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Best Horror Games of 2024: The Year's Standouts

2024 brought the SILENT HILL 2 remake, the short and much-praised Mouthwashing and a strong run of retro survival horror. These are the year's horror games that players and critics rated well, from big releases to free games you can finish tonight.

The games

  1. James stands with his back to us in the middle of a fog-filled Silent Hill street, parked cars and shopfronts with awnings fading into grey mist PsychologicalSILENT HILL 2The ground-up remake of the 2001 classic: James searches fog-bound Silent Hill for his late wife among monsters that mirror his guilt.
  2. Mouthwashing art: a single bloodshot eye inside a red outline shaped like a dripping mouthwash drop, on black PsychologicalMouthwashingA short first-person story aboard a stranded space freighter as power and food run out and the crew turns on itself.
  3. Crow Country art: low-poly Mara holds a handgun by a crow-topped ticket booth beside a giant crow statue SurvivalCrow CountryPS1-style survival horror in an abandoned theme park in 1990, with puzzles, monsters and an Exploration Mode for newcomers.
  4. Still Wakes the Deep key art: the silhouette of a man filled with the image of an oil rig, glowing over a dark sea SurvivalStill Wakes the DeepA 1975 oil rig off Scotland breaks apart as its crew is twisted into monsters, and you have no weapon at all.
  5. Buckshot Roulette key art: The Dealer, a face with a huge toothy grin and a cigarette in his teeth, holds out a pump shotgun in pale hands in front of stacked speakers Co-opBuckshot RouletteRussian roulette with a shotgun against a grinning dealer in an underground club, or against friends online.
  6. Content Warning art: four crew members in dark diving suits with round emoji faces, one holding a clapperboard and one waving, in a grey ruin Co-opContent WarningCo-op for four: film the monsters of an underground ruin on a handheld camera and upload them for views.
  7. The Outlast Trials art: three test subjects with night-vision goggles strapped to their faces, one screaming with an arm raised, in a murky olive tint SurvivalThe Outlast TrialsThe Outlast makers' co-op: test subjects in a Cold War brainwashing program, hiding from the facility's killers.
  8. Indigo Park key art: Rambley the cartoon raccoon in a red scarf waving in front of a dark doorway on a blue-tinted street with boxes and a bench Puzzle horrorIndigo Park: Chapter 1Free mascot horror: an abandoned amusement park, a cartoon raccoon host on the screens and a mascot that comes for you.
  9. Homicipher key art: a pale figure with long black hair and a thin smile, blood spattered across the face and chest, in the dark EscapeHomicipherA horror adventure about language: learn what monstrous men's strange words mean before you say the wrong thing.
  10. Sorry We're Closed key art: a blue-skinned horned demon woman with a long tongue, tooth earrings and a pink Baby choker, under the game's title SurvivalSorry We're ClosedFixed-camera 90s-style survival horror with a neon look: a woman cursed by a lovesick archdemon, and a third eye.
  11. Home Safety Hotline key art: a pink push-button telephone wrapped in green vines, a dark furry creature behind it Puzzle horrorHome Safety HotlineAnswer worried callers in 1996 and look up what is in their homes in a pest database that grows stranger.
  12. Platform 8 key art: a man in a pale blue shirt sits alone on a red bench seat in a Japanese train carriage, looking at his phone with a bag on his lap PsychologicalPlatform 8The Exit 8 maker's follow-up: trapped on a train that never stops, spotting what has changed.
  13. The Cabin Factory key art: a log cabin with a glowing porch and open door alone in a vast, dim factory hall PsychologicalThe Cabin FactoryShort anomaly hunting on a factory line: inspect each cabin and mark it haunted or clear before something moves.
  14. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit key art: a worn yellow rabbit animatronic with glowing blue eyes rising from a ball pit SurvivalFive Nights at Freddy's: Into the PitA 2D FNAF adventure: dive into a ball pit, wake in the past and hide from a yellow rabbit animatronic.
  15. CONSCRIPT key art: a soldier in a gas mask and helmet with red lenses raises a spiked club amid explosions in a trench SurvivalCONSCRIPTTop-down survival horror at Verdun in 1916, scavenging and fighting through trenches in the classic Resident Evil style.
  16. Enigma of Fear key art: Mia with a flashlight and pistol, her dog Lupi and the Ordo Realitas agents before a dark house under a huge ghostly face with green eyes Multiple endingsEnigma of FearA paranormal investigation with a detective and her dog, from the creator of the Ordem Paranormal series.
  17. Hellblade II: Senua's Saga key art: Senua's grim, dirt-streaked face surrounded by many hands reaching from the darkness to touch her head PsychologicalHellblade II: Senua's SagaSenua's psychosis and the dead of 10th-century Iceland, in a short, cinematic and brutal journey.
  18. Until Dawn key art: a skull shaped like an hourglass, with a lodge and small figures inside, half buried in snow PsychologicalUntil DawnThe 2024 rebuild of the slasher classic: eight friends at a mountain lodge, and your choices decide who survives.
  19. Psychopomp key art: a pale woman in a heavy red-brown helmet bowing her head against a red mass, on a black field of drifting red specks PsychologicalPsychopompFree: a short dungeon crawl through catacombs under every building, among grotesque creatures.
  20. Krypta FM key art: a hooded figure shines a flashlight on a yellow Krypta FM sign in a dark forest PsychologicalKrypta FMFree: night walks with a flashlight and camera, photographing signs of a cryptid around a Polish village.
  21. Banebush key art: the white hand-painted title over a dark forest of tree trunks in blood red and black Multiple endingsBanebushA black-and-red horror visual novel in which a grandmother's village tales start to come true.
  22. Shipwrecked 64 key art: Bucky Beaver and a smiling otter in low-poly cartoon style against a pink and purple swirl Multiple endingsShipwrecked 64A 'lost' 1990s platformer that decays as you play, with a darker story leaking out of it.
  23. Key art of a flooded basement corridor in green and red light, with a lift on floor B2 glowing red and a girl's silhouette in its doorway SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationTaiwanese survival horror in a haunted university building, hiding from ghosts as four characters.
  24. Misao key art: a purple-haired girl in a red top and pink skirt curled up on her side with her arms over her head among dark red splashes 2D horrorMisao - 2024 HD RemasterThe HD remake of the RPG Maker classic: a school dragged into an otherworld of spirits and deathtraps.
  25. Withering Rooms key art: a girl in a white dress holding a cleaver and a lantern faces a hunched creature draped in a bloodstained sheet in a candlelit Victorian room under a chandelier SurvivalWithering RoomsSurvival horror in a Victorian mansion that rearranges itself every night, Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam.
  26. Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames Puzzle horrorFear the SpotlightA short PS1-style story of a school séance gone wrong and something with a spotlight walking the halls.
  27. 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 SurvivalHollowbodySurvival horror in a walled-off, ruined British city, searching for the partner who went in first.
  28. Slitterhead key art: a pale young woman with blue hair and a red-lit eye beside a red and white striped tiger-like mask, in red and cyan splashes Body horrorSlitterheadAction horror from Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama: a bodiless spirit possesses people to hunt brain-eating monsters.
  29. Late Homework key art: cat-eared Haneko in green stands eyes closed against a grey brick wall in a dark checkered hallway, a red EXIT sign glowing to the left SurvivalLate HomeworkA schoolgirl goes back to her school after dark for forgotten homework, in fixed-camera, tank-control survival horror of the 32-bit kind.
  30. SILENT HILL: The Short Message key art: Anita in red glasses with insulting handwritten notes stuck to her face, in a dark red graffiti-covered corridor PsychologicalSILENT HILL: The Short MessageFree on PlayStation 5: a message from a friend leads a girl into a building no one should enter.

2024 was the year a remake and a tiny indie game led horror. SILENT HILL 2, rebuilt from the ground up by Bloober Team, brought James Sunderland's search for his late wife through fog-bound Silent Hill to a new generation, with its monsters still mirroring his guilt. Mouthwashing, a short first-person story about the stranded crew of a space freighter running out of food and hope, drew Overwhelmingly Positive reviews from nearly 39,000 players on Steam.

Survival horror had a strong year. Crow Country rebuilt the PS1 style in an abandoned 1990 theme park and added an Exploration Mode for newcomers, Sorry We're Closed paired fixed camera angles with a neon look and an archdemon looking for love, and CONSCRIPT took the classic Resident Evil formula into the trenches of Verdun. Withering Rooms set its survival horror in a Victorian mansion that changes every night, Hollowbody sent you into a walled-off, ruined British city after a missing partner, and Fear the Spotlight, a short PS1-style story about a school séance gone wrong, was one of the year's best-rated small releases, as was Late Homework, a jam game grown into a full release in which a schoolgirl fetches her forgotten homework from a school at night, under fixed cameras with tank controls. Still Wakes the Deep, from The Chinese Room, put you on a 1975 oil rig breaking apart while its crew turned into something else, with no weapon at all.

Some of 2024's best ideas were small. Buckshot Roulette is Russian roulette with a shotgun against a grinning dealer, Homicipher asks you to learn a monster's language by its faces and gestures, Home Safety Hotline turns a 1996 pest helpline into analog horror, and Platform 8 carried The Exit 8's anomaly spotting onto a train that never stops, while The Cabin Factory, released in December, made it a factory job: inspect each cabin on the line and walk out the moment something is wrong. Shipwrecked 64 pretends to be a lost 1990s platformer that rots as you play. Psychopomp, Krypta FM and Indigo Park: Chapter 1 are all free and all worth an evening.

With friends, Content Warning had groups filming monsters for views, and The Outlast Trials, fully released in 2024, put up to four test subjects through a Cold War brainwashing program. Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit turned a FNAF story into a 2D adventure about a ball pit that leads into the past, and Until Dawn came back rebuilt for PC and PlayStation 5. Slitterhead, from Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama's new studio, had a bodiless spirit jump between the people of a neon city to hunt brain-eating monsters hiding among them. Konami also gave away SILENT HILL: The Short Message on PlayStation 5, a free first-person story about a girl following a friend's message into an abandoned building.

Start with SILENT HILL 2 or Crow Country for survival horror, Mouthwashing for a story you can finish in an evening, and Buckshot Roulette or Content Warning with friends. For this year's games, see the guides to the best horror games of 2025 and new horror games of 2026.

Questions

What was the best horror game of 2024?

The SILENT HILL 2 remake was the year's biggest horror release, and Mouthwashing, Crow Country and Buckshot Roulette were among the best-reviewed indie games.

Were there good free horror games in 2024?

Yes: Psychopomp, Krypta FM and Indigo Park: Chapter 1 are free on Steam and rated Overwhelmingly Positive by players.

Which 2024 horror games can I play with friends?

Content Warning for up to four players, The Outlast Trials for up to four, and Buckshot Roulette's online mode.

Which 2024 horror games are on Switch?

Crow Country, Sorry We're Closed, Home Safety Hotline, Platform 8, CONSCRIPT, Homicipher and Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit are all on Nintendo Switch.

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