What is the best VR horror game?

Some of these will have you peeking through your fingers inside a headset; others trade jump scares for slow dread. Pick the one that made you rip the visor off.

1. 1
   Half-Life: Alyx

   Valve's 2020 flagship VR shooter, full of headcrab-infested dark corridors and the infamous Jeff.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

   Capcom's 2017 first-person survival horror reboot, fully playable in PlayStation VR, set in the Baker family's Louisiana farmhouse.
   924pts
3. 3
   The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR

   Supermassive's 2023 PlayStation VR2 horror rail shooter spun off from The Dark Pictures Anthology.
   660pts
4. 4
   The Exorcist: Legion VR

   An episodic VR horror game set in the Exorcist universe, where players investigate demonic possessions.
   641pts
5. 5
   Alien: Rogue Incursion

   Survios' 2024 VR survival horror game in which a Colonial Marine fights Xenomorphs on a remote planet.
   582pts
6. 6
   Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

   The 2023 VR sequel with new Fazbear Entertainment job stations and Pizzaplex animatronics.
   513pts
7. 7
   Until Dawn: Rush of Blood

   Supermassive's 2016 PlayStation VR horror rail shooter set on a nightmarish rollercoaster.
   513pts
8. 8
   Layers of Fear VR

   Bloober Team's psychological horror game about a tormented painter, rebuilt for virtual reality.
   434pts
9. 9
   Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife

   A 2021 VR stealth horror game set in a haunted mansion in the World of Darkness universe.
   434pts
10. 10
    The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

    Skydance's 2020 zombie survival game set in a flooded New Orleans, with physical melee combat.
    434pts
11. 11
    Into the Radius

    A VR survival shooter set in an anomalous, abandoned Soviet zone filled with lurking entities.
    434pts
12. 12
    Resident Evil 4 VR

    Armature's 2021 first-person VR remaster of the survival horror classic, built for Meta Quest.
    434pts
13. 13
    Blair Witch VR

    Bloober Team's VR adaptation of its Blair Witch game, a search through a haunted forest with a dog companion.
    434pts
14. 14
    Arizona Sunshine

    Vertigo Games' 2016 VR zombie shooter set in a sun-baked post-apocalyptic American Southwest.
    342pts
15. 15
    Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

    Steel Wool's 2019 VR collection of animatronic jump-scare minigames set in Freddy Fazbear's world.
    342pts
16. 16
    Phasmophobia

    Kinetic Games' co-op ghost-hunting game, playable in VR, where teams gather evidence in haunted locations.
    342pts
17. 17
    Dreadhalls

    A 2014 VR dungeon-crawler horror game that became one of the earliest VR scare classics.
    233pts
18. 18
    Propagation: Paradise Hotel

    A 2022 VR survival horror adventure set in a creature-infested hotel during an outbreak.
    233pts
19. 19
    Resident Evil Village VR

    The 2021 gothic horror sequel with a full PlayStation VR2 mode added in 2023.
    0pts

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