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Best Horror Games of 2025: The Year's Standouts

2025 brought a new Silent Hill, a run of original indie horror and the co-op hit R.E.P.O. These are the year's horror games that players and critics rated well, on PC and consoles, from big releases to free games you can finish in an evening.

The games

  1. SILENT HILL f art: Hinako in a sailor school uniform, half her face covered by masses of red flowers PsychologicalSILENT HILL fKonami's 2025 Silent Hill, set in 1960s Japan: a schoolgirl's fog-covered hometown, grotesque monsters, puzzles and five endings, written by Ryukishi07.
  2. Cronos: The New Dawn art: the Traveler in a dented diving-style helmet with a shoulder lamp, a dark tower under a red sky behind SurvivalCronos: The New DawnBloober Team's survival horror: an armoured Traveler in a ravaged future, burning down creatures before they absorb their dead and grow stronger.
  3. Look Outside key art: a dark figure stands before a glowing window, surrounded by a mass of tentacled, many-eyed monsters SurvivalLook OutsideA survival horror RPG in one apartment building, where everyone who looked out a window has become something else.
  4. No, I'm not a Human key art: four uncanny drawn faces lit in green, a grinning shirtless man, a woman in a scarf, an old man and a woman with a bob, against apartment blocks at night PsychologicalNo, I'm not a HumanStrangers knock at night asking for shelter, and some of them are Visitors who only look human; you decide who stays.
  5. R.E.P.O. key art: three round googly-eyed robots in green, red and blue standing in the dark, the red one holding a lit flashlight Co-opR.E.P.O.The co-op hit of the year: small robots hauling fragile loot through dark buildings while monsters roam, for up to six players.
  6. The Séance of Blake Manor: the front of the large stone manor at night in the rain, a few windows lit Multiple endingsThe Séance of Blake ManorA supernatural detective game in an Irish hotel in 1897, searching for a missing guest before an All Hallows' Eve séance.
  7. ROUTINE key art: a cosmonaut in a pale spacesuit holding the boxy C.A.T. device, framed by white flowers and a dark robot silhouette in front of a large full moon SurvivalROUTINESci-fi horror on an abandoned 1980s-style moon base, with no waypoints, hostile machines and nowhere safe to stand still.
  8. The Midnight Walk key art: the small flame-headed Potboy stands in the middle of a ring of red-eyed clay monsters Hide, sneak and The Midnight WalkA dark fantasy made of real clay in stop motion: carry a lantern creature's flame through tales of fire and darkness.
  9. Tormented Souls 2 key art: Caroline, in an eye patch and leather jacket, holds a yellow nail gun and a lit lighter between a moonlit church and a candlelit room hung with chains SurvivalTormented Souls 2Fixed-camera survival horror in the 1990s tradition, in a remote Chilean town and its nightmarish other side.
  10. Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic key art: a grinning clown animatronic with glowing yellow eyes in the dark SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the MimicA first-person FNAF game in an inventor's costume manor, hunted by an endoskeleton that can become any character.
  11. DEAD LETTER DEPT. screenshot: a scanned photo on an old monitor while the typed line reads Tonight I watched the light leave their eyes PsychologicalDEAD LETTER DEPT.A typing horror game: a temp data-entry job transcribing damaged mail that grows stranger and more personal every day.
  12. Tiny Bunny key art: a frightened girl with pale hair clutches her blanket while a dark shape with glowing eyes watches from the window behind her PsychologicalTiny BunnyA black-and-white horror visual novel about children vanishing from a forest town, with 20 endings.
  13. Saihate Station key art: Haru asleep on Shion's shoulder on a red train seat PsychologicalSaihate StationFree: two coworkers wake at a station that should not exist after falling asleep on the last train.
  14. The Children of Clay screenshot: a pale clay figure with a carved face stands lit on a dark desk beside old books and a compass Puzzle horrorThe Children of ClayFree: a short stop-motion puzzle around an ancient clay figure and the dark secret it holds.
  15. White Knuckle screenshot: looking down a purple, overgrown shaft at a many-eyed spidery creature clinging below, a pistol in one pixel hand PS1White KnuckleAn Early Access climbing horror game: haul yourself up a rotting megastructure while something oozes up from below.
  16. MIMESIS key art: hooded crew members in beaked masks with glowing eyes crouch in a tunnel mouth as rain falls on an empty street outside Co-opMIMESISFour-player co-op where monsters imitate your friends' voices and behaviour and slip into your group.
  17. Urban Myth Dissolution Center key art: Director Ayumu Meguriya pointing at the viewer in front of yellow clouds and a glowing halo, in pixel art Puzzle horrorUrban Myth Dissolution CenterA pixel-art occult mystery: dig through social media posts to find the truth behind each urban myth, then face it.
  18. Labyrinth Of The Demon King screenshot: a katana held out in first person toward a skeleton in a torchlit wooden corridor SurvivalLabyrinth Of The Demon KingA first-person survival horror dungeon crawler in a demon-haunted feudal Japan, saving only at shrines.
  19. The Inn-Sanity: a large, lit-up luxury hotel at night under a dark red sky PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityA quarantined 1990s hotel whose guests are turning into creatures, where what you say decides who survives.
  20. A masked killer in a plaid shirt raising a knife in a filthy brick basement, seen over the player's bloody hammer Action horrorButcher's CreekDavid Szymanski's grimy melee horror: escape a gang of killers in the Pennsylvania woods with hammers and axes.
  21. CARIMARA: a heron standing in a moonlit pond at the end of an overgrown garden path, with a stone frog in the foreground PS1CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbsA short, eerie mystery: a mute little sorcerer questions an old woman about the ghost in her cellar, using cards.
  22. s.p.l.i.t key art: a hooded figure hunched over glowing computer screens in a cramped brick room tangled with cables Psychologicals.p.l.i.tA short horror game from Buckshot Roulette's maker, played almost entirely at a command line in a grimy shack.
  23. The Complex: Expedition key art: a glowing yellow doorway torn into a dark wall of steel panels and pipes PsychologicalThe Complex: ExpeditionA slow-burning Backrooms expedition gone wrong, seen through a VHS camera.

2025 was a strong year for horror on every scale. The biggest release was SILENT HILL f: a schoolgirl in 1960s Japan searches her fog-covered hometown, solving puzzles and facing grotesque monsters, in a story by Ryukishi07 with five endings. Bloober Team, who remade Silent Hill 2, followed it with Cronos: The New Dawn, a heavier survival horror game in which you burn down creatures before they can absorb their own dead and grow stronger. Tormented Souls 2 kept the fixed-camera tradition of the 1990s alive in a remote Chilean town, and Labyrinth Of The Demon King turned a first-person dungeon crawl through demon-haunted feudal Japan into survival horror, with saves only at shrines.

The indie side was just as strong. Look Outside sets a survival horror RPG inside one apartment building after everyone who looked out a window was changed, and you scavenge, fight in turn-based battles and decide which neighbours to trust. No, I'm not a Human puts you behind your own front door at night, deciding which strangers are human enough to shelter. DEAD LETTER DEPT. makes a typing job frightening, and s.p.l.i.t, from the maker of Buckshot Roulette, does the same with a command line. The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective story in an Irish hotel on All Hallows' Eve, and ROUTINE finally arrived after more than a decade, a lonely moon base built on an 80s idea of the future where hostile machines patrol and there are no waypoints.

With friends, 2025 belonged to R.E.P.O., where up to six players carry fragile loot through dark buildings while monsters roam, and MIMESIS, where the monsters copy your friends' voices and walk among you. White Knuckle, still in Early Access, is a solo climbing game with a horror heart: something rises from the depths as you haul yourself up.

For stories, Tiny Bunny is a black-and-white visual novel about children disappearing into a forest, with 20 endings, and Urban Myth Dissolution Center is a pixel-art occult mystery about Japanese urban legends. Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic took the series into a costume inventor's manor with a monster that can be anyone. Two of the year's best are free: Saihate Station, a strange station after the last train, and The Children of Clay, a half-hour stop-motion puzzle about an ancient figure.

Start with SILENT HILL f if you want the year's big console horror, Look Outside or No, I'm not a Human for something original, and R.E.P.O. if you have friends to play with. For the newest releases, see the guide to new horror games of 2026.

Questions

What was the best horror game of 2025?

SILENT HILL f was the biggest release, Look Outside and No, I'm not a Human were among the best-reviewed indie games, and R.E.P.O. was by far the most reviewed horror game to play with friends.

Were there good free horror games in 2025?

Yes. Saihate Station and The Children of Clay are both free on Steam and rated Overwhelmingly Positive by players.

Which 2025 horror games can I play with friends?

R.E.P.O. for up to six players and MIMESIS for four are online co-op horror games.

Which 2025 horror games are on consoles?

SILENT HILL f, Cronos: The New Dawn, Tormented Souls 2, Labyrinth Of The Demon King and Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic are on PlayStation and Xbox, and several are on Switch too.

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