Since it’s October, gamers worldwide might look for scary games to enjoy. A good horror experience is incredibly compelling, as we all know. The horror genre is quite popular in gaming, just like in the television and film industries.
There are many terrific horror games available for gamers, but in this article, we’ll talk about the list of the 5 most scariest video games.
Until Dawn
| Released | 2015 |
| Platforms | PC, PS4 |
Supermassive Games created the PlayStation 4 video game Until Dawn in 2015, which blends interactive drama and horror elements. Eight young people gather in the isolated mountain resort where two of their friends mysteriously died suddenly a year ago. I’m sure you can see where this is going.
The closest thing video games have to a playable slasher movie is Until Dawn. With the game’s “butterfly effect” system, players’ decisions can potentially change the course of the plot. Depending on the decisions made, all playable characters have the chance to live or die.
From a third-person viewpoint, players sift through the surroundings in search of hints that could help them solve the mystery. Even actors of the stature of Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, and Peter Stormare can be spotted in it.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
| Released | 2017 |
| Platforms | PS4, PSVR, Xbox One, PC, Amazon Luna, Stadia |
Game developer and publisher Capcom created and released Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in 2017. Since its debut in the mid-1990s, the Resident Evil series has been a hallmark of the horror video game genre.
Resident Evil 7 was essentially Capcom’s way of saying, “You want horror? Here’s horror.‘ and set Ethan, a brand-new character, on a journey that resembles a crossover between The Shining and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
In a deserted plantation inhabited by an infected family, the player takes charge of Ethan Winters as he seeks his long-missing wife while solving challenges and squaring off against enemies. Although Resident Evil 7 isn’t the most recent entry in the series, it is undoubtedly the scariest.
Alien: Isolation
| Released | 2014 |
| Platforms | Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One |
A 2014 survival horror game called Alien: Isolation was created by Creative Assembly and published by Sega.
Based on the Alien movie series, the game follows engineer Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Alien star Ellen Ripley, as she looks into her mother’s abduction onboard the space station Sevastopol. The game is set 15 years after the events of the original 1979 film Alien.
In the game, you are trapped in a small space trading station while being chased by a Xenomorph. And Amanda, trapped at the station, must employ stealth and cunning use of the surroundings to escape the monster hunting her.
Outlast Trinity
| Released | 2013 |
| Platforms | PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch |
Red Barrels created and released the first-person survival horror video game titled Outlast. The game’s main character is Miles Upshur, a freelance investigative journalist who decides to look into a secluded mental facility in Lake County, Colorado, called Mount Massive Asylum. While the second is set in a deadly Christian cult-run little town in Arizona.
The 2013 horror game Outlast and its 2017 follow-up greatly depend on making the player feel helpless, making them have to flee and hide from danger. Outlast adheres to a standard horror genre, yet the game’s jump scares and dissected corpses successfully inspire a great deal of fear.
You won’t want to play this game by yourself at night. Outlast and Outlast 2 stand out as extremely horrifying in this genre.
Little Nightmares II
| Released | 2021 |
| Platforms | PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch |
The puzzle-platform horror adventure game Little Nightmares II was created by Tarsier Studios and released by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the predecessor to Little Nightmares from 2017.
Prequel Little Nightmares 2 has smoother gameplay and a wider range of environments than its predecessor and overall outperforms it.
The storyline follows Mono, who must team up with Six, to survive the horrors of the Pale City and unearth its sinister mysteries. It is a game that perfectly captures the definition of a “cozy horror.”
This game never stops being spine-tingling, and you’ll never be emotionally ready for how it unfolds.
