Horror 2008 for PC — top best games in the Horror genre

Left 4 Dead - a game in the Horror genre

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

Game released: PC → 17 November 2008

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter about a group of survivors trying to escape a city engulfed by an epidemic. A new strain of the rabies virus...

Dead Space (2008)

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Painkiller: Overdose

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Horror

Game released: PC → 10 February 2008

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements continues the story of Painkiller, introducing a new character who faces the consequences of Daniel’s victory over...

Manhunt

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 2 October 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This stealth action game with horror elements takes place in Carcer City, where James Earl Cash becomes the target of a brutal blood sport. After his life is...

Fahrenheit

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

Game released: PC → 12 March 2008

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Fahrenheit is an interactive thriller set in New York City in January 2009, where ordinary people begin killing strangers in public according to the same ritual...

Alone in the Dark (2008)

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

Game released: PC → 20 June 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 43/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Alone in the Dark (2008) is a reboot of the legendary horror series, which will continue the story of paranormal investigator Edward...

ObsCure

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 24 July 2008

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

After a friend disappears, five students are trapped inside Leafmore High School and set out to uncover the cause of the mysterious events there. ObsCure is a...

Devil May Cry 4

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 23 June 2015

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...

Cold Fear

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

Game released: PC → сентябрь 2008

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This action-horror game with survival elements follows Tom Hansen, a U.S. Coast Guard officer sent to board a drifting Russian whaling ship during a storm in the...

Penumbra: Overture - Episode 1

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 May 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in unsettling environments that the player explores while uncovering their secrets. Physics-based interactions...

Zombie Shooter

Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Zombies

Game released: PC → 23 May 2008

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 82/100

This isometric action shooter follows a zombie outbreak at a secret research base, where scientists have turned into monsters and the infection threatens to spread...

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 27 February 2009

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a survival horror adventure about Alex Shepherd, who returns to his hometown of Shepherd’s Glen to investigate his brother’s...

Penumbra: Black Plague

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 26 June 2008

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This first-person adventure horror follows explorer Philip, who is trapped in an underground complex and searches for the truth behind his father's disappearance...

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason

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

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Atmospheric psychological horror from the first person, set on the abandoned Soviet atomic icebreaker "Northern Wind," stuck in the Arctic ice. The main character...

Dracula: Origin

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 6 August 2008

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This gothic adventure, set in the world of Bram Stoker, follows Professor Van Helsing’s pursuit of Dracula. The vampire is searching for a manuscript describing a...

Curse: The Eye of Isis

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

Game released: PC → 1 April 2009

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Set in 1890, this survival horror adventure begins at a British natural history museum, where a gang of thugs has stolen the Egyptian statue known as the Eye of...

A Vampyre Story

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Comedy

Game released: PC → 31 May 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This comic adventure follows Mona, a young opera singer kidnapped by vampire Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer and held in a castle in the gloomy land of Draxsylvania. When...

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

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

Game released: PC → 22 December 2005

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action-horror game unfolds in the streets and prisons of Baltimore, where Torque seeks revenge against Blackmore, a mysterious mastermind connected to the...

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 5 February 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 32/100

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green — This game is a prequel to the film Land of the Dead, which takes place during the first outbreak of the zombie...

Penumbra: Black Plague - Gold Edition

Collection, Horror, Adventure, First-person view

Game released: PC → 27 August 2008

Steam: 93/100

This first-person adventure horror game takes place in a dark underground complex, where explorer Philip searches for the truth about his missing father. Along the...

Penumbra: Requiem

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

Game released: PC → 27 August 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 67/100

An expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, in which Philip faces puzzles and encounters characters from his past. The story follows the previous installments and...

Suffering

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

Game released: PC → 21 January 2005

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Suffering — action horror with a third person view. As Tork kills enemies during the game, an on-screen meter called a frenzy meter begins to fill. When it is...

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Remastered Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Point & Click, Detective

Game released: PC → 6 August 2009

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...

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 18 March 2008

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 52/100

A first-person psychological horror adventure in the Lovecraftian tradition follows a murder investigation that draws a police detective into the occult and a world...

Void

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

Game released: PC → 14 December 2009

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 53/100

This first-person adventure with horror and survival elements takes place in the Void, a grey limbo crossed by souls as they fade away. It is brought to life by...

Nombz: Night of a Million Billion Zombies

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 29 February 2008

Nombz: Night of a Million Billion Zombies is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, shooter and horror from the masters of PowerUp Studios Inc.. The...

ObsCure: The Aftermath

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

Game released: PC → 27 May 2008

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This third-person survival horror game follows the events at Leafmore High two years later. The students who survived the monster attack have started college, where...

Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 6 March 2009

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 33/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person point-and-click horror adventure is set in Transylvania in 1920, where priest Father Arno Moriani investigates a potential candidate for...

Dracula: The Last Sanctuary

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: PC → март 2009

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Dracula: The Last Sanctuary — After rescuing Mina, Jonathan Harker and his lover return to London with the mysterious Dragon Ring. As they begin to enjoy a...

Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend

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

Game released: PC → 21 October 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend is a first-person action game with shooter and horror elements from developers from the studio RWS, Inc.. The main publisher of the...

Clive Barker's Jericho

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

Game released: PC → 12 December 2008

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This first-person horror shooter follows a special forces squad sent to a lost city that has reappeared in a remote desert. An ancient evil has resurfaced there...

Penumbra Collection

Action, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 7 March 2009

Penumbra Collection is a first-person action game with a mixture of adventure, horror, stealth and puzzle game from Frictional Games. The game's publishers are...

Симбионт

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

Game released: PC → 23 October 2008

Players: 9/10

Symbiont is a third-person action game with shooter, adventure and horror elements from the masters from the Targem Games studio. The game is published by 505...

Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7 - The Cardinal Sins

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 13 August 2008

Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7 — The Cardinal Sins is a third-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the developers of Grundislav...

Legacy of Kain Series: Blood Omen 2

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

Game released: PC → 31 July 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This third-person action adventure with horror elements follows the vampire Kain and his attempts to rule Nosgoth. The story unfolds as he explores detailed 3D...

Cry of the Infected

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 31 March 2008

Cry of the Infected is a first-person action game with a touch of horror from developers from the studio Cyborg Arm Games. The game is published by Cyborg Arm...

Azada: Ancient Magic

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: PC → 29 August 2008

Steam: 95/100

Azada: Ancient Magic is a first-person adventure with horror, puzzle and fantasy elements from the developers of Big Fish Games, Inc. The main publisher of the game...

Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC → 3 July 2009

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This first-person adventure with puzzles and horror elements unfolds at a Welsh estate where ancient myths begin to intrude on modern life. The player is asked to...

Lost in the Nightmare (Deluxe Edition)

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 29 January 2008

Lost in the Nightmare (Deluxe Edition) is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the masters at Cool Blue Game...

Blood Ties

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 12 February 2010

Steam: 60/100

Blood Ties is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror and puzzle from the developers from the ShadeTree Games studio. The game is published by Big Fish...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2008 for PC (Game released)