Horror 2008 — top best games in the Horror genre

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...

Left 4 Dead

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Mac, PC, Xbox 360 → 27 October 2010

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter about a group of survivors trying to escape a city engulfed by an epidemic. A new strain of the rabies virus...

Dead Space (2008)

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

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 13 October 2008

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Third-person shooter Dead Space (2008) is the foundation of a series of sci-fi horror survival games about the struggles of engineer Isaac Clarke in the depths of...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Alone in the Dark (2008)

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, iOS → 23 June 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Alone in the Dark (2008) is a reboot of the legendary horror series, which will continue the story of paranormal investigator Edward...

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 (2002)

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

Game released: GameCube, Wii → 13 September 2002

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Resident Evil (2002) — third-person horror game with puzzle elements. The game is distinguished by its photorealistic environment. The game features new...

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4 → 29 February 2008

Players: 9/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Set in a fantastical version of feudal Japan, this action game follows the warrior Jubei Yagyu on a journey to discover his destiny. He travels through the country...

Dark Sector

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

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 10 July 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This third-person science-fiction shooter with horror elements follows a covert mission in Lasria, an Eastern European city concealing a deadly Cold War secret...

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...

Devil May Cry 4

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 15 September 2010

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This third-person fantasy hack-and-slash takes place in the fortified city of Fortuna, where the religious Order of the Sword fights demons. Young knight Nero is...

Cold Fear

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 15 March 2005

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This action-horror game with survival elements follows Tom Hansen, a U.S. Coast Guard officer sent to board a drifting Russian whaling ship during a storm in the...

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...

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...

Torture Game 2

Action, Horror, First-person view, Adult game

Game released: Browser → май 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Torture Game 2 is a first-person action game with a touch of horror and a game for adults. The main publisher of the game is ArcadeCabin.com. For some reason the...

Silent Hill: Homecoming

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

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 27 February 2009

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a survival horror adventure about Alex Shepherd, who returns to his hometown of Shepherd’s Glen to investigate his brother’s...

Penumbra: Black Plague

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

Game released: Linux, Mac, PC → 13 May 2008

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This first-person adventure horror follows explorer Philip, who is trapped in an underground complex and searches for the truth behind his father's disappearance...

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...

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

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

Game released: Mac, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 17 November 2005

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse is a third-person action-comedy horror game in which you take on the role of a real zombie who has risen from the depths...

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason

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

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Atmospheric psychological horror from the first person, set on the abandoned Soviet atomic icebreaker "Northern Wind," stuck in the Arctic ice. The main character...

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Survival

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 11 March 2008

Metacritic: 81/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements follows Ethan Thomas, a former Serial Crimes Unit investigator called back to duty after his partner goes missing...

Dracula: Origin

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

Game released: PC → 6 August 2008

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This gothic adventure, set in the world of Bram Stoker, follows Professor Van Helsing’s pursuit of Dracula. The vampire is searching for a manuscript describing a...

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...

A Vampyre Story

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: Mac, PC → 29 January 2009

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This comic adventure follows Mona, a young opera singer kidnapped by vampire Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer and held in a castle in the gloomy land of Draxsylvania. When...

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox → 28 October 2005

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action-horror game unfolds in the streets and prisons of Baltimore, where Torque seeks revenge against Blackmore, a mysterious mastermind connected to the...

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC, Xbox → 5 February 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 32/100

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green — This game is a prequel to the film Land of the Dead, which takes place during the first outbreak of the zombie...

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 29 February 2008

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Set in a fantastical version of feudal Japan, this third-person action game follows Soki, a young warrior who joins forces with allies to fight the demons known as...

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...

Penumbra: Requiem

Action, Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Linux, Mac, PC → 17 November 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 67/100

An expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, in which Philip faces puzzles and encounters characters from his past. The story follows the previous installments and...

Penumbra: Black Plague - Gold Edition

Collection, Horror, Adventure, First-person view

Game released: Mac, PC, Linux → 8 September 2010

Steam: 93/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in a dark underground complex, where explorer Philip searches for the truth about his missing father. Along 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...

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Remastered Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 6 August 2009

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 74/100

This detective adventure with horror elements follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate strange disappearances seemingly connected to a secret sect...

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...

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo DS → 28 November 2008

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia — The game takes place after the era of Richter Belmont and the plot of Symphony of the Night, sometime in the 19th century...

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...

Void

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: PC → 14 December 2009

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 53/100

This first-person adventure with horror and survival elements takes place in the Void, a grey limbo crossed by souls as they fade away. It is brought to life by...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2008 (Game released)