Music
This abandoned stage is where the Midnight Rider’s music saves the day at the conclusion of this Left 4 Dead 2 campaign.
Dark Carnival
If saving your daughter is your goal – such as in Bioshock 2 – you should try out this entry of the Resident Evil franchise, which takes place in a frigid European village and follows Ethan Winters.
Resident Evil 8/Village (2021)
This urban legend originates in Minecraft and references a white-eyed figure who stalks the player throughout their world.
Herobrine
This unconventional psychological horror game presents itself as a visual novel following a high school book club.
Doki Doki Literature Club
This up to 6 player co-op game has you fighting Zeds and might satisfy the Left 4 Dead sized hole in your soul :’]. I've heard the 3rd one stinks tho...
Killing Floor
This menacing piano horror theme plays in the game adaptation of this popular horror movie franchise – particularly when being stalked by a masked figure.
The Halloween Theme/Michael Myers’s Theme
Bioshock and this other first-person game were created by different companies as spiritual successors to the System Shock series – fighting with a wrench, upgrading your abilities, and worrying about running out of oxygen…
Prey (2017)
This is the name of the alien species that exists across myriad Alien video games.
Xenomorph
This entry in the Doom franchise is the first one to be properly tense and scary, heavily utilizing a limited flashlight to keep corridors dark and deadly
Doom 3
This action-centric Resident Evil was not well received and prompted the next mainline entry to commit to a fresh start, switching to a first-person camera and much more horror.
Resident Evil 6
A man plays the guitar at the start of this horror sequel, before the guitar – and the reins as main character – are passed onto this entry’s main character.
The Last of Us 2 (2020)
Like Bioshock, this first-person survival horror game also begins with a plane crash
The Forest (2018)
The original Resident Evil 3 has this massive humanoid bioweapon stalking and attacking you periodically throughout the game. The original release of the game uses this creature’s name as the subtitle.
Nemesis
This action-adventure, psychological horror game follows a Pict warrior braving her way to Helheim to rescue her deceased lover.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
This trilogy of Christian indie horror games sought to emulate Atari 2600 graphics while telling a story of an exorcism gone wrong.
Faith: The Unholy Trinity
This ominous Beethoven song is collected and played on the piano as part of a puzzle in the original Resident Evil (1996/2002).
Moonlight Sonata
Neither Bioshock, nor this game are technically in the horror genre, but both are first entries in their franchise and create tension in the middle of the ocean (or beneath it)
Subnautica (2014)
These creatures, based on cannibals, hunt the characters of Until Dawn, and can kill off a number of the cast permanently if you make the wrong decisions.
Wendigos
This game has you working at a morgue that starts to become creepier and creepier as you complete each autopsy.
The Mortuary Assistant
This horror anthology series features several standalone games, titled Man of Medan, Little Hope, and House of Ashes, for example.
The Dark Pictures
This classical song is associated with Freddy Fazbear and plays during the power outage sequence in Five Nights at Freddy’s
Toredor March
Like Bioshock, this horror game takes place under the sea, and similarly leaves you largely unarmed, like the developer’s previous horror franchise – Amnesia.
Soma (2015)
This is the full name of the seemingly unkillable father of the Baker family who stalks you throughout Resident Evil 7.
Jack Baker
This controversial RPG Maker game is named after its titular dungeon, in which players manage health and hunger while they try to survive unspeakable violence and otherworldly horrors.
Fear and Hunger
This 1999 dinosaur horror game was made by the same team behind Resident Evil.
Dino Crisis