# The 30 Greatest Horror Video Game Franchises

> Some of these series built the genre's rulebook; others got there with one camcorder, a haunted camera or a pizzeria after midnight. Pick the nightmare you would replay.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-30-greatest-horror-video-game-franchises*

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1. **Resident Evil** — score 1000/1000
   Capcom's zombie-and-bioweapon saga that defined survival horror in 1996 and remains its best-selling series.
2. **Silent Hill** — score 965/1000
   Konami's fog-shrouded psychological horror series about a town that reflects its visitors' guilt.
3. **Alone in the Dark** — score 965/1000
   The 1992 haunted-mansion series that pioneered 3D survival horror before Resident Evil.
4. **Little Nightmares** — score 848/1000
   Tarsier's eerie puzzle-platformer series about small children escaping grotesque giants.
5. **Amnesia** — score 778/1000
   Frictional Games' defenseless first-person horror series that popularized hiding instead of fighting.
6. **Parasite Eve** — score 694/1000
   Square's survival horror RPG series where NYPD officer Aya Brea battles mitochondrial mutants.
7. **The Evil Within** — score 694/1000
   Shinji Mikami's gory, nightmarish survival horror series starring detective Sebastian Castellanos.
8. **The Dark Pictures Anthology** — score 629/1000
   Supermassive's anthology of standalone cinematic horror stories with multiplayer choices.
9. **Layers of Fear** — score 629/1000
   Bloober Team's shifting-room psychological horror series about tormented artists.
10. **Corpse Party** — score 629/1000
   Team GrisGris' cult Japanese horror adventure series about students trapped in a haunted school.
11. **Five Nights at Freddy's** — score 629/1000
   Scott Cawthon's animatronic jump-scare series that grew from a 2014 indie hit into a books-and-movies empire.
12. **F.E.A.R.** — score 555/1000
   Monolith's horror shooter series pairing slow-motion firefights with the ghost girl Alma.
13. **Fatal Frame** — score 470/1000
   Koei Tecmo's Japanese ghost-story series in which a haunted camera is the only weapon.
14. **Siren** — score 470/1000
   Sony Japan Studio's stealth horror series in which you see through the eyes of the undead Shibito.
15. **Left 4 Dead** — score 470/1000
   Valve's four-player co-op zombie shooter series driven by the adaptive AI Director.
16. **Outlast** — score 470/1000
   Red Barrels' found-footage horror series where a camcorder's night vision is your only tool.
17. **Bendy** — score 470/1000
   Joey Drew Studios' cartoon-ink horror series set in a decaying 1930s animation studio.
18. **System Shock** — score 470/1000
   The cyberpunk horror RPG series where the rogue AI SHODAN stalks a space station.
19. **Clock Tower** — score 370/1000
   Human Entertainment's 1990s point-and-click series about fleeing the scissor-wielding Scissorman.
20. **Dino Crisis** — score 370/1000
   Capcom's survival horror series that swapped zombies for dinosaurs on a remote island.
21. **Dead Rising** — score 370/1000
   Capcom's open-mall zombie sandbox series built on improvised weapons and dark humor.
22. **Until Dawn** — score 370/1000
   Supermassive's branching slasher drama where any of eight teens can die by dawn.
23. **Condemned** — score 370/1000
   Monolith's brutal first-person melee horror series about a hunted FBI investigator.
24. **Poppy Playtime** — score 370/1000
   Mob Entertainment's episodic toy-factory horror series featuring the monstrous Huggy Wuggy.
25. **Dead Island** — score 370/1000
   Techland and Dambuster's gory first-person zombie series set in sunny holiday resorts.
26. **Alan Wake** — score 252/1000
   Remedy's story-driven thriller about a novelist fighting the Darkness with a flashlight.
27. **Dead Space** — score 252/1000
   Sci-fi survival horror in which engineer Isaac Clarke dismembers Necromorphs aboard derelict starships.
28. **The Last of Us** — score 0/1000
   Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic survival series haunted by the fungal Infected.
29. **Dying Light** — score 0/1000
   Techland's parkour zombie series where the infected turn deadly after nightfall.
30. **The House of the Dead** — score 0/1000
   Sega's arcade light-gun zombie shooter series running since 1996.

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