Although not designed as a horror game in any sense, Elden Ring has its fair share of frightening and disturbing moments. The most common of these is the stress and terror created by the game's intense fights, but Elden Ring also has some horror elements baked into certain locations, enemies, and concepts.
For example, Elden Ring's Dung Eater character is one of the most horrifying enemies and concepts in the game. The character's introduction, lore, and quest line all serve to tell a revolting story that left many players furious at the character as well as frightened by his implications. While the game gives the option to carry out the Dung Eater's will, many players instead chose to slay the monstrous NPC.
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In the case of zones, Caelid is a festering wound of an area, filled with scarlet rot and mutated, horrifying creatures, and that's without mentioning Elden Ring's Starscourge Radahn boss who waits at the far end of the zone for players to discover. However, perhaps none of the areas in the game are as terrifying as the gardens of Caria Manor, which are dim and filled with mist. As if the atmosphere of the area wasn't enough, the area is teeming with one of the game's scariest enemies: the fingercreepers, more commonly known as the spider hands.
While Elden Ring's Godrick may have an inferiority complex, rest assured that fingercreepers are nightmarish beasts with zero qualms about their existence. They come in a small size and a much larger, more terrifying form. Their attacks are quick, and include a terrifying grab attack that crushes the player in their many-fingered grasp. However, perhaps the scariest aspect of these creatures is that they can be found
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