Forgotten PlayStation exclusive praised as the "best horror game ever" by fans

A PlayStation-exclusive horror you can’t play anymore is still unmatched with its spooks and scares.

While there’s a big long list of horror games you can play this Halloween, there aren’t many that hold a candle to P.T. and fans know it.

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Released exclusively for the PlayStation 4, P.T. was an elaborate misdirection from none other than Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro and was basically one massive playable teaser for a Silent Hill game that unfortunately never happened.

When Kojima and Konami went their separate ways, P.T. was ripped from the PlayStation store, so if you’ve currently got it downloaded on your PS4, congratulations, your console is now worth a lot of money to collectors. Guillermo Del Toro is actually campaigning for the demo’s re-release.

It was highly praised by fans for being a genuinely terrifying experience which saw players endlessly wander through the same hallway, with each loop becoming more and more warped and disturbed until the entity messing with you finally attacked.

To add to the horror, fans who have pulled the game apart shared that the monster is actually always behind the player’s camera, following you while you’re blissfully unaware of its presence.

It’s genuinely distressing, and Reddit user macaronicheezy recently praised the game in a post proclaiming “If there's been a scarier moment in video games, I've yet to experience it.”

Below was a screenshot of one of the brief instances when the creature in PT revealed itself, which likely led to thousands of gamers jumping out of their skin in fright.

Other fans couldn’t have agreed more, recalling their experience with the glorified demo as well as their sadness that it didn’t lead to a full game.

“Played this once & only once. But damn the rush was fantastic. Home alone as a teenager in a dark bedroom, I’ve never been more terrified playing a game.”

“That game has so much potential it still hurts.”

“What was supposed to be just a playable trailer went down in history as one of the best horror games ever… Lucky those that downloaded it on time and kept it in their PS4.”

It’s a shame one of the greatest horrors ever made isn’t playable for so many people, but in a way, its inaccessibility is what makes it so interesting and special.

Topics: PlayStation, PT, Konami