Horror

Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game

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

1990

Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game is a third-person action game with a mixture of shooter, horror and fighting from the masters of Impact Software...

Darkest Fear: Nightmare

Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Puzzle

2006

Players: 9.5/10

Darkest Fear: Nightmare is a top-down adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the developers from the studio Rovio Mobile Ltd.. The game is published by...

Day of the Zombie

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

March 6, 2009

Players: 7.9/10

Day of the Zombie — first person shooter. One day, a meteorite fell to the ground, which spawned an uprising of zombies, which a short time later captured...

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...

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view

February 17, 2005

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 84/100

A prequel to Devil May Cry, the game follows events from Dante’s past and the conflict between Sparda’s twin sons, whose paths have diverged. Along the way, Dante...

Downfall

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

January 27, 2010

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Downfall is a horror adventure about Joe, who takes his wife on a romantic getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. The trip descends into insanity, and the...

D.P.S. SG Set 2

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel

April 15, 1991

D.P.S. SG Set 2 is a first-person adventure with a dash of horror, anime/manga, adult, and visual novel from the masters at Alice Soft. The game is published by...

Fatal Frame

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

December 13, 2001

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Fatal Frame is a Japanese-style third-person action-horror adventure game. Armed with a camera, the young girl Miku Hinasaki, along with an ancient camera, goes in...

F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate

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

November 6, 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...

Frankenstein (2012)

Adventure, Horror

April 26, 2012

Frankenstein (2012) is an adventure with a dash of horror from Inkle Studios. The game is published by Profile Books. The PC version of Frankenstein (2012...

Haunted House (1981)

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Top-down view

1981

Players: 5.5/10

Haunted House (1981) — arcade action game with horror adventure elements. The house has three floors and a basement. The player character can only pick up one...

Hunter: The Reckoning

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view

May 14, 2002

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action horror shooter is set in the World of Darkness and follows a team of four hunters battling supernatural creatures. The characters include Deuce, a biker...

Mystery Mansion Pinball

Simulation, Horror, Top-down view, Pinball

August 5, 2008

Mystery Mansion Pinball is a top-down simulator with elements of horror and a pinball simulator from the developers from the Gameloft S.A. studio. The main...

Project Zero 2: Wii Edition

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

June 28, 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Resident Evil: Survivor

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

January 27, 2000

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 39/100

A first-person shooter set in the world of Resident Evil follows a man who survives a helicopter crash over an isolated town. With his memory temporarily lost and...

Road of the Dead

Racing, Horror, First-person view

October 13, 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Road of the Dead is a first-person racing game with a twist of horror. The game is published by Newgrounds, Inc.. For some reason the game has not yet been released...

Saw

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

October 6, 2009

Players: 6/10

Metacritic: 59/100

This third-person survival horror game based on the Saw film franchise follows detective David Tapp, who wakes up in an abandoned asylum after being captured by his...

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...

Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

1997

Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the developers of Sierra On-Line, Inc.. The main publisher of the game...

Skeleton

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

2002

Steam: 89/100

Skeleton is a first-person adventure with horror elements. The game is published by AtariAge. There has still been no announcement of Skeleton for...

Sweet Home

Role-playing game, Horror, First-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Turn-based

December 14, 1989

Steam: 94/100

Sweet Home — 30 years ago, in 1959, the famous artist Ishiro Mamiya, known for his special style of painting frescoes, disappeared in his huge mansion. In...

Videokid (1992)

Action, Shooter, Horror, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

1992

Videokid (1992) is an action game with elements of a shooter, horror, platformer, anime or manga game and fantasy game from developers from the Twilight studio. The...

Viper V-8

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game, Visual novel

September 10, 1993

Viper V-8 is a first-person adventure with a dash of horror, anime/manga, fantasy, adult and visual novel from the masters at Sogna. The game is published by...

Affordable Space Adventures

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie

fall 2014

Metacritic: 81/100

This science-fiction game combines spaceship piloting, stealth, and puzzles as a crew explores an alien planet while trying to avoid detection. The ship can be...

Wake Up Call

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

2015

Wake Up Call is an action game with a mixture of shooter, adventure, horror and stealth game from Dark Synergy Studios. The main publisher of the game is Dark...

Dead End Alley

Arcade, Horror, Beat them all, Indie

Q4 2014

Dead End Alley — arcade indie horror game in the genre of defeat 'em all. This is it. End of line. The famous last battle. Your newly mined chainsaw roars to...

Dead Secret

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

October 28, 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Dead Secret is a mystical thriller for virtual reality headsets. Bullard, a reclusive man with a mysterious past, is found dead in his office. Even the police don't...

The Wake

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

2017

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The Wake is an action-horror game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The game will allow you to feel what it’s like to...

Dead Island: Retro Revenge

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Zombies, Runner

May 31, 2016

Steam: 62/100

Dead Island: Retro Revenge is a 16-bit game in the style of classic 2D action platformers in the Dead Island universe. The game's story tells of an embittered hero...

DoomCraft

Strategy, Horror, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval

1999

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

DoomCraft — a canceled real-time strategy game being developed on the WarCraft 2000: Nuclear Epidemic engine using resources from the game DOOM...

Dead Inside

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

April 20, 2020

Players: 10/10

Dead Inside is a third-person action-horror game developed by one person. Seventeen years have passed since that damned spaceship disappeared into outer space...

Doom: Hell Followed

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

October 26, 2016

Doom: Hell Followed is a multiplayer add-on for the futuristic first-person shooter. It adds three new maps (Smelter, Temple and Orbital Station), the ability to...

Layers of Fear: Solitude

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

December 7, 2016

Players: 4.3/10

Layers of Fear: Solitude is a special version of the psychological horror game with a first-person view for the Daydream VR virtual reality device from Google. You...

DISTRAINT

Adventure, Horror, Free game, Side view, Indie

October 21, 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

DISTRAINT is a psychological horror game with a side view for mobile platforms. You have to play as a young ambitious guy Price, who in an unholy way took the...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game

Horror, Online, Third-person view, Survival, Stealth, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Open world, Survival horror

June 4, 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 69/100

An asymmetric online horror game based on the 1988 comedy horror film Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Players are divided into two teams — killer clowns who...

The Lighthouse

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Detective

October 31, 2019

Steam: 64/100

The Lighthouse is a first-person horror adventure. Events begin on February 19, 1964. You'll take on the role of James Irwin, a former detective turned private...

Dead Maze

Action, Horror, MMO, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Zombies

February 13, 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

Dead Maze is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players must team up to...

Apparition

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Demons

October 1, 2018

Steam: 80/100

Apparition is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. Your goal is to document paranormal activity in the eerie North Carolina forest. You can...

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Arcade, Free game, Horror, Combat robots

December 4, 2017

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator is a shareware arcade game in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe. Unlike Scott Cawthon's other games, his new creation is not...

The Peterson Case

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Detective

2020

Anticipation Rating: 6.7/10

The Peterson Case is a first-person horror adventure with puzzle elements. The events of the game take place after the Roswell Incident, which occurred in July...

Best Games in the Horror genre