# 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?

*By YPB Team · Published July 13, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-11-best-found-footage-horror-games*

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1. **Outlast** — score 1000/1000
   A survival horror game where a journalist explores an asylum armed only with a night-vision camcorder.
2. **Slender: The Arrival** — score 846/1000
   The official Slender Man game where you flee a faceless entity while recording on a handheld camera.
3. **At Dead of Night** — score 538/1000
   A live-action VHS-style horror game set in a haunted hotel run by the killer Jimmy.
4. **Content Warning** — score 440/1000
   A co-op game about filming a lethal creature in the Old World to go viral online.
5. **MADiSON** — score 440/1000
   A first-person horror game in which an instant camera reveals and wards off a demonic presence.
6. **Simulacra** — score 440/1000
   A mystery horror game played entirely through the apps of a stranger's lost smartphone.
7. **Paratopic** — score 440/1000
   A surreal lo-fi first-person horror game told through fragmented VHS-era vignettes.
8. **Outlast 2** — score 440/1000
   The camcorder-driven sequel set in a remote Arizona desert cult community.
9. **DreadOut** — score 440/1000
   An Indonesian horror game where a schoolgirl fights ghosts using her smartphone camera.
10. **Visage** — score 323/1000
   A first-person psychological horror game set in a haunted house filmed in unsettling detail.
11. **The Backrooms 1998** — score 323/1000
   A found-footage horror game set in the endless yellow liminal hallways of the Backrooms.

Tags: games, horror, indie, found-footage