Horror for PlayStation 3 — top best games in the Horror genre

Dying Light - a game in the Horror genre

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

Game canceled: PlayStation 3 → 27 January 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 21 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...

Resident Evil 6

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 4 October 2012

VGTimes: 7.2/10

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 72/100

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...

Alien: Isolation

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival horror, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 7 October 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Resident Evil 5

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 5 March 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The Evil Within

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 23 October 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A terrifying action-horror with a third-person view and stealth elements from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. You have to try on the role of detective...

The Last of Us

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 14 June 2013

VGTimes: 10.0/10

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 95/100

The Last of Us is an exciting action-adventure game with a third-person view and stealth elements in a post-apocalyptic setting. The game is about the survival of...

Until Dawn 2015

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

Game canceled: PlayStation 3 → 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Until Dawn is an interactive horror story about eight friends trapped together at a remote mountain retreat, where an unseen threat keeps them from simply waiting...

BioShock

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 17 October 2008

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...

Dead Space 3

Action, Third-person view, Horror, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 5 February 2013

VGTimes: 8.5/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A third-person science-fiction horror game about Isaac Clarke and Sergeant John Carver travelling to the icy planet Tau Volantis to find the source of the...

F.E.A.R.

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 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...

Alice: Madness Returns

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Horror, Slasher, Gothic

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 14 June 2011

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Alice: Madness Returns is a continuation of the legendary third-person arcade platformer American McGee's Alice. Alice is a girl suffering from emotional trauma...

Walking Dead: Season 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Interactive movie, Zombies, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 April 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

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...

Beyond: Two Souls

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 9 October 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Beyond: Two Souls is an interactive third-person adventure from the creators of Heavy Rain. The game will tell the story of a young girl, Jodie Holmes, whose...

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 29 February 2012

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...

Dead Island

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Open world, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 6 September 2011

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dead Island is an action role-playing game with elements of horror, shooter and first-person view. The heroes of the Game are tourists who had to deal with the...

Metro: Last Light

Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 17 May 2013

VGTimes: 9.6/10

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements takes place amid the desolate ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow. Metro: Last Light combines combat, exploration, and...

How to Survive

Action, Horror, Hack and slash, Beat them all, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies, Crafting

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 4 March 2014

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This survival action game follows a shipwrecked castaway stranded on a remote island inhabited by monsters. To stay alive, the protagonist must find food and water...

Resident Evil: Revelations 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 February 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a continuation of the cooperative action horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. This time you will play...

Silent Hill

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 19 March 2009

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...

Resident Evil HD Remaster

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 27 November 2014

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Resident Evil HD Remaster is an improved edition of the legendary action-horror game with a third-person view for modern platforms. The game will delight you with...

Singularity

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 1 July 2010

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Singularity is a sci-fi shooter with horror elements and a first-person view. The game takes place in an alternate universe. The main character enters the abandoned...

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 8 April 2013

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 35/100

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is an adventure shooter with a first-person view, created based on the popular series about the zombie apocalypse The Walking...

F.E.A.R. 3

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 21 July 2011

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 74/100

F.E.A.R. 3 is a continuation of a dynamic shooter with a first-person view and horror elements. Alma is in position and the fear level rises as you and your...

Dead Rising 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Zombies, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 28 September 2010

Players: 8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Dead Rising 2 is an adventure zombie action game with horror elements and a third-person perspective. It expands on the ideas and universe established in Dead...

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 26 December 2007

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

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...

Darkness 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 10 February 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Darkness 2 is a continuation of the fantastic first-person shooter in the Darkness universe. You will once again play the role of Jackie Estacado - the head of the...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 27 May 2009

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...

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 28 September 2011

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Resident Evil Code: Veronica is a dark action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. The game will tell about the events taking place...

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Action, Shooter, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 12 February 2013

VGTimes: 4.8/10

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 45/100

A science-fiction shooter with horror elements, Aliens: Colonial Marines follows a squad of United States Colonial Marines facing a Xenomorph infestation. Set in...

Dead Space (2008)

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 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...

Dead Space 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 January 2011

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Dead Space 2 is a continuation of the action-horror adventure with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting, which takes place on a space station infected with...

Catherine

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 17 February 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Catherine is an adventure arcade puzzle game with visual novel elements. The game will tell the story of computer scientist Vincent, who is experiencing the peak of...

Silent Hill 2 (2001)

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Logic, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 24 October 2001

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Silent Hill 2 (2001) — mystical action-horror with puzzle elements and third-person view. James Sunderland comes to Silent Hill after receiving a letter from...

Resident Evil: Revelations

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 24 May 2013

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Resident Evil: Revelations is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view set in the Resident Evil universe. The game takes place between the events of...

Lollipop Chainsaw

Action, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 12 June 2012

VGTimes: 6.0/10

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 69/100

A third-person action horror game about Juliet, a zombie hunter investigating the cause of a widespread outbreak. Armed with a chainsaw, she fights through hordes...

Devil May Cry 4

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 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...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 19 July 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

The Walking Dead: Season 2

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Zombies, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 17 December 2013

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, Clementine searches for safety and learns to survive after being orphaned. The Walking Dead: Season 2 continues...

BioShock 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 9 February 2010

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 88/100

BioShock 2 is an adventure shooter with a first-person view. On the streets of the city of Rapture, the echoes of past sins are heard again. All along the Atlantic...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre for PlayStation 3