Horror 2003 — top best games in the Horror genre

Silent Hill 3 - a game in the Horror genre

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC → 5 August 2003

Players: 8.7/10

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 events. In an...

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival horror, Adventure

Game released: Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 15 November 2000

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is a continuation of the series of popular action-horror games with a third-person view. You will once again plunge into the chaos of the...

System Shock 2

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Cyberpunk, Science fiction

Game released: PC, Mac → 24 November 2003

Players: 9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 92/100

This science-fiction horror shooter with role-playing elements unfolds aboard the derelict starship Von Braun. The protagonist awakens from cryogenic sleep with...

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation, Game.Com, PC, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 3, GameCube → 8 May 1998

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This third-person survival horror game is set in Raccoon City during an outbreak of the T-virus, a mutagenic toxin developed for biological weapons. The player...

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 → 26 May 2000

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Resident Evil Code: Veronica is a dark action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. The game will tell about the events taking place...

Manhunt

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 → 21 November 2003

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This stealth action game with horror elements takes place in Carcer City, where James Earl Cash becomes the target of a brutal blood sport. After his life is...

Resident Evil: Outbreak

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 11 December 2003

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

A third-person action horror game about eight survivors amid a biological disaster in zombie-infested Raccoon City. In cooperative and competitive missions, they...

Bloodrayne

Action, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube → 12 July 2007

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This third-person action horror game is set in the years between the World Wars. The dhampir BloodRayne serves as an agent of the Brimstone Society, a secret...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox → 16 March 2002

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a legendary first-person shooter with elements of mysticism and horror. The game takes place in 1940 during World War II. As in the...

Resident Evil Zero

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Shooter

Game released: GameCube, Wii, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 7 March 2003

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Resident Evil Zero is an exciting action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. One of the S.T.A.R.S. units sent to the vicinity of the...

Dino Crisis 2

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival horror, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 29 November 2000

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Dino Crisis 2 is an action game with a third-person view. The story follows the events of the first game, Regina is now sent on another mission, to a facility...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 13 October 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Alien Shooter is a dynamic shooter with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. Endless darkness and gloomy, long passages of a military complex that became...

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 9 May 2005

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person fantasy action-adventure follows two vampires: Kain, an all-powerful demigod, and Raziel, a demonic angel of death. They travel through a world...

Black Mirror (2003)

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 28 May 2004

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This third-person adventure horror game follows Samuel Gordon, who returns to his family estate after a long absence and investigates the death of his ancestor...

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Gothic

Game released: PC → 14 May 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. Events take place in the 19th century. The aristocratic Crowe family...

Forbidden Siren

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 20 April 2004

Metacritic: 72/100

Siren — during the course of the game the player will have to play with more than ten characters. At the first level, the player will have to escape from the...

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 28 February 2003

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the game, first released on XBox and later ported back to PS2 and PC. Most of the gameplay consists of...

Resident Evil: Dead Aim

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 11 July 2003

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 65/100

A horror shooter set in the Resident Evil universe follows Bruce MacGavin, an agent on a search-and-pursuit team investigating Umbrella’s latest activities. He...

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 24 September 2001

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person survival horror adventure follows supernatural detective Edward Carnby as he investigates a murder on Shadow Island. After his friend Charles...

Fatal Frame

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2, Xbox → 9 October 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Fatal Frame is a Japanese-style third-person action-horror adventure game. Armed with a camera, the young girl Miku Hinasaki, along with an ancient camera, goes in...

Saya No Uta

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 26 December 2003

Players: 9.4/10

Saya No Uta is a first-person adventure with a dash of horror, anime/manga, adult game and visual novel from the developers of Nitroplus co., ltd.. The main...

Postal

Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric

Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, Linux → 28 June 2007

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 56/100

Postal is a hardcore isometric shooter with dark...

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2, Xbox → 12 February 2005

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This survival horror story follows twin sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura as they find themselves in an abandoned village. After spotting a crimson butterfly in the sky...

Spirits and Spells

Action, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Game Boy Advance, GameCube → 24 April 2003

Metacritic: 50/100

This action platformer with horror elements follows an attempt to rescue friends from a mad scientist. Players control Alicia, disguised as a witch, or Greg...

Curse: The Eye of Isis

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 15 December 2004

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Set in 1890, this survival horror adventure begins at a British natural history museum, where a gang of thugs has stolen the Egyptian statue known as the Eye of...

Devil May Cry 2

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 25 January 2003

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Devil May Cry 2 is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person...

Ghost Master

Strategy, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Isometric, Comedy, Puzzle

Game released: Mac, PC → 5 November 2003

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This strategy game with adventure and resource-management elements puts ghosts and other supernatural beings under the player’s command, sending them to frighten...

Lifeline

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 2 March 2004

Metacritic: 61/100

A futuristic action-adventure with horror elements, Lifeline has the player guide a heroine named Rio using spoken commands. The game recognises over 5,000 words...

UFO: Aftermath

Strategy, Horror, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Tactics

Game released: PC → 26 November 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This tactical strategy game with RPG elements follows an alien invasion in which a spacecraft releases spores into the atmosphere, wiping out macroscopic life on...

Legacy of Kain Series: Blood Omen 2

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: GameCube, PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 31 January 2003

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This third-person action adventure with horror elements follows the vampire Kain and his attempts to rule Nosgoth. The story unfolds as he explores detailed 3D...

Dracula: The Resurrection

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: Mac, PlayStation, PC → июнь 2001

Players: 7/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This adventure horror follows a man who sets out to save his beloved wife. On the journey into darkness, the player explores catacombs and hidden...

Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2, Xbox → 25 June 2003

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 57/100

This third-person action horror game follows Ash as he tries to save Dearborn from the deadites pouring through a vortex opened during an investigation into the...

Dino Crisis 3

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival

Game released: Xbox → 16 September 2003

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 51/100

Dino Crisis 3 is an action game with a third-person view. Throughout almost the entire game, the player controls the character Patrick, and only in some places you...

Bubblet

Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Palm OS, PC, Windows Mobile → 1 August 1998

Steam: 71/100

Bubblet is a top-down strategy game with a hint of puzzle from the developers at oopdreams software, inc.. The game is published by oopdreams software, inc.. In...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King

Action, Horror, Fighting, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: Game Boy Advance → 27 June 2003

Metacritic: 44/100

Death Crimson OX

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 → август 2001

Metacritic: 46/100

A first-person arcade shooter set in the post-apocalyptic city of Saronica, destroyed by the mysterious organization SMO. Its agents, known as Subliminers, oppress...

Nightmare Creatures (2003)

Arcade, Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: J2ME → сентябрь 2003

Nightmare Creatures (2003) is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, horror and fighting from developers from Gameloft S.A. studios. and Gameloft...

Hellboy: Dogs of the Night

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: PlayStation, PC → апрель 2003

Players: 7.7/10

Hellboy: Dogs of the Night is a third-person action game with a touch of horror and puzzle from developers from Cryo Studios North America. The main publisher of...

Disaster Report

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 12 March 2003

Metacritic: 66/100

This survival adventure with horror elements follows a newspaper reporter stranded on an island shaken by powerful aftershocks from a major earthquake. To escape...

Evil Dead (Special Movie Edition)

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2 → июнь 2003

Evil Dead (Special Movie Edition) is a third-person action game with shooter and horror elements from the developers of VIS entertainment plc. The game is published...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2003 (Game released)