Games Like Resident Evil: Survival Horror to Play Next

If you want the classic, fixed-camera Resident Evil of the 1990s, start with Tormented Souls and its sequel Tormented Souls 2. Both put Caroline Walker in a sinister mansion-like hospital and then a remote Chilean town, with fixed camera angles, limited saves and puzzles built from items you combine; the sequel adds optional tank controls. Crow Country does the same thing in the style of the original PlayStation: an abandoned theme park in 1990, a small arsenal and monsters in the dark, with an optional mode that turns the fights off.

Signalis is the indie pick for players who loved how tight the early games felt. Its inventory has six slots, bullets are scarce, and the facility you search is full of locked doors and puzzles, but its story is stranger and sadder than anything in Raccoon City.

For the over-the-shoulder Resident Evil of the remakes and Resident Evil 4, play Dead Space. Its remake turns a mining ship into a maze you learn room by room, and its monsters only stop when you cut off their limbs, so every shot counts. Dead Space 2 is faster and more action-led. The Callisto Protocol comes from a studio led by Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield: a prison on Jupiter's moon Callisto, close-quarters fights with a baton and little ammunition, and inmates who mutate if you do not finish them; its Steam reviews are mixed. The Evil Within comes from Shinji Mikami, the creator of Resident Evil, and plays like a darker cousin of Resident Evil 4 with matches to burn the dead; The Evil Within 2 opens it up into a broken town you scavenge.

Silent Hill 2 is the other pillar of the genre. Its remake keeps the scarce supplies and puzzles but makes the fear personal, a town that reflects one man's guilt. Alone in the Dark (2024) reimagines the game that came before Resident Evil, an asylum full of puzzles and eldritch things, and Hollowbody and Cronos: The New Dawn are recent survival horror games with the same rhythm of scavenging, puzzles and careful fights. The Sinking City 2 brings that rhythm to a flooded 1920s Arkham, with an inventory to manage, shortcuts to open and Lovecraftian creatures in the water.

Smaller indie games keep the formula alive too. Heaven Dust, made as a love letter to 90s Resident Evil, wakes you in a mansion over a secret lab full of zombies and traps, and its sequel Heaven Dust 2 follows it closely: you wake in a research centre overrun by a virus outbreak and work your way out past zombies and mutated fiends, managing an inventory, ammunition and healing items and combining items to solve its puzzles. Night At the Gates of Hell goes back to Italian zombie films in gory PS1-style 3D, with slow dead that only fall to a shot in the head and puzzles between you and the way out. Lamentum turns the mansion into pixel art: a man brings his dying wife to Grau Hill Mansion and finds creatures, traps and cosmic secrets, with a lamp, a few weapons and scarce ammunition.

More look straight back to the 1990s. Echoes of the Living, in Early Access, is a zombie outbreak in a fog-bound European town in 1996, played through fixed cameras with every bullet counted. Alisa recreates the look of a PS1 game, tank controls included, in a Victorian mansion stalked by doll-like machines. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is from the era itself, a 2001 entry in the series that came before Resident Evil, with pre-rendered rooms and a flashlight that drives back the creatures of the dark. The Mute House traps a county policewoman in a mansion in the woods while she looks for her vanished sister, with fixed cameras, a small inventory with an item box, puzzles and every bullet counted. The Hotel sends a couple on holiday into a forgotten hotel full of zombies, with tank controls, fixed camera angles and very little ammunition.

CONSCRIPT moves classic Resident Evil to the Battle of Verdun: top-down trenches and forts, scarce supplies, clumsy weapons and puzzles. You Will Die Here Tonight is a cursed mansion and an elite unit, explored top-down and fought in first person, where each member who dies leaves their gear to the next. Daymare: 1998 was made in the mould of the late-1990s classics, a chemical outbreak in a small town seen through three characters, with mixed reviews; its prequel Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is better rated and takes a special agent into Area 51 with a gun that freezes the dead.

Mansion of the Dead brings the first game's premise into first person: a private investigator wakes as a prisoner in a remote villa where nine people have vanished, and must solve its puzzles and get past the zombies roaming the estate. 7th Floor is a first-person search of a decaying hospital for a missing daughter, gathering ammunition, keys and puzzle parts while an unkillable Doctor stalks the halls, much as Mr. X stalks the police station.

Carnival Massacre is a small 2025 indie built on the formula: fixed camera angles, a cramped inventory with a storage box, coins that pay for saves the way ink ribbons did, and an unkillable stalker in a cursed theme park. White Night keeps the cameras and the mansion but takes away the guns: in stark black and white, scarce matches hold back ghosts you cannot fight.

The Glass Staircase, from Puppet Combo, is a short homage to PS2 survival horror and Italian zombie films: girls in an old house follow a voice on the intercom until the dead rise, played with fixed cameras and tank controls.

If what you want is the originals themselves, the 1996 Resident Evil, the 1998 Resident Evil 2 and the 1999 Resident Evil 3 Nemesis were re-released on PC in 2026, fixed cameras, tank controls and all, and have their own pages on this site. Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, the chapter between Resident Evil 3 and 4, is still sold on PlayStation and Xbox in its original form. Capcom's Dino Crisis (1999) is built in the same mould with raptors instead of zombies: they follow you from room to room and break through doors and windows, and it is back on PC through GOG and Steam and on PS4 and PS5.

If you only try one, play Signalis for the closest feel to the originals, or Dead Space for the closest feel to the modern remakes.

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