Another day, another entry in our 31 Days of Horror series, this time around horror games that will shake you to your core. Just like with horror movies, there seems to be a fascination with scaring us, and there’s no better way to do that than through the game’s interactive medium.
Creating a truly scary horror game is a fine art, and unfortunately there have been plenty of duds, perhaps more than any decent real horror games in fact, but these five are arguably the five best.
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Alien: Isolation
Want a game where you’ll feel a constant state of dread, not knowing if you’re being watched, stalked, or truly alone? That pretty much describes most of the games on the list, but no more than Alien: Isolation. Playing as the daughter of Ellen Ripley from Sigourney Weaver, you play as her daughter Amanda as she navigates her way through the atmospheric and daunting space station of Sevastopol, trying to piece together the finer details of the disappearance. from his mother.
A constant balance between advancing through the space station and hiding from the deadly xenomorph hunting you, you’ll find yourself in more than your fair share of lockers and under desks with your heart in your throat. Every time you’re tracked down and killed, a particularly brutal death animation ensues, so it’s not all bad.
Survive to
A horror trope in its own right, the game is set in a long-abandoned asylum, inhabited only by insane and tortured patients forgotten and left to the whims of the doctor. Playing a journalist who is on the trail of a story, things quickly go awry and you find yourself trapped with the inmates, trying to survive and escape.
One of the cleverest gameplay mechanics in the game is the need to ration your night vision and find as many batteries littered throughout the hospital as possible, or face the possibility of crossing and fighting without actually being able to. see. Anxiety doesn’t quite cover it, and even the most telegraphed fears still manage to elicit a reaction from all but the toughest players.
Resident Evil 7
Bringing back the series of first-person action-heavy games, full of horror spooks that the games became famous for, Resident Evil 7 and its sequel Town firmly gave gamers the scares they’ve been screaming for years.
Resident Evil 7 made the smart decision to bring the game to a smaller scale, less traversing and exploring entire towns and instead brought us closer to the action, with the majority of the game taking place in an admittedly huge house, owned and inhabited by a cannibal unpleasant family with seriously messed up secrets. If you haven’t played it yet, there aren’t many horror games you could play this Halloween.
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silent Hill
Going back a few years to a PS1 classic, the original silent Hill is still highly regarded, to the point that the lack of a recent entry in the franchise is a bug for many fans. The Beasts in the Fog, the Strange Town, the now infamous Nurses and more, the game used many of its limitations to give many fans nightmares. However, it was so good that no matter the fears, we always come back to it, even now, more than twenty years after its initial release.
Also, using the draw distance limiting hardware as an idea for the fog was a masterstroke, which left many of us still rather than moving, in a futile attempt to provide some sort of safety and security.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Set in 1839 at Brennenburg Castle, you play as Daniel, who in addition to having to explore the darkest and most terrifying parts of the castle, must try to piece together his memory as he remembers almost nothing of himself or who he is.
With a genuinely surprising and intriguing story alongside the gameplay, you’ll find yourself willingly continuing in an attempt to get to the bottom of the dark and twisted story. If you need some persuading to play, check out some YouTube videos to get an idea of if you could get into it. If not, you are missing something.
There are countless horror games that could be named here, but there are five that need to be mentioned. What other horror games have scared you enough to throw a controller across the room? Did you play these five horror games with no problem?
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