There is something sinister about dolls; they’re a little too far down in the uncanny valley for most, and we’ve all known a sweet old grandma who didn’t seem quite as sweet once she brought up her eerie doll collection.
Don Mancini recognized this, and, in the late 1980s, created one of the scariest horror villains ever to grace the screen. Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky, is a foul-mouthed, slightly hilarious, and downright scary living doll. If you are a fan of Child’s Play, you may want to have this experience in game form. What games can allow you to get the “Charles Lee Ray” experience? Check out the list below.
10 Emily Wants To Play
This is likely one of the first games that come to mind when talking about dolls in video games. Emily Wants to Play requires you to survive throughout the night in a haunted home. You will be confronted with three different dolls: Kiki, Chester, and Mister Tatters. Each one requires a different strategy for you to beat them. While it helps to know the strategy, the main goal is to hide and avoid these guys at all costs. It’s unsettling and truly evokes the spirit of Child’s Play.
9 Resident Evil 2
This one may seem like it doesn’t fit. However, it does. Chucky is the ultimate stalker. In all movies, you never know where he is going to be next. People disappear, and many of the characters have no idea what happened until it’s too late.
Well, there is a famous stalker in the horror game universe that could probably do the same: Mr. X. This guy pursues Leon and Claire with relentless determination. His footsteps alone can evoke fear. If you want a similar stalking experience as a Child’s Play movie, check out this title.
8 Dead By Daylight
Much like Resident Evil 2, the experience of this game definitely makes you feel like you are in a movie like Child’s Play 1 or 2. You are tasked with working with a team to start up generators so you can escape a nightmare-filled land where murderous monsters stalk you.
There is also another connection between this game and Child’s Play. In Bride of Chucky, it was revealed that he shares a universe with Mr. Freddy Krueger, Jason, and Michael Myers. Well, you get to play against these villains during Dead by Daylight. What a nice nod!
7 Layers Of Fear
Remember that level, the one where your fear of dolls is tested? During the “Brush” level, you have to come face-to-face with your daughter’s doll collection. Well, these guys, much like Chucky, are seemingly real. They move whenever you aren’t looking, a common practice by the Chuck-man himself. It’s terrifying and may even cause you to cut this game off when things get too intensely scary.
6 Bendy And The Ink Machine
Bendy and Child’s Play have something significant in common. They both use child-friendly mediums to make the characters comfortable and then snatch that security later on.
For Bendy, it’s being cartoonish and Disney-Esque; for Child’s Play, it’s the Good Guy Doll. Either way, these situations are smokescreens for their true intentions. Much like Child’s Play, Bendy, who is really the Ink Demon, will stalk and haunt you, just like the master hunter himself, Chucky.
5 Five Nights At Freddy’s
Much like Bendy and The Ink Machine, Five Nights At Freddy’s has close proximity to kid-friendly entertainment. However, much like Child’s Play, its connection to children is disturbing and involves murder. In Five Nights, the enemies, the animatronics, are looking for revenge.
There are many theories about this game, but the prevailing belief is that they want to harm those that hurt them. While Chucky’s intentions are a bit murky, he also is in the business of pursuing those he feels deserve punishment or reckoning. Many of the themes in his game are alive and well in Child’s Play.
4 Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
What do you get when you combine child sacrifice, grief, and a twin left behind? A recipe for terror and a nice little homage to Child’s Play, that’s what. In the game Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, a twin is sacrificed in a village.
To help his daughter cope, the father creates a life-size doll. Unfortunately, the doll is inhabited by an evil spirit….sound familiar? Both of these pieces of media deal with possession, the awful actions that follow, and a terrified viewer—or game player—who has to move through it. You’ll probably want to keep the lights on.
3 Silent Hill 4: The Room
Okay, so the relation to Child’s Play isn’t throughout the whole game, but there is one part in particular that fans of this franchise will enjoy. In Silent Hill 3, players were introduced to Robbie, a cartoon rabbit. Well, if you spy on your neighbor in Silent Hill 4, then you will see Robbie facing the other way. If you look again, Robbie can be seen facing you.
You don’t see him move, but it does seem like he is alive. For much of the first part of Child’s Play, it isn’t totally clear if Chucky is alive, even though it feels like he is. There are little clues that something weird is going on, and this scene in Silent Hill 4 is a great reminder of this plot.
2 Resident Evil 7
This one is based on the pure charisma of the patriarch of the Baker family, Jack. This guy can cause you to pause just from his one-liners. He doesn’t just torture you physically, but he gets into your mind, as well.
He is deranged, one of the most challenging bosses in the game, and the things he says confirm his insanity. Mr. Charles Lee Ray also has this gift. Though similarly terrifying, both of these antagonists are charismatic and can even be construed as funny at times.
1 Dark Deception
This game has a lot going on; there are various levels and storylines here, but the one that made it onto this list is Elementary Evil. Here, you are chased by Agatha, a deformed person with the body of a little girl, through a school setting.
Much like most Child’s Play films, the chapter gives off a “hide and seek” vibe. There are even a few moments that feel like you are playing through the school scene in Child’s Play 2. It’s scary, tense, and makes you feel like you are running from Chucky.
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