Horror 2007 — top best games in the Horror genre

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

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

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iPhone, iPad, Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 20 September 2011

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Continuation of the action-horror adventure with a third-person view in the Resident Evil series. The story of the fourth part takes place in 2004, six years after...

BioShock

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

Game released: Mac, PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360, iOS, Xbox One → 10 October 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

BioShock is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a steampunk style. The game takes place in 1960. The main character, a young man named Jack, as a...

DOOM (1993)

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

Game released: 3DO, DOS, Game Boy Advance, Jaguar, Linux, PC-98, SEGA 32X, SNES, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 26 April 1996

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Manhunt 2

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game

Game released: PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP → 6 November 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Manhunt 2 is a continuation of the scandalous action game with a third-person view and horror elements. During secret laboratory tests, a fatal mistake occurred...

F.E.A.R.

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 24 April 2007

Players: 8.5/10

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 multibillion-dollar aerospace...

Painkiller: Overdose

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 10 February 2008

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements continues the story of Painkiller, introducing a new character who faces the consequences of Daniel’s victory over...

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...

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...

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...

Fahrenheit

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2006

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Fahrenheit is an interactive thriller set in New York City in January 2009, where ordinary people begin killing strangers in public according to the same ritual...

Dementium: The Ward

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Old school, Survival horror, Survival

Game released: Nintendo DS, PC, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 2 July 2009

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Waking up in an abandoned hospital with no memory of the past, the hero finds himself in a nightmare where the walls whisper, shadows breathe, and the only weapons...

Penumbra: Overture - Episode 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Linux, Mac, PC → 26 May 2007

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in unsettling environments that the player explores while uncovering their secrets. Physics-based interactions...

Darkness

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 2 August 2007

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Darkness is an adventure shooter with a first-person view and horror elements. The events of the game are based on the comic book of the same name and will tell the...

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...

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...

Zombie Shooter

Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Zombies

Game released: PC → 23 May 2008

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 82/100

This isometric action shooter follows a zombie outbreak at a secret research base, where scientists have turned into monsters and the infection threatens to spread...

Silent Hill: 0rigins

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PSP → 29 May 2008

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Silent Hill: 0rigins — The main character, trucker Travis Grady, while transporting another load across a deserted highway passing through the small town of...

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...

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, Android, PlayStation → 21 March 2007

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A direct sequel to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, set four years later. Alucard appears as the main character who wakes up from his sleep and goes to explore...

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...

Ghouls 'N Ghosts

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Genesis, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000, Wii, ZX Spectrum → 1990

Ghouls 'N Ghosts is a third-person action game with elements of horror and an anime or manga game from the masters of the Capcom studio. The game is published...

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC → 30 December 2001

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 79/100

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

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...

F.E.A.R. (Gold Edition)

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

Game released: PC → 15 April 2010

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 93/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements follows an elite F.E.A.R. team confronting a mysterious paramilitary force that has taken hostages at an aerospace...

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2007)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC, iOS → 13 September 2007

Metacritic: 72/100

This first-person adventure with horror elements follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate mysterious disappearances linked to a secret sect. The...

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

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

Game released: PC → 18 March 2008

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 52/100

A first-person psychological horror adventure in the Lovecraftian tradition follows a murder investigation that draws a police detective into the occult and a world...

Ultimate DOOM

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

Game released: DOS, iPad, iPhone, PC, Xbox 360 → 1995

Players: 8.4/10

Ultimate DOOM — the legendary bloody first-person shooter, now with the new fourth episode "Thy Flesh Consumed". The demons came and all the Marines died...

ObsCure: The Aftermath

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PSP, Wii, PC → 26 May 2008

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This third-person survival horror game follows the events at Leafmore High two years later. The students who survived the monster attack have started college, where...

Silent Hill: The Escape

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: DoJa, iPhone → 19 December 2007

Players: 10/10

Silent Hill: The Escape is a dark first-person shooter from the Silent Hill series for mobile platforms. In the game you will look for keys to locked doors and...

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...

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Wii, PC → 29 April 2008

Metacritic: 59/100

This adventure game with puzzles is based on a classic detective story: ten people are stranded at a mansion on Shipwreck Island, where their host has invited them...

Nocturne

Action, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 8 February 2007

Steam: 99/100

Nocturne — action horror with a third person view. The story concerns an old recluse named Rustin Parr who murdered seven children in Burkittsville, claiming...

F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate

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

Game released: PC → 12 December 2007

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 61/100

F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate — special forces F.E.A.R. They are assigned to kill the telepath Paxton Fettel, who has gained mental control over the army of...

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

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

Game released: Linux, PC, Xbox → 24 May 2005

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is an add-on for the legendary first-person shooter with horror elements Doom 3. 2147 2 years have passed since the events of Doom 3...

MediEvil

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

Game released: Android, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PlayStation 4 → 1 April 2011

Players: 9.8/10

This third-person fantasy action game combines horror elements and puzzles. Sir Daniel Fortesque, a long-dead knight, is accidentally resurrected by his greatest...

Clive Barker's Jericho

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

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 26 October 2007

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This first-person horror shooter follows a special forces squad sent to a lost city that has reappeared in a remote desert. An ancient evil has resurfaced there...

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...

G.H.O.S.T. Hunters: The Haunting of Majesty Manor

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Mac, PC → 5 September 2007

G.H.O.S.T. Hunters: The Haunting of Majesty Manor is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror from the developers of the studio Aisle 5 Games, Inc.. The game...

Touch the Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo DS → 7 December 2007

Metacritic: 56/100

A first-person horror shooter set in a prison overrun by zombies. Rob Steiner, also known as Prisoner #1809, wakes up surrounded by the undead and finds himself the...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2007 (Game released)