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This indie game was adapted into a feature-length film by the YouTuber, Markiplier.
Iron Lung (2022)
This co-op horror game takes place in a submarine maintained by you and your friends
Barotrauma
Issac Clarke deals with these twisted body-horror enemies in Dead Space
Necromorphs
Several mainline Resident Evil games (2, 3, Outbreak, and more) are set in this animal-named city.
Raccoon City
The USG Ishimura is the setting for this dismemberment-heavy sci-fi horror game.
Dead Space (2008)
This game franchise started in a shopping mall with a strict time limit to beat the game, where neglecting your quests can lead to the truth of the outbreak being lost forever.
Dead Rising (2006)
This horror game series was built after Dead Island and added mechanics for first-person parkour, co-op, and – most importantly – a day/night cycle that made the infected much more aggressive and dangerous once it gets dark.
Dying Light
While Pyramid Head is considered the iconic enemy of the Silent Hill franchise, these enemies are present in several mainline games, and are often found wielding knives in hospital areas.
Nurses
Now part of a shared universe under the same developer, this game was Remedy’s next project after Max Payne, and had the player use a flashlight to render enemies vulnerable.
Alan Wake
With nothing but a night vision camera and a hunch, Miles Upshur investigates Mount Massive Asylum in this first-person horror game.
Outlast (2013)
This renowned Japanese horror game franchise has you use a camera to take pictures of the ghosts in order to exorcise them.
Fatal Frame (2001)
This game features one of the most extensive horror crossover rosters, even featuring Chucky (Child’s Play), Pinhead (Hellraiser), and a recently announced Art the Clown (Terrifier).
Dead By Daylight
From C, G, Progenitor and more, Resident Evil has several viruses (and parasites) that infect and mutate people across the franchise – but the very first virus debuting in Resident Evil 1 was this one.
T-Virus
We had two mainline entries in this franchise between 2024-2025 – one, a critically acclaimed remake of a classic entry, and the other, a fresh location set in 1960’s Japan.
Silent Hill
After her mother goes missing aboard the USCSS Nostromo, Amanda is hunted across the Sevastopol space station in this first-person horror game
Alien Isolation (2014)
This horror game is set on an oil rig and features several Scottish voice actors – including Alec Newman, who also voiced Adam Smasher from Cyberpunk 2077.
Still Wakes the Deep
As one of the earlier recognized friendslop games, this anti-capitalist horror game has you and your friends collect scrap from intergalactic industrial areas and – ideally – survive the monsters occupying these facilities.
Lethal Company
While not traditionally horror games, these Zelda enemies debuted in Ocarina of Time, resemble zombies, and can screech to stun you momentarily.
ReDeads
This franchise is based off of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic book series.
Metro 2033
Bleasdale Farmhouse is a medium-sized map to be investigated in this spooky horror game.
Phasmophobia (2020)
This indie horror game takes place on a doomed spaceship, featuring a mutilated and bandaged Captain as the deuteragonist.
Mouthwashing
This hardcore co-op FPS takes place in an underground facility called The Complex and is not for the faint-of-heart or bad-of-aim
GTFO
This game features iconic and disgusting enemies such as Rom, the Vacuous Spider, The Orphan of Kos, and Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos.
Bloodborne
This franchise switches up the formula by adding cooperative multiplayer, ability trees, and a prestige option through Project Relapse, as you try to survive a mysterious Cold War experiment – instead of the prior asylum or deranged cult.
The Outlast Trials
This game was designed by the creator of Resident Evil 4 and begins with investigating a mass murder at the Beacon Mental Hospital.
The Evil Within