Top 10 Most Disturbing Video Game Moments

Oh THAT’s why it was rated M for Mature. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our Top 10 Top 10 Disturbing Video Game Moments.

For this list, we'll be ranking all the moments in our favourite video games that made us have to turn our heads. Obviously a lot of mature content ahead, and spoilers are abound so be extra cautious.

Seeing your comrades get killed can be a hard pill to swallow, but witnessing them become human sacrifices to an evil alien race's experiment is a hill no one wants to cross. If you take a bit too long to get to the Collector Base, you arrive a smidge too late and have to watch the perky Yoeman Kelly Chambers get painfully turned into goo. With the process already underway, players are left with nothing but Kelly Chamber's screams of terror while the rescue team desperately searches for a way to free the surviving members. If that wasn’t bad enough, a newly freed Dr. Chakwas goes into even more graphic details about the whole liquefaction process. Gross…

During this twisted segment of the unorthodox RPG game, players find themselves in a situation where they must perform a fake abortion on Randy Marsh disguised as a woman. The mini-game's procedures are inappropriately detailed, with players not only required to inject and probe Mr. Marsh, but vacuum him afterwards. It is also in the best interest of the player to not mess up and expose Randy as a man, as it will result in the main character being shot to death by agents dressed in black. This type of sequence appears again later in the game when the player has to perform an abortion on a sentient A.I. Nuke inside Mr. Slave’s Anus – but it’s worse the first time. Is there ever “too much” when it comes to South Park? Australia and Europe thought so, since these moments are censored from the game in those versions.

After the announcer yells “Finish Him!” You know what to do. In this fighting game, the combatants fight for keeps, and hold nothing back when it's time to claim their victory. The Mortal Kombat series is infamous for their extremely violent fatality moves, which have only managed to get more graphic and gorey as the years have progressed. Broken bones, misplaced organs, and torn ligaments are usually only the beginning of the horror show once the player enters that special sequence of buttons. Anyone who’s ever been upset by an ESRB rating has this mechanic to thank, since they were the tipping point that inspired the now infamous ratings board.

In a rather chilling homage to H.P. Lovecraft’s Pickman’s Model, located to the north-west of the Railroad’s Old North Church lies an art gallery where it’s titular artist uses a certain style to create his work: That style being: People, dead people. Among Pickman’s finest work is a mural created with the heads and mutilated corpses of Raiders. Oh and those red portraits you see around the gallery? I got news for you: That’s not paint he used. This whole thing is so twisted that you’d be forgiven if you missed the bobble head in the last room.

MGS V really REALLY goes above and beyond to shock the player. Whether it's surgically removing a bomb from a conscious woman's intestines, or bearing witness to Quiet being tortured, Boss has never been afraid to get his hands dirty for the greater good. However, nothing could have prepared him for this ordeal. After a second string of the vocal chord parasite finds its way into Mother Base, Big Boss forced to shoot and kill each and every soldier infected as they suffer and beg for mercy. Snake marches through and completes his mission in complete silence.

How far would you go to save someone you love? This question is put to the test when a deranged murderer forces Ethan to amputate his own finger on camera in exchange for the safety of his son. Ethan is giving strict instructions, a time limit, and an assortment of sharp instruments in order to complete the task. The tension in the scene couldn't be higher, as players are forced to engage in the sadistic act via a button sequence. If completed, you're forced to watch Ethan scream out in agony while mourning the loss of his severed pinky.

In this game's ending, the main character becomes one with the evil entity he sought out to destroy. Strapped to a chair and left vulnerable, the phantom antagonist Alma forces herself onto the main character. The player is then thrown into a nightmare sequence that sees them fighting against an illusion, while also being flashed images and sounds of Alma physically raping you. The sequence offers the player a false sense of security by prompting them to tap a button to resist, but try as you might, the conclusion ends with the poltergeist exposing her baby bump.

Surgery is never a fun experience, especially when you have to perform the act on yourself. Systems engineer Isaac Clarke finds himself in this unfortunate predicament upon realizing the information he needs to destroy the marker is embedded in his right eye socket. The game then requires the player to take control of the nerve-racking operation, by slowly lowering a lethal mechanical device precisely into his pupil. Isaac's escalating heartbeat and darting eyes does little to help your steady hand, as one wrong slip and ...

This game's horror depictions, are the kind of stuff nightmares are made of. The Silent Hill series has made it a goal to completely traumatize its players with its taboo imagery, and this one moment has most likely topped them all. Beating out the scenario where you are forced to confront what very well may be the embodiment of child molestation, is the scene where you witness Pyramid Head violating a couple of the enemy mannequins in a dark corridor. What may be more terrifying than the scene itself is the fact that each of the monsters are void of sound or emotion, making the debacle particularly chilling.

Before we unveil our pick for Top Disturbing Video Game Moment, here are a few honorable mentions:

Killing Mission Vao
“Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” (2003)

White Phosphorus
“Spec Ops: The Line” (2012)

Elizabeth's Lobotamy
“Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea” (2013)

The Dark Room
“Life is Strange” (2015)

Video games have given the players the option to kill innocent characters for years, but when it is the prime objective of your mission, how easy is it for you to pull the trigger? This highly controversial moment tested the resolve of each and every player on the game's fourth mission, where they are specifically instructed to slaughter an airport full of civilians in order to secure your Markarov’s men. The depictions of chaos and murder are undeniably disturbing, especially given the all-too-close to life subject matter – but the worst part of all might be that you don’t actually have to ever pull the trigger here, but most players did anyway.

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