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Best Games in the Horror genre of 2009

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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Zombies
January 11, 2005
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
BioShock
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Steampunk, Horror
August 21, 2007
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...
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies
March 5, 2009
Players: 7.7/10
Steam: 84/100
Metacritic: 78/100
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online
November 16, 2009
Players: 8.4/10
Steam: 97/100
Metacritic: 89/100
This cooperative first-person horror shooter is set during a zombie apocalypse in the southern United States. Across five campaigns, four survivors travel from...
Silent Hill
Silent Hill
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival
February 24, 1999
Players: 9.1/10
Metacritic: 86/100
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 Mason, who went to...
Manhunt 2
Manhunt 2
Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game
October 29, 2007
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...
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival horror, Adventure
September 22, 1999
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...
Manhunt
Manhunt
Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view
November 18, 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...
Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis
Action, Strategy, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Adventure
July 1, 1999
Players: 7.6/10
Steam: 80/100
Metacritic: 67/100
Dino Crisis is an action game with a third-person view. A special forces group lands on the small tropical island of Ibis with the task of finding and delivering...
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Survival horror
September 30, 2008
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...
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Detective, Survival
November 16, 2005
Players: 9.3/10
Metacritic: 80/100
A dark psychological thriller in which the hunt for killers gradually turns into a hunt for one's own sanity. FBI agent Ethan Thomas investigates a series of brutal...
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival
March 22, 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...
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie
October 13, 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...
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Survival
December 8, 2009
Players: 8.6/10
Metacritic: 76/100
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories — the initial scenes of the game take place in a psychotherapist's office, which the player has the opportunity to observe...
Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil Zero
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Shooter
November 12, 2002
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...
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval
June 1, 1999
Players: 9.6/10
Metacritic: 91/100
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, which is a sequel to the game Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Events take place 1500...
Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher
January 31, 2008
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...
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Survival horror
October 24, 2005
Players: 8.2/10
Steam: 62/100
Metacritic: 77/100
This first-person horror game combines action and adventure with exploration, investigation, and combat against supernatural evil. Its varied levels range from...
Dementium: The Ward
Dementium: The Ward
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Old school, Survival horror, Survival
October 26, 2007
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...
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view
December 5, 2008
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...
Dark Sector
Dark Sector
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Shooter
March 25, 2008
Players: 8.8/10
Steam: 86/100
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...
Dead Space: Extraction
Dead Space: Extraction
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op)
September 25, 2009
Players: 9.1/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Dead Space: Extraction is a sci-fi rail horror shooter with a first-person view in the Dead Space universe. The events of the game will tell the story before the...
Abuse
Abuse
Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Horror, Adventure, Indie
August 14, 2009
Steam: 88/100
Abuse is an action game with a touch of shooter and sandbox from the developers from the Crack dot Com studio. The game is published by RedHat. Sometimes the game...
Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds
Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Science fiction
November 17, 2005
Players: 8.8/10
Steam: 82/100
Metacritic: 74/100
This top-down science-fiction action game follows a fight against an alien threat in the colony of New Atlantis. The protagonist battles monsters and large bosses...
Killing Floor
Killing Floor
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies, Survival
May 14, 2009
Players: 8/10
Steam: 96/100
Metacritic: 72/100
Killing Floor is a cooperative horror shooter with a first-person view. Hordes of dangerous clones created by a biotechnological corporation have broken free. Only...
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Remastered Edition)
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Remastered Edition)
Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective
October 24, 2008
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...
Call of Duty: World at War - Zombies
Call of Duty: World at War - Zombies
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Adult game
November 16, 2009
Players: 6.7/10
Metacritic: 78/100
This first-person horror shooter brings the zombie mode from Call of Duty: World at War to mobile devices. Players fight endless waves of undead in a barricaded...
Painkiller: Resurrection
Painkiller: Resurrection
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view
October 27, 2009
Players: 3.3/10
Steam: 24/100
Metacritic: 38/100
This first-person shooter with horror elements follows William “Bill” Sherman, who dies when his own C4 charge detonates during an operation against a South...
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view
May 12, 2009
Players: 8.2/10
Resident Evil: Degeneration is a third-person action game with elements of shooter, adventure and horror from the masters of Ideaworks Game Studio. The game is...
DOOM Resurrection
DOOM Resurrection
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
June 26, 2009
Players: 5.5/10
Metacritic: 79/100
This first-person shooter with horror elements follows a disaster at a research facility on Mars, where scientists have lost control of an experiment. The player...
A Vampyre Story
A Vampyre Story
Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Comedy
May 31, 2008
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...
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view
February 24, 2009
Metacritic: 61/100
This third-person action horror game follows freelance journalist Frank West, who travels to the town of Willamette in search of a major story and finds it overrun...
Ninja Blade
Ninja Blade
Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view
January 29, 2009
Players: 9.8/10
Metacritic: 65/100
Set in modern-day Tokyo, this action-adventure follows an outbreak of parasites known as alpha-worms, which spread east and threaten humanity. An elite team of...
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Anime / Manga
August 3, 1989
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...
Ultimate DOOM
Ultimate DOOM
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
September 27, 2006
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...
Void
Void
Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival
April 17, 2008
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...
NecroVisioN
NecroVisioN
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies
February 20, 2009
Players: 6.6/10
Steam: 68/100
Metacritic: 63/100
NecroVisioN is a first-person shooter that combines World War I combat with a story of supernatural evil. In 1916, young American Simon Bukner joins the British...
Silent Hill Mobile 2
Silent Hill Mobile 2
Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle
October 13, 2009
Silent Hill Mobile 2 — Lucas wakes up in Brookhaven Hospital, unable to remember his name and unaware of what is happening. He is in pain and his whole body...
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Online
February 10, 2009
Players: 8.1/10
Steam: 79/100
Metacritic: 78/100
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is a continuation of a dynamic first-person shooter with horror elements. The events of the game begin half an hour before the end of the...
ObsCure: The Aftermath
ObsCure: The Aftermath
Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Cooperative (co-op)
September 7, 2007
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...
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