Horror for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Horror genre

Interactive movie, Third-person view, Horror, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 June 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The Quarry is an interactive adventure game with a third-person view and horror elements in the spirit of the films of the 80s and 90s from the creators of Until...

Resident Evil Village

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 May 2021

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: PlayStation 4 → 3 April 2020

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...

The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me

Interactive movie, Third-person view, Horror, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 November 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 72/100

The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me is the fourth game in the The Dark Pictures series in the genre of interactive cinema and survival horror. Four documentarians...

Little Nightmares 3

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 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: PlayStation 4 → 25 January 2019

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...

Days Gone

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 April 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Single-player adventure action game Days Gone in the genres of survival, stealth, and action, with a third-person view, in an open world was released in April 2019...

The Forest

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 April 2018

Players: 7.9/10

The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...

The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 October 2021

Players: 7.2/10

The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is the third game in The Dark Pictures series. The game will take place in the Middle East, and the heroes will be American...

Hello Neighbor 2

Adventure, Roguelike, Stealth, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 December 2022

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Hello Neighbor 2 is a continuation of the exciting stealth horror game with a first-person view, which will offer you an advanced, self-learning artificial...

Bendy and the Dark Revival

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 March 2023

Players: 7.6/10

Bendy and the Dark Revival — the continuation of the first-person adventure survival horror Bendy and the Ink Machine. In the sequel, you will explore a creepy...

Little Nightmares 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 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...

7 Days to Die

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 July 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 41/100

Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...

Doom Eternal

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 March 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: PlayStation 4 → 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...

Bloodborne

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 March 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Bloodborne is a dark adventure role-playing action game with a third-person view from the creators of the Dark Souls series. The action takes place in a...

Dying Light

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 January 2015

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...

Amnesia: The Bunker

Horror, First-person view, Action, Open world, Stealth, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 June 2023

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game takes place during the First World War. French soldier Henri Clément finds himself locked in an abandoned military bunker, where something sinister lives...

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2019

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: PlayStation 4 → 4 February 2020

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...

The Callisto Protocol

Action, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Stealth, Survival horror, Science fiction, Adventure, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 December 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Fantastic horror The Callisto Protocol is created in the mold of Dead Space: the cramped quarters of a distant space station are filled with biophage...

The Outlast Trials

Adventure, Horror, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 March 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Prequel to the entire horror series Outlast. The plot centers on a group of experimental subjects abducted by the Murkoff company during the Cold War. Scientists...

Dead by Daylight

Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 June 2017

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: PlayStation 4 → 13 May 2016

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: PlayStation 4 → 20 August 2019

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...

The Evil Within 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 October 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Continuation of the action-horror with a third-person view. You are Detective Sebastian Castellanos, and you are at rock bottom. But when you get the chance to save...

Call of Cthulhu

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 October 2018

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: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2016

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: PlayStation 4 → 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: PlayStation 4 → 29 March 2016

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...

The Evil Within

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 October 2014

Players: 8.2/10

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...

Until Dawn 2015

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 August 2015

Players: 8.7/10

MADiSON

Adventure, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 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...

Martha is Dead

Adventure, First-person view, Horror, Adult game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 24 February 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Martha is Dead is an atmospheric horror adventure with a first-person view. The action takes place in Tuscany (Italy) in 1944, during the Second World War. However...

Клеть

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 February 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: PlayStation 4 → 18 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: PlayStation 4 → 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...

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 June 2022

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Fobia — St. Dinfna Hotel is an adventure shooter with elements of psychological horror and a first-person view. The main character is a young journalist...

Mina the Hollower

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 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: PlayStation 4 → 22 October 2021

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...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre for PlayStation 4