Video Games Best horror video games out there?

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I’ll be honest, I’ve never played any. Unless you count Forest or Needy Streamy Overload. I’d really like to get into horror games tho, so if anybody has recommendations, please shoot! Rn I’m hearing Dead Space is the best.
 
If you want a masterpiece of psychological horror, I recommend Omori! It's best to go in completely blind, so don't look up anything before you play it. You can find it on PC and Switch.
 
Caroline1539 said:
If you want a masterpiece of psychological horror, I recommend Omori! It's best to go in completely blind, so don't look up anything before you play it. You can find it on PC and Switch.
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It’s horror? :0 Oh shit… I had no idea, the art looks so cute. Thank you for the recommendation!
 
The Silent Hill series is pretty good. The older ones. I've heard they're making more games. Also, Bramble: The Mountain King is another one too.
 
A bit niche, but SCP Containment Breach is pretty neat. All sorts of wacky stuff to keep you on the edge.
 
You guys are awesome. If anybody has more suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
 
You should also try the Resident Evil games or The Fatal Frame series too.
 
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Widely regarded as one of if not the best horror game made in its time if not beyond. I'm not saying to emulate it.
 
Outlast, Little Nightmares, Dead Space. One of THE best IMO is Visage. Play Visage if nothing else ( do the little girls story first).
 
I thought Graveyard Shift was good. Abandoned Souls is good too. They can both be found on Steam and realistic horror.

If you like dinosaurs, Oakwood is okay and Fossil Fuel 2.
 
Besides the games that people have already mentioned:
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a classic for a reason; it really popularized the type of game where you have no weapons and can only run or hide
  • Alien: Isolation is also "you are defenseless and have to HIDE" and wow it is a complete panic attack of a game tbh
  • Imscared - A Pixelated Nightmare is honestly another classic, a very indie game that is one of the big early indie metahorrors, breaking the fourth wall a lot
  • Detention and Devotion are two different games by the Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games that are very steeped in Taiwanese culture and history; they're incredibly different games (Detention is a 2D side-scroller; Devotion is realistic and in first person) but they're both incredibly good
  • Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion sounds and looks like a cute spoof of a horror game, but it's actually effective and cool once it gets going! It plays around a lot with video game horror history and tropes so you might want to play it after a few other recommendations...
  • Since someone recommended Omori, I want to also recommend some other classic RPG Maker indie horror games! Ib and The Witch's House are two of my favorites, but The Crooked Man (and the other games in The Strange Men Anthology), Mad Father, and Misao are also loved by a lot of people. (As is Yume Nikki, which I do recommend, but I don't consider that one a horror game per se.)
  • For cheap-or-free games, Kitty Horrorshow is an incredible horror creator! Her stuff is short and very strange and unnerving, despite mostly being walking simulators; almost all of it is free. I especially recommend the games in her Haunted Cities Volume 4 collection, which is totally free; I think my favorite of the games in there is Tenement, but Lethargy Hill might be the scariest for me. I also highly recommend the only game she has that costs anything: Anatomy is just $2.99 and it freaks me out entirely.
  • Also free and entirely too freaky (both on the surface and the more you think about it): Close Your Eyes by Gamigami. A very effective game where closing your eyes is your only protection.
  • Finally, a horror game that is also a love story and also incredibly funny: Slay the Princess is maybe my current favorite game and I entirely love it. It's not the scariest game on this list by a long shot, but it's incredibly good and I definitely recommend it...
As an extra note, if you want to check out any of the Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, or Resident Evil games, I recommend specifically:
  • Silent Hill 2 (the classic and probably most beloved), Silent Hill 4 (not as popular back when it came out but considered strong now and very scary), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (sort of a total retelling/reimagining of the very first game and psychologically fascinating). The first Silent Hill game is great but you can really see and feel its age trying to play it now; Silent Hill 3 is a sequel to the first game and while it's really good and I do recommend it I don't think it's a good starting point into the series; most of the other Silent Hill games are very much weaker entries; and unfortunately you can't get P.T. anymore.
  • Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is maybe the best entry point into the series; the first game unfortunately has some of the issues of the first Silent Hill game, though it's still legit terrifying imo. Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is somewhat of a sequel to the first game, and like Silent Hill 3 I do still recommend it. The fourth game, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, is maybe the second best entry point and I found it incredibly scary. I haven't yet gotten a chance to check out the most recent game, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, but it's another sequel to the first (and third?) game so wouldn't be the best to start with simply because of that IMO.
  • Resident Evil... this is simple, I am biased. I feel like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is one of the best entry points into the series for new fans, and its direct sequel Resident Evil Village is if anything an even better game (but should be played after 7). The other best entry point may be... Well, objectively speaking it may be the original game's remaster, but I personally want to say it's the Resident Evil 4 remake that came out just this year. That game rocks.
 
Prey (2017) is an all time favorite game of mine and I'm so mad they made the team that made it make Redfall (and then close) immediately after, because it really is just a masterwork of the horror and Immersive Sim genre.
 
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is interesting. It's pretty short. I haven't finished it yet, but ao far It's good. Definitely wear headphones. Combat is great, but you mainly explore stuff and look for clues to solve puzzles. More atmospheric than anything.

INSIDE was a really smooth experience for me. Kept me interested the entire time and offered a good puzzle challenge that I was able to progress through at a steady pace. I actually finished the game, which is something I don’t normally do.

Hollowknight might be horror-ish? It's got a unique artstyle and a haunted but maybe not outright scary atmosphere. Still a really nice game.

Metro games are horror. A bit older now. I'm playing through the remake of the first game atm. I also listened to most of the audio book, which in itself is an interesting read/listen with lots of psychological elements as the protagonist goes on an interesting journey (although I would say the game is more action-packed compared to the book, which focuses more on the people Artyom meets on his quest).

Alien Isolation has really neat A.I that causes the alien to adapt to your playstyle.
 
I love a good nostalgia horror game, and for me Outlast is up there. I have never been able to actually play it, but I have seen so many streamers and youtubers play it!
 
Silent Hill 2 especially if you can get the original PS2 version or get an emulator working (with controller inputs) to work, since the bizarre voice acting adds a whole other level to it otherwise absent in the latest remake.

I won't discourage you from the remake since finding original games on original hardware or getting emulators can be adventures in and of themselves; and by industry design
 
Depends on what you're looking for in a video game, there's so many types & genre subtypes out there according to playstyle, but I'll list some.

I haven't watched / played all of these, so use your discretion when looking to them, but with that in mind!

Corpse Party (& Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, granted BoS is a very slow VN)
Any RPG Horror game, really.
MISAO
IB
Fear & Hunger + Fear & Hunger Termina
The Witch's House
World of Horror
Ao Oni
Forest of Drizzling Rain
Mad Father
The Crooked Man
Yume Nikki
Dead Plate & other games by Racheldrawsthis
Hello Charlotte
Blank Dream
Bloodborne
Dark Souls
SOMA
Slay The Princess
Paranormasight
Mouthwashing
Rule of Rose
Nier Automata (Not inherently a horror game, but the world, plot & story themes can get quite dark)
Layers of Fear
Cry of Fear
Fatal Frame
Dying Light
Pony Island
Inscryption
Haunting Grounds
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (Also not quite a horror game but a classic regardless)
Until Dawn
Catherine Classic
Outlast, Outlast: Whistleblower, & Outlast 2 (and they have a multiplayer game, The Outlast Trials)
Limbo
Lucius
The Walking Dead
Amnesia, any Amnesia game really.
F.E.A.R
Penumbra
Saya no Uta
Doki Doki Literature Club
Dead Space
The Evil Within
Omori (I haven't played, I've heard good things though)
Dead by Daylight
Thymesia
Content Warning
Lethal Company
We Happy Few
We Know The Devil
The Coffin of Andy & Leyley (While extremely controversial, it is a horror game)
SIMULACRA & SIMULACRA 2
Phantasmophobia
Pathologic
Milk Outside A Bag of Milk Outside A Bag of Milk
End Roll
The Letter
Corpse Factory
Blasphemous & Blasphemous 2
Bendy and The Ink Machine
Signalis
Alice: Madness Returns
Little Nightmares
INSIDE

& many, many more. This doesn't even scratch the surface, but there's a lot on here already so I'll stop HAHA.
 
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