Horror for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Horror genre

Resident Evil Village - a game in the Horror genre

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Action, Virtual Reality (VR), Shooter

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 October 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 83/100

First-person horror game with survival and shooter elements Resident Evil: Village continues the story started in Biohazard, but moves the action to Eastern Europe...

Resident Evil 3

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 November 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Resident Evil 3 is a remake of the legendary action-horror game with a fixed camera Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Get ready to dive back into the chaos of the dying...

Little Nightmares 3

Adventure, Horror, Online, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 October 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Low and One are trying to get out of Nowhere. They joined forces to survive in a dangerous world full of illusions and shadows. The main feature of the sequel is...

Resident Evil 2

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 November 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Resident Evil 2 is a re-release of the classic action-horror Resident Evil 2 (1998) from 1998 with a third-person perspective. The events of the sequel unfold two...

Little Nightmares 2

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 February 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Little Nightmares 2 is a continuation of the horror platformer with quest elements. This time a co-op has appeared in the game and the two of you will have to...

Doom Eternal

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 December 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter that incorporates elements of action, platforming, and RPG. The first game in the new Doom franchise, created after the...

SIGNALIS

Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

SIGNALIS is a classic sci-fi horror, the style of which is very reminiscent of the movie "Alien". Finding herself alone on the snowy planet Elster, the main...

Dying Light

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 October 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure action game in the open world Dying Light allows you to fully immerse yourself in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You can expect upgrades, RPG...

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Adventure, Horror, Interactive movie, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 May 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 71/100

An interactive adventure from the creators of Until Dawn. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean. The heroes find themselves on a ghost ship, on which they...

Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 April 2022

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Zombie Army 4: Dead War is a continuation of the series of first-person shooters with horror elements. According to the plot of the game, the war with the dead did...

Dead by Daylight

Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 September 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer action-horror game with a third-person view, which tells the story of four teenagers and a maniac who wants to shred everyone and...

Doom

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 November 2017

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Doom is another installment of the famous series, where the player, as a space marine, will travel a long path through the corridors of an abandoned space base on...

Remnant: From The Ashes

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 March 2023

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Cooperative game from the creators of Darksiders 3, set on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The world has been taken over by terrifying monsters from another dimension...

Call of Cthulhu

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2019

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Call of Cthulhu is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The game is filled with a dark and oppressive atmosphere of the Lovecraft...

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2019

Players: 8.3/10

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...

Children of Silentown

Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 January 2023

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Lucy grew up in a village where people periodically disappeared. Now she is an adult and seeks to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of residents and the...

Resident Evil 6

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2019

VGTimes: 7.2/10

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Resident Evil 6 is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view in the popular Resident Evil series. Ten years have passed since that memorable night...

MADiSON

Adventure, First-person view, Horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 July 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 74/100

MADiSON is a psychological horror game with a first-person view. You play as Luca and endure the hellish torture of MADiSON, a demon who forces you to do monstrous...

Клеть

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

Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026

Players: 8.8/10

Cooperative action-horror from the creators of Kuzhlevka. Players try to survive in the Gigakhryushchevka, riding a living and voracious elevator...

Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 March 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods — Part Two — the second standalone expansion Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One. This time, events will take place not only...

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Horror, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Logic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 April 2025

Players: 8.7/10

The main character found himself in a dense forest, and during bad weather he hid in a strange hut to wait it out. In the room there is a computer with a game that...

Mina the Hollower

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Top-down view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 91/100

The game takes you to a dark gothic world where a cursed island hides behind a thick curtain of darkness. The main character is the agile and fearless Mina, who is...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

The Medium

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 June 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

In the center of events is a girl medium named Marianne, who goes to investigate the mysterious murder of a boy. The mystical gift allows the heroine to look into...

Chernobylite

Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 December 2024

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A first-person shooter with exploration elements and horror. While exploring locations, the player collects resources to build a base and craft useful items, while...

Resident Evil 5

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Resident Evil 5 is a third-person action game with shooter and horror elements from the masters from the studios Capcom Entertainment and CAPCOM Co.. The game is...

The Dark Pictures: Little Hope

Interactive movie, Third-person view, Horror, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 October 2023

Players: 8.8/10

The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is the second game in The Dark Pictures series. The game follows four students and their professor who find themselves in the...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 August 2018

Players: 9.3/10

Walking Dead: Season 1 is an episodic third-person interactive adventure based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics. The main character is a black guy named...

Outlast 2

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 March 2018

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Outlast 2 is a continuation of the popular horror adventure with stealth elements from the developers from the Red Barrels studio. The events of the game are...

Alien: Isolation

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 December 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Alien: Isolation is a first-person stealth horror adventure set in the Alien universe. The plot of the game takes place fifteen years after the events of Ridley...

System Shock Remake

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Remake

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 December 2025

Players: 8/10

A remake of the legendary role-playing shooter System Shock. The game takes place in the year 2072, where all resources on Earth have been practically depleted...

Observer

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 February 2019

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Observer is an adventure with horror elements and a first-person view in a cyberpunk style from the creators of Layers of Fear. The game takes place in 2084 in a...

Alan Wake Remastered

Adventure, Action, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 October 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Alan Wake Remastered — a remaster of the atmospheric third-person action-adventure game. The game features updated graphics and all expansions, as well as developer...

Outlast

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 February 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time served as a home...

Police Stories

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 September 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Police Stories is a top-down tactical shooter with horror elements. You will play as a policeman and, together with your partner Rick, go to storm various premises...

Green Hell

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2020

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Green Hell is a survival-adventure game with a first-person view, where the danger comes from wildlife in the unexplored corners of the Amazon jungle. An open world...

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Cyberpunk, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Shooter, First-person view, Horror, Science fiction, Role-playing game, Old school

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 July 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Remaster of the role-playing shooter System Shock 2 from 1999. The game's action takes place in the distant future on a spaceship. The main character is an...

Diablo 2: Resurrected

Role-playing game, Isometric, Horror, Action, Slasher, Hack and slash, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 September 2021

Players: 6.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Diablo 2: Resurrected is a remake of the cult isometric action-RPG Diablo 2. In the updated version of the game, a new graphics engine has been implemented, the...

Blair Witch

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 June 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Blair Witch is a first-person adventure horror game from the creators of Layers of Fear, based on the eponymous "Blair Witch" cinematic universe. You are in for a...

Zombie Army Trilogy

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Historical, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 March 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Zombie Army Trilogy is a game collection that, in addition to the remakes Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army and Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 , includes a...

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Best Games in the Horror genre for Nintendo Switch