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Mutant horror games on PlayStation

In these games the enemies were once people or animals, changed by a virus, an experiment or something living in the dark. You fight or slip past pale cave dwellers, infected villagers and stitched-together bioweapons. The fear comes from bodies that look almost human and from never knowing what the next one has turned into.

The top 30 of 32 mutant horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best on PlayStation

  1. The Forest key art: the legs of a woman in a bloodied teal skirt and teal high heels walking across dark ground between plants SurvivalThe ForestIts enemies are a clan of genetic mutants with beliefs, families and morals who appear almost human, and worse deformed ones live in the caves 96% on Steam (685,275 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, VR
  2. NO-SKIN key art: the title in bold red capital letters on black, with dark red fleshy shapes at the right edge SurvivalNO-SKINThe friends you fight early on later grow into ghastly, changed forms as you go deeper into the house. 94% on Steam (1,436 reviews)about 30 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. 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)Steam's feature list warns of mutations stalking the streets: skinless dogs, giant spiders and clawed creatures. 95% on the PlayStation Store (11,720 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation
  4. STASIS: BONE TOTEM key art: a frightened woman in a diving helmet underwater, a toothed orange-lit tentacle coiled around her in the green dark EscapeSTASIS: BONE TOTEMMutated creatures wait in the vents and the cutscenes show the lab's monsters. 93% on Steam (2,689 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Metro 2033 Redux key art: a soldier in a helmet and gas mask raises a hand against bright light in a snowy, ruined street with a red Cyrillic sign SurvivalMetro 2033 ReduxThe besieged station-cities fight the mutant horrors that wait outside, and winged mutants hunt you on the surface 92% on Steam (143,484 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. 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 ReduxMutants stalk the catacombs beneath the surface and attack in swarms, and others hunt in the poisoned skies above 91% on Steam (82,615 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. System Shock key art: SHODAN's glowing teal-green mask-like face with bright white eyes, over faint circuit lines on a black background Action horrorSystem ShockMuch of the crew has been mutated by SHODAN, and pale, bloodied mutants rush you in the corridors 90% on Steam (13,113 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Ground Zero key art: a silver-haired woman in a red beret and goggles raises a pistol on a rainy Korean street at night, with a huge fiery cloud behind her SurvivalGround ZeroEvery living thing touched by the impact is mutated: dogs first, then people, then stranger creatures 88% on Steam (759 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. Heaven Dust 2 key art: spiky-haired Steve with a shotgun back to back with a young woman among zombies, two helicopters in a stormy sky SurvivalHeaven Dust 2Besides ordinary zombies there are mutated monsters: the armoured Bone Fiend, the regenerating Blood Fiend and the boomlad 90% on Steam (861 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Switch, PlayStation
  10. Heaven Dust key art: a spiky-haired boy aims a handgun in front of pale zombies and a hulking mutant with an eye in its chest, beside faded top-down views of mansion rooms SurvivalHeaven DustA hulking mutant with an eye in its chest looms over the zombies in the key art and waits as the boss. 92% on Steam (601 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation
  11. CANINE key art: a snarling dog's face seen from below, with bared white fangs and glowing amber eyes against black SurvivalCANINEReuben, a mutant dog-human hybrid about eight feet tall, stalks the building 96% on Steam (317 reviews)about 30 minPaidPC, Mac, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  12. System Shock 2 remaster key art: the metallic face of the AI SHODAN with glowing green eyes and wires spreading out like hair SurvivalSystem Shock 2: 25th Anniversary RemasterHybrid mutants, once crew, roam the halls with pipes and shotguns. 88% on Steam (2,304 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. RetroSpace key art, painted in two panels: a frightened mustached man with a pistol glances back at a red-eyed, insect-headed mutant in white armor Sci-fi horrorRetroSpaceWeird animal and plant hybrids roam the corridors, and your own Mutamods mutate you with side effects 90% on Steam (531 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  14. Resident Evil 5 key art: Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar back to back with a pistol and a shotgun Co-opResident Evil 5A biological agent transforms the local people, and larger bioweapons wait at the end of chapters. 87% on Steam (68,924 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  15. Amanda the Adventurer 3 key art: a glowing old TV between a screaming opossum, a grumpy Wooly the sheep and a smiling Amanda, with a clawed hand reaching over it in the dark Puzzle horrorAmanda the Adventurer 3The game opens after a chase by the Shepherd, a mutated version of Wooly the sheep. 87% on Steam (761 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  16. Get Out key art: a hooded figure in a straitjacket sits cross-legged in a blue-lit prison cell, a silhouette at the barred window behind SurvivalGet Out ! A "Very Bad Dreams" StoryThe maker's content notes list human and mutant corpses, and the store's creatures come out of those failed experiments. 83% on the PlayStation Store (176 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, VR
  17. Organ Quarter key art: a hooded figure with cracked skin and amber eyes holds a mottled cloth mask over their face before dark ruined buildings SurvivalOrgan QuarterGrotesque beings that were once the city's residents, and some that were never human, roam its streets 90% on Steam (316 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  18. Resident Evil Revelations 2 key art: an extreme close-up of a bloodshot green eye in a scarred, bloody face SurvivalResident Evil Revelations 2The Afflicted are joined by the Rotten, whose bones show through their bodies, and the Revenant, sewn together from human parts. 86% on the PlayStation Store (166,958 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  19. Resident Evil Revelations key art: a pale, bloodied hand pressed against a wet ship's porthole SurvivalResident Evil RevelationsThe Ooze and the Wall Blister are creatures mutated by the T-Abyss virus. 81% on Steam (18,708 reviews)about 8.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. End of Abyss key art: Cel in an old diving-style suit with a glowing cyan faceplate stands small at the bottom of a huge, misty circular metal tunnel SurvivalEnd of AbyssNothing you meet in the complex is fully human, and the screenshots show fleshy, tentacled mutants 85% on the PlayStation Store (2,133 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  21. Hollowbody key art: Mica holds a red glowing lantern and a pistol as pale, long-haired figures reach for her through grey smoke beside her crashed hover SurvivalHollowbodyThe ruins are full of hostile mutants, pale and grotesque, that Mica must fight or avoid. 85% on Steam (1,625 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  22. Dead Island Definitive Edition key art: a snarling tattooed zombie with long blond hair in front of a palm-lined resort pool and sun loungers Co-opDead Island Definitive EditionBeside the walkers come mutated infected: floaters that spew toxic fluid, hulking thugs and suiciders that explode. 82% on Steam (28,463 reviews)19 h or morePaidPC, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  23. Metro Awakening store art: a gloved hand holds a lit lighter beside a homemade shotgun as a pale clawed mutant crouches in a green-lit rusty corridor SurvivalMetro AwakeningDesperate bandits, mutants and worse haunt every step; a fanged mutant lunges at you over a generator 75% on Steam (3,649 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  24. Super Lone Survivor key art: the survivor in a white surgical mask above a ruined city skyline under a dark blue night sky PsychologicalLone SurvivorTwisted, shambling creatures that are drawn to light and noise. 93% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  25. Killing Floor 2 key art: a mercenary fights a clawed Zed as a screaming Siren, a chainsaw-armed Scrake and a glowing red Fleshpound charge through the fog Co-opKilling Floor 2Zeds are twisted mixes of flesh and machinery, such as the chainsaw-armed Scrake and the Fleshpound. 88% on Steamabout 55 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  26. Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition key art: a snarling, bloodied zombie in front of a tin shack in a storm-lashed tropical jungle Co-opDead Island: Riptide Definitive EditionA store screenshot shows an infected in a hazmat suit swollen with red mutated flesh, one of the tougher special infected 71% on Steam (13,122 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  27. Resident Evil 6 key art: Piers, Chris, Leon, Sherry, Jake, Helena and Ada standing in a smoky, ruined city at night Co-opResident Evil 6The C-virus turns soldiers into J'avo that mutate where they are shot. 77% on Steam21 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  28. I Hate This Place key art: a giant horned skull creature with glowing eyes looms over a lit wooden cabin in a dark pine forest SurvivalI Hate This PlaceMutated spiders, deer and glowing green-headed creatures attack you in the screenshots and reviews 77% on the PlayStation Store (184 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  29. Back 4 Blood key art: four Cleaners fire from a red clearing shaped like a 4, ringed by a huge horde of Ridden and a bloated mutant, seen from above Co-opBack 4 BloodMutated Ridden, including boss types up to 20 feet tall, are sent in among the horde to break up the team. 72% on Steam (25,461 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  30. The Callisto Protocol key art: Jacob Lee in armour stands among mutated inmates in a ruined prison block SurvivalThe Callisto ProtocolWhen inmates begin to transform into monstrous creatures, the prison is thrown into chaos. 65% on Steam (43,825 reviews)about 9.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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