Video Games Best horror video games out there?

[Kintsuugi]

Mouthwashing and No, I'm Not Human (demo only as of right now).

 

[limes]

Mouthwashing and No, I'm Not Human (demo only as of right now).

Highkey seconding Mouthwashing with some hefty content warnings. I don't know about you guys, but I'm a big fan of the kind of horror that doesn't over-rely on jumpscares to make its point. Mouthwashing has like, one.

Slightly unconventional, but I'd like to posit "The Suicide of Rachel Foster" into the mix, simply for the eerie setting. It's not actually a horror game and also deals with heavy, heavy topics (that it probably isn't critical enough about), but the atmosphere of a dubiously haunted hotel goes really hard.

Also settings-based horror and free is The Complex: Found Footage. It's a backrooms style game with superb graphics and no monster. It relies on atmosphere alone. Scariest walking simulator I've personally ever experienced.

Less horror, more action; Control (2019) is essentially SCP: Containment Breach (which I'm also seconding) but as a AAA title. Remedy does an excellent job with atmosphere. Alan Wake and Alan Wake II from the same studio might be of interest!

 

[Nora of the Moonlight]

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.

Not technically horror, i think i spent more time running and screaming in elden ring than any other game

 

[Murdergurl]

I loved the Splatterhouse series on the Sega Genesis

 

[GrandAdmiralJello]

Outlast 100%

 

[MysticxRayn]

I just finished my first playthrough of Outlast and it was soooo scary! T_T

 

[Garu_Jixan]

Big catch but for me, its "Voices of the void", its not neccesarylly HORROR, but it have its Horror Elements, and honestly it can be quite a game, the creepiness, the anticipation, but overall... the feelings, i mean... you work on a radar when suddenly a cut out paper of alien just shows up infront of you when you went to leave the room as you scream then realise someone is pranking you, which annoyed you, but then you realise, you're supposed to be alone in this mountainous region... then who is pranking you? its a mystery but slowly you find more creepy stuff, from aliens to supernatural, to modern killing machine to friendly but cautios ancient looking automatons.

Its have its way to make you scared but also know when it should stop its scares and let you breath.

 

[pheaca]

Sorry We're Closed is a really good survival horror indie that's pretty overlooked. There's also some fun PS2 co-op survival horror that's largely overlooked, including ObScure and Resident Evil Outbreak. If you can get someone who's familiar with the genre to sit down with you for either (and you're okay with being a little frustrated, in classic survival horror fashion), it's a great time.

In terms of "horror themed," the Alan Wake duology is historically beloved, and AI: Somnium Files duology has a lot of elements that could make it arguably psychological horror (I greatly recommend the first game). Dino Crisis 1 isn't particularly scary, especially compared to its older sibling, Resident Evil, but it's still a decent play if you're into that era of gaming. I'd barely put Left 4 Dead 2 in the horror category your first few playthroughs, but the more friends and experience you get, the way less terrifying everything is. The Last of Us is definitely survival horror flavored, at least, and my favorite game of all time, so I have to throw it out there.

Otherwise, I can't think of anything off the top of my head I'd highly recommend that hasn't already been listed by someone else! However, I'd say look at the PS2 horror library—a lot of it isn't for me due to how its controls have aged, but there's really, really cool concepts in a lot of them. Plus, keeping an eye out of a variety of new projects, since we're in a horror boom right now!

 

[MxKit]

Another horror game I'd recommend besides the ones I've mentioned is Who's Lila? Such a fun game but so strange and unsettling. It's psychological horror, point-and-click, and a "reverse-detective adventure" where you play as a suspect in a missing person's case; the main gameplay element besides the choices you make is controlling the main character's facial expressions manually, which is itself unnerving. It has sixteen different endings and you're basically supposed to get all of them to try to figure out what's actually going on... though full understanding is not guaranteed. It's only $11.99 on Steam and there's a free demo you can try out first to see if you like it!

 

[Tsaia]

Will agree with others on the Silent Hill games.

 

[Wildcard8880]

Face your fears on VR or computer