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City horror games on GOG

Horror games set in a city: quarantined Los Angeles, a walled Villedor, Raccoon City in an outbreak, a half-drowned New Orleans and Oakmont. You cross streets, rooftops, sewers and districts that were full of people not long ago. The fear is in the scale of it: every alley and stalled car can hide something, help is not coming, and the way out runs through blocks you do not know.

The top 20 of 20 city horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 20 best on GOG

  1. HROT key art: a horse in a gas mask stands in a dim industrial room beside the rusty HROT logo plate Action horrorHROTLevels are drawn from real places in and around Prague: tenement blocks, squares and metro stations 96% on Steam (6,573 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC
  2. The Last Door Collector's Edition key art: a man in a coat holds a lantern before a dark manor at sunset, a crow beside the gold title PsychologicalThe Last DoorAmong the places you visit are a run-down London street and its decaying tenements. 95% on Steam (2,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  3. F.E.A.R. key art: the F.E.A.R. logo beside Alma, a pale dark-haired girl, on an orange background Action horrorF.E.A.R.In Extraction Point the team battles Alma and her paranormal minions across a destroyed city. 94% on Steam (19,718 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  4. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) key art: the red and silver game logo beside Nemesis's stitched, grimacing face on black SurvivalResident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)The whole game is an escape through Raccoon City's streets, alleys and buildings as the outbreak overruns it. 95% on the PlayStation Store (11,720 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation
  5. Resident Evil 2 (1998) key art: the red Resident Evil 2 logo on black beside a pale zombie with one bulging eye and clawed fingers peering round a dark door SurvivalResident Evil 2 (1998)Set in Raccoon City as it falls, with burning streets of wrecked cars and zombie police officers 96% on GOG (2,714 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC
  6. CHAOS;CHILD key art: a boy in glasses and school uniform among seven schoolgirls, their figures eaten away by rust-red splatter on white PsychologicalCHAOS;CHILDShibuya, rebuilt six years after an earthquake nearly levelled it, is where every murder of the case takes place 93% on Steam (4,166 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  7. Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a gas-masked soldier with a rifle and a round shield crouching in the rain before ruined Moscow towers and a domed church Multiple endingsMetro: Last Light ReduxThe surface missions cross a ruined Moscow of broken skyscrapers, a columned theatre and streets full of wrecked cars 91% on Steam (82,615 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Dreams in the Witch House key art: old gabled houses and bare trees under a green night sky, one attic window glowing purple 2D horrorDreams in the Witch HouseYou roam 1929 Arkham from a city map: streets, alleys, shops, the university and your boarding house. 91% on Steam (399 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  9. Key art: horned Polly in an orange jacket stands with arms crossed, a skateboard and gun on her back, before ruined buildings under a stormy sky, with the Silly Polly Beast logo AnimeSilly Polly BeastFights take place in dark city back alleys among shipping containers and frog-masked gunmen. 91% on Steam (2,518 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. The Skin Stapler key art: a grinning killer in sunglasses holds up a bloody skin mask over a moonlit city, while two detectives stand back to back, one aiming a revolver MysteryThe Skin StaplerSet in Carrion City, a rotting, crime-soaked 1980s sprawl of neon-lit decay and dark streets. 90% on Steam (533 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  11. Happy's Humble Burger Farm key art: the smiling cow mascot holds up a tray of glowing burgers before a red-lit restaurant, with monstrous mascot faces in the mist Mascot horrorHappy's Humble Burger FarmBetween shifts you stalk the streets and storefronts of New Elysian City, collecting audio logs and research pages 87% on Steam (3,056 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  12. CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl with a large winged blade, and Takumi with a sheathed sword, seen from above on cracked grey concrete PsychologicalCHAOS;HEAD NOAHSet in Shibuya, where the bizarre NewGen serial murders have the internet and television in an uproar 88% on Steam (1,211 reviews)29 h or morePaidPC, Switch
  13. The Sinking City 2 key art: a man in a fedora with a shotgun on his back stands waist-deep in floodwater under an Arkham cemetery arch, wrapped by rising tentacles SurvivalThe Sinking City 2Set across a semi-open 1920s Arkham of tide-stained avenues, Art Deco streets and dark speakeasies 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,506 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  14. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers key art: the title over a pixelated red and orange collage of a man holding a flame and a pale beaked mask 2D horrorGabriel Knight: Sins of the FathersSet in modern-day New Orleans, with a street map of the French Quarter you travel across between scenes 88% on Steam (197 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC
  15. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin box art: Alma's pale face above the logo and a soldier with a rifle in a burning city, under an Xbox 360 banner Action horrorF.E.A.R. 2: Project OriginBecket's squad fights through the wrecked city of Auburn, its shattered buildings and buckled streets. 85% on Steam (9,559 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Xbox
  16. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesLeaves the school for neon-lit Seoul streets, a bank and an academy in the Coma's mirror of the city 86% on Steam (369 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. Super Lone Survivor key art: the survivor in a white surgical mask above a ruined city skyline under a dark blue night sky PsychologicalLone SurvivorLater you leave the block to explore the empty city streets. 93% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  18. Bad Dream: Fever key art: the hand-drawn title on stained paper beside a skull-labelled bottle of pills and a syringe, edged with dark blue ink blots PsychologicalBad Dream: FeverThe city seems completely empty and dead; you travel its streets, alleys and shops from a map screen 82% on Steam (1,349 reviews)about 3 hFreePC, Mac, Switch
  19. The Sinking City Remastered key art: a detective with a gun wades a flooded street as a vast tentacled shape looms in the mist Multiple endingsThe Sinking City RemasteredThe game is set in the secluded, half-submerged city of Oakmont, Massachusetts, made up of seven districts. 75% on Steam (5,805 reviews)19 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  20. F.E.A.R. 3 key art: the title beside the pale ghostly girl Alma, a scarred man lit in red and a soldier with a rifle, on black Co-opF.E.A.R. 3The brothers head back to the city of Fairport, through burning suburbs, ruined streets and overpasses under a red sky 71% on Steam (13,739 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, Xbox

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