Which creepiest game

Capcom followed up RE7 with a masterful remake of Resident Evil 2. An already stellar survival horror game was made better by exponentially improved visuals, better character models, a more threatening version of Mr.

X, a more fluid over-the-shoulder camera angle, and much more. X and his improved stalking ability is surpassed only by that of the next game's antagonist Alien: Isolation nails both the survival and horror aspects of the genre. Beyond this generation, few games have achieved the level of tension-filled gameplay that makes up the majority of Alien: Isolation, as the Xenomorph's sharp, focused hunting ability leaves little time for respite across its hour runtime.

With Outlast, developer Red Barrels took the found footage movie genre and expertly turned it into a fiveish-hour interactive nightmare. Further, Outlast effectively turns sight into an in-game resource; the majority of the hospital is only visible through the green, grainy lens of your camera's night vision, and that camera relies on batteries sparsely scattered throughout the building.

When the lights go out, it stands nearly in a league of its own. The result of a cross-industry, once-in-a-console-generation collaboration between acclaimed creators Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, P. Hours later, the enigma was solved, and P. Then there was the game itself, which was as terrifying as its reveal was fascinating.

Turning a corner remained as scary the first time as it was on the fifteenth. The subtle changes to the environment on each loop preyed on players expectations of familiarity and added disturbing life to a seemingly restricted play area. You can't fight. You can't hide. Of course, Silent Hills would never come to fruition. Konami officially canceled the project a day after P.

Little Nightmares. Alien: Isolation. Carrion might look like a bit of fun because it is, but it's also a great horror game that reverses the roles and lets you play the monster. Through its pixelly recreation of tentacles and teeth, it really captures the essence of a good creature feature as you hoover up screaming scientists, rending limb from limb and leaving nothing but parts in your wake. It's excessively gory in a laugh-out-loud way and in between the bloody carnage, there are some decent puzzles to work out using an ever-expanding range of monster powers.

A fairly straightforward alien shooter can become much more unsettling when the goal changes from you defending yourself to saving others, and the element of randomization in Mooncrash does a lot in keeping you on your toes.

But basic Prey, too, has a certain spookiness to it. Apart from being a brilliant game with many secret nooks and crannies to discover, Prey, just like other Arkane games, gives you a certain freedom of approach. Many stories you come across in its environment tell of horrifying accidents, people trying to flee, or alien encounters. There is something deeply wrong with Little Nightmare 2 , in a good way. The sequel really doubles down on the original creepy children's story world but somehow ups the unpleasantness to impressive levels.

The weirdness just creeps under your skin as you explore. From creepy juddering mannequins, to faceless, lost people - faces seemingly worn away by the TV static they'll die to stare at - there's little in this game that won't unnerve you, or leave you feeling uncomfortable thinking about it. It can be frustrating at times - the controls never really live up to the demands and there are a few trial and error encounters to blunder through.

But stick with it and you'll experience probably one of the most traumatizing games on this list. Teen slashers have been around for nearly four decades now, but aside from the abysmal Friday the 13th on NES, games haven't really been brave enough to venture into that territory.

Until now. Or rather, Until Dawn zing , a survival-horror game about a pack of randy teens going on vacation to an isolated mountain cabin, only to find that some heinous entity is set on killing them off. But it's not all fun and games: the characters will die gruesome deaths if you can't navigate Until Dawn's horror movie logic, and it takes every opportunity to scare the bejaysus out of you.

While many games on this list are here because of their fear-factor alone, Until Dawn earns a spot for more meta reasons, too - it's wilfully, soulfully entrenched in horror tradition, and uses those tropes brilliantly. It's packed with winks to the slasher genre, and you'll still love the ridiculous twists even if you see them coming from a mile away. You'll laugh as much as you scream, if not more, and few horror games capture that sense of grisly fun so well.

Current page: Best horror games. Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! Page 1 of 3: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3. See comments. Gaming deals, prizes and latest news. Shape-shifting creatures mimic seemingly innocuous chairs, trash cans, and other objects, keeping the tension high and providing jump scares aplenty.

Worse is lurking. Ostensibly a first-person shooter, Prey stirs in RPG elements, puzzles, and moral choices that elevate the experience. This elegant psychological horror RPG was funded through Kickstarter and is often mentioned in the same breath as Undertale and Earthbound. On the surface, the cute pixel art feels welcoming and familiar, but there are dark depths to explore.

A group of kids explores the dreams of the eponymous sleeping boy, Omori, but there is something badly wrong with him. The soundtrack, writing, and art combine to great effect and largely overcome the repetitive turn-based RPG combat. But the underlying theme of depression and despair seeps through and packs a real emotional punch, so approach with caution if you are feeling fragile.

Omori is the horror RPG of your nightmares. If you want to get together with some friends and slay zombies, there is no better game than Left 4 Dead 2. The level design, the sound effects, the music, and the zombies are a glorious love letter to the horror genre, and it plays like a dream. It may be more than a decade old, but it lumbers on, and few games provoke such a visceral feeling of tension as you struggle to keep everyone alive or such deep satisfaction when you manage to push through.

This mystery thriller was recently remastered and is well worth a look whether you have played it before or not. The engaging story casts you as a best-selling crime writer searching for your wife after she disappears in a mountain town in Washington on vacation of sorts.

The atmosphere and plot of this captivating episodic mystery make up for occasionally clunky gameplay and awkward camera angles. A wonderfully creepy sci-fi horror full of unreliable narrators, SOMA challenges you to figure out what the hell is going on and what the right course of action is. You play as Simon and find yourself stuck in a research facility on the ocean floor with broken-down robots for company, but they don't seem to know they are robots.

The exploration and puzzle-solving are fun, but the haunting philosophical questions the game raises are what makes it. Developer Frictional Games was also behind the Amnesia and Penumbra survival horror series.

Fighting your way through the fog of a spooky, monster-filled small town searching for your dead wife is what horror games are all about. Arguably the greatest horror game series ever, Silent Hill proved incredibly effective at building dread with superbly atmospheric settings and sound design. Overdue a proper remaster, there are several games in the series Silent Hill 2 is the best , but they are aging.

The withdrawn P. We can only hope it will rise from the dead one day. There are a lot of great horror games that just missed out on a place here. Hunt a serial killer in Condemned: Criminal Origins , embark on a surreal top-down nightmare in Darkwood , or clash with a creepy cult in the Outlast series.

Phasmophobia is a co-op game that casts you as paranormal investigators. Bloodborne is an excellent action RPG with a Gothic horror veneer. The Evil Within is pure survival horror. Enter the mind of an insane artist in Layers of Fear , fight a murderous cop in the thrilling 12 Minutes , and face all kinds of horror in postapocalyptic games like The Last of Us and the Metro series.