Horror 2004 — top best games in the Horror genre

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - a game in the Horror genre

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC → 19 November 2004

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This role-playing game with action and horror elements is set in modern-day Los Angeles, where the protagonist becomes a vampire and enters a world of supernatural...

Doom 3

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

Game released: Xbox, Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 3 April 2005

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Doom 3 is a science fiction shooter with a first-person perspective and horror elements that was released in 2004 as a reboot of the original DOOM (1995). The game...

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...

Silent Hill 3

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...

DOOM 2

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

Game released: DOS, Game Boy Advance, Mac, PC-98, PC, Zodiac, Xbox 360 → 10 October 1994

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 77/100

DOOM 2 is a continuation of the legendary bloody first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place shortly after the events of the original DOOM...

Silent Hill 4: The Room

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 8 October 2004

Players: 9.2/10

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 Henry Townsend...

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...

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...

ObsCure

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 6 April 2005

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

After a friend disappears, five students are trapped inside Leafmore High School and set out to uncover the cause of the mysterious events there. ObsCure is a...

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...

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...

Painkiller (2004)

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 12 April 2004

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Painkiller is a dynamic horror shooter with a first-person view. The events of the game will tell the story of an ordinary man, Daniel Garner, who loses his wife...

BloodRayne 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 30 March 2006

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 69/100

BloodRayne 2 is a continuation of the vampire action game with a third-person view and horror elements. The game takes place 70 years after the story told in...

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...

Van Helsing

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance → 9 September 2004

Metacritic: 64/100

Van Helsing is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, based on the film of the same name starring Hugh Jackman. You have to try on the role of the...

Suffering

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 14 May 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

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 fill. When it is...

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...

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC → 18 April 2008

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

This action game with horror and fantasy elements follows samurai Samanosuke Akechi and French soldier Jacques Braun, who are swept into different eras by a...

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...

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...

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC → 30 December 2001

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 66/100

This gothic fantasy action-adventure with puzzle elements continues the story of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Raziel pursues Kain through different eras of...

Resident Evil: Outbreak: File #2

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 9 September 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 58/100

This survival horror game continues the story of Resident Evil Outbreak, bringing back its eight characters in new scenarios tied to the catastrophic events...

Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell

Action, Shooter, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 3 December 2004

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

An expansion for Painkiller (2004), Battle Out of Hell continues the main game's story with a 10-level single-player chapter. It adds to the arsenal and introduces...

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...

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...

Dark Fall: The Journal

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

Game released: PC → 19 June 2002

Players: 1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place at the abandoned Dowerton station in Dorset, England. After receiving a frightened, cryptic message from his...

Bad Dreams

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Arkanoid, Horror

Game released: PC → 17 May 2004

Players: 10/10

Bad Dreams is a top-down arcade game with action and arkanoid elements from the masters from the InFluid Software studio. The game is published by InFluid...

Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend

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

Game released: Mac, PC → 30 October 2006

Players: 6.7/10

Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend is a first-person action game with shooter and horror elements from developers from the studio RWS, Inc.. The main publisher of the...

Pure Evil 2-pack

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

Game released: GameCube → 22 December 2004

Pure Evil 2-pack is a third-person action game with a touch of horror and puzzle. The main publisher of the game is Capcom Co., Ltd.. The game is sometimes also...

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...

Kuon

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → октябрь 2005

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Set in ancient Japan during the Heian period, this action horror game with puzzle elements unfolds in a world where residents wander like ghosts and demons lurk in...

Viy: A Story Told Anew

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2004

Viy: A Story Told Anew is a third-person adventure with a dash of horror and interactive cinema from the masters at Crazy House. The game is published by Discus...

Psychotoxic

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

Game released: PC → 1 July 2005

Metacritic: 40/100

Set in New York City in 2022, this first-person shooter combines futuristic action with horror. Unaware of her role, Angie Prophet must save humanity from an...

Lifestream

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC, Android, iOS → 27 September 2004

Steam: 100/100

Lifestream is a first-person horror adventure with puzzle elements. It's a modern blast from the past, combining the best elements of interactive fiction, visual...

Painkiller: Gold Edition

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

Game released: PC → 24 January 2007

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Painkiller: Gold Edition is a complete edition of a dynamic first-person shooter with horror elements. The game contains all previously released additions and...

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

Legacy of Kain Series: Blood Omen 2 is a third-person action game with a touch of horror and puzzle from the developers of Crystal Dynamics, Inc.. The game is...

Run Like Hell

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, Xbox → 2 September 2004

Run Like Hell is a third-person action game with horror elements from the Digital Mayhem studio. The game is published by Interplay Entertainment Corp.. In some...

Survival Crisis Z

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 7 September 2007

Survival Crisis Z is a third-person adventure with horror elements from developers from Totally Screwed Software. The main publisher of the game is Totally Screwed...

Thing (2002)

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 18 October 2002

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Thing (2002) is a third-person action game with a touch of shooter and horror from the developers from the Computer Artworks Ltd. studio. The game is published by...

Necrotic Drift

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 22 September 2004

Players: 10/10

Necrotic Drift is an adventure with horror elements. The game is published by Jolt...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2004 (Game released)