially the part where i found a picture of my face, sneakily taken from my webcam by the site
I'm so glad you talked about Exmortis. That was the first horror type game I played when I was in high school and it inspired me to write my own horror script for my friends and me.
I gotta say it, the comic still hits so badly. I was watching on a second monitor while gaming and I saw it out of the corner of my eye that you were talking about it so I looked out of the corner of my eye. My volume was on max and I felt my heart DROP I got chills all over my body that definitely still hits what a masterclass in horror. That scared me so badly that I still feel itchy and cold omg.
From a generational point of view it's interesting to see how sadder it is to see our favourite flash games disappiear. Previous Gens can recall and remember watching, reading or doing something they could probably still do but old games like these? Almost legitimately dead. Seeing the death of Flash,the recent execution of Miniclip and so many games now lost (i went back onto Armor Games and other Flash sites and it seems so barren in comparison now) it hits home hard. Memories will remain and funny i have memories of each of these games. Thanks Sagan
I know the Submachine series wasn't necessarily terrifying, but the ambience is absolutely unnerving 100% of the time. I was constantly worried that someone, would eventually show up because the loneliness was unbearable
The guy who made Submachine recently put on Steam a game called Slice of Sea and I'm going to promote it blatanly because his flash games made some very good memory from my childhood.
4:15 to 4:32 is so painful. Reminds me of the whole debacle concerning the Cuphead tutorial, specifically the video Joseph Anderson made parodying the situation.
The one "horror" flash game series I always remember was the Deep Sleep trilogy. Less just horror and more unsettling amiance with *gorgeous* pixel art and an incredible anf at times deeply unsettling design. Loved the games to death.
The only horror game I've been able to handle personally (which happened to be a Flash game) was the Deep Sleep series. It's an incredible trilogy that introduced me to the idea of lucid dreaming, and the twist at the end of the third game (Deepest Sleep) is super compelling.
I think I remember that one! The monsters were a bunch of locusts or something? Yeah, it was very much like The Mist I think, like the rapture had come and everyone left behind was just stuck in this Mist-like existence
I used to play this flash scary game in the 2000s/ early 2010s, I don't remember what it was called but you were in a hotel investigating a haunting, you could go to different rooms and use a variety of ghost hunting tools, the only one I remember was a recorder you could leave in a room, and when you came back it would have creepy whispers on it? I don't remember the game name but I have a vague memory of searching something like 'halloween hotel game' to get to the website that had it.
One of my favorite horror flash games that I think deserved more attention was Dreamgate Escape. It had a cool mechanic of using your flashlight in the dark, but at the same trying to avoid pointing the flashlight at the ghosts/monsters in that darkness while you try to solve puzzles and escape. 👏👏 It probably won't happen but I hope there's going to be a Part 2 to this video since watching you discuss and play through these games feels really nostalgic, and even seeing you including Hotel 626 and The House genuinely put a smile on my face. 😄
I remember experiencing a screamer/jump scare similar to the maze game for the first time at age 10 and then not going on the computer for WEEKS after it
My first horror flash game was Thing Thing 2 first time I got further than my brother I got punched on the ear 👂 I’ve never been so immersed before it was as if I really felt it
I love Thing Thing too! But is it really horror? I always felt like it was a bleak series but never really meant to scare you. Kinda like Madness Retaliation (with those goddamn zombies), or that shooter which I forgot the name of but you play as a spec ops sent to clear a building of infected creatures. (Also that PowerPuff Girl fighting game where two endings of arcade mode end in actual genocide.)
@@realfromtherealreality4148 the creator says it was meant to be scary so I guess it does count as horror even if it isn't really made with that in mind entirely lol
6:09 bro that jumpscare used to get me so bad I couldn't sleep because of it. I'm pretty sure I played this game at school with classmates watching, the head falling out terrified me LOL
I forgot about the comic! God, it terrified me as a kid! I remember stumbling on it late one night, nearly peeing myself when the first jump scare happened. I bookmarked the page, and told myself I’d revisit it another day, to finish it… but never did. I think part of it was just preserving that piece of childhood horror, until slowly I just forgot about it. Shame to hear it no longer works. That was a tent pole horror moment for me. And you know what? It stuck with me. I was barely paying attention when you got to that point in the video, but that sound, one I haven’t heard in… probably over a decade, it instantly brought me back. I knew what I’d see when I looked back over. Thank you for bringing that back to me, hahaha.
8:50 dude the way i just got yanked to my childhood from the intro music to free icecream. this game was a fundamental part of my internet experience around 2013-2014
Genuinely completely forgot abt the game "the house" and as soon as I saw the gameplay a whole flood of forgotten memories came rushing back Into my mind
Deep Sleep series, Ghostscape series, Ouija Board, Scary Maze Game, Exmortis series, Escape from Crystal Lake, Escape from Elm street/Nightmare House, Silent Hill series, Hotel 626, Escape the Boogeyman, Purgatorium, The Grudge, and the Darkness series---are the flash horror games of my childhood
Man this took me back. I know a lot of the games that struck a nerve with me are probably the type considered more unsettling than scary but the feelings from playing them stayed for a long time. Neverending Light was just a demo for a project that ended up not going anywhere but navigating a pitch black cave system with only a flashlight as man eating creatures stalked the player was jarring for young me. The Visitor wasn't scary per say but it was iconic. I only played Darkness ep 1 but the jump scare in the bathroom instilled a fear of any horror game bathroom that haunts me to this day. And of course, Alice is Dead. I am so happy they are working on a remake of the trilogy although it probably won't carry the same foreboding feeling as stumbling across the originals online.
A flashgame I used to remember playing a flash game back then called “Ghost Motel” there were like 11 or 12 parts idk but that game used to scared me when I was 7-8 years old lol...and another flash game called “The Darkness” there was like 3 parts to that game.. you just have to escape from this girl spirit, I remember being too scared when it finds you. Missing flash games.
Man this brings back some memories! Really loving your Nostalgia-related videos! Back then everything was so primitive and simple, and I remember that I spent so many countless hours as a child playing flash games, including most of these Horror Games you were showing here (boy did I regret playing them back then haha!). With programs like BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, these memories can live on!
DAMN I remember playing Asylum 626 and the thing that got me so scared of the game was the fact that the lights went out in our town the moment we ended playing. And I played it at my cousin's house so I had to walk through our pitch black town just to come back to our place. Mind you I was like 7 or 8 when this happened so like it was pretty traumatizing.
I remember playing The House back in 3rd grade in 2011 in a classroom with some friends after school. It was one of those after school program things and my teacher was cool with anything for the most part and allowed us to play games if we finished work early. I literally couldn’t sleep for nights even in a lit classroom with friends and safety I felt so scared to the core. It doesn’t hold up necessarily but some of the jumpscares still get me at times lol. After being exposed to more horror games, movies, and stories I’m pretty much laughing at the memories of what I thought was scary
God, I love those things. I didn't really know English at the time, so the whole experience was all the more scarier. Like for example I remember the story-heavy The Miller Estate and their gimmick was a limited amount of clicks until you die, so if you really don't know what are you doing, you're getting jumpscared. 10 yo me was absolutely traumatized. Same with the microwave in Exmortis - actually, I was so scared to continue after that, I would read a walk-through in the comments instead like a horror story. Also I loved Submachine and Daymare town even thought it's not exactly a horror series, Mateusz Skutnik is definitely an unique flash game dev. Other stuff I remember: - Morbid by Skutnik again - 3 part series about A Dead Girl With Black Hair. I think it was called The Darkness and the last one took place on a train. - The one about a red-haired woman constantly having the same dream about some girl in a specific house, so she goes to investigate it - Room escape games. Some of them had the weirdest vibe and item combos. (My first stupid jumpscare game was by a dev called Ninja something and they had a ton of them. It was one of those bait "Can you spot what's wrong here?" images of completely normal rooms, so you would really concentrate trying to guess what is it that you are missing. You can guess what happened after a couple of minutes.)
this video unlocked an old memory of mine of playing one of these point and click horror games back in the day! it was called "La Piedra de Anamara" and I believe it only had spanish and portuguese versions out there, although I could be wrong and it could exist in english somewhere under a different name. It's set in a haunted mansion and spooky things happen when you click certain objects or figure out certain puzzles. I had completely forgotten about it but now I remember getting pretty badly scared by one of these jumpscares and my mom running to the bedroom thinking something hurt me lol Great video btw! I was thinking about lost flash games just the other day and I think it's a neat coincidence that this video came out when it did.
Man, there were so many horror flash games. I remember as a kid basically having unrestrained access to the internet and even though I was a scaredy cat, I also loved horror and the stories I would come across in these spooky flash games. My memory is a little foggy, but I remember really enjoying Scary house (I think that was what it was called?) and a couple of others called The Insanity and The Insanity 2. The Last Stand was pretty good and I also remember loving all the zombie games that came out. The Bible/Christian horror series was pretty scary too but I can't remember its name either. Man, this is unlocking a lot of memories
I'm glad you namedropped Don't Escape, because Scriptwelder's catalogue of creations was hugely influential on me as an artist. That, Cube Escape, and The Last Door... Spooky point-and-click games really had a moment back in the days of Flash, huh?
I know it wasn’t a horror game, but when I think of unnerving flash games, I always think of Dark Cut. Something about that game just made me feel weird as a kid.
I was growing up on the internet right after they had phased out of their initial popularity and it's honestly a shame that I've only found out about them after they've already become unavailable:( fantastic video! 💛💛💛
I didn't play too much horror when I was a kid, but I tried to get over my fears in order to play Gretel and Hansel on Newgrounds. There's some graphic scenes there that get a lot more creepier due to the art style, but it's that some art style that got me fascinated with it in the first place. It's also a very interesting take on the original tale w Gretel as the main chara. Sadly, it ended in a bit of a cliffhanger and I don't think a part 3's gonna come out any time soon
My personal favorite flash horror game was always Lüt's Darkness series. They were pretty atmospheric and unnerving for the time. Never beat them tho, since I sucked at games as a kid. Escape from hell, the one where it's the demons being let loose in the prison was another one I enjoyed. I actually managed to beat both of those back in the day as well.
These definitely fall under the "unsettling" category rather than horror, but the Cube Escape games were easily some of my favorite flash games. I'd stumbled upon The Theatre entirely by accident one night and it was such a captivating and unnervingly surreal experience. Playing a certain set of piano keys only for half the keys to fall away and an arm to reach out and hand me a key for a nearby drawer was an experience that stuck with me. Thankfully Cube Escape and Rusty Lake as a whole got moved to Steam and mobile.
The movie you were wondering about for Stay in the Light was Darkness Falls. Without that bit of context, the fact that the description says you’re being pursued by the Tooth Fairy is even more absurd than it already is.
About korean comic, don't know if was the author, but someone made the comic "playable" again is in the Webtoon version. And two horror Flash games that I still remember the names is the Cube series, it was ported for mobile so you can play it there, and the Deep Sleep series, this one even gave me nightmares hahaha
the house brings back so many memories! me and my classmates used to play it in 2012 in the computer lab then out ourselves as playing games when we werent supposed to by yelling so much out of fear LOL
I remember Yahoo games used to have a bunch that weren't tagged as horror but were pretty creepy. Can't even think of the names but there were a lot that were religion based and had a pretty decent story.
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Honestly so tragic that the Bongcheon Dong Ghost doesn't work anymore
This scared me so much as a kid I stayed up for days
What the fuck, bingbong ghost was an all-timer
Horang's Nightmare is a webcomic series with the same vibes! If you want some nostalgic vibes while reading something new I'd highly recommend
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@@spookycinnamon3425 Same author
early flash horror games are so nostalgic to me. i remember back in 2010 when our teachers got smart boards and one of the first things our class used it for was the scary maze game. good times
same ehre
I remember being terrified of this one Flash game called "The Ugly" as a kid. You come home from school to find your parents murdered. I remember there being a nasty jump scare underneath the bed. Probably doesn't hold up anymore, but it sure stuck with me
Didn’t mah dry bread cover this one for Flash Trash?
Omg, I remember playing that! There's a terrible ending you can get if you decide to sleep on the couch, and the murderer finds you and......yeah it's not good😓
God that game scared me a lot as a kid
Holy crap I *completely* forgot about that terrifying experience. The drawing style is a little unsettling, and that music sting at the beginning was horrific. It was really graphic for a flash game too-I think it showed the bad guy actually r*ping your mom. Really messed up for a preteen who’d just started to understand sex and what that means. Yuck.
Side note tangent-turns out, the music sting is from the piece “Concerto Macabre” by Bernard Herrmann-he wrote for a number of Hitchcock films, including the famous Psycho theme! He also wrote for The Twilight Zone, Citizen Kane, Twisted Nerve (the song the nurse whistles in Kill Bill), Taxi Driver, and a ton of other classic movies. The piece itself is fantastic and a very interesting choice to use in that Flash game!
That fucken game use to scare me.specially when you find your dad's head in the toilet and have to get a key from his mouth
A personal favorite was the Alice is Dead series. It wasn’t explicitly horror, but the atmosphere was so unsettling that it always creeped me out. The trilogy really captured the dark side of the Alice in Wonderland books.
Yes! I haven’t thought about that series in years haha. It brings back so many memories
that series is actually currently being remastered for steam, if you want to revisit it in its most definitive form!
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That’s amazing. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.
i think about this game at least once a week. i really wish there was more content set in its universe
I remember always being upset it was so short lol
Bluemaxima's _Flashpoint_ is probably the most complete archive of Flash content I'm aware of, the team went to extraordinary lengths to preserve as much as they could in a fully functional state. Literally tens of thousands of games and animations can be accessed in that program. I'd start looking there for the missing titles.
its actually a bit over a hundred thousand games, shits crazy and i love them for it
Stay in the Light and Exmortis 3 are both there
Although Bongcheon Dong Ghost is not a flash game, but I think it could at least be added into Flashpoint just for the sake of the jumpscare
@@MatthewGhirardi _Flashpoint_ doesn't exclusively archive Flash content; Flash is their main focus but they archive content in other formats too.
They are missing mutant uprising tho 😢
The Bongcheon-Dong comic still scares the SHIT out of me😅 that sound has haunted me for like 12 years now
It took me a surprisingly long time to realize that Bongcheon was like a real name and not like a stoner meme combining dungeon and bong. The Dong suffix didn't help the assumption.
I used to call this dude the chong bong dong ghost. And it still gave me nightmares for like 3 years.
that burp at 17:03 was a bigger jumpscare than anything these games had
RIGHT it made me fucking jump 💀💀💀
Beautiful.
Exmortis 2 was one of the first things that truly, deeply traumatized me for years. My older sister at the time forced me to play it with her, as well as watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the two in combination gave me long-term fears of several random things (air ducts/crawlspaces, empty rooms, the time 3:00 AM) and insomnia from the ages of 9 - 11. I eventually began to systematically wake up before 3:00 AM every night, sit in fear for an hour, then finally be able to go back to sleep at 4:00 AM once the Evil Demon Hour™ had passed. Like, we didn't even go to church and I started to pray and shit for a while because of it.
It's all good though, since I love horror now!!
the intro to exmortis 2 gives me ptsd. Seeing it in this video gave me flashbacks. something about the red sky slowly invading the screen..
This game literally gave me dozens of nightmares throughout the years ever since I played it at 10 years old. That scene with the red clouds approaching and the cacophonous roaring of the exmortis was too much for me to handle as a child lol
Omg, that game…that game. The first and second one both got to me.
nice video sagan but im very disappointed that you did not mention the horror classic "garfields scary scavenger hunt"
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Yesssss i love that game, so much nostalgia
I remember in one of them you had to look at a painting and the most gentle jump scare would happen but I was 6 and cried
Radicalsoda introduced me to that one
The Deep Sleep games were some of my favourites! I always liked how vague and cryptic they felt and I love the style.
i still have nightmares about deep sleep its a game that will stick with me all my life i think
Yes! Also another series by the author, Don't Escape, was very cool
A flash game I vividly remember is "Haunted Mansion" and the upgraded version "Haunted Mansion 2014".
These were made on Stickpage and were basically a compilation of gory animations centered around the Mansion itself trapping and killing Stickmen in various ways.
The thing is, I remember actually losing sleep because of the Serial Killer death.
Now it looks grotesque, but as a kid? The creepy eyes, the weird smile, the lack of morbid humor as he just stabs his victim in such a ruthless and inhumane manner. Absolutely terrifying for kid me.
Edit: I just remembered another one: "The Hair in the Wall". It's technically not a flash game but it was made around the same time period for a similar demographic. While the scare itself is pretty bad, and Junji Ito's original work was much better, as a kid who didn't know any better, the story itself was what creeped me out.
A guy kills his wife and buries it inside a wall before forgetting about it altogether, and then getting obsessed over minor details related to this incident without remembering it. Chilling, just wished the execution was better.
Second Edit: Regarding Exmortis III, you can actually play it on a database called Flash Point 11 Infinity. I tried it myself and it works. Just need to tweak a little bit using the advice a pop-up window give you to run it and bypass the black screen. (Setting the game on Play instead of the default Loop)
For anyone looking for this, timestamped 5:22. ua-cam.com/video/D5iECkC4ec8/v-deo.html
About some of the games not being available to be played; there is a program called "BlueMaxima's Flashpoint" that has thousands of flash games archived, including Stay In the Light and Exmortis 3.
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The Exmortis series had me genuinely traumatised as a young kid. I don't think I'll ever forget the head in the microwave (and my mum shouting at me for screaming, playing it on the family PC in the living room). The Insanity was another series that had two games that relied on the same visceral gore. I feel weirdly nostalgic and fond of those rather terrifying memories now.
This! I know he clicked on everything in that room except the microwave for monetization reasons but that head in the microwave gave me nightmares as a kid.
Makes me sad to know Exmortis 3 is lost for now, because I absolutely loved that game, along with Exmortis 2. Equally scared the hell out of me, but satisfied those edgy kid cravings for classic exorcism horror.
@@anceptus Super late to the party, but Flashpoint has Exmortis 3. Look up like Flashpoint Archive or something like that. I can't link it here, but it's got a red triangular logo on the website.
Man I remember Hotel 626 being so popular at school. Whenever we stayed over at a classmate's house to do a school project, there would always be someone daring everyone to play the game. My favorite part was where you had to sing to a sleeping baby using your mic, we'd sing the dumbest shit just to ease the tension only to fuck it up and then the baby just jumpscares us.
I remember really enjoying the Gretel and Hansel games as a kid. They did really well at pairing a grungy, yet cartoony aesthetic with legitimate danger.
I remember playing those games as a kid but I never beat it because I didn't know what to do in it
@@skystoyhunts7225 I beat the first one, but never got past the first few screens of 2. That intro sequence was some good stuff tho lmao
The Hotel and Asylum games were genuinely soooo cool I really really want Doritos to do something like that again one day
Can’t forget one of the Flash games that scarred me for life as a kid: Nickelodeon’s Black Licorice 😰
those Cube games (made by Rusty Lake or something) were really fun too. More of a scary/unsettling puzzle game, but they were a lot of fun to me.
Rusty Lakes games are still going on and I have to agree they have a very surreal/unsettling vibe. Some of the more recent games (at least loosely) explain reoccurring things: The Cubes, the Shadows, The Girl in the Window (she does have a name but it's technically spoilers). Would recommend them if you liked the standalone ones.
All of them are available on Steam! I played them recently and honestly I think they hold pretty well, mostly on the unsettling vibe.
The past is never dead it’s not even past
Those games are so good. The full games made by the same company also are great though a lot longer but full of similar puzzles and all the stories connect
They are super fun and somewhat unsettling and surreal.
I remember playing this Grudge flash point and click game as a kid, where you play as a father who finds a motel, I think, to stay there with his family after they get stuck. Actually, when the game was doing a jumpscare, I tried to close the website in fear before it happened, but then the whole website froze and just stopped responding, with the game stuck on the screamer of the grudge. Definitely made it scarier for me.
The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost comic was always separate pages, what it actually did was scroll your screen down by the correct length to take you to the next panel along with play the sound effect.
I remember waiting til 6pm some nights to play Hotel 626 when it was still up an running back in the day. I don’t remember a lot of it explicitly, but I do remember it being a pretty decent game, definitely kept me up at night lmao
I remember that game so much lol. Especially the pool part. Huge rush of nostalgia.
That one image of the free ice cream game gave so much memories of me as a ten year old getting super scared from watching let's players play these games.
I never realized how much will actually almost mourn over some of the lost or fragmented memories of mine of old lost flash (horror) games until the 5 min mark. what a rich trove of lost media this is. I can't wait to see what and how many of the games I have strong memories of will be adapted.
There was this weird flash game that I think was horror, but it was like the game Machinarium and you played as this little robot guy in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world
they still make games! they made one that had a plant theme, and more recently a pretty unsettling horror one iirc
@@DarkLordFluffee ik! I've played them lol
Do y'all remember the name?
Is it Little Wheel? I remember being really creeped out by it as a kid.
BNKR?
Whelp, I’ve been listening to this as I cook dinner, and I glanced up RIGHT at 22:07. So that comic is still startling me even years later.
I just realized that with the scary maze game we can traumatize the next generation with it
I remember there was this website called point and click horror games and it was literally never updated and only had the same 5 game link for literally years! I think these horror games are why I'm so obsessed with horror as an adult!
If you like flash horror, you should totally check out Deep Sleep. That game made me shid my pants.
I agree! Deep sleep (and its sequels) are fantastic.
Oooh you teased me a little there Sagan. As someone who’s put hundreds of hours into Binding of Isaac I’d love to see you cover it as it’s one of my favorite games. There’s so much juicy lore content to unpack with it. I’d love to see your take and perspective on it.
Really fun video so far, your style and editing keeps getting better, dont stop improving.
Also alien isolation retrospective when? Love the hour long in depth videos and that one deserves the saigan treatment
Would’ve been nice to see Antumbra covered in this video. Not sure if it’s even still playable, but *that* would be my definition of a classic horror webgame from the flash era.
A sequel to Antumbra is being released on steam sometime soon actually
I forgot that I forgot about "The House." It scared the hell out of me when I was 12. Great to see it again. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Oh boy, The House! Still remember the first time i went through it. That creepy piano track is so fitting of the situation and the fact that it loops made it stick to my brain for a while.
When I was younger, my sister showed me a scary flash game that I remembered so distinctly, but I couldn't remember what it was called when I tried to find it again years later, my sister didn't either. It's called monster basement, and even though it can be a little wacky sometimes, it does a good job with the ambience and keeping it unsettling and mysterious the whole way through.
Ah yes Hotel 626. That game traumatized me as a kid but now it's goofy finding out Doritos made it 💀
does anyone remember Hotel 626? i remember it was made by Doritos and it scared the life out of me as a kid, especially the part where i found a picture of my face, sneakily taken from my webcam by the site
Yes of course, how could I forget that masterpiece haha
….it’s literally in the video
I'm so glad you talked about Exmortis. That was the first horror type game I played when I was in high school and it inspired me to write my own horror script for my friends and me.
Raid Shadow Legends ads feels like a modern screamer video. Jumpscaring me every fucking time.
I gotta say it, the comic still hits so badly. I was watching on a second monitor while gaming and I saw it out of the corner of my eye that you were talking about it so I looked out of the corner of my eye. My volume was on max and I felt my heart DROP I got chills all over my body that definitely still hits what a masterclass in horror. That scared me so badly that I still feel itchy and cold omg.
From a generational point of view it's interesting to see how sadder it is to see our favourite flash games disappiear. Previous Gens can recall and remember watching, reading or doing something they could probably still do but old games like these? Almost legitimately dead. Seeing the death of Flash,the recent execution of Miniclip and so many games now lost (i went back onto Armor Games and other Flash sites and it seems so barren in comparison now) it hits home hard. Memories will remain and funny i have memories of each of these games. Thanks Sagan
I know the Submachine series wasn't necessarily terrifying, but the ambience is absolutely unnerving 100% of the time. I was constantly worried that someone, would eventually show up because the loneliness was unbearable
The guy who made Submachine recently put on Steam a game called Slice of Sea and I'm going to promote it blatanly because his flash games made some very good memory from my childhood.
oh man, I LOVED Submachine.
4:15 to 4:32 is so painful. Reminds me of the whole debacle concerning the Cuphead tutorial, specifically the video Joseph Anderson made parodying the situation.
The one "horror" flash game series I always remember was the Deep Sleep trilogy. Less just horror and more unsettling amiance with *gorgeous* pixel art and an incredible anf at times deeply unsettling design. Loved the games to death.
The only horror game I've been able to handle personally (which happened to be a Flash game) was the Deep Sleep series. It's an incredible trilogy that introduced me to the idea of lucid dreaming, and the twist at the end of the third game (Deepest Sleep) is super compelling.
I was terrified of this one flash game called Vorago. It was about the book of revelations I think? It was heavily inspired by the mist as well.
I think I remember that one! The monsters were a bunch of locusts or something? Yeah, it was very much like The Mist I think, like the rapture had come and everyone left behind was just stuck in this Mist-like existence
Nothing brings me more joy than a classic Nancy Drew game reference, especially where I wasn’t expecting one.
I used to play this flash scary game in the 2000s/ early 2010s, I don't remember what it was called but you were in a hotel investigating a haunting, you could go to different rooms and use a variety of ghost hunting tools, the only one I remember was a recorder you could leave in a room, and when you came back it would have creepy whispers on it? I don't remember the game name but I have a vague memory of searching something like 'halloween hotel game' to get to the website that had it.
17:03 bruh that burp made me flinch so hard stop bruh
This was a fun little retrospective! Free Icecream and the Maze game are instant classics
One of my favorite horror flash games that I think deserved more attention was Dreamgate Escape. It had a cool mechanic of using your flashlight in the dark, but at the same trying to avoid pointing the flashlight at the ghosts/monsters in that darkness while you try to solve puzzles and escape. 👏👏
It probably won't happen but I hope there's going to be a Part 2 to this video since watching you discuss and play through these games feels really nostalgic, and even seeing you including Hotel 626 and The House genuinely put a smile on my face. 😄
oh my god i forgot about the house LOLLLL
I remember experiencing a screamer/jump scare similar to the maze game for the first time at age 10 and then not going on the computer for WEEKS after it
My first horror flash game was Thing Thing 2 first time I got further than my brother I got punched on the ear 👂 I’ve never been so immersed before it was as if I really felt it
I love Thing Thing too! But is it really horror?
I always felt like it was a bleak series but never really meant to scare you. Kinda like Madness Retaliation (with those goddamn zombies), or that shooter which I forgot the name of but you play as a spec ops sent to clear a building of infected creatures.
(Also that PowerPuff Girl fighting game where two endings of arcade mode end in actual genocide.)
@@realfromtherealreality4148 trust me any game is a horror when an unexpected ear punch is on the table 😂
@@blingsing5383 Fair enough! XD
@@realfromtherealreality4148 the creator says it was meant to be scary so I guess it does count as horror even if it isn't really made with that in mind entirely lol
6:09 bro that jumpscare used to get me so bad I couldn't sleep because of it. I'm pretty sure I played this game at school with classmates watching, the head falling out terrified me LOL
I forgot about the comic! God, it terrified me as a kid! I remember stumbling on it late one night, nearly peeing myself when the first jump scare happened.
I bookmarked the page, and told myself I’d revisit it another day, to finish it… but never did. I think part of it was just preserving that piece of childhood horror, until slowly I just forgot about it.
Shame to hear it no longer works. That was a tent pole horror moment for me.
And you know what? It stuck with me. I was barely paying attention when you got to that point in the video, but that sound, one I haven’t heard in… probably over a decade, it instantly brought me back. I knew what I’d see when I looked back over.
Thank you for bringing that back to me, hahaha.
never grew up with these so it's fascinating to see this side of the internet history being recounted!
8:50 dude the way i just got yanked to my childhood from the intro music to free icecream. this game was a fundamental part of my internet experience around 2013-2014
Genuinely completely forgot abt the game "the house" and as soon as I saw the gameplay a whole flood of forgotten memories came rushing back Into my mind
I remember playing both The House games in computer class in high school. good times.
I definitely remember The House and that Korean horror comic. The comic scared the crap out of me, it was really well done!
oh i am so pleased to see someone talk about exmortis that game freaked me out in the best way possible back in the day
22:06 made me jump that was timed very well
Deep Sleep series, Ghostscape series, Ouija Board, Scary Maze Game, Exmortis series, Escape from Crystal Lake, Escape from Elm street/Nightmare House, Silent Hill series, Hotel 626, Escape the Boogeyman, Purgatorium, The Grudge, and the Darkness series---are the flash horror games of my childhood
Damn, these games give me so much nostalgia. It just sucks most of them are unplayable now, but at least the memories remain. 👏👏👏
Dude, I have been trying to remember what The Darkness was called for like a decade. You just helped me finally crack the case. Thank you!
Man this took me back. I know a lot of the games that struck a nerve with me are probably the type considered more unsettling than scary but the feelings from playing them stayed for a long time.
Neverending Light was just a demo for a project that ended up not going anywhere but navigating a pitch black cave system with only a flashlight as man eating creatures stalked the player was jarring for young me.
The Visitor wasn't scary per say but it was iconic.
I only played Darkness ep 1 but the jump scare in the bathroom instilled a fear of any horror game bathroom that haunts me to this day.
And of course, Alice is Dead. I am so happy they are working on a remake of the trilogy although it probably won't carry the same foreboding feeling as stumbling across the originals online.
I'm still traumatized by the scary maze game 😂😂
You are awakening memories within me that I had long since forgotten
I love that one part of the death knight ad where he's basically like "Bro, people keep asking me to kms"
A flashgame I used to remember playing a flash game back then called “Ghost Motel” there were like 11 or 12 parts idk but that game used to scared me when I was 7-8 years old lol...and another flash game called “The Darkness” there was like 3 parts to that game.. you just have to escape from this girl spirit, I remember being too scared when it finds you. Missing flash games.
Dayum I still remmeber that one part of hotel626 is that it uses your microphone. You need to move through the room without making any noise
I just found you a few days ago and I'm happy I did! Your content is **chef's kiss**
Man this brings back some memories! Really loving your Nostalgia-related videos!
Back then everything was so primitive and simple, and I remember that I spent so many countless hours as a child playing flash games, including most of these Horror Games you were showing here (boy did I regret playing them back then haha!). With programs like BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, these memories can live on!
DAMN I remember playing Asylum 626 and the thing that got me so scared of the game was the fact that the lights went out in our town the moment we ended playing. And I played it at my cousin's house so I had to walk through our pitch black town just to come back to our place. Mind you I was like 7 or 8 when this happened so like it was pretty traumatizing.
I remember playing The House back in 3rd grade in 2011 in a classroom with some friends after school. It was one of those after school program things and my teacher was cool with anything for the most part and allowed us to play games if we finished work early. I literally couldn’t sleep for nights even in a lit classroom with friends and safety I felt so scared to the core. It doesn’t hold up necessarily but some of the jumpscares still get me at times lol. After being exposed to more horror games, movies, and stories I’m pretty much laughing at the memories of what I thought was scary
God, I love those things. I didn't really know English at the time, so the whole experience was all the more scarier. Like for example I remember the story-heavy The Miller Estate and their gimmick was a limited amount of clicks until you die, so if you really don't know what are you doing, you're getting jumpscared. 10 yo me was absolutely traumatized. Same with the microwave in Exmortis - actually, I was so scared to continue after that, I would read a walk-through in the comments instead like a horror story. Also I loved Submachine and Daymare town even thought it's not exactly a horror series, Mateusz Skutnik is definitely an unique flash game dev.
Other stuff I remember:
- Morbid by Skutnik again
- 3 part series about A Dead Girl With Black Hair. I think it was called The Darkness and the last one took place on a train.
- The one about a red-haired woman constantly having the same dream about some girl in a specific house, so she goes to investigate it
- Room escape games. Some of them had the weirdest vibe and item combos.
(My first stupid jumpscare game was by a dev called Ninja something and they had a ton of them. It was one of those bait "Can you spot what's wrong here?" images of completely normal rooms, so you would really concentrate trying to guess what is it that you are missing. You can guess what happened after a couple of minutes.)
this video unlocked an old memory of mine of playing one of these point and click horror games back in the day! it was called "La Piedra de Anamara" and I believe it only had spanish and portuguese versions out there, although I could be wrong and it could exist in english somewhere under a different name. It's set in a haunted mansion and spooky things happen when you click certain objects or figure out certain puzzles. I had completely forgotten about it but now I remember getting pretty badly scared by one of these jumpscares and my mom running to the bedroom thinking something hurt me lol
Great video btw! I was thinking about lost flash games just the other day and I think it's a neat coincidence that this video came out when it did.
You are by far one of my favorite horror UA-camrs
Now that’s agreeable
Man, there were so many horror flash games. I remember as a kid basically having unrestrained access to the internet and even though I was a scaredy cat, I also loved horror and the stories I would come across in these spooky flash games. My memory is a little foggy, but I remember really enjoying Scary house (I think that was what it was called?) and a couple of others called The Insanity and The Insanity 2. The Last Stand was pretty good and I also remember loving all the zombie games that came out. The Bible/Christian horror series was pretty scary too but I can't remember its name either. Man, this is unlocking a lot of memories
I'm glad you namedropped Don't Escape, because Scriptwelder's catalogue of creations was hugely influential on me as an artist. That, Cube Escape, and The Last Door... Spooky point-and-click games really had a moment back in the days of Flash, huh?
I know it wasn’t a horror game, but when I think of unnerving flash games, I always think of Dark Cut. Something about that game just made me feel weird as a kid.
fr that game was eery
stop!!!!! the second the house music started playing i tensed up
That clip of Fancy Pants made me want to scream “YOU CANT MAKE THAT JUMP, STOP TRYING”
Great vid as always
I was growing up on the internet right after they had phased out of their initial popularity and it's honestly a shame that I've only found out about them after they've already become unavailable:( fantastic video! 💛💛💛
I remember Exmortis. Glad you covered it!
Stay in the light was another one that was good for loads of tension.
Thumbnail alone is causing Vietnam war flashbacks
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite YT channels. Take you time making videos! Quality takes time!
4:15 *OMG HES CRACKED!*
watching this channel grow has been a genuine pleasure
Bro the house is like my childhood!! Me and my friends played it at school in computer class lol. I’m glad that you put it in your amazing video
I was so scared of scary maze game when I was younger!
I didn't play too much horror when I was a kid, but I tried to get over my fears in order to play Gretel and Hansel on Newgrounds. There's some graphic scenes there that get a lot more creepier due to the art style, but it's that some art style that got me fascinated with it in the first place. It's also a very interesting take on the original tale w Gretel as the main chara. Sadly, it ended in a bit of a cliffhanger and I don't think a part 3's gonna come out any time soon
Exmortis was the source of some formative memories for me, I was actually excited to it mentioned as a lot of people I know forgot it existed.
My personal favorite flash horror game was always Lüt's Darkness series. They were pretty atmospheric and unnerving for the time. Never beat them tho, since I sucked at games as a kid. Escape from hell, the one where it's the demons being let loose in the prison was another one I enjoyed. I actually managed to beat both of those back in the day as well.
These definitely fall under the "unsettling" category rather than horror, but the Cube Escape games were easily some of my favorite flash games. I'd stumbled upon The Theatre entirely by accident one night and it was such a captivating and unnervingly surreal experience.
Playing a certain set of piano keys only for half the keys to fall away and an arm to reach out and hand me a key for a nearby drawer was an experience that stuck with me.
Thankfully Cube Escape and Rusty Lake as a whole got moved to Steam and mobile.
The movie you were wondering about for Stay in the Light was Darkness Falls. Without that bit of context, the fact that the description says you’re being pursued by the Tooth Fairy is even more absurd than it already is.
About korean comic, don't know if was the author, but someone made the comic "playable" again is in the Webtoon version.
And two horror Flash games that I still remember the names is the Cube series, it was ported for mobile so you can play it there, and the Deep Sleep series, this one even gave me nightmares hahaha
Hotel and Asylum 626 were such amazing experiences for me when I was a kid lol, it stuck with me forever.
the house brings back so many memories! me and my classmates used to play it in 2012 in the computer lab then out ourselves as playing games when we werent supposed to by yelling so much out of fear LOL
I remember Yahoo games used to have a bunch that weren't tagged as horror but were pretty creepy. Can't even think of the names but there were a lot that were religion based and had a pretty decent story.