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

Outlast

A survival horror game where a journalist explores an asylum armed only with a night-vision camcorder.

1000pts

2

Slender: The Arrival

The official Slender Man game where you flee a faceless entity while recording on a handheld camera.

846pts

3

At Dead of Night

A live-action VHS-style horror game set in a haunted hotel run by the killer Jimmy.

538pts

4

Content Warning

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

440pts

5

MADiSON

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

440pts

6

Simulacra

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

440pts

7

Paratopic

A surreal lo-fi first-person horror game told through fragmented VHS-era vignettes.

440pts

8

Outlast 2

The camcorder-driven sequel set in a remote Arizona desert cult community.

440pts

9

DreadOut

An Indonesian horror game where a schoolgirl fights ghosts using her smartphone camera.

440pts

10

Visage

A first-person psychological horror game set in a haunted house filmed in unsettling detail.

323pts

11

The Backrooms 1998

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

323pts