Lack of consequence is what makes me think the OIALT scenes are scarier. Yeah the scenes are set up better in Eternum's red herring server but nothing is going to happen to the MC if the Mrs Fink gets to you which is why it did not work for me. Same with the annie date. If the monsters get to you no big deal. At least for me for horror scenes to work there needs to be consequences and a scene with praetorians chasing after Orion would be a lot more scary than Mrs Fink or the Xenomorphs because unlike them the praetorians can excommunicate/kill you. The only horror scenes in eternum that worked for me were the smaller dream sequences.
And the final scene of 0.5 was not scary/disturbing to me at all. Mostly because a lot of people had already theorized here the NPCs were dead people. Personally I found it more interesting than scary - it made me want to learn more about the plot and what comes next as opposed to disturbing me. It was not a scary scene to me but a scene that hyped me up for the next update.
