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Horror game genres on PlayStation

Every kind of horror game on PlayStation, from psychological horror and survival horror to co-op games to play with friends: 319 games in all.

Psychological horror games

A grey, misty swamp with hanging moss and dark tree trunks

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater

Wake in the Greenwater Institute with no memory, and dig through your own past in VR.

PC / VR / PlayStation

A.I.L.A screenshot: a tall figure with a skull face and a crown of branches stands among dark trees at night

A.I.L.A

Test an AI that builds horror games out of your fears.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Ad Infinitum key art: a screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet against a pale grey background

Ad Infinitum

Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alan Wake 2 key art: Alan Wake's face looms over a red-lit forest where a small figure stands with a flashlight

Alan Wake 2

An FBI agent and a trapped writer face a horror story that is coming true.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alan Wake Remastered key art: Alan Wake's silhouette with a flashlight and a gun stands inside the letters of the title against a misty forest

Alan Wake Remastered

A writer, a missing wife and a darkness that comes alive at night.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs key art: a painted Victorian engine room of brass pipes, gauges and a ladder beside a red armchair, with a round hatch smeared with blood

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Survival horror games

A Plague Tale: Innocence key art: Amicia and Hugo in a small rowing boat on a pale, misty river among bare branches

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Lead your little brother through plague-struck France, where the rats eat everything outside…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Alan Wake 2 key art: Alan Wake's face looms over a red-lit forest where a small figure stands with a flashlight

Alan Wake 2

An FBI agent and a trapped writer face a horror story that is coming true.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alien: Isolation key art: Amanda Ripley's face inside a space helmet lit green against black

Alien: Isolation

Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Alien: Rogue Incursion key art: Zula Hendricks with a rifle surrounded by Xenomorphs, a huge alien head looming above them against a starfield

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.

VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alisa key art: Alisa in a blue dress reclines on a floral sofa with a doll's head and a tommy gun, against dark red wallpaper

Alisa

Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Bunker art: a soldier's hands, one holding a revolver, as a pale clawed creature reaches out of a dark tunnel

Amnesia: The Bunker

Keep the lights on in a WWI bunker while a creature hunts you by sound.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bendy and the Dark Revival key art: the grinning cartoon Bendy with ink dripping from his eyes, arms spread between lit candles in a dark studio

Bendy and the Dark Revival

Hide from the Ink Demon in a cartoon studio drowned in ink.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

FNAF games and games like FNAF

Five Nights at Freddy's: Freddy Fazbear, a brown animatronic bear in a top hat holding a microphone, stands in the dark with two bare robot endoskeletons behind him

Five Nights at Freddy's

Five nights in a pizzeria office, watching animatronics on the cameras.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 screenshot: the doorless security office at Night 5, 12 AM, a dark hallway ahead and a desk fan on the right

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

A night guard with no doors, a music box and an empty Freddy mask.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 cover: the rotting face of Springtrap with exposed wires on a green background beside a large number 3

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Guard a horror attraction where one of the old animatronics is real.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 cover: a torn nightmare Freddy with rows of sharp teeth beside a red number 4

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

The animatronics have followed you home, and you only have a flashlight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted key art: Freddy Fazbear with glowing white eyes in the dark, surrounded by the faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Funtime Foxy and other animatronics

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

Work the night shift at Freddy's in VR, with the animatronics inches away.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 key art: a cluster of animatronic heads, Funtime Freddy in front and the Sun daycare attendant above

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

Work every job at the Pizzaplex, with killer animatronics an arm's length away.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit

Climb into a ball pit, wake in the past, and hide from the yellow rabbit.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic key art: a grinning clown animatronic with glowing yellow eyes in the dark

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic

Search a costume maker's dark workshop for a prototype that can become anything.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach art: Glamrock Chica, Freddy, Montgomery Gator and Roxanne Wolf on a stage under pink and blue neon

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Survive a night in the Mega Pizzaplex as the animatronics hunt you.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location cover: the face of a white and purple animatronic bear next to blue balloons and the words Sister Location

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Take the night technician job at Circus Baby's, among machines that are still awake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Co-op and multiplayer horror games

7 Days to Die key art: survivors with tools stand outside a lit farmhouse while silhouetted zombies close in through a misty forest

7 Days to Die

Scavenge and build by day; hold your fort when the blood moon horde comes.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Arizona Sunshine Remake key art: a snarling zombie with red eyes in front of desert rock formations

Arizona Sunshine VR Remake

Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.

PC / VR / PlayStation

Back 4 Blood key art: four Cleaners stand in a red number 4 surrounded by a dark sea of Ridden, with a huge mutated Ridden at the edge

Back 4 Blood

Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Backrooms: Escape Together

Get through the Backrooms with up to five friends, one level at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Content Warning art: four crew members in dark suits with round emoji faces, one holding a clapperboard, posing in a grey ruin

Content Warning

Film monsters with your friends in the Old World and try to go viral.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dark Hours key art: two masked robbers beside a royal crown freeze as a tall dark figure appears in a bright doorway

Dark Hours

The heist went fine until the lights went out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead by Daylight art: a smiling dark-haired woman drawn in an anime style raises blood-smeared hands against a red background

Dead by Daylight

Four Survivors try to escape one Killer who hunts them through the fog.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dead Island 2 key art: a survivor lounges on a pool inflatable with a cocktail while zombies attack around a Los Angeles mansion pool

Dead Island 2

Bitten, immune and stuck in a Los Angeles of the dead.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Island key art: a snarling zombie with long blond hair in front of a palm-lined resort pool and hotel

Dead Island Definitive Edition

Survive a zombie outbreak on a tropical resort island.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Island: Riptide key art: a rotting zombie with bared teeth in front of a jungle hut

Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

The outbreak follows you to another island paradise.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Horror games with multiple endings

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

Blair Witch

Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, holding a saw cleaver and a pistol, stands in a misty gothic street

Multiple endings

Bloodborne

Hunt beasts through a cursed gothic city, and see what hides behind them.

PlayStation

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Clea 2 screenshot: Florine with a lantern steps out of a stone archway as a bandaged figure covered in eyes walks away from her

Clea 2

A former maid crosses into the realms beyond, listening for what roams the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Clock Tower: Rewind key art: Jennifer, a frightened dark-haired girl in a white blouse, in front of a giant pair of open shears, with the mansion's clock tower at night

Multiple endings

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench

CONSCRIPT

Survival horror in the trenches of Verdun, 1916.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale 3 key art: Ingrid sits on the floor of a dark cell as light from an open door throws a long, horned shadow toward her

Multiple endings

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Horror puzzle games

Ad Infinitum key art: a screaming skeleton in a German steel helmet against a pale grey background

Ad Infinitum

Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, long-limbed figure with mouse-like ears hanging from a tilted bookshelf over VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer 2

The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a screaming opossum with raised claws, Wooly the Sheep and a smiling Amanda around a glowing old TV, with a clawed hand reaching over it

Amanda the Adventurer 3

The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

Burnhouse Lane key art: a tall wooden house in red mist with a small figure facing a huge skeletal cat-like creature

Burnhouse Lane

A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bye Sweet Carole art: a frightened girl in a green dress among dark thorny vines, a grinning figure in a top hat with glowing eyes looming behind her

Bye Sweet Carole

A missing friend, an orphanage, and a storybook kingdom that wants Lana gone.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Children of Silentown key art: Lucy among the black silhouettes of village children before a pale moon, with red and teal trees on either side

Children of Silentown

A village in a monster forest, where people keep disappearing.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Close To The Sun key art: a small steam boat in a storm beneath the towering gilded hull of the Helios

Close To The Sun

Board Tesla's quarantined research ship to find your sister.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Horror shooters and action horror games

Alien: Rogue Incursion key art: Zula Hendricks with a rifle surrounded by Xenomorphs, a huge alien head looming above them against a starfield

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.

VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Arizona Sunshine Remake key art: a snarling zombie with red eyes in front of desert rock formations

Arizona Sunshine VR Remake

Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.

PC / VR / PlayStation

Back 4 Blood key art: four Cleaners stand in a red number 4 surrounded by a dark sea of Ridden, with a huge mutated Ridden at the edge

Back 4 Blood

Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Blood West art: a cowboy with a revolver beside a skeletal undead creature with an open ribcage in a night-time frontier town

Blood West

An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, holding a saw cleaver and a pistol, stands in a misty gothic street

Multiple endings

Bloodborne

Hunt beasts through a cursed gothic city, and see what hides behind them.

PlayStation

Dead Estate art: the playable heroes with guns crowded among skulls, ghouls, a one-eyed creature and a hulking masked brute

Dead Estate

A gory roguelike shooter up the floors of a monster-filled mansion.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

DOOM 3 key art: an armoured marine fighting a huge horned demon lit by orange fire

DOOM 3

A dark Mars base, a demonic invasion and a long road through hell.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DreadOut 2 key art: dark silhouettes of long-haired ghouls around a tall red glowing mound against a pale sky

DreadOut 2

Linda fights back against the ghosts of Indonesian urban legend, phone in one hand and an axe…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: two swollen, bloodied men in shirts and braces lurch toward the player's pistol on a foggy night street of old cars

Forgive Me Father 2

Shoot your way through Lovecraftian madness in a dark comic book world.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Hunt: Showdown 1896 key art: three hunters with a rifle, revolver and shotgun stand in a foggy swamp forest as monstrous figures shamble behind them

Hunt: Showdown 1896

Hunt monsters in the corrupted frontier, then get out alive with the bounty.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Horror visual novels

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox

Mothmen 1966 key art: a pulp book cover on a table with playing cards and coffee, showing four characters beneath a red-eyed winged creature

Mothmen 1966

A roadside gas station, a meteor shower and something with wings on the roof.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Slay the Princess key art: a pencil-drawn princess kneels in chains on the floor of a dim stone basement under a barred window

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark art: a man in a suit with a face overgrown by red flowers lunges out of the dark

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Bear the Mark, hunt the spirit that cursed you, or die within days.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II art: a spirit with many eyes and insects crawling over its face grabs at a man in a coat in a dark brick corridor

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II

Go undercover at a cursed academy where death notices come true.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: NG key art: a young man in a dark jacket and a girl with a bow on a deserted night street by a station

Spirit Hunter: NG

The urban legends are real, and they have followed you home.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

The House in Fata Morgana key art: the dark-haired Maid holds a pale white-haired girl close while a red, ghostly hand reaches over her head

The House in Fata Morgana

A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

The Letter screenshot: a sheet of paper covered in the words Help Me written in blood, with a frightened Isabella below

Multiple endings

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox / iPhone / Android

Without a Dawn key art: a dim sun setting over dark water, drawn in tiny brown text characters

Without a Dawn

A remote cabin, a sleepless night, and a silence that takes shape.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Mascot horror games

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, long-limbed figure with mouse-like ears hanging from a tilted bookshelf over VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer 2

The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a screaming opossum with raised claws, Wooly the Sheep and a smiling Amanda around a glowing old TV, with a clawed hand reaching over it

Amanda the Adventurer 3

The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bendy and the Dark Revival key art: the grinning cartoon Bendy with ink dripping from his eyes, arms spread between lit candles in a dark studio

Bendy and the Dark Revival

Hide from the Ink Demon in a cartoon studio drowned in ink.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Bendy and the Ink Machine screenshot: the great ink machine hangs from chains, glowing amber and spurting steam

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Return to a 1930s cartoon studio where the ink has come alive.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's: Freddy Fazbear, a brown animatronic bear in a top hat holding a microphone, stands in the dark with two bare robot endoskeletons behind him

Five Nights at Freddy's

Five nights in a pizzeria office, watching animatronics on the cameras.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 screenshot: the doorless security office at Night 5, 12 AM, a dark hallway ahead and a desk fan on the right

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

A night guard with no doors, a music box and an empty Freddy mask.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 3 cover: the rotting face of Springtrap with exposed wires on a green background beside a large number 3

Five Nights at Freddy's 3

Guard a horror attraction where one of the old animatronics is real.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 cover: a torn nightmare Freddy with rows of sharp teeth beside a red number 4

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

The animatronics have followed you home, and you only have a flashlight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted key art: Freddy Fazbear with glowing white eyes in the dark, surrounded by the faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Funtime Foxy and other animatronics

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

Work the night shift at Freddy's in VR, with the animatronics inches away.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

RPG Maker horror games

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

Camp Sunshine key art in pixels: the bear mascot killer's paw grips a bloody knife beside a lake under a blue night sky

Camp Sunshine

A summer camp, a dead-of-night wake-up, and a killer in a mascot suit.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Ib screenshot: visitors stand around a large roped-off painting of a fanged deep-sea fish in a white gallery room, with a caption about a world where man can never stand

Ib

Escape an art gallery whose paintings have come alive.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face

OMORI

A colourful dream-world RPG hiding the memory its hero cannot face.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

The Witch's House MV screenshot: Viola in a dim brick room with red carpet, roses in vases and candles on the wall

Multiple endings

The Witch's House MV

Find the way out of a witch's house where almost every room can kill you.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Sci-fi and space horror games

A.I.L.A screenshot: a tall figure with a skull face and a crown of branches stands among dark trees at night

A.I.L.A

Test an AI that builds horror games out of your fears.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Alien: Isolation key art: Amanda Ripley's face inside a space helmet lit green against black

Alien: Isolation

Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Alien: Rogue Incursion key art: Zula Hendricks with a rifle surrounded by Xenomorphs, a huge alien head looming above them against a starfield

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Hold the motion tracker yourself while Xenomorphs close in.

VR / PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Aliens: Dark Descent key art: five Colonial Marines and a drone advance through a misty Xenomorph hive past open alien eggs

Aliens: Dark Descent

Lead Colonial Marines through a Xenomorph outbreak, where stress and the hive both close in.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Apsulov: End of Gods key art: a pale woman's face and neck covered in red runes, breaking up into digital glitches

Apsulov: End of Gods

Viking myth meets a steel research facility, and something old wakes.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Close To The Sun key art: a small steam boat in a storm beneath the towering gilded hull of the Helios

Close To The Sun

Board Tesla's quarantined research ship to find your sister.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Cosmodread key art: a small spaceship drifts toward a huge red-lit creature in deep space

Cosmodread

Escape a dying spaceship full of horrors, in a VR roguelike.

PC / VR / PlayStation

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

Cronos: The New Dawn

Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dead Space key art: Isaac Clarke in his engineering suit, the helmet's slits glowing blue, in a gloomy ship corridor

Dead Space

Cut apart the dead crew of a mining ship that will not stay dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Directive 8020 key art: an astronaut with a bloodied face inside a cracked helmet, beside a red-lit wrecked corridor

Directive 8020

A colony crew crash-lands on an alien world, and something wears their faces.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Short horror games

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A man in a tuxedo with a blank white mask and red eyes standing in the aisle of a grimy night bus

Bloodwash

A pregnant student, a killer loose in the city, and a late-night trip to the laundromat.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Choo-Choo Charles key art: a red train with a grinning, toothed face and spider legs charging out of a dark forest

Choo-Choo Charles

Ride an old engine around a foggy island hunted by a spider-legged train.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Clock Tower: Rewind key art: Jennifer, a frightened dark-haired girl in a white blouse, in front of a giant pair of open shears, with the mansion's clock tower at night

Multiple endings

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT 2 screenshot: Price stands in a rotting room by a glowing old TV, dark growths hanging from the ceiling and a skull-faced figure in a chair beside him

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among his bosses, a couple with teacups and an old woman with a rabbit, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout art: a fire lookout tower with lit windows above a dark pine forest at night

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

A new fire lookout, a tower in the woods, and the feeling that something is off.

PC / PlayStation

Five Nights at Freddy's: Freddy Fazbear, a brown animatronic bear in a top hat holding a microphone, stands in the dark with two bare robot endoskeletons behind him

Five Nights at Freddy's

Five nights in a pizzeria office, watching animatronics on the cameras.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

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

Home Safety Hotline

Answer the phones at a 1990s pest hotline. Some pests are not pests.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Iron Lung art: the grainy red surface of an ocean of blood

Iron Lung

Pilot a windowless submarine through an ocean of blood, photographing what you cannot see.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / Android

Slasher horror games

A man in a tuxedo with a blank white mask and red eyes standing in the aisle of a grimy night bus

Bloodwash

A pregnant student, a killer loose in the city, and a late-night trip to the laundromat.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Camp Sunshine key art in pixels: the bear mascot killer's paw grips a bloody knife beside a lake under a blue night sky

Camp Sunshine

A summer camp, a dead-of-night wake-up, and a killer in a mascot suit.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Christmas Massacre key art: a plastic Santa Claus mask with empty eye holes against a starry night sky

Christmas Massacre

Your Christmas tree says the naughty must die. Put on the Santa mask.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead by Daylight art: a smiling dark-haired woman drawn in an anime style raises blood-smeared hands against a red background

Dead by Daylight

Four Survivors try to escape one Killer who hunts them through the fog.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Dead Secret key art: a white farmhouse among bare trees on the Kansas plain, with a crow spreading its wings

Multiple endings

Dead Secret

Solve a professor's murder in 1965 Kansas before his masked killer finds you.

PC / Mac / VR / PlayStation

Halloween: The Game key art: Michael Myers' pale mask lit in blue against black, small figures of survivors at his chest

Halloween: The Game

Halloween night, 1978: hunt Haddonfield as Michael Myers, or try to survive him.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Killer Frequency screenshot: the 1980s radio booth with an ON AIR sign, microphones, speakers, a mixing desk and a record player

Multiple endings

Killer Frequency

Talk the callers of a 1987 radio show away from a masked killer.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Lakeview Cabin Collection: bloody skeletal remains on stakes in front of a cabin at night, lit by a spotlight

Lakeview Cabin Collection

Four pixel-art horror films where you work out how to survive the killer.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Murder House key art: a pair of wide staring eyes with small red pupils looking out of the dark

Murder House

An 80s news crew, an abandoned house and a killer in a bunny mask.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Nun Massacre screenshot: the nun with bleeding eyes and a pale face steps out of a dark hallway toward the player, through a VHS filter

Multiple endings

Nun Massacre

A stormy night, a boarding school and a killer nun.

PC / iPhone / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Stealth horror games

A Plague Tale: Innocence key art: Amicia and Hugo in a small rowing boat on a pale, misty river among bare branches

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Lead your little brother through plague-struck France, where the rats eat everything outside…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A Plague Tale: Requiem key art: Amicia with blood on her face, her little brother Hugo resting his head on her shoulder

Hide, sneak and

A Plague Tale: Requiem

Hugo's curse wakes again, and the rats come with it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Alien: Isolation key art: Amanda Ripley's face inside a space helmet lit green against black

Alien: Isolation

Hide from one alien you cannot kill on a dying space station.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Aliens: Dark Descent key art: five Colonial Marines and a drone advance through a misty Xenomorph hive past open alien eggs

Aliens: Dark Descent

Lead Colonial Marines through a Xenomorph outbreak, where stress and the hive both close in.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Bunker art: a soldier's hands, one holding a revolver, as a pale clawed creature reaches out of a dark tunnel

Amnesia: The Bunker

Keep the lights on in a WWI bunker while a creature hunts you by sound.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Bendy and the Dark Revival key art: the grinning cartoon Bendy with ink dripping from his eyes, arms spread between lit candles in a dark studio

Bendy and the Dark Revival

Hide from the Ink Demon in a cartoon studio drowned in ink.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Blood West art: a cowboy with a revolver beside a skeletal undead creature with an open ribcage in a night-time frontier town

Blood West

An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Bramble: The Mountain King key art: Olle and his sister in a dark green forest with red toadstools, a gnome and a hedgehog

Hide, sneak and

Bramble: The Mountain King

Chase your sister's kidnapper through the trolls and monsters of Nordic folklore.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

PS1 horror games

Alisa key art: Alisa in a blue dress reclines on a floral sofa with a doll's head and a tommy gun, against dark red wallpaper

Alisa

Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

Blood West art: a cowboy with a revolver beside a skeletal undead creature with an open ribcage in a night-time frontier town

Blood West

An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

A man in a tuxedo with a blank white mask and red eyes standing in the aisle of a grimy night bus

Bloodwash

A pregnant student, a killer loose in the city, and a late-night trip to the laundromat.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Camp Sunshine key art in pixels: the bear mascot killer's paw grips a bloody knife beside a lake under a blue night sky

Camp Sunshine

A summer camp, a dead-of-night wake-up, and a killer in a mascot suit.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CAPTURED key art: a dark figure with small white eyes and a grin peers around a doorway, with tentacles curling in the grainy camcorder light

CAPTURED

Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Christmas Massacre key art: a plastic Santa Claus mask with empty eye holes against a starry night sky

Christmas Massacre

Your Christmas tree says the naughty must die. Put on the Santa mask.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Clock Tower: Rewind key art: Jennifer, a frightened dark-haired girl in a white blouse, in front of a giant pair of open shears, with the mansion's clock tower at night

Multiple endings

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench

CONSCRIPT

Survival horror in the trenches of Verdun, 1916.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Corpse Party (2021) screenshot: the pale blue ghost of a child crouches in a rotting wooden corridor as Yoshiki cries out

Corpse Party (2021)

A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Zombie games

7 Days to Die key art: survivors with tools stand outside a lit farmhouse while silhouetted zombies close in through a misty forest

7 Days to Die

Scavenge and build by day; hold your fort when the blood moon horde comes.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Arizona Sunshine Remake key art: a snarling zombie with red eyes in front of desert rock formations

Arizona Sunshine VR Remake

Load your guns by hand while the dead stagger at you across the Arizona desert.

PC / VR / PlayStation

Back 4 Blood key art: four Cleaners stand in a red number 4 surrounded by a dark sea of Ridden, with a huge mutated Ridden at the edge

Back 4 Blood

Four Cleaners fight the Ridden in a co-op shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Daymare: 1998 key art: a skinless mutated creature with a split face lunges out of a lit lab corridor

Daymare: 1998

A chemical leak, a small town of mutated citizens, and never enough bullets.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Days Gone key art: Deacon on his motorbike in silhouette, kicking up dirt over still water

Days Gone

Ride a drifter's bike through an Oregon overrun by Freaker hordes.

PC / PlayStation

Dead Island 2 key art: a survivor lounges on a pool inflatable with a cocktail while zombies attack around a Los Angeles mansion pool

Dead Island 2

Bitten, immune and stuck in a Los Angeles of the dead.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Island key art: a snarling zombie with long blond hair in front of a palm-lined resort pool and hotel

Dead Island Definitive Edition

Survive a zombie outbreak on a tropical resort island.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Island: Riptide key art: a rotting zombie with bared teeth in front of a jungle hut

Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

The outbreak follows you to another island paradise.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Rising key art: Frank West in a leather jacket raises a television over his head above a crowd of zombies in a burning mall

Dead Rising

72 hours in a mall full of zombies, with anything in the shops as a weapon.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster key art: Frank West holds a heap of guns, guitars and household weapons over his head above a sea of zombie hands on a red background

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

Survive 72 hours in a shopping mall overrun by zombies.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Haunted house games

Corpse Party (2021) screenshot: the pale blue ghost of a child crouches in a rotting wooden corridor as Yoshiki cries out

Corpse Party (2021)

A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

Emily Wants to Play art: a ventriloquist dummy, a pale doll-like girl in a white dress and a grinning clown in a top hat emerge from the dark

Emily Wants to Play

Deliver a pizza to the wrong house and survive the night with Emily's dolls.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Xbox

Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Home Sweet Home screenshot: the dim interior of an old wooden Thai house, with shuttered windows, framed pictures, a chest of drawers and litter on the plank floor

Hide, sneak and

Home Sweet Home

Hide from a vengeful Thai spirit in a house that may be your own.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / VR

Infliction key art: a man's silhouette in a brightly lit doorway at the end of a dark hall, with a bloodied hand holding a knife in the foreground

Infliction

A family home, a tragedy, and the thing that still walks its halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Layers of Fear screenshot: a first-person hand holds up a glowing lantern before a mansion staircase buried under a heap of framed paintings, with a dark figure in the glow

Layers of Fear

A painter's mansion that changes every time you turn around.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox

Layers of Fear VR key art: a torn cloth half covers a framed portrait of a woman whose face is smeared with blood, on dark damask wallpaper

Layers of Fear VR

Walk a painter's shifting mansion in VR as his mind comes apart.

VR / PC / PlayStation

MADiSON screenshot: a bloody hand holds an old instant camera in a cellar full of twisted limbs and caution tape

MADiSON

A cursed instant camera, a possessed house, and a demon's ritual to finish.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Pacify art: a pale girl with long black hair, half her face painted white with a dark eye, and a black shape over her mouth, against red

Pacify

Pacify the possessed girl in a haunted house, alone or with three friends.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Analog horror games

Amanda the Adventurer key art: Wooly the Sheep, wide-eyed and frightened, his hands raised, behind VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer

Play your aunt's old cartoon tapes. Do what Amanda says.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 2 key art: a thin, long-limbed figure with mouse-like ears hanging from a tilted bookshelf over VHS static

Amanda the Adventurer 2

The tapes lead to the town library. Amanda knows you are watching.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a screaming opossum with raised claws, Wooly the Sheep and a smiling Amanda around a glowing old TV, with a clawed hand reaching over it

Amanda the Adventurer 3

The last tapes, in the empty building where the show was made.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Backrooms: Escape Together

Get through the Backrooms with up to five friends, one level at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Blair Witch

Lose yourself in the Black Hills Forest, with only your dog to trust.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

CAPTURED key art: a dark figure with small white eyes and a grin peers around a doorway, with tentacles curling in the grainy camcorder light

CAPTURED

Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Escape the Backrooms screenshot: the empty yellow-wallpapered rooms and fluorescent lights of the first level

Escape the Backrooms

Find the exit from the endless yellow rooms, with three friends and something listening.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Home Safety Hotline

Answer the phones at a 1990s pest hotline. Some pests are not pests.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Camera view of an indoor pool with a green spiral waterslide, timestamped 01:18 and labelled Waterslide

I'm on Observation Duty 7

Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Camera view labelled Catwalk: two figures stand at the end of a dim fashion runway between rows of red seats

I'm on Observation Duty 8

A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Horror escape games

Aooni key art: the Ao Oni's huge grinning purple face emerging from darkness

Aooni

A blue demon lives in the mansion on the edge of town.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / iPhone / Android

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

Backrooms: Escape Together

Get through the Backrooms with up to five friends, one level at a time.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Bendy and the Ink Machine screenshot: the great ink machine hangs from chains, glowing amber and spurting steam

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Return to a 1930s cartoon studio where the ink has come alive.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Clea screenshot: Clea with a lantern runs down a brick hallway with her brother and his teddy bear as a hooded skull-faced figure reaches for them

Clea

Lead your little brother out of a mansion where the monsters hear everything.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

Clock Tower: Rewind key art: Jennifer, a frightened dark-haired girl in a white blouse, in front of a giant pair of open shears, with the mansion's clock tower at night

Multiple endings

Clock Tower: Rewind

The 1995 point-and-click classic: run and hide from the Scissorman.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Corpse Party (2021) screenshot: the pale blue ghost of a child crouches in a rotting wooden corridor as Yoshiki cries out

Corpse Party (2021)

A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

Escape the Backrooms screenshot: the empty yellow-wallpapered rooms and fluorescent lights of the first level

Escape the Backrooms

Find the exit from the endless yellow rooms, with three friends and something listening.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Ib screenshot: visitors stand around a large roped-off painting of a fanged deep-sea fish in a white gallery room, with a caption about a world where man can never stand

Ib

Escape an art gallery whose paintings have come alive.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games

Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby with weapons in front of a masked, hatted figure

Alone in the Dark

Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Blood West art: a cowboy with a revolver beside a skeletal undead creature with an open ribcage in a night-time frontier town

Blood West

An undead gunslinger stalks the monsters of a cursed Weird West.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, holding a saw cleaver and a pistol, stands in a misty gothic street

Multiple endings

Bloodborne

Hunt beasts through a cursed gothic city, and see what hides behind them.

PlayStation

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Darkest Dungeon key art: a crusader with a sword, a plague doctor and a highwayman with a pistol stand in a red-lit crypt of skulls

Darkest Dungeon

Lead broken heroes into the dark beneath your ancestor's estate.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Darkest Dungeon II key art: four heroes, including a plague doctor and a one-eyed warrior, stand behind a burning town under a flame emblem

Darkest Dungeon II

A roguelike road trip of the damned, four heroes and one stagecoach at a time.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with lit windows beside a red and white lighthouse under a dark sky, with tentacles and strange fish in the green water below

DREDGE

A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: two swollen, bloodied men in shirts and braces lurch toward the player's pistol on a foggy night street of old cars

Forgive Me Father 2

Shoot your way through Lovecraftian madness in a dark comic book world.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Halloween games

Halloween Forever art: pixel-art Pumpkin Man leaps over a graveyard where a green ghoul with a sword, skeletons and a hooded figure wait

Halloween Forever

A pumpkin-headed hero in an 8-bit Halloween platformer.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Halloween: The Game key art: Michael Myers' pale mask lit in blue against black, small figures of survivors at his chest

Halloween: The Game

Halloween night, 1978: hunt Haddonfield as Michael Myers, or try to survive him.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Resident Evil games

Resident Evil art: the grand hall of the Spencer mansion with a double staircase, columns and balconies in dim light

Resident Evil

Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 0 key art: the empty, blood-stained passenger carriage of a luxury train, light spilling through its far door

Resident Evil 0

The night before the mansion: a zombie train, a rookie medic and a convict.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 2 key art: Leon in his police uniform and Claire in a red jacket aim pistols as zombies close in on a rainy street

Resident Evil 2

Survive Raccoon City's overrun police station with too few bullets and a stalker on your trail.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Resident Evil 3 art: Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira stand against a red sunset over the Raccoon City skyline

Resident Evil 3

Escape a city falling to the dead while Nemesis hunts you street by street.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / iPhone / Mac

Resident Evil 4 key art: a close-up of Leon Kennedy's face beside a dark foggy forest with a figure standing by wooden crosses

Resident Evil 4

Leon walks into a hostile village to find the president's daughter, and almost everyone wants…

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Mac / iPhone / VR

Resident Evil 4 (2005) art: Leon Kennedy holds a handgun in a misty forest as infected villagers close in on both sides

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

Rescue the President's daughter from a village of parasite-controlled cultists.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 5 key art: Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar back to back with a pistol and a shotgun

Resident Evil 5

Chris Redfield and a partner against a parasite outbreak in Africa, built for two.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 6 key art: Leon, Chris, Jake, Sherry, Helena, Ada and Piers standing in a ruined, snowy city

Resident Evil 6

Four co-op campaigns across three continents against the C-virus.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard key art: a sepia, ink-stained collage of a woman's face, the dark house and dead trees above it

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

Escape a Louisiana farmhouse where a family that will not die hunts you.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / VR

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X art: Claire Redfield with a rifle and Chris Redfield with a pistol in his S.T.A.R.S. vest against a dark blue sky

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X

Raccoon City was just the beginning: Claire and Chris on Umbrella's island.

PlayStation / Xbox

Silent Hill games

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

SILENT HILL 2

Return to the fog town where the monsters are made of grief.

PC / PlayStation

SILENT HILL f art: Hinako in a sailor school uniform, half her face covered by masses of red flowers

SILENT HILL f

A fog takes a 1960s Japanese mountain town, and something blooms in it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

SILENT HILL: The Short Message key art: Anita in glasses with scrawled notes stuck to her face, against a red wall of graffiti

SILENT HILL: The Short Message

A message from a friend leads into a building no one should enter.

PlayStation

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