Most Terrifying Horror Video Games
This is not so much a list of the Best horror games, but more a list ranked in scary factor.
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- DirectorAlistair HopeStarsAndrea DeckGeorge AntonKezia BurrowsIn 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.
- StarsShawn BaichooChimwemwe MillerAndreas ApergisFreelance 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.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroHideo KojimaStarsNorman ReedusThe player must navigate a series of continuously looping hallways, solving cryptic puzzles, all while being hunted by a hostile apparition named Lisa.
- DirectorTakayuki KobayashiMasashi TsuboyamaStarsGuy CihiMonica HorganDonna BurkeAfter 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.
- DirectorYasuhiro AnpoKazunori KadoiStarsNick ApostolidesStephanie PaniselloJolene AndersenRe-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.
- DirectorMichael CondreyStarsTonantzin CarmeloJ.G. HertzlerIyari LimonEngineer 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.
- DirectorMakoto ShibataStarsRumiko VarnesDominic AllenBianca AllenArmed with a camera capable of fighting ghosts, a teenage girl searches a haunted house in search of her brother.
- DirectorMakoto ShibataStarsAkemi KandaAyako KawasumiTsukiko AmanoTwin sisters try to escape a haunted village with the help of the Camera Obscura, a camera with the power to see the impossible.
- StarsRichard ToppingSam A. MowryBill CorkeryDaniel, 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.
- DirectorKoushi NakanishiStarsTodd SoleyKatie O'HaganJack BrandAn 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.
- StarsJared ZeusNell MooneyBrian ProtheroeSimon 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.
- DirectorJacob BrowningNicole EndicottStarsJeremy InmanNazeeh TarshaBen PhillipsVisage 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 realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
- StarsGunner WrightTanya ClarkeSonita HenrySet 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.
- DirectorMark J. HadleyWhen 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.
- DirectorKen LevineStarsJohn AhlinGreg BaldwinJane BellerIn 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.
- DirectorKeiichiro ToyamaStarsMichael GuinnSusan PapaThessaly LernerHarry 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.
- DirectorWill BylesStarsHayden PanettierePeter StormareRami MalekA group of teenagers spend the weekend in a ski lodge on the anniversary of their friends' disappearance, unaware that they are not alone.
- DirectorNeil DruckmannBruce StraleyStarsTroy BakerAshley JohnsonHana HayesIn 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.
- StarsAlex WeinerAndreas ApergisAngela MagriInvestigative 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.
- StarsErik BraaKristin LennoxLayers 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
- StarsJ. Grant AlbrechtDee Bradley BakerMichael BellA 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.
- DirectorCraig HubbardStarsGreg BaldwinJock BlaneySusanna BurneyYou 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.
- DirectorPetri JärvilehtoStarsMatthew PorrettaLloyd FloydGeoffrey CantorWhile 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.
- DirectorScott CawthonStarsScott CawthonAs a night guard, you must survive five nights as you are hunted by five animatronics hell-bent on killing you.
- DirectorShinji MikamiYun M. WatanabeStarsAnson MountJennifer CarpenterJackie Earle HaleyWhile 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.
- DirectorKeiichiro ToyamaNaoki KondoStarsStephen FisherNatsuki OkamotoJonathan LeggAugsust 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.
- StarsJohn ArmstrongGreg GrunbergKimberli ColbourneFBI 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.
- DirectorDenis DyackStarsMichael BellEarl BoenCam ClarkeOver the course of two millenia, twelve men and women are linked together by an accursed book known as the Tome of Eternal Darkness.
- DirectorGuy Another PolishArtur KordasGuy PolishThe 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 skill system, stealth and combat, as well as multiple story line branches which alter several aspects of the world.
- DirectorShinji MikamiKuniomi MatsushitaStarsPaul MercierCarolyn LawrenceRino RomanoSix 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.
- DirectorErik JohnsonStarsChad L. ColemanHugh DillonEric LadinFour new survivors must make their way across the American South while surviving a zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorAdrian CiszewskiMarcin NowakStarsRoger Craig SmithNazneen ContractorSuraj ParthaFirst-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.
- DirectorJohn JohanasYun M. WatanabeStarsMarqus BobesichMeg SaricksKiara Lisette GamboaThree 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.
- StarsPer SolliMichael J. SheaKevin Alan MooreYou play the part of a military team sent to investigate what happened at U.S. Outpost 31, and must face the Thing yourself.
- DirectorHifumi KônoJennifer & 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.
- DirectorAshley PannellDave RichardStarsDavid A.B.Kathryn AkinZoey AlexandriaDead 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.
- DirectorJasper ByrneA 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 have to monitor both your mental health and your hunger, neither with a meter, with the threat of zombies, Hallucinations... and yourself.
- StarsJoseph MayChristy MeyerKerry ShaleSurvival 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.