The 11 Best Found-Footage Horror Games

Grainy camcorders, cursed VHS tapes and haunted phone screens turn every frame into dread, from genre-defining hits to cult indie nightmares. Which one scared you most?

1. 1
   Outlast

   A survival horror game where a journalist explores an asylum armed only with a night-vision camcorder.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Slender: The Arrival

   The official Slender Man game where you flee a faceless entity while recording on a handheld camera.
   846pts
3. 3
   At Dead of Night

   A live-action VHS-style horror game set in a haunted hotel run by the killer Jimmy.
   538pts
4. 4
   Content Warning

   A co-op game about filming a lethal creature in the Old World to go viral online.
   440pts
5. 5
   MADiSON

   A first-person horror game in which an instant camera reveals and wards off a demonic presence.
   440pts
6. 6
   Simulacra

   A mystery horror game played entirely through the apps of a stranger's lost smartphone.
   440pts
7. 7
   Paratopic

   A surreal lo-fi first-person horror game told through fragmented VHS-era vignettes.
   440pts
8. 8
   Outlast 2

   The camcorder-driven sequel set in a remote Arizona desert cult community.
   440pts
9. 9
   DreadOut

   An Indonesian horror game where a schoolgirl fights ghosts using her smartphone camera.
   440pts
10. 10
    Visage

    A first-person psychological horror game set in a haunted house filmed in unsettling detail.
    323pts
11. 11
    The Backrooms 1998

    A found-footage horror game set in the endless yellow liminal hallways of the Backrooms.
    323pts