The 18 Scariest Horror Games of All Time

Some of these made players quit with the lights on; others did it with a single hallway. Haunted asylums, derelict space stations and foggy towns share one list.

1. 1
   Amnesia: The Dark Descent

   Frictional Games' 2010 PC game that removed combat and left players hiding in the dark of a Prussian castle.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Visage

   SadSquare Studio's 2020 psychological horror game set inside one haunted family house.
   952pts
3. 3
   Alien: Isolation

   Creative Assembly's 2014 survival game in which a single unkillable Xenomorph hunts Amanda Ripley.
   952pts
4. 4
   Phasmophobia

   Kinetic Games' 2020 co-op ghost-hunting game that listens to players' voices through the microphone.
   734pts
5. 5
   Alan Wake 2

   Remedy's 2023 survival horror sequel split between an FBI agent and a writer trapped in the Dark Place.
   659pts
6. 6
   Silent Hill 2

   Konami's 2001 psychological horror classic, remade in 2024, about James Sunderland searching a fog-bound town for his dead wife.
   571pts
7. 7
   Dead Space

   Visceral Games' 2008 sci-fi horror game on a mining ship overrun by Necromorphs.
   571pts
8. 8
   The Evil Within

   Shinji Mikami's 2014 return to survival horror, built around a detective trapped in a shifting nightmare.
   571pts
9. 9
   Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

   Tecmo's 2003 Japanese ghost story fought only with an antique camera.
   467pts
10. 10
    Outlast 2

    Red Barrels' 2017 sequel about a journalist lost among a doomsday cult in the Arizona desert.
    467pts
11. 11
    SOMA

    Frictional Games' 2015 underwater horror game about consciousness and machines at the bottom of the sea.
    467pts
12. 12
    Until Dawn

    Supermassive Games' 2015 interactive slasher in which eight teenagers can all live or all die.
    467pts
13. 13
    Amnesia: The Bunker

    Frictional Games' 2023 WWI horror game with a single beast stalking a French bunker.
    343pts
14. 14
    Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

    Capcom's 2017 first-person reboot that traps players in the Baker family's Louisiana farmhouse.
    343pts
15. 15
    Outlast

    Red Barrels' 2013 found-footage horror game set in an asylum, seen through a camcorder's night vision.
    343pts
16. 16
    Condemned: Criminal Origins

    Monolith's 2005 first-person melee horror game following an FBI agent through decaying city buildings.
    0pts
17. 17
    Five Nights at Freddy's

    Scott Cawthon's 2014 jump-scare hit set in a pizzeria guarded by murderous animatronics.
    0pts
18. 18
    Layers of Fear

    Bloober Team's 2016 psychological horror game set in a painter's ever-changing Victorian house.
    0pts

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