Games Compilations Scary games (horror)

Scary games (horror)

This selection contains the scariest games of all time, which are not recommended to be played at night (or is it recommended?). Here you will find both classic jump scare games and original scary games that will make you tremble... Move slowly, carefully look around the corner, because there may be something scary hiding there! Be careful, because the main goal of these games is to scare you, because you yourself don’t mind being scared!

Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)
Action, Third-person view, Adventure, Zombies, Survival horror, Remake
March 24, 2023
VGTimes: 8.5/10
Players: 8.3/10
Remake of Resident Evil 4 (2005) 2005. The story takes place in 2004, six years after the events of Resident Evil 2. Leon Scott Kennedy, a...
Resident Evil 2
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Stealth
January 25, 2019
VGTimes: 9.0/10
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 96/100
Resident Evil 2 is a reissue of the classic action-horror Resident Evil 2 (1998) from 1998 with a third-person view. The events of the sequel...
Silent Hill 2
Adventure, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Exploration
October 8, 2024
VGTimes: 9.0/10
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 95/100
Third-person horror with elements of survival and adventure Silent Hill 2 is a remake of the cult classic from 2001. The new game largely follows the...
Resident Evil 3
Action, Shooter, Puzzle, Third-person view, Horror, Futurism (Future)
April 3, 2020
VGTimes: 9.0/10
Players: 7.2/10
Steam: 81/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Resident Evil 3 is a re-release of the legendary action-horror game with a static camera Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Get ready to once again plunge...
Phasmophobia
Adventure, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Horror, Action, Puzzle, First-person view
September 18, 2020
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 96/100
A cooperative psychological horror game for 4 people, where players take on the role of paranormal hunters and set off to explore mystical locations...
Sons of the Forest
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players: 7.9/10
Steam: 86/100
Metacritic: 86/100
Continuation of The Forest about survival in the forest. The protagonist sets out to find a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Resident Evil Village
Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Action, Virtual Reality (VR), Shooter
May 7, 2021
VGTimes: 8.5/10
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 83/100
First-person horror with survival and shooter elements Resident Evil: Village continued the story started in Biohazard, but moved the action to...
Left 4 Dead 2
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view
November 16, 2009
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 97/100
Metacritic: 89/100
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival horror, Adventure, Zombies
January 23, 2017
VGTimes: 8.8/10
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 85/100
The main character Ethan receives a message from his girlfriend, who disappeared without a trace three years ago. She invites him to meet in the...
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view
November 16, 2004
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Carrion
Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view
July 23, 2020
Players: 9/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 76/100
The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge...
Alien: Isolation
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
October 6, 2014
VGTimes: 9.2/10
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 92/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Alien: Isolation is a first-person stealth horror adventure set in the Alien universe. The plot of the game takes place fifteen years after the...
Dead by Daylight
Online, Action, Horror, Third-person view
June 14, 2016
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 80/100
Metacritic: 64/100
Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer action-horror game with a third-person view, which tells the story of four teenagers and a maniac who wants to...
The Evil Within
Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view
October 13, 2014
VGTimes: 6.5/10
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 84/100
Metacritic: 74/100
A terrifying action-horror with a third-person view and stealth elements from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. You have to try on the role of...
Five Nights at Freddy's
Horror, First-person view, Indie
August 8, 2014
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 78/100
Five Nights at Freddy's is a first-person horror game in the point and click genre. From your small office, you must keep a close eye on the security...
Little Nightmares 2
Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Horror, Cooperative (co-op)
February 11, 2021
VGTimes: 8.0/10
Players: 7.7/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 82/100
Little Nightmares 2 is a continuation of the horror platformer with quest elements. This time a co-op has appeared in the game and the two of you...
Outlast
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie
September 4, 2013
Players: 8.5/10
Steam: 96/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time...
The Evil Within 2
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view
October 12, 2017
VGTimes: 8.5/10
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 91/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Continuation of the action-horror with a third-person view. You are Detective Sebastian Castellanos, and you are at rock bottom. But when you get the...
Until Dawn 2015
Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie
August 25, 2015
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 78/100
Dead Space (2008)
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)
October 14, 2008
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 92/100
Metacritic: 89/100
Third-person shooter Dead Space (2008) is the foundation of a series of sci-fi horror survival games about the suffering of engineer Isaac Clarke...
Alan Wake
Action, Horror, Third-person view
May 14, 2010
VGTimes: 6.2/10
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 90/100
Metacritic: 83/100
Alan Wake is a horror action game with a third-person view. Strange events are happening everywhere, and our hero, writer Alan Wake, who is looking...
Darkwood
Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Survival, Simulation
August 17, 2017
Players: 9.6/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 79/100
Top-down survival action-horror adventure. Events take place in a mysterious forest, where every night threatens to be the last. Players control a...
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Logic
September 24, 2001
Players: 9.4/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 87/100
Silent Hill 2 (2001) — mystical action-horror with puzzle elements and third-person view. James Sunderland comes to Silent Hill after receiving...
Outlast 2
Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Indie
April 24, 2017
VGTimes: 8.0/10
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 91/100
Metacritic: 75/100
Outlast 2 is a continuation of the popular horror adventure with stealth elements from the developers from the Red Barrels studio. The events of the...
Dead Space 2
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)
January 25, 2011
VGTimes: 9.0/10
Players: 8.7/10
Steam: 94/100
Metacritic: 89/100
Dead Space 2 is a continuation of the action-horror adventure with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting, which takes place on a space station...
The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes
Interactive movie, Third-person view, Horror, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure
October 22, 2021
VGTimes: 7.9/10
Players: 7.1/10
The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is the third game in The Dark Pictures series. The game will take place in the Middle East, and the heroes will be...
Bloodborne
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view
March 24, 2015
VGTimes: 9.1/10
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 92/100
Bloodborne is a dark adventure role-playing action game with a third-person view from the creators of the Dark Souls series. The action takes place...
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)
August 29, 2019
VGTimes: 7.6/10
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 74/100
Metacritic: 71/100
An interactive adventure from the creators of Until Dawn. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean. The heroes find themselves on a ghost ship, on...
F.E.A.R. 3
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)
June 21, 2011
Players: 7.5/10
Steam: 70/100
Metacritic: 74/100
F.E.A.R. 3 is a continuation of a dynamic shooter with a first-person view and horror elements. Alma is in position and the fear level rises as you...
The Outlast Trials
Adventure, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror, Horror, Online
May 18, 2023
Players: 8.3/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 73/100
Prequel to the entire horror series Outlast. The plot centers on a group of experimental subjects abducted by the Murkoff company during the Cold...
Scorn
Action, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Walking Simulator
October 14, 2022
Players: 7.5/10
Steam: 77/100
Metacritic: 68/100
Scorn is a first-person horror adventure with survival elements inspired by the works of Hans Rüdi Giger and Alien. The game takes place in a...
Bendy and the Dark Revival
First-person view, Horror, Action, Survival, Indie, Adventure, Stealth, Casual game
November 15, 2022
Players: 7.7/10
Steam: 94/100
Bendy and the Dark Revival — the continuation of the first-person adventure survival horror Bendy and the Ink Machine. In the sequel, you will...
SIGNALIS
Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view,
October 27, 2022
Players: 9.9/10
Steam: 96/100
Metacritic: 81/100
SIGNALIS is a classic sci-fi horror, stylistically very reminiscent of the film "Alien". Finding herself alone on the snowy planet Elster, the main...
SOMA
Action, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
September 21, 2015
VGTimes: 8.7/10
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 82/100
SOMA is a new project from Frictional Games, the creators of Penumbra and Amnesia. The plot revolves around the underwater research facility...
Мор
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival
May 23, 2019
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 92/100
Metacritic: 70/100
Pestilence is a remake of the 2005 open-world thriller. Three very different doctors are trying to save an unusual steppe city from an epidemic of a...
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Logic, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural
June 17, 2004
Players: 8.8/10
Metacritic: 73/100
Silent Hill 4: The Room is a mystical action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzle elements. The goal of the game is to help the character...
Resident Evil: Revelations
Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle
January 26, 2012
VGTimes: 7.3/10
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 81/100
Metacritic: 77/100
Resident Evil: Revelations is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view set in the Resident Evil universe. The game takes place...
Inside
Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Side view
June 29, 2016
VGTimes: 9.3/10
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 96/100
Metacritic: 91/100
Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is hiding...
Zoochosis
First-person view, Horror, Adventure
September 30, 2024
Players: 7.1/10
Steam: 56/100
A scary game about a night zookeeper. The main character discovers that some animals are mutating and turning into monsters. To correct the...
Silent Hill
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle
January 31, 1999
Players: 9.3/10
Silent Hill is a mesmerizing action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzles. The events of the game will tell the story of writer Harry...
Silent Hill 3
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural
May 23, 2003
Players: 9/10
Metacritic: 79/100
The game is a direct continuation of the first Silent Hill and tells about the already matured Heather, who finds herself in a heap of incredible...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Adventure, Horror, First-person view
September 8, 2010
Players: 8.7/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 85/100
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game will tell the story of Daniel, who wakes up in...
F.E.A.R.
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view
October 17, 2005
Players: 8.6/10
Steam: 93/100
Metacritic: 82/100
F.E.A.R. — a dynamic shooter with a first-person view and horror elements. A mysterious paramilitary force has infiltrated a...
Amnesia: Rebirth
Action, Horror, Adventure, Puzzle, Stealth, First-person view
October 20, 2020
VGTimes: 7.5/10
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 77/100
Metacritic: 78/100
Amnesia: Rebirth is an atmospheric horror game with a first-person view. The game takes place somewhere in the desert of Algeria. Players will take...
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view
November 16, 2005
Players: 9.3/10
Steam: 88/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Condemned: Criminal Origins is a first-person action game with shooter, horror and fighting elements from the masters from the studio Monolith...
Visage
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie
October 2, 2018
Players: 9.4/10
Steam: 86/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Visage is a first-person horror adventure inspired by the work of Hideo Kojima — P.T. The main actions of the game take place in the 80s of the...
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope
Interactive movie, Third-person view, Horror, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op)
October 30, 2020
VGTimes: 9.2/10
Players: 8.5/10
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is the second game in The Dark Pictures series. The game follows four students and their professor who find themselves...
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Horror, First-person view, Indie
October 7, 2016
VGTimes: 6.2/10
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 91/100
Five Nights at Freddy's 5: Sister Location is a continuation of the popular series of horror stories with a first-person view. The next part delves...
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view
October 24, 2005
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 67/100
Metacritic: 77/100
Resident Evil HD Remaster
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle
November 27, 2014
Players: 8.9/10
Metacritic: 82/100
Resident Evil HD Remaster is an improved edition of the legendary action-horror game with a third-person view for modern platforms. The game will...
Layers of Fear
Adventure, First-person view, Horror,
June 15, 2023
Players: 9.2/10
Steam: 79/100
Reimagining the Layers of Fear game series, offering a new perspective on the original stories. The game includes updated versions of the horror...
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle
Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Horror
August 30, 2023
Players: 6.3/10
Steam: 72/100
Metacritic: 63/100
Prequel to the horror Daymare: 1998. The game tells the story of special agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now working for "HADES". The...
Suffering
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view
March 9, 2004
Players: 8.8/10
Suffering — action horror with a third person view. As Tork kills enemies during the game, an on-screen meter called a frenzy meter begins to...
DUSK
Shooter, Horror, First-person view
December 10, 2018
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 97/100
Metacritic: 88/100
A retro shooter filled with three atmospheric campaign episodes, designed in the spirit of the 90s. The main character fights against mystical...
Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural
March 9, 2023
Players: 7.4/10
Metacritic: 69/100
Reissue of the horror game Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (the fourth installment of the Fatal Frame series). The game's plot tells the story of three...
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle
November 25, 2015
VGTimes: 7.3/10
Players: 7.3/10
Steam: 81/100
Metacritic: 67/100
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game tell the story of schoolchildren who...
Alien: Isolation 2
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
2026
Anticipation Rating: 8/10
The Mortuary Assistant
Horror, Mysticism / Supernatural, Demons, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, First-person view
August 2, 2022
Players: 6.4/10
Steam: 92/100
Metacritic: 75/100
The game takes place in a morgue, where the character is urgently called to work one night. However, the hero could not even imagine what was waiting...
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
Adventure, Horror, Side view
January 28, 2020
Players: 7/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 74/100
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a continuation of the horror adventure with survival elements. The game tells the story of a young girl, Mine Park...
Layers of Fear 2
Adventure, Horror, First-person view
May 28, 2019
VGTimes: 7.5/10
Players: 7.7/10
Steam: 71/100
Metacritic: 68/100
Layers of Fear 2 is a continuation of the first-person adventure horror game from the creators of Observer. A Hollywood star is invited to star in a...
Children of Silentown
Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie
January 11, 2023
Players: 8.7/10
Steam: 86/100
Metacritic: 74/100
Lucy grew up in a village where people periodically disappeared. Now she is an adult and seeks to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of...
Layers of Fear (2016)
Adventure, Horror, First-person view
February 16, 2016
VGTimes: 8.3/10
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 90/100
Metacritic: 73/100
Layers of Fear is a first-person psychological horror about a mad artist around whom horrific things unfold. Players will get into a huge mansion...
The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners
Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Virtual Reality (VR)
January 23, 2020
Steam: 87/100
Metacritic: 80/100
The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners is a dynamic first-person shooter set in the Walking Dead universe for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus...
Song of Horror
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view
October 31, 2019
Steam: 71/100
Metacritic: 71/100
Song of Horror is a classic horror game with a third-person perspective. The game tells the story of Daniel Neuer, who is faced with a mystical...
Yuppie Psycho
Indie, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Top-down view
April 25, 2019
Players: 9.3/10
Steam: 95/100
Metacritic: 81/100
Yuppie Psycho is an adventure horror game with stealth elements and a top-down view. The game takes place in a dystopian world from the 90s, where in...
Corpse Party
Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Visual novel
August 12, 2010
Players: 9.6/10
Steam: 89/100
Metacritic: 73/100
Corpse Party is a top-down adventure with horror, anime/manga and visual novel elements from the masters at Team GrisGris. The game is published by...
Stories Untold
Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie
February 27, 2017
Players: 10/10
Steam: 87/100
Metacritic: 80/100
Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never...
Siren: Blood Curse
Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle
July 13, 2008
Players: 3.2/10
Metacritic: 78/100
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Action, Horror, Third-person view
June 23, 2002
Players: 8/10
Metacritic: 92/100
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is an action-horror game with a third-person view. The game's story narrative switches between two phases. The...
Holidays in Khrushchevsk
Horror, Adventure, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Walking Simulator, Exploration
January 18, 2024
Players: 10/10
Steam: 63/100
The main character named Sasha came to visit his sick grandmother in the town of Khrushchevsk. The character walks through locations familiar from...
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
Strategy, Horror, Top-down view, Turn-based
January 30, 2012
Players: 8/10
Metacritic: 68/100
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Adventure, Horror, Anime / Manga
September 1, 2011
Steam: 88/100
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is an adventure with a touch of horror and an anime or manga game from the studios 5pb. and Team GrisGris. The game is...
Perception
Adventure, Horror, First-person view
May 30, 2017
Steam: 73/100
Metacritic: 58/100
Perception is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The main character is a blind girl named Cassie, who finds herself in an abandoned...
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle
November 27, 2003
Players: 9.4/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Someday You'll Return
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle
May 5, 2020
Players: 10/10
Metacritic: 66/100
Someday You'll Return is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The game will tell the story of Daniel, who goes in search of his...
Cat Lady
Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie, Indie
December 1, 2012
Players: 8.8/10
Steam: 93/100
Cat Lady is a third-person adventure with a dash of horror, interactive cinema and indie action from the developers at Harvester Games. The game is...
F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn
Action, Shooter, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
July 29, 2009
Players: 10/10
Steam: 76/100
F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn is an add-on for a dark first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will see the events of the original game from the point of...
Devotion
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view
February 19, 2019
Players: 5.9/10
Metacritic: 86/100
Devotion is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The game will tell the story of a Taiwanese family mansion in the 80s, which...
Penumbra: Black Plague - Gold Edition
Collection
August 27, 2008
Steam: 93/100
Penumbra: Black Plague — Gold Edition is a game from the masters from the Frictional Games studio. The game is published by Paradox Interactive...
Unforgotten: Ordinance
Walking Simulator, Adventure, Horror, Exploration, First-person view, Indie, Action
I квартал 2025
The game takes place in the Siberian wilderness, inhabited by mysterious inhabitants who worship the gods of the forest. The main character is a...
Blair Witch Experience (Special Limited Edition Collector's Set)
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Collection, Puzzle
March 13, 2001
Blair Witch Experience (Special Limited Edition Collector's Set) is a third-person action game with a touch of horror and puzzle from Human Head...

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