Why is Minecraft so Creepy?

In my opinion, the lack of atmosphere in Minecraft is really unsettling. The fact that you're alone in an open empty world is already creepy, but without the sounds of crickets or birds chirping, it makes the world seems dead and un inhabited, and it gives you the feeling that you're being watched or followed by some unknown enemy.

The thing that creeps me out about Minecraft isn't the sounds, it's the lack of sounds. Whenever there isn't music or ambience, the silence is deafening.

If you're on peaceful mode minecraft becomes more creepy. It gives feelings of isolation even with the animals it still feels like if we are isolated

Every time I play Minecraft alone, I always feel watched by something or someone. It makes me feel so uneasy and afraid. This is why I play Minecraft only with my friends. It reminds me of Source games.

you know sometimes when you're showering and you just don't want to close your eyes because you think or feel some "thing" will pop out when you open your eyes back. that's exactly the feeling I get when playing minecraft.

The mobs in Minecraft don’t really scare me. What scares me the most is that I’m completely alone and I get this feeling that I’m being watched. I usually play creative and when I’m not playing in creative mode, I play in survivor in one of the villages where there are npcs.

Some of the most creepiest experiences I've had in Minecraft are definitely related to emptiness and not feeling alone... ...Turns out that since creepers don't make any ambient sound it sounds like another player when they're moving around. And because I didn't know that, I found some late night mining sessions on a friend server just a bit too unnerving when I knew no one else was on but I could still hear footsteps in the walls.

I agree with many things in this video, but my main fear is simply the feeling of being alone and the fact that something might pop out of the corner. I don't mean a mob just something paranormal. It's just a fear that makes me not like playing Minecraft. If I'm playing with friends the fear is pretty much gone, but the moment I'm alone I have a terrible feeling in my stomach while playing.

The end has always been the creepiest. I’ve wondered where the end cities come from, and why the music is distorted and you can here sounds of disks skipping and stuff.

Lol I was playing this ripoff version of minecraft and everywhere it was surrounded by fog so the player couldn't see far distances. What made it more scary was that there was no music and only tiny subtle sounds like digging etc. I had to stop playing bc it scared the daylights outta me when animals would just casually walk up lol

Whenever I play Minecraft alone, it’s like I’m being watched Allow me to tell what it feels like in a cinematic way You’ve built your house, you go to the village to trade, and in your way back, you see a flash of light in the forest behind you. You feel watched, alone in a world with trillions of blocks. Someone has to be here. You run into the forest and see, a chicken. You go on top of a tree and see nothing, but you know nothings there. You go back to the house and you feel like if you look out the window you would see something you don’t want. You board up the windows and log off. And not log on again for ages I wonder why we feel watched when we play it alone. I think it’s because of the “liminal space” element. I also notice when I play Minecraft in the daytime it’s calming mostly, but later at night I feel more watched

I think making your base in villages helps a little, I can play survival on my own without being unnerved or feeling isolated as many people here seem to agree on and I always choose a village to live with and expand

minecraft pocket edition was so eerie. barley any sound, the world felt so alone, the fog, something about it

When I play Minecraft I feel like I’m being watched, not by the mobs but something else.

i hate the fact that i always need someone to play with or be in a call to not get too scared when playing minecraft. im a HUGE coward, especially with a big fear of being alone and the unknown. one time, i was playing after a few years, and i didn't know the game had more cave sounds since i last played. i was without torches and deep underground when Cave19 came out of nowhere and bit me in the ass. it was enough to basically make a grown ass dude panic so hard i started to cry. i think that moment has scarred me, cause i can never play survival alone again, even if i know i turned off all ambience in the sound settings i just realized the wall of text i pulled off, holy shit lol

6:33 in my opinion this sounds like a very scary monster in the cave behind the corner

Brilliant video! I've been playing minecraft since I was 13 and I honestly always felt quite scared. Only now I've been playing it again on Survival, with shaders and textures, and it doesn't feel as creepy as it used to

I Remember the creepiest part of minecraft for me to be playing on a superflat creative world on xbox 360 something about building empty city buildings in an empty flat barren world gave me random feelings of discomfort like something was in the game or behind me irl that were so intense that I would have to quit the game Tldr: i find minecrafts horror is at its scariest when there's no reason for it to be scary

I feel the same thing while playing gmod. Im just... So creeped out from the music

I used to play in a world where I was building a city on an island. I could fly it from one end of it to another in a minute and everything was so easy to see. Later I added walls around 15 blocks high that would prevent me from seeing what's outside. It was the best experience I have ever had. I completely secluded myself with familiar things, farms, villagers with right trades and great ender chest that I would carry around. I didn't even mine that much. When my hard drive died and I have lost that world, I started a new one, and immediately felt this creepy feeling of being completely alone. Now I feel uneasy around my starter house: the dark oak forest across the river, the empty village on the top of the hill in the far, the distant cave opening lighted by a torch, the stone shore with a wandering lonely villager that escaped from villager breeder. I am considering looking for a specific seed for another world or just getting a beacon and mining out tons of materials to build high walls again.