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Horror shooters and action horror games on Switch

18 horror shooters and action horror games on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Fighting the horror head-on with real weapons is the main way to play, in a game whose world, enemies and set pieces are built to frighten. A shooter with one spooky level, or a military shooter with zombies as a mode, does not count; a survival horror game where you are poorly armed belongs on the survival page instead.

18 games

All horror shooters and action horror games on switch

Antarctica 88 screenshot: a flamethrower sets a long-legged spider-like creature on fire in a cave

Multiple endings

Antarctica 88: Scary Games

Something woke in the ice under an Antarctic research station.

iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / Switch

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

Death Park 2 screenshot: the clown, with glowing yellow eyes and a toothy grin, reaches for a boy in a striped shirt on a walkway lit in red

Multiple endings

Death Park 2: Scary Clown Game

Save your sister from the clown across a city of nightmares.

iPhone / Android / PC / Xbox / 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

EMPTY SHELL key art: a figure in a gas mask emerging from black ink against a white, glitched background

EMPTY SHELL

Volunteer for a recovery job in a dead facility. Then send the next one.

PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Into the Dead 2 screenshot: a first-person view holding a chainsaw in a field at dusk, a dog running ahead and zombies walking toward a church

Into the Dead 2: Zombie Killer

Run and shoot through the zombie apocalypse to reach your family.

iPhone / Android / Switch

Killing Time: Resurrected key art: a grinning zombie butler holding a knife and a plate, a zombie and a polka-dot clown on an orange and red swirl

Killing Time: Resurrected

Shoot your way through a cursed 1930s estate full of ghosts and monsters.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Lovecraft's Untold Stories key art: pixel-art Great Old Ones, among them a tentacled Cthulhu and a horned goddess, wrapped around the Earth in a starry sky

Lovecraft's Untold Stories

A top-down roguelite through Lovecraft's stories, where knowledge keeps you sane.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

Metro 2033 Redux key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet shielding his eyes in a ruined Moscow street

Metro 2033 Redux

Cross the tunnels of a post-nuclear Moscow metro with a gas mask and few bullets.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a ranger in a gas mask with a rifle and a shield in front of ruined Moscow

Multiple endings

Metro: Last Light Redux

Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.

PC / Mac / Linux / 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

System Shock key art: SHODAN's glowing green face made of circuit lines on a black background

System Shock

Fight through a space station run by a mad AI and its cyborgs.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

System Shock 2 remaster key art: the metallic face of the AI SHODAN with glowing green eyes and wires spreading out like hair

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Wake alone on a starship where the crew have become something else.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

World War Z key art: a black silhouette of zombies piling up the walls of a tower as survivors fight on its roof

World War Z

Four survivors hold the line against swarms of hundreds of zombies.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Zombie Army 4: Dead War key art: a skeletal zombie soldier with glowing eyes in a barbed-wire helmet, rows of undead behind him

Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Snipe and fight through Hitler's undead armies with up to three friends.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch