on the Computer, they made a game that is like solitaire, but it has spiders in it

Tomb Raider (1996) the final levels set in Atlantis the walls are living flesh and use a gif of a real beating heart as textures.

Genocide City was reused as Chrome Gadget Zone in a competition mode of Sonic 3.

1987 text adventure Jack the Ripper (along with a handful of other games) was developed by an organization that might have been a neo-nazi sex cult.

I’m playing ATOM RPG rn, every part of the game is the basis for a creepypasta

So there’s this ghost girl in pokemon-

I have an example of the opposite. In Cultist Simulator, a card game about summoning eldritch horrors and bringing about the next phase of the world, there are occult paintings you can make that represent a significant power in their principle. The Secret Histories painting is cut from the main game, but you can spawn it using the console. It depicts in a really silly art style two lovers significant to the principle kissing.

Literally every indie game: Here’s a cute whimsical adventure that’s actually about trauma

I mean that with love, it’s just something I’ve noticed

In dungeon keeper there’s a hidden message from a developer about how working on the game has taken a toll on their health and social lives; there’s another game with a far more haunting hidden developer message but for the life of me I can’t remember the game.

In (thief 2?) there’s a ship with a corpse in it; the corpse is seemingly alive as it bleeds when you attack it; it almost can’t be killed, but if you carry it to the ship’s edge and dump it overboard, you hear it die. It’s most likely supposed to be a vampire, probably inspired by Dracula as Dracula in the novel also traveled at one point via boat (wherein he killed the crew).

In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, saving in Frostcrag Spire, quitting, uninstalling the Wizard’s Tower DLC, then loading the save dumps you in a debug cell the plugin overwrites which - among other things - connects to a completely unlit Oblivion tower. If you’re in a part of the wizard’s tower that doesn’t overlap with a in-bounds part of the debug map, you fall out of bounds when loading the file.

(In a decidedly un-scary note, you can retrieve a severely broken debug weapon and one of each sigil stone with every single effect while you’re in BrumaTests)

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the mannequins used to display armour are NPCs with a custom texture and script that makes behave like an object.

Under certain circumstances the script may not trigger immediately and the mannequins will silently move around whatever cell they’re in.

Mario Kart Arcade GP’s rom includes an image taken at the Beslan school hostage crisis, where over 300 people were killed

a mistreated freelance artist included a little shrine to his girlfriend in the halo 1 map boarding action

in the shrek 1 game if you fall out of bounds you get teleported into a small area where the escape menu is disabled, the only way to leave is to turn off the console. on the xbox version you get put into a weird, tiny chicken purgatory. on the gamecube version it’s a little gamecube.

i actually just learned this today, but apparently, in final fantasy tactics, there’s a monster that under certain extremely specific and rare circumstances, can use an attack that permanently and irreversibly transforms the target into a copy of the monster.

• The game over screen of Hong Kong 97 has a photo of a real corpse, taken from a Japanese film called New Death File III, although I use the term ”film” loosely since it’s really just a collection of people dying similar to Faces of Death. It’s a man who died in the Yugoslavian wars.

• There are a couple of creepy easter eggs in GTA: San Andreas like a hole with body bags and a truck parked nearby in the desert outside Las Venturas and a rusty wheelchair on a pier (which is really just a Texas Chain Saw Massacre reference). There are also references to a cult called the Epsilon Program found in the game.