Horror 2009 for PC — top best games in the Horror genre

Resident Evil 5

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

Game released: PC → 18 September 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Left 4 Dead 2

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

Game released: PC → 20 November 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This cooperative first-person horror shooter is set during a zombie apocalypse in the southern United States. Across five campaigns, four survivors travel from...

Manhunt 2

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game

Game released: PC → 6 November 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Manhunt 2 is a continuation of the scandalous action game with a third-person view and horror elements. During secret laboratory tests, a fatal mistake occurred...

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...

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...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Detective, Survival

Game released: PC → 23 April 2009

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A dark psychological thriller in which the hunt for killers gradually turns into a hunt for one's own sanity. FBI agent Ethan Thomas investigates a series of brutal...

Alien Shooter

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

Game released: PC → 13 October 2003

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...

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 26 April 2006

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This first-person horror game combines action and adventure with exploration, investigation, and combat against supernatural evil. Its varied levels range from...

Dark Sector

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

Game released: PC → 24 March 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This third-person science-fiction shooter with horror elements follows a covert mission in Lasria, an Eastern European city concealing a deadly Cold War secret...

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...

Killing Floor

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

Game released: PC → 19 February 2010

Players: 8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Killing Floor is a cooperative horror shooter with a first-person view. Hordes of dangerous clones created by a biotechnological corporation have broken free. Only...

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...

Painkiller: Resurrection

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 27 October 2009

Players: 3.3/10

Steam: 24/100

Metacritic: 38/100

This first-person shooter with horror elements follows William “Bill” Sherman, who dies when his own C4 charge detonates during an operation against a South...

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...

Ninja Blade

Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 31 October 2009

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Set in modern-day Tokyo, this action-adventure follows an outbreak of parasites known as alpha-worms, which spread east and threaten humanity. An elite team of...

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...

NecroVisioN

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

Game released: PC → 18 May 2009

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 63/100

NecroVisioN is a first-person shooter that combines World War I combat with a story of supernatural evil. In 1916, young American Simon Bukner joins the British...

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 78/100

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is a continuation of a dynamic first-person shooter with horror elements. The events of the game begin half an hour before the end of the...

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...

F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn

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

Game released: PC → 28 January 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 74/100

F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn is an add-on for a dark first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. You will see the events of the original game from the point of view of a clone...

Fort Zombie

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Horror, In real time, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 66/100

A role-playing strategy game about surviving a zombie apocalypse in the small American town of Piety, Indiana. The protagonist chooses a building to serve as 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...

UFO: Aftermath

Strategy, Horror, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Tactics

Game released: PC → 26 November 2009

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This tactical strategy game with RPG elements follows an alien invasion in which a spacecraft releases spores into the atmosphere, wiping out macroscopic life on...

NecroVisioN: Lost Company

Action, Shooter, Horror, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Tanks, Zombies

Game released: PC → 19 February 2010

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 74/100

This horror FPS prequel to NecroVisioN takes place during World War I, before the original game's story, and presents events from the opposing side. The player...

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...

Path

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

Game released: PC → 11 December 2009

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This horror adventure set in the modern day draws on older versions of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. Six sisters are sent one at a time through the forest to...

Day of the Zombie

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 6 March 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...

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Role-playing game, Detective

Game released: PC → 24 September 2009

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper — London, 1888. A wave of brutal murders keeps the entire city in terror. Polly, a young prostitute, was murdered in the...

Larva Mortus

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 19 March 2009

Players: 8/10

Steam: 76/100

Set at the end of the 19th century, this top-down action game combines hack-and-slash combat with shooting as dark forces threaten the world. The player takes the...

Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy

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

Game released: PC → 15 July 2010

Steam: 73/100

This hidden-object adventure follows an investigation into the mysterious death of writer Edgar Allan Poe. The protagonist, a renowned mystery writer, receives a...

Cube Escape

Puzzle, Horror, Adventure, Detective, Online, Free game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 9 June 2009

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 97/100

A detective named Dale Vandermeer finds himself in a strange room and cannot remember how he got here. He must solve all the puzzles to get free and get his...

Dark Salvation

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game, Comics

Game released: PC → 28 July 2009

Dark Salvation is a first-person action game with a mixture of shooter, horror, puzzle, fantasy and adult game from Mangled Eye Studios. The main publisher of the...

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2009

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 35/100

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails — the continuation of the famous project returns players to Indochina. Burning napalm, clever traps, mass executions of civilians...

Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 11 September 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the developers of GO! Games. The game is published by Alawar...

Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 10 September 2010

Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell is a first-person adventure with horror and puzzle elements from the masters of Mzone Studio and SOLILAB. The game is published...

Postal: Classic and Uncut

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Isometric, Collection

Game released: PC → 17 April 2009

Players: 7/10

Postal: Classic and Uncut is a third-person action game with shooter and horror elements from developers from the RWS, Inc. studio. The game is published by...

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 October 2011

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror from the developers of Big Fish Games, Inc. The main publisher of the game is Big...

Dark Fall: Lights Out (The Director's Cut Edition)

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

Game released: PC → 16 December 2009

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This first-person adventure horror follows Parker, a cartographer sent to the Cornish harbour town of Trewarthan to map its deadly rocks. When the lighthouse on...

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...

Adventure: Collector's Edition (Volume 1)

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

Game released: PC → 23 April 2009

Adventure: Collector's Edition (Volume 1) is a first-person adventure with horror, stealth and puzzle elements from Frictional Games and Nucleosys Digital Studio...

Horror

Best Games in the Horror genre of 2009 for PC (Game released)