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Parasite horror games on PlayStation

In these games something lives inside the people around you: a worm, a fungus, a virus or a creature that wears its host. Villagers who still talk and walk come at you with the thing inside them, growths split heads open, and in some you cannot tell who is still human. The fear is of being taken over yourself, and of what crawls out when a body falls.

The top 12 of 12 parasite horror games on PlayStation, ranked by player and critic scores

The 12 best on PlayStation

  1. 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 SurvivalResident Evil 4The villagers are controlled by a parasite called Las Plagas, which can burst out of an enemy you have felled. 97% on Steam (283,806 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Mac, iPhone, VR
  2. The Last of Us Part I key art: Ellie with a backpack looks down over a ruined town in orange haze, a small figure of Joel with a pistol walking within her silhouette SurvivalThe Last of Us Part IThe Infected are people taken over by the Cordyceps fungus; Clickers have heads split open by the growth and Bloaters are swollen with fungal plates. 98% on the PlayStation Store (146,000 ratings)15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  3. The Last of Us Part II Remastered key art: Ellie crouches before a flooded, ruined Seattle with a Ferris wheel, while Abby walks with a gun among embers inside Ellie's silhouette SurvivalThe Last of Us Part II RemasteredThe Infected are people taken over by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and they hunt Ellie and Abby through dark buildings. 91% on the PlayStation Store (311,000 ratings)24 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  4. The Thing: Remastered key art: soldiers in hooded snow parkas charge forward under a huge snarling dog-like creature in red and orange haze Body horrorThe Thing: RemasteredThe creature absorbs and imitates the people it kills, so it can hide inside your team. 90% on Steam (1,446 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Resident Evil 5 key art: Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar back to back with a pistol and a shotgun Co-opResident Evil 5The Majini are townspeople changed by a biological agent, and one screenshot shows a head splitting open into tentacles. 87% on Steam (68,924 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. 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 2The Slither, parasitic worms, puppeteer the corpses of Arkham's dead against you 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,506 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  7. Resident Evil 0 key art: the empty, blood-stained passenger carriage of a luxury train, light spilling through its far door SurvivalResident Evil 0Leeches carrying the T-virus swarm the train and its passengers at the start 91% on the PlayStation Store (24,000 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Resident Evil 4 (2005) art: Leon Kennedy holds a handgun in a misty forest as infected villagers close in on both sides SurvivalResident Evil 4 (2005)A parasite called Las Plagas controls the villagers and bursts out of some of them when they are shot. 94% on Steam16 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  9. Aliens: Dark Descent key art: five Colonial Marines and a drone stand in a misty blue Xenomorph hive, with open alien eggs in the foreground Sci-fi horrorAliens: Dark DescentOpen alien eggs and Facehuggers are among the creatures your marines face in the hive 88% on Steam (9,485 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. Scorn key art: a rust-red face of cracked, veined flesh with one empty eye socket, framed by tube-like growths SurvivalScornA bloody parasite-like arm plugs into a bony device clamped on your wrist, and your own body is changed as you go. 77% on Steam (20,129 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Xbox, PlayStation
  11. 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 BloodA deadly parasite has turned most of humanity into the Ridden, and the Cleaners are among the few immune to it. 72% on Steam (25,461 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  12. Zoochosis key art: a mutated long-necked creature with a red eye and a spike-ringed tube mouth, glowing pink and orange below the title Body horrorZoochosisA parasite spreads through the zoo, and the animals it reaches start turning into monsters 61% on Steam (2,411 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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