Are you a gamer and want some good horror games? You are on the right track. Gamers always try to get some excitement from horror games. Unlike any other genre of games, this is just too much-loved genre by gamers. So let’s find out which are the Top 10 Horror Games that will Make you Scream.
10. Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
Basic Story Premise
Players play as Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, who must escape Raccoon City after the citizens transform into zombies by a biological weapon and it happens two months after the events of the original Resident Evil.
You get to play using both characters with different but interconnected stories throughout the gameplay.
What makes it Scary?
This game has too much gore in it, but what makes it scary is the graphics (Talking about the Remake). Each rotted organ and ripped ligament that come spilling out of the infected zombies looks too much realistic.
9. Last of Us
Basic Story Premise
Joel, a grizzled survivor of a dangerous post-pandemic world, who has slowly lost his sense of morality after the loss of his daughter, and Ellie, a young girl with her own struggle to find real human connection, are forced together and must travel across the U.S. in search of a feint hope for the future of humanity.
What makes it Scary?
Oli Welsh of Eurogamer wrote that it is “a beacon of hope” for the survival horror genre. It perfectly blends a hard-hitting and emotional storyline with tense gameplay that sets players on edge. This game has its fair share of scary moments, such as when players are forced to explore a flooded hotel or basement alone. Unexpected attacks from Zombies (most jump scares by the stalker zombie).
It is not only about action and zombies but also a lot of emotions and this game lets you feel sorrow whenever any character is in trouble.
8. Alien Isolation
Basic Story Premise
This first-person survival horror adventure is set fifteen years after the events happened in Alien (1979), Ripley’s daughter becomes trapped on an alien space station that holds the answers to the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.
Alien: Isolation is a single-player action-adventure game that focuses on stealth and survival horror. The player controls Amanda Ripley from a first-person perspective and must explore a space station and complete objectives while avoiding, outsmarting, and defeating enemies.
What makes it Scary?
What scares people the most, right the jumpscares, and in that mainly the audio-based jumpscares, the visual part is not much especially with games because they aren’t as realistic as movies.
Alien Isolation is the type of scary where you don’t want to take a single step forward out of fear of what might happen if you do. But you have to take steps in order to progress, which is the psychological pain of this game.
7. SOMA
Basic Story Premise
Simon Jarrett finds himself in a mysterious, ravaged facility after seemingly losing consciousness during a new, experimental brain scan that was suggested to him for his brain damage after his car accident. SOMA takes place in an underwater research facility called PATHOS-2.
SOMA is a survival horror video game developed by Frictional Games. It was released on September 22, 2015. Its title originates from the Greek word σῶμα (soma) which refers to the body, specifically the body as distinct from the mind or the soul.
What makes it Scary?
It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The radio is dead, food is running out, and the machines have started to think they are people.
Soma is a survival horror video game played from a first-person perspective. The player will encounter a number of creatures, which each embody an aspect of the game’s themes. Soma primarily utilizes elements of psychological horror instead of conventional scares found in most video games within the genre.
6. The Walking Dead
Basic Story Premise
The Walking Dead does not confuse you into puzzle solving but instead focuses on story and character development. Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, is given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life, he must protect an orphaned girl named Clementine who may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.
What makes it Scary?
And although the TWD games can be creepy and dark, they aren’t “scary” they took a legendary part of the horror universe in zombies and made it into a well-written story in itself.
You’ll be forced to make decisions that are not only difficult, but that will require you to make an almost immediate choice. There’s no time to waste when the undead is right on the doors.
To be honest one of my favourite games of all time.
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5. Until Dawn
Basic Story Premise
It is an interactive drama in which players primarily assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mountain until they are rescued at dawn. The gameplay is mainly a combination of cutscenes and third-person exploration.
You will find more about the characters, their personalities, the reality, and the whole story about the place. It is quite fun to explore because you don’t know when someone might jump on you.
What makes it Scary?
Until Dawn features adventure-style gameplay that is heavy on environmental exploration and dialogue choices.
The game puts you in control of a group of teens and terrifies you while playing as one of the characters. The dialogues keep you entertained and you feel like the decisions you make matter throughout the playthrough. Thanks to some good twists, and limitless jump scare, Until Dawn would make a solid horror game for you. If you are not much into action and play for the story, this is gold for you.
4. Resident Evil (2002)
Basic Story Premise
The player takes on the role of either Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, S.T.A.R.S. agents sent in by the city to investigate the murders. Zombies attack, surviving through them. You know the drill of zombie survival games.
What makes it Scary?
Parents need to know that Resident Evil has extremely gross and graphic violence, with many disgusting deaths and truly icky monsters. Characters are in extreme peril and most of them are killed. There is very strong language and a brief sexual situation with nudity.
3. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Basic Story Premise
The story is set in the year1839, it follows the story of Daniel, a man who has no memories about his past, and as he explores the darker areas of Brennenburg Castle while trying to maintain his own sanity by surviving monsters and avoiding witnessing any unsettling events.
What makes it Scary?
This game is determined to scare you by evoking psychological horror through a Lovecraftian story and the mechanics of insanity. While also evoking physical horror through the threat of the monsters and limited survival resources this game wants to make you feel fear for your character’s life and soul.
It is a first-person survival horror it is all about deep involvement in the character, discovering new things, and living through a nightmare.
2. Outlast II
Basic Story Premise
A sequel to the 2013 video game the Outlast. Outlast II features a journalist named Blake Langermann, along with his wife Lynn. Their chopper gets crashed into a deserted place where crazy people live. They keep roaming the Arizona desert to explore the murder of a pregnant woman only known as Jane Doe.
What makes it Scary?
Players trying out the game will experience not just some momentary jumpscares, but a deep feeling of unsettling horror that will lurk inside them. The flickering lights, sudden camera movements, and that eerie music to your ears, all this adds up horror to the experience. With that you got no weapons to defend so stealth is the only sure way to survive and the stealth elements in the game give an entirely new vision for your gameplay.
Many jumpscares, creepy topics, and crazy people chasing you, and you are in the dark almost the whole game. Way too much blood, tons of torture and crucifixion, and many unsettling things for any young audience.
It is also said that it is based on a true event called – The Jonestown massacre was a real event that took place on November 18th, 1978.
1. Silent Hill 2
Basic Story Premise
This was the second game of this franchise after Silent Hill. Silent Hill 2 focuses on the character named James Sunderland. He is a widower who goes to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife saying that, she is waiting there for him.
What makes it Scary?
Silent Hill 2 is one of the best horror games ever made. It is mainly because the game is totally aware of that blurry line between a nightmare and conscious fear. The deep psychological horror and study of its characters is amazing and it still feels scary even after 21 years after the release.
(Bonus)
Doki Doki Literature Club
Basic Story Premise
The main protagonist is invited by his cheerful childhood friend Sayori to join their high school’s literature club to avoid his ignorant nature. He agrees to her proposal and meets the other members of the club.
The assertive Natsuki, the shy Yuri, and the bubbly club president Monika.
It might look like a Cute Anime Dating Simulator but it is to trick the player into letting their guard down and later getting the chills down their spine.
What makes it Scary?
It is a psychological horror game that includes dark themes like self-harm, suicide, etc.
Doki Doki Literature Club twists a fluffy dating sim into a high school horror that kills off your friends. It makes you question your choices and smartly limits the choices at the same time. If a game could have a mental breakdown, this game is its prime example.
I hope you had your dose of the hunger for horror games and if you don’t? not to fear because this is just part one of this series. Part two of it will be posted soon so just be with me and we will continue to grow in this gaming community.
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