Summary
With exploration as a primary focus, Dread Delusion offers plenty of chances to run into different factions, NPCs, and enemies. As you collect and exchange Apostatic Passports with bridge guards to access different regions, though, you’ll find that some foes are far scarier than others.
If you’re still on the fence about picking up this game, the enemies listed below should help push you to one side or the other; do the horrors of Dread Delusion’s setting inspire a morbid curiosity within you, or do they simply increase your urge to play more laid-back titles? It’s likely only time will tell.
Enemies listed were chosen largely on their looks, but game mechanics and stats occasionally played a role in the selection process as well, where applicable.
9The Corrupted
The Clockwork Kingdom’s Unfortunate, Mutated Victims
On top of the Clockwork King seemingly going mad and spouting what most would label nonsense, the Clockwork Kingdom has been fighting an ongoing battle with some kind of plague or corruption, infecting the land and living beings wherever it can.
Sadly, many of the kingdom’s citizens have fallen victim to this affliction, turning into mutated and aggressive husks of their former selves, much like the creatures you’d fight in Dead Space. Those lucky enough to avoid such a tragic fate have named them The Corrupted.
8Mechanical Spiders
The Clockwork Kingdom’s engineers had near limitless potential with their steampunk-style contraptions, and at the end of the day, they decided to make big, train-like, mechanical spiders to serve as messengers, and if needed, soldiers.Do they not have arachnophobia?
Well, maybe that’s the point. Everyone is born into and grows up in different environments, which then shape their perception of the world. The Clockwork Kingdom must’ve figured if they’re going to create an army, they might as well go to war with the enemy’s psychology, too.
7Masked Goblins
The Ones With The Big Swords, Specifically
Long, skinny limbs, eye-catching wooden masks, and a big, hidden mouth that’ll surely take a chunk out of you if it gets the chance; yep, you just found a Masked Goblin. Oh, and if you find a higher-ranking one, they’ll be carrying a big sword, too.
While the backstory of these enemies is rather tragic, it doesn’t make them any less scary or creepy. If you’re a Studio Ghibli fan, they might remind you of that shadowy creature with the white mask from Spirited Away.
6First Follower Of The Crystal Goddess
Surprisingly Strong, And Loyal To The End
If you’ve explored the Realm of the Endless to the west, you might’ve run into strange enemies and NPCs with crystals growing out of them. Upon further investigation, you’ll run into the Crystal Goddess, the deity responsible for the crystalline phenomena.
If you decide it’s best to put an end to the Goddess, the very first follower of this deity will immediately turn on you, brandishing a tome and a sword. While this enemy isn’t very scary by their looks, the element of surprise, coupled with a high health pool, surely is.
5Endless Knight
Not Having Legs Really Adds To The Scare Factor
These winged, legless enemies wear spiked armor, brandish a particularly long-reaching blade, and make no attempt to hide their tall, gaping maw, serving as an apt mechanism for devouring your flesh.Similar to zombies, their hunger is insatiable and unrelenting.
Although, zombies typically can’t fly, so that really adds to the horror, since it implies that you wouldn’t be able to escape these creatures just by getting to higher ground. It makes you wonder, though: did they shed their legs to allow flight in the first place?
4Alien-Like Horror
With A Bit Of Squid Mixed In
It’s hard to settle on a name for these enemies. In some ways, they seem truly otherworldly or alien, but at the same time, they also seem somewhat squid-like, with numerous tentacle-like appendages, and a tall, elongated head.
Whatever they are, you likely ran into them southeast of Hallow Town, especially near and around Hallow Castle. Thankfully, even if they make your skin crawl, you’re able to dispatch them with just a few swings from a Fine Greatsword. Other weapons or spells are valid too, of course.
3Bloody Crows
Absolute Nightmare Fuel
The Realm of the Endless never gets tired of winged monstrosities, does it? Somewhat humanoid, largely avian, Bloody Crows are an unwelcome sight to all but the undead. Well, unless you’re well-equipped and looking for more EXP; in that case, this enemy goes from hunter to hunted.
Seriously though, if you ran into one of these in real life, that’d be pure nightmare fuel; the biggest nope. However,if you’d rather skip fighting altogether and fancy sneaky playstyle in video games, you can easily skirt past them if you’re running a Guile-based build, especially if you’re wearing a Cosmos Cape.
2Emberian Knight
Watch Out For The Ones With Shields
If you’ve made it to the late game, and you’re scouring the Underlands for Vela, you’ll be running into quite a few of these mechanical knights. Wielding massive, sawtooth blades, and if you’re particularly unlucky, giant tower shields, these constructs advance relentlessly, and without fear.
With patience and well-timed strikes, you’ll make even this mighty foe fall, but it’s still hard to shake the particular flavor of fear you get seeing an unfeeling, unrelenting construct practically twice your height steadily moving towards you.
1Giant Nautilob
Illusion Or Not, That’s Terrifying
Fairly early in the game, you’ll come across a mushroom village called Pwyll, and not far from it, you’ll see a small, stone fort with an absolutely massive, chained Nautilob floating above it; you know, that terrifying flesh ball that looks similar to a Beholder from Dungeons and Dragons.
If you decided to help out the leader of Pwyll, and dealt with the Rotten Onion mercenaries inside the fort, you probably already figured out that this monstrosity is just a farce, created from illusion magic. Regardless, it sure is a daunting sight.
