Most Terrifying Horror Video Games
by universe1701 | created - 16 Aug 2019 | updated - 28 Oct 2019 | PublicThis is not so much a list of the Best horror games, but more a list ranked in scary factor.
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1. Alien: Isolation (2014 Video Game)
M | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In this first person survival horror adventure set fifteen years after the events of Alien (1979), Ripley's daughter becomes trapped on an alien-infested space station which holds answers to the mystery of her mother's disappearance.
Director: Alistair Hope | Stars: Andrea Deck, George Anton, Kezia Burrows, Richie Campbell
Votes: 6,281
2. Outlast (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
Freelance journalist, Miles Upshur, is requested by an anonymous individual to investigate the Mount Massive Asylum, only to find it overrun by the asylum's deranged patients.
Stars: Shawn Baichoo, Chimwemwe Miller, Andreas Apergis, Alex Ivanovici
Votes: 5,748
3. P.T. (2014 Video Game)
Not Rated | Horror, Mystery
The player must navigate a series of continuously looping hallways, solving cryptic puzzles, all while being hunted by a hostile apparition named Lisa.
Directors: Guillermo del Toro, Hideo Kojima | Star: Norman Reedus
Votes: 2,278
4. Silent Hill 2 (2001 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After receiving a letter from his late wife, from Silent Hill, James Sunderland heads towards the town to search for her, only to come across a terrifying road of truth and redemption.
Directors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Masashi Tsuboyama | Stars: Guy Cihi, Monica Horgan, Donna Burke, David Schaufele
Votes: 7,618
5. Resident Evil 2 (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Re-imagining of Resident Evil 2 (1998), with a third-person over-the-shoulder view, new details, rearranged and new areas, no more loading screen doors, new puzzle solving opportunities, a gunpowder crafting mechanic and more.
Directors: Yasuhiro Anpo, Kazunori Kadoi | Stars: Nick Apostolides, Stephanie Panisello, Jolene Andersen, Eliza Pryor
Votes: 10,446
6. Dead Space (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
Engineer Isaac Clarke and his crew get stranded on a large, abandoned mining ship. There, Clarke needs to repair the giant ship while battling nasty aliens and solving the mystery of what happened to the ship.
Director: Michael Condrey | Stars: Tonantzin Carmelo, J.G. Hertzler, Iyari Limon, Peter Mensah
Votes: 10,554
7. Fatal Frame (2001 Video Game)
T | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Armed with a camera capable of fighting ghosts, a teenage girl searches a haunted house in search of her brother.
Director: Makoto Shibata | Stars: Rumiko Varnes, Dominic Allen, Bianca Allen, Lenne Hardt
Votes: 647
8. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (2003 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Twin sisters try to escape a haunted village with the help of the Camera Obscura, a camera with the power to see the impossible.
Director: Makoto Shibata | Stars: Akemi Kanda, Ayako Kawasumi, Tsukiko Amano, Leigh-Allyn Baker
Votes: 659
9. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery
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: 2,283
10. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
An ordinary man must embark on a search to find his missing wife that leads him to an abandoned house where a mysterious family lives who harbor an evil secret within the house and themselves.
Director: Koushi Nakanishi | Stars: Todd Soley, Katie O'Hagan, Jack Brand, Sara Coates
Votes: 10,334
11. Soma (2015 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Simon Jarrett finds himself in a mysterious, ravaged facility after seemingly losing consciousness during a new, experimental brain scan which was suggested to him for his brain damage after his car accident.
Stars: Jared Zeus, Nell Mooney, Brian Protheroe, Jennifer Armour
Votes: 2,232
12. Visage (2020 Video Game)
M | Horror
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacob Browning, Nicole Endicott | Stars: Jeremy Inman, Nazeeh Tarsha, Ben Phillips, Jean Ruda Habrukowich
Votes: 280
13. Dead Space 2 (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Set three years after the events of the first, Isaac Clarke's fight against a new Necromorph outbreak on the Sprawl, a space station above Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Stars: Gunner Wright, Tanya Clarke, Sonita Henry, Curt Cornelius
Votes: 7,286
14. Slender: The Arrival (2013 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
When her friend disappears into the woods around her home, a young woman ventures into a nightmarish realm to unravel the mystery of a malevolent creature that has targeted her.
Director: Mark J. Hadley
Votes: 491
15. BioShock (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
In 1960, a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: John Ahlin, Greg Baldwin, Jane Beller, Susanne Blakeslee
Votes: 22,014
16. Silent Hill (1999 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Harry awakes from a car crash to notice his daughter, Cheryl, vanished. As he searches for her, through the eerie town of Silent Hill, a terrifying descent into the unknown is set.
Director: Keiichiro Toyama | Stars: Michael Guinn, Susan Papa, Thessaly Lerner, Jarion Monroe
Votes: 6,292
17. Until Dawn (2015 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of teenagers spend the weekend in a ski lodge on the anniversary of their friends' disappearance, unaware that they are not alone.
Director: Will Byles | Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Peter Stormare, Rami Malek, Brett Dalton
Votes: 17,143
18. The Last of Us (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a hostile, post-pandemic world, Joel and Ellie, brought together by desperate circumstances, must rely on each other to survive a brutal journey across what remains of the United States.
Directors: Neil Druckmann, Bruce Straley | Stars: Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Hana Hayes, Jeffrey Pierce
Votes: 76,161
19. Outlast 2 (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
Investigative Journalists Blake and his wife Lynn, travel to the Arizona Desert to pursue a lead on a popular suicide, but are soon ambushed by a mysterious and terrifying cult.
Stars: Alex Weiner, Andreas Apergis, Angela Magri, Brett Watson
Votes: 2,882
20. Layers of Fear (2016 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery
Layers of Fear is a psychological survival horror game in which the player controls a painter who is trying to complete his magnum opus and must navigate a Victorian mansion to discover secrets about his past while slowly losing his sanity
Stars: Erik Braa, Kristin Lennox
Votes: 1,007
21. Doom 3 (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A demonic invasion at Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars Research Facility has left only you and a handful of survivors with the chance to fight your way to safety.
Stars: J. Grant Albrecht, Dee Bradley Baker, Michael Bell, Steve Blum
Votes: 4,463
22. F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
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.
Director: Craig Hubbard | Stars: Greg Baldwin, Jock Blaney, Susanna Burney, Colby Chester
Votes: 3,181
23. Alan Wake (2010 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Horror
While on vacation in the small town of Bright Falls, a struggling writer must investigate the mysterious disappearance of his wife while events from his latest manuscript, which he can't remember writing, begin to come true.
Director: Petri Järvilehto | Stars: Matthew Porretta, Lloyd Floyd, Geoffrey Cantor, James McCaffrey
Votes: 7,315
24. Five Nights at Freddy's (2014 Video Game)
T | Horror, Mystery
As a night guard, you must survive five nights as you are hunted by five animatronics hell-bent on killing you.
Director: Scott Cawthon | Star: Scott Cawthon
Votes: 3,214
25. The Evil Within (2014 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
While investigating the scene of a cruel murder, detective Sebastian Castellanos is knocked unconscious by a mysterious and powerful force. When he awakens, he finds himself in a deranged world.
Directors: Shinji Mikami, Yun M. Watanabe | Stars: Anson Mount, Jennifer Carpenter, Jackie Earle Haley, Yuri Lowenthal
Votes: 4,212
26. Siren: Blood Curse (2008 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Augsust 3, 2007 - the day an American camera crew went missing in a Japanese mountainside area. Prior to disappearance, the crew was investigating Hanuda, a village that vanished in 1976.
Directors: Keiichiro Toyama, Naoki Kondo | Stars: Stephen Fisher, Natsuki Okamoto, Jonathan Legg, Emma Howard
Votes: 147
27. Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Horror
FBI Agent Ethan Thomas is framed for the murder of a detective and officer. In order to uncover who murdered the two officers with his gun, he has to do whatever it takes and fight his way through violent, psychotic individuals.
Stars: John Armstrong, Greg Grunberg, Kimberli Colbourne, Peter Jacobs
Votes: 1,529
28. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002 Video Game)
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.
Director: Denis Dyack | Stars: Michael Bell, Earl Boen, Cam Clarke, Neil Dickson
Votes: 835
29. Darkwood (2017 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The game features a semi-open world, with the player unlocking new areas as the story line progresses. It also features a crafting system, a day/night cycle, trading and NPC interaction, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Guy Another Polish, Artur Kordas, Guy Polish
Votes: 130
30. Resident Evil 4 (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Six years after the events in Raccoon City, Leon Kennedy, now a federal agent, is sent to a rural part of Spain to rescue the U.S. President's kidnapped daughter, Ashley Graham from a sinister cult.
Directors: Shinji Mikami, Kuniomi Matsushita | Stars: Paul Mercier, Carolyn Lawrence, Rino Romano, Salli Saffioti
Votes: 15,269
31. Left 4 Dead 2 (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror
Four new survivors must make their way across the American South while surviving a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Erik Johnson | Stars: Chad L. Coleman, Hugh Dillon, Eric Ladin, Rochelle Aytes
Votes: 7,708
32. Dying Light (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Directors: Adrian Ciszewski, Marcin Nowak | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Nazneen Contractor, Suraj Partha, Roger Aaron Brown
Votes: 5,285
33. The Evil Within 2 (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three years after the events at Beacon Mental Hospital, Sebastian Castellanos has left the Krimson City Police Department, but the mysterious organization MOBIUS gives him a chance to save his own thought-dead daughter.
Directors: John Johanas, Yun M. Watanabe | Stars: Marqus Bobesich, Meg Saricks, Kiara Lisette Gamboa, Elizabeth Saydah
Votes: 2,788
34. The Thing (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
You play the part of a military team sent to investigate what happened at U.S. Outpost 31, and must face the Thing yourself.
Stars: Per Solli, Michael J. Shea, Kevin Alan Moore, Jesse O'Connell
Votes: 755
35. Clock Tower (1995 Video Game)
E | Horror
Jennifer & her friends will have a hard time escaping their "new home". Especially because of a scissor-wielding psycho lurking throughout a secluded, medieval mansion up in the norwegian mountains.
Director: Hifumi Kôno
Votes: 130
36. Dead by Daylight (2016 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught and killed.
Directors: Ashley Pannell, Dave Richard | Stars: David A.B., Zoey Alexandria, Michael Alvarez, Roxana B.L.
Votes: 1,838
37. Lone Survivor (2012 Video Game)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
A story about a boy and a girl. Just another story about zombies. It's a story. Just... a story... This is a game about the lone survivor in a rather strange zombie apocalypse, in which you... See full summary »
Director: Jasper Byrne
Votes: 68
38. Blair Witch (2019 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Survival horror game set in the haunted forest from The Blair Witch Project (1999), where, in 1996, a man and his dog find themselves lost while helping a search party look for a missing boy.
Stars: Joseph May, Christy Meyer, Kerry Shale, Eric Meyers
Votes: 785
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