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Best Horror Games of 2024: The Year's Standouts

2024 brought the SILENT HILL 2 remake, the short and much-praised Mouthwashing and a strong run of retro survival horror. These are the year's horror games that players and critics rated well, from big releases to free games you can finish tonight.

The games

  1. James stands with his back to us in the middle of a fog-filled Silent Hill street, abandoned cars and shopfronts fading into grey mist PsychologicalSILENT HILL 2The ground-up remake of the 2001 classic: James searches fog-bound Silent Hill for his late wife among monsters that mirror his guilt.
  2. Mouthwashing art: a single bloodshot eye inside a red outline shaped like a dripping mouthwash drop, on black PsychologicalMouthwashingA short first-person story aboard a stranded space freighter as power and food run out and the crew turns on itself.
  3. Crow Country art: low-poly Mara stands by a crow-topped ticket booth between two crow mascot statues SurvivalCrow CountryPS1-style survival horror in an abandoned theme park in 1990, with puzzles, monsters and an Exploration Mode for newcomers.
  4. Still Wakes the Deep key art: the silhouette of a man filled with the image of an oil rig, glowing over a dark sea SurvivalStill Wakes the DeepA 1975 oil rig off Scotland breaks apart as its crew is twisted into monsters, and you have no weapon at all.
  5. Buckshot Roulette key art: The Dealer, a face with a huge toothy grin, holds out a pump shotgun in pale hands Co-opBuckshot RouletteRussian roulette with a shotgun against a grinning dealer in an underground club, or against friends online.
  6. Content Warning art: four crew members in dark suits with round emoji faces, one holding a clapperboard, posing in a grey ruin Co-opContent WarningCo-op for four: film the monsters of an underground ruin on a handheld camera and upload them for views.
  7. The Outlast Trials art: test subjects with night-vision goggles strapped to their faces, one reaching upward and screaming, in a sickly green tint SurvivalThe Outlast TrialsThe Outlast makers' co-op: test subjects in a Cold War brainwashing program, hiding from the facility's killers.
  8. Indigo Park key art: Rambley the cartoon raccoon in a red scarf waving beside the dark, blue-lit entrance of the park Puzzle horrorIndigo Park: Chapter 1Free mascot horror: an abandoned amusement park, a cartoon raccoon host on the screens and a mascot that comes for you.
  9. Homicipher key art: a pale, long-haired figure with a wide, bloody grin looms out of the dark Multiple endingsHomicipherA horror adventure about language: learn what monstrous men's strange words mean before you say the wrong thing.
  10. Sorry We're Closed art: a row of neon-coloured demon faces with long tongues and sharp teeth on a dark background SurvivalSorry We're ClosedFixed-camera 90s-style survival horror with a neon look: a woman cursed by a lovesick archdemon, and a third eye.
  11. Home Safety Hotline screenshot: the responder software on a 1990s computer, a caller named John on the left and the database entry for Mice with a photo of a mouse on the right ShortHome Safety HotlineAnswer worried callers in 1996 and look up what is in their homes in a pest database that grows stranger.
  12. Platform 8 key art: a man in a pale shirt sits on a red bench seat in a bright Japanese train carriage, looking at his phone PsychologicalPlatform 8The Exit 8 maker's follow-up: trapped on a train that never stops, spotting what has changed.
  13. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitA 2D FNAF adventure: dive into a ball pit, wake in the past and hide from a yellow rabbit animatronic.
  14. CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench SurvivalCONSCRIPTTop-down survival horror at Verdun in 1916, scavenging and fighting through trenches in the classic Resident Evil style.
  15. Enigma of Fear key art: Mia with a flashlight and pistol, her dog Lupi and the Ordo Realitas agents before a dark house under huge glowing eyes Multiple endingsEnigma of FearA paranormal investigation with a detective and her dog, from the creator of the Ordem Paranormal series.
  16. Hellblade II: Senua's Saga key art: Senua's grim, dirt-streaked face surrounded by many hands reaching from the darkness to touch her head PsychologicalHellblade II: Senua's SagaSenua's psychosis and the dead of 10th-century Iceland, in a short, cinematic and brutal journey.
  17. Until Dawn key art: a skull shaped like an hourglass, with a lodge and small figures inside, half buried in snow PsychologicalUntil DawnThe 2024 rebuild of the slasher classic: eight friends at a mountain lodge, and your choices decide who survives.
  18. Psychopomp key art: a pale woman with a heavy dark helmet bowing her head against a red mass, on a black field of drifting red specks PsychologicalPsychopompFree: a short dungeon crawl through catacombs under every building, among grotesque creatures.
  19. Krypta FM: a roadside shrine on a dark forest road at night, seen through the screen of a chunky handheld digital camera PsychologicalKrypta FMFree: night walks with a flashlight and camera, photographing signs of a cryptid around a Polish village.
  20. Banebush screenshot: a hooded man stands before a wooden village house under a blood-red sky, with Look around and Enter choices Multiple endingsBanebushA black-and-red horror visual novel in which a grandmother's village tales start to come true.
  21. Shipwrecked 64 key art: Bucky Beaver and a smiling friend in low-poly cartoon style against a pink, glitching background Multiple endingsShipwrecked 64A 'lost' 1990s platformer that decays as you play, with a darker story leaking out of it.
  22. A pale, long-limbed ghost in a white dress stands in a dark storeroom beside a lit lantern SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationTaiwanese survival horror in a haunted university building, hiding from ghosts as four characters.
  23. Misao key art: a purple-haired girl in a red school uniform lying with her face covered by her hands among dark red splashes 2D horrorMisao - 2024 HD RemasterThe HD remake of the RPG Maker classic: a school dragged into an otherworld of spirits and deathtraps.

2024 was the year a remake and a tiny indie game led horror. SILENT HILL 2, rebuilt from the ground up by Bloober Team, brought James Sunderland's search for his late wife through fog-bound Silent Hill to a new generation, with its monsters still mirroring his guilt. Mouthwashing, a short first-person story about the stranded crew of a space freighter running out of food and hope, drew Overwhelmingly Positive reviews from nearly 39,000 players on Steam.

Survival horror had a strong year. Crow Country rebuilt the PS1 style in an abandoned 1990 theme park and added an Exploration Mode for newcomers, Sorry We're Closed paired fixed camera angles with a neon look and an archdemon looking for love, and CONSCRIPT took the classic Resident Evil formula into the trenches of Verdun. Still Wakes the Deep, from The Chinese Room, put you on a 1975 oil rig breaking apart while its crew turned into something else, with no weapon at all.

Some of 2024's best ideas were small. Buckshot Roulette is Russian roulette with a shotgun against a grinning dealer, Homicipher asks you to learn a monster's language by its faces and gestures, Home Safety Hotline turns a 1996 pest helpline into analog horror, and Platform 8 carried The Exit 8's anomaly spotting onto a train that never stops. Shipwrecked 64 pretends to be a lost 1990s platformer that rots as you play. Psychopomp, Krypta FM and Indigo Park: Chapter 1 are all free and all worth an evening.

With friends, Content Warning had groups filming monsters for views, and The Outlast Trials, fully released in 2024, put up to four test subjects through a Cold War brainwashing program. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit turned a FNAF story into a 2D adventure about a ball pit that leads into the past, and Until Dawn came back rebuilt for PC and PlayStation 5.

Start with SILENT HILL 2 or Crow Country for survival horror, Mouthwashing for a story you can finish in an evening, and Buckshot Roulette or Content Warning with friends. For this year's games, see the guides to the best horror games of 2025 and new horror games of 2026.

Questions

What was the best horror game of 2024?

The SILENT HILL 2 remake was the year's biggest horror release, and Mouthwashing, Crow Country and Buckshot Roulette were among the best-reviewed indie games.

Were there good free horror games in 2024?

Yes: Psychopomp, Krypta FM and Indigo Park: Chapter 1 are free on Steam and rated Overwhelmingly Positive by players.

Which 2024 horror games can I play with friends?

Content Warning for up to four players, The Outlast Trials for up to four, and Buckshot Roulette's online mode.

Which 2024 horror games are on Switch?

Crow Country, Sorry We're Closed, Home Safety Hotline, Platform 8, CONSCRIPT, Homicipher and Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit are all on Nintendo Switch.

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