All horror games

System Shock 2. Resident Evil Survivor. Alone in the Dark 2. Condemned: Criminal Origins. Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare.

Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The House of the Dead 4. The Suffering. The House of the Dead. Clive Barker's Undying. The Suffering: Ties That Bind. Maniac Mansion. Sweet Home. Dino Crisis 3. Developer: Capcom Platform: Xbox. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

Ju-on: The Grudge. Platform: Wii. Forbidden Siren 2. The Thing. The House of the Dead 2. The 7th Guest. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. Developer: Tecmo Platform: PlayStation 2.

Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen. Silent Hill: Orphan. Soul of the Samurai. Developer: Konami Platform: PlayStation. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. The 3rd Birthday. System Shock. Ghoul Patrol. Cold Fear. Clive Barker's Jericho. The Ring: Terror's Realm. Splatterhouse 2. Fatal Frame. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.

Developer: Konami. Blood II: The Chosen. Rule of Rose. Developer: Punchline Platform: PlayStation 2. Clock Tower. Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines. The 11th Hour. Haunted House. Galerians: Ash. Nightmare Creatures. Dementium: The Ward. Developer: Atlus Platform: PlayStation.

Monster Party. Vampire Rain. Splatterhouse 3. Deadly Premonition. Developer: Midway Games Platform: Arcade game. Vampire Hunter D. It stands out from many of the other games in the series by utilizing a more futuristic setting, though classic vampiric action is here in spades.

In , the game was released as part of the Castlevania Advance collection on a variety of consoles, making it easy to get ahold of. Developed by the same studio behind Limbo , Inside is a similarly dark puzzle platform game. It includes a whole host of new ways to be gruesomely killed, including torn to pieces by vicious guard dogs or torn to pieces by explosions.

Inside features even more graphic depictions of this violence, and it has a Mature rating. Inside's ending plants it solidly in the realm of body horror, with a giant mass of human limbs making up a creature known only as The Huddle.

Inside is a triumph, improving on the formula created with Limbo and making a game even more worth playing. The second installment in arguably the greatest horror video game franchise of all time, Resident Evil 2 is a prime example of survival horror.

It features general improvements on its predecessor in nearly every way, with a distinct focus on exploration, puzzles, and combat. It features two-player characters, with branching paths and unique storylines for each. Perhaps this game's greatest achievement is cementing Resident Evil as not a one-off hit, but rather a continuous franchise that would remain high-quality decades on down the line.

With two entries in the top ten horror games of all time, the Castlevania franchise has well earned its place in the video game hall of fame.

In Symphony of the Night , the player actually plays the son of the famed vampire Dracula as he searches for his former partner Richter Belmont in the newly reappeared castle of Count Dracula. It features classic 2D sidescrolling action, with a combination of items and weapons as well as vampiric powers to be discovered and unlocked, allowing access to new areas of the game. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. New Siren game takes place on a small island town in rural Japan.

The town is quiet, and peaceful, until one night evil invades, and it's dark history surfaces. M Action, Horror, Mystery. A death row convict must fight his way to freedom when nightmarish monsters invade the prison. M Adventure, Fantasy, Horror. Over the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.

Daniel, a young man, awakes in a dreary castle with no memory of his past and discovers that he deliberately erased his memory and must travel through the dark halls to kill the evil baron Alexander. Stars: Richard Topping , Sam A. Mowry , Bill Corkery , Eric Newsome. Votes: 1, Heather is suddenly thrust into a strange alternate reality filled with demonic imagery and twisted monsters.

She quickly comes to find that the events unfolding around her have something to do with her past. Votes: 3, M Action, Crime, Horror. Ethan Thomas, a former Serial Crimes Unit investigator, is brought back into action to hunt down the killer of his former partner and uncover the disturbing secrets behind an increasingly dark and violent city. Henry wakes up to realize he's confined in his apartment.

He is then forced to crawl a mysterious hole in his bathroom; a gateway that leads to grisly realities, holding both secrets and answers. Votes: 2, Harry awakes from a car crash to notice his daughter, Cheryl, vanished.

As he searches through the eerie town of Silent Hill, a terrifying descent into the unknown is set. Votes: 5, You play an elite commando for a unique covert operations unit hunting for a mysterious fugitive who commands a clone army while mysterious things occur around you. Michael Becket is tapped to investigate mysterious happenings within a private aerospace company before a nuclear explosion rocked the Auburn industrial district in the first game.

M Horror. Set in Heian-era Kyoto, Japan. The game follows three different protagonists as they explore a feudal Japanese manor at night, as well as an old mountainside temple. A great example of this for horror is Five Night's at Freddy's as it's clearly a horror game and also a point-and-click game which is it's own genre. Yes actually, horror is a subtype of the action genre! More specifically, they come from action-adventure games that covers games like Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto.

There are only a handful of game genres and these also have subgenres which then also have subgenres. Most games aren't thought about in terms of what the original genre they're attached to so knowing this isn't very important.

A horror game usually has elements from other game genres in them but they aren't a survival horror game. In some cases, the horror might not be the main element of a game which is the case in Little Nightmares. This is why Little Nightmares is listed as a puzzle-platformer horror game.

It also explains why Five Night's at Freddy's is a Point-and-click horror game! There are also horror games which aren't specifically included as they're labelled as something else all together. Other games such as Telltale's Walking Dead series aren't even thought of as a horror game since the main focus is on the gameplay style. Survival horror games are usually more 'active' in terms of the player needing to move around to new locations to complete different objectives and levels.

In this type of horror game, players need to go find items or people and complete goals to unlock new parts of the map to progress through the game. There is usually some kind of health bar, stamina bar and other might be added as well such as batteries for flashlights.