Best Horror Games 2026
The year 2025 turned out to be rich for the horror genre — from expensive AAA projects like Silent Hill f to intimate indie experiments. Developers continue to seek a balance between pure fear, action, and atmospheric tension, offering increasingly diverse formulas of horror.
This selection features the best horror games of 2025: projects with memorable atmospheres, strong visual styles, and well-thought-out game design. Here you will find both classic survival and unusual authorial interpretations of the genre.
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Interactive movie, Science fiction, Survival horror
May 12, 2026
VGTimes:
7.3/10
Players:
6.1/10
Steam:
63/100
Metacritic:
71/100
The first game of the second season of the anthology The Dark Pictures. The events of the game take place in space on the reconnaissance ship Cassiopeia. The ship...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Survival horror, Horror
2027
Anticipation Rating:
8.1/10
A continuation of the sci-fi horror survival game, where the atmosphere of constant fear and hopelessness comes to the forefront once again. The story begins on a...
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