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Camcorder horror games on PlayStation

In these games you look at the dark through a handheld camcorder, or the whole game is shown as old tape with a REC light, a date stamp and a running timecode. The camera is often your only light or night vision, and its battery runs down, so you hunt for spares while something moves just past the edge of the frame.

The top 8 of 8 camcorder horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 8 best on PlayStation

  1. Outlast library art: a hulking scarred inmate with a stitched grin and glowing eyes stands in a dark asylum corridor, seen in green night vision SurvivalOutlastDark areas are seen through a handheld camera's night vision, its screen showing a REC mark and a battery meter. 93% on the PlayStation Store (179,484 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  2. Phasmophobia: a dark 1950s-style diner with a glowing orange jukebox and a pie-of-the-day board Co-opPhasmophobiaAn old camcorder is part of the starter equipment, and filmed ghost orbs count as evidence. 94% on Steam (841,559 reviews)about 20 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, VR
  3. CAPTURED key art: a black silhouette with small white eyes and a faint grin in a dark room, tentacles curling by a pale doorway, in grainy blue camcorder light PsychologicalCAPTUREDEverything is seen through a 90s camcorder that you zoom in with to capture and classify each anomaly. 95% on Steam (647 reviews)about 30 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  4. Escape the Backrooms key art: four players in yellow hazmat suits and gas masks stand in an empty library-like room under a sign reading THE END Co-opEscape the BackroomsMany screenshots are framed by a camcorder overlay with a date stamp from March 1991. 90% on Steam (168,596 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Two players in yellow hazmat suits face a tall, thin black entity in the yellow halls of Level 0, with a grinning face glowing in a dark doorway SurvivalBackrooms: Escape TogetherYou carry a camcorder, and one objective asks you to record during a blackout 89% on Steam (50,476 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  6. The Backrooms 1998 key art: a yellow, stitched-together creature with a gaping toothed mouth in a yellow-walled corridor, beside the title EscapeThe Backrooms 1998Everything is seen as 1998 camcorder footage, with PLAY, a running timer and the date 19 Sep 1998 on screen 83% on Steam (840 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Outlast 2 key art: a cultist in the foreground holds a chained, spiked pickaxe while a man in a hat sits on the lit porch of a shack in green haze PsychologicalOutlast 2Your camcorder's night vision and microphone are your only tools, and both drain batteries you must find. 91% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Blair Witch key art: the silhouette of a man and his dog walking into a forest washed in red, a stick-figure shape formed by the branches above, a wrecked truck and a tent nearby PsychologicalBlair WitchA 1990s camcorder plays red tapes that rewind time to move objects, and blue tapes that tell the story 79% on Steam (8,315 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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