Well haha could be for you but my opinion is the other’s in this genre are not scary at all to me but P.T almost gave me a heartattack i could not even play it alone anymore! Everything about it was perfect for me and to scary at the same time. A high budget demo gave me more fun and scares than fully released horror games. Could be they used stuff you can find all around in other horror games but they made the right combination and nailed it.

What “shock factor”? What was in PT that wasn’t already a horror trope? The jittery ghost lady with pop up moments? Crying baby noises? Blood everywhere? Locked doors opening when you just checked them? PT had nothing truly special compared to other similar experiences that came before aside from a bigger budget and better graphics for the time. Now that time has passed and this haunted house sim genre continues on. Continually referring back to a high budget demo above all others does the rest of the genre a disservice.

The only thing in PT that can be even sort of considered “shocking” in comparison to what othera have done was the sink baby….and that was ripped straight out of Eraserhead.

And still they have nothing like P.T his shock factor