Horror for PlayStation 5 — top best games in the Horror genre / Page 4

Scars Above - a game in the Horror genre

Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Horror, Exploration, Science fiction, Shooter

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 February 2023

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

The events of the game take place far beyond the solar system. Dr. Kate Ward finds herself on a mysterious planet with deadly fauna, creepy monsters and the...

CULTIC

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Old school

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 July 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A dynamic retro shooter with a first-person view, combining the atmosphere of classic action movies with horror elements and modern technology. A fully...

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 August 2025

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...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 September 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 August 2023

Players: 7/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Asymmetrical horror in the setting of the cult horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which tells the story of the serial killer known as...

Resident Evil Village - Shadows of Rose

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 October 2022

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Resident Evil Village - Shadows of Rose - an expansion for the first-person shooter horror game with survival elements Resident Evil Village. It will tell the...

Ferocious

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Tactics, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 September 2026

Players: 4.7/10

Steam: 62/100

A tactical survival shooter set on a mysterious tropical island in the Pacific Ocean. It was from there that a distress signal came from journalists, whom the main...

Blood West

Action, Shooter, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Indie, Open world, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 October 2025

Players: 8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A mystical Western that tells the story of a traveling revolver who rises from the dead to lift a curse and free his soul. During his journey through the Wild West...

REANIMAL - The Prisoner

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 7 August 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 75/100

A story expansion that extends the REANIMAL storyline with a new plot arc and introduces two heroines — the Prisoner and the Soldier. On a war-torn island, they...

Code Violet

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 January 2026

Players: 2.9/10

Metacritic: 29/100

The game takes place in the 25th century after a cataclysm that made the Earth uninhabitable. The survivors found a new home in space, but became infertile. To...

Bad Cheese

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 September 2025

Steam: 71/100

A little mouse is left alone in the house, where the usual comfort turns into a nightmare. Mom has disappeared, and dad is behaving more and more unpredictably, and...

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 August 2021

Players: 7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A third-person cooperative shooter set in the "Alien" universe, taking place 23 years after the events of the original trilogy. The story centers around a team of...

Cronos: Lazarus

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, DLC, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Survival horror

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → fall 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An expansion for Cronos: The New Dawn, revealing the past of one of the key characters from the main game. The events unfold in the merciless wastelands, where a...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Combat robots, Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 December 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach is an atmospheric adventure survival game with a first-person view in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe. This time you...

Crisol: Theater of Idols

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 February 2026

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The game takes place in the sinister world of Hispania, a nightmarish interpretation of Spain. The protagonist is Gabriel, a soldier with an unusual gift to turn...

We Were Here Forever

Adventure, Online, Horror, Cooperative (co-op), First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Action

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 January 2023

Players: 9/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 76/100

We Were Here Forever is the latest installment in the co-op puzzle adventure from a first-person perspective in the We Were Here series. You and your friend are...

Terrible Lizards

Adventure, Horror, Platformer, First-person view, Stunts, Parkour, Exploration

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 29 October 2026

A first-person horror game with parkour elements, set in the abandoned amusement park "Dalton's Dinosaurs" on Route 66 in New Mexico. The year is 1992, the entire...

Stray Souls

Horror, Action, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 25 October 2023

Players: 7.7/10

The game takes place in the abandoned town of Aspen Falls, inhabited by disgusting creatures. The main character is teenager Daniel, who inherits his grandmother's...

Max Payne Remake

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2028

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

Max Payne Remake is a remake of legendary kinematographic actiones with a third -person view max Payne and max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne from the creators of...

Iron Lung

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 October 2025

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 92/100

The game takes place in a dystopian future where all inhabited planets have disappeared and the remnants of humanity begin to live on space stations. One day people...

Zoochosis

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Simulation, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 25 August 2025

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 60/100

A scary game about a night zookeeper. The main character discovers that some animals are mutating and turning into monsters. To correct the situation, you need to...

Creepy Tale: Snow Child

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 October 2026

Steam: 90/100

The game continues to develop the ideas of the Creepy Tale series, focusing on expanding the world, improving the visual component, and offering more diverse...

Tannenberg

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 June 2021

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Tannenberg is a standalone add-on for the multiplayer third-person shooter about the First World War Verdun. The game will focus on the events of the Eastern Front...

A.I.L.A

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Science fiction, Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 25 November 2025

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A.I.L.A. is an artificial intelligence that creates horror games based on the tester's deepest fears. Each new session becomes a reflection of their...

Asylum

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 30 October 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

The main character once ended up in a psychiatric hospital-a place full of pain and suffering. He dreamed of forgetting this horror, but the memories did not let...

Undying

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Zombies

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 February 2025

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 74/100

An isometric zombie action game about a mother who is trying to protect her son from all the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world. The problem is that she has been...

Dead of Darkness

Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

The game takes place in 1985 in England. The main character is a private detective who is investigating the death of his own daughter. The character finds himself...

What Remains of Edith Finch

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 July 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 89/100

What Remains of Edith Finch is a mystical detective adventure with a first-person view. A collection of short stories awaits you, dedicated to a cursed family that...

Bramble: The Mountain King

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Horror, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 27 April 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Bramble: The Mountain King is an action-adventure platformer with horror elements in a dark fantasy setting. In the game you will go into a world inspired by...

Instinction

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 9.1/10

The game takes place on the mysterious Yucatan Peninsula, where dinosaurs live side by side with people. Environmental adventurer Isabelle sets out to explore...

Silt

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 June 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 71/100

The actions of the game take place in the depths of the sea, where various monsters live. With the help of soul transference, the main character can use the...

World of Horror

Role-playing game, Horror, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Adventure, Roguelike, Survival horror, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 October 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

An unusual text role-playing game in a Japanese setting, combining horror from the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The old gods awaken and once again invade a...

Bendy: Lone Wolf

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Roguelike, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 August 2025

Players: 7/10

Steam: 83/100

Boris ventures deep into the endlessly generated corridors of the Joey Drew studio. To survive, you will have to collect supplies and weapons, and also escape from...

Hell Clock

Action, Role-playing game, Slasher, Roguelike, Fantasy, Dungeons, Isometric, Demons, Indie, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 July 2026

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The game takes place in an alternate version of 19th century Brazil, where mysticism and history are intertwined into a dark plot. The player takes on the role of...

The Sinking City

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 February 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 67/100

The Sinking City is a third-person, open-world horror adventure based on the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the father of horror stories about monsters. The...

Little Nightmares - The Residence

Adventure, Horror, DLC, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 October 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 82/100

Little Nightmares — The Residence is an add-on for the side-view horror adventure Little Nightmares. The main character has to find out who is hiding behind...

Gylt

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Action, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 6 July 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

The main character is a little girl, Sally, who one day, fleeing from a group of bullies, finds herself in a distorted version of her city, where her fears and...

Blood: Refreshed Supply

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Old school, Action, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 December 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 72/100

A remaster of Blood, the developers have improved the graphics, controls, updated the multiplayer, and much more. The game features 42 levels with numerous enemies...

Dino Crisis

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 October 2024

Players: 7.7/10

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...

Observer: System Redux

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 November 2020

Players: 3/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Observer: System Redux is a remaster of the original Observer for the new generation of consoles. In addition to improved graphics, the updated edition features...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre for PlayStation 5