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Oct 3, 2024 · Our list of the best PC horror games to play now, from survival horror to zombie splatter.
- Killing Floor 2
Killing Floor 2 is primarily played in Survival mode, with a...
- Outlast 2 Has One of Most Intense Endings of Any Horror Game
James is stuck in an endless loop, playing the Dark Souls...
- Pathologic 2
His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n...
- Bloodlines Experience Today
Some of the staff at Troika Games scrambled to get a patch...
- Killing Floor 2
- The Outlast Trials
- Reveil
- Alan Wake 2
- Lethal Company
- Dredge
- Signalis
- Scorn
- Dead Space Remake
- Phasmophobia
- Dead by Daylight
This prequel to the Outlast series casts back to the events preceding the classic horror games, as hopeful candidates who tick all or one of the boxes (lost, lonely, poor, confused) are taken to a secret facility to be unknowingly experimented on in mind control and brainwashing. To escape the facility, you must complete the trials, a set of story-...
The first-person narrative horror from Pixelsplit trades in the cutesy aesthetic they’re best known for and delves intro the eerie Reveil. Though it’s not as scary of horrifying as some of the other games on this list, it does have its moments from jump scares to long, dark corridors, and things lurking behind hidden corners. Reveil has been compar...
Atmosphere is a huge deal for horror games, and while many play with your perception, Alan Wake 2 tap-dances on top of those expectations, particularly during those sequences where you guide Alan deeper into The Dark Place. Our Alan Wake 2 reviewhighlights that while it’s been 13 years since the original, Remedy hasn’t missed a step in creating a d...
Lethal Company is a horror game best experienced with a close group of friends, and while it’s still in early access, it’s already captivated many of us here at PCGamesN. You and your team of brave explorers must gather scrap to sell to the Company, and you’ll only do that by hopping between abandoned moons. However, just because the bases are long...
Sometimes, the greatest horrors lurk in the briny depths. Dredge has you explore an archipelago filled to the brim with aquatic creatures and keep your tiny fishing trawler safe as you gather your catch and complete requests from the residents of each island. However, dangers is lurking in the fog, and nighttime brings out the big beasts, nibbling ...
A tense and thrilling survival horror about a humanoid robot trying to find her friend on an isolated and abandoned moon base. Add in a mysterious virus and some mutated and bloodthirsty murderers, and SIGNALIS makes for a terrifying and lonely experience. The pressure slowly mounts, and as you’re frantically searching files and solving puzzles, th...
Scorn’s grim aesthetic of mutilated body parts and fleshy, dingy corridors make this one of the best horror games we’ve played. Though it lacks in jumpscares, it more than makes up for in gory goodness, and it’s easy to see the inspiration of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński work in Scorn’s skeletal structures, blood-veined flooring, and mechanism...
It’s long been on this list, but the recent Dead Space Remake did such a good job with a fan-favorite sci-fi horror game. But while the Dead Space Remake reviewhighlights the more modern tweaks that make it special in its own right, much of the praise should go to the original. Like the horror game adaptation of Event Horizon that never was, Dead S...
Although Phasmophobia is primarily a horror game, you could look at it as a co-op detective game as you and up to three other investigators explore a haunted location to deduce what type of ghostis spooking out the premises before reporting back. It requires teamwork, your best detective hat, and steady nerves to navigate the dark, tight corridors ...
Asymmetric multiplayer horror games don’t come better than Dead by Daylight. You play as either a lone killer or one of four human survivors desperate to escape the map. The survivors can’t do much to fight back, but working as a team can misdirect, bait, and frustrate the killer while preparing for their escape. It’s a delightfully simple format t...
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- Outlast. 2013. 274 votes. As journalist Miles Upshur, you navigate through a decrepit psychiatric hospital filled with homicidal patients in Outlast. Armed with only a camcorder and quick reflexes, the game focuses more on evasion and stealth instead of combat.
- Resident Evil 7. 2017. 255 votes. In Resident Evil 7, you're thrown into a horrifyingly immersive world of the Baker family estate, seeking your missing wife while trying to survive the infected inhabitants.
- Resident Evil 2 (Remake) 2019. 140 votes. Following the success of the original, Resident Evil 2 offers an iconic over-the-shoulder perspective that enhances the feeling of every lurking danger.
- Alien: Isolation. 2014. 199 votes. Alien Isolation thrusts players into a lose-lose scenario as Amanda Ripley, pitted against an unbeatable Xenomorph aboard the desolate Sevastopol Space Station.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat. Let's be clear - Call Of Pripyat could sit in the top spot on many lists, but this is as much its rightful home as any other.
- System Shock 2. System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever made, whatever the chosen category might be. Few games, whether set in the depths of dungeons or the depths of space, have captured the claustrophobia that comes from existing in a space surrounded and infiltrated by death.
- Pathologic. Pathologic is unique. It almost seems reductive to describe it as a horror game, but if not horror then what? Set in a diseased town whose districts and major buildings are named after parts of a human body or biological functions and extractions, Pathologic doesn't place the player character at the centre of things.
- Anatomy. The less said the better when it comes to Kitty Horrowshow's masterpiece, which uses elements of found footage and lo-fi visuals to create the only piece of horror fiction that has ever made me want to leave my own home and sleep in a hotel for the night.
Oct 12, 2022 · From Phasmophobia to Visage, here are our picks for the best horror games available on PC.
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Jul 10, 2024 · Horror games come in all gruesome shapes and sizes, ranging from action-packed shooters to immersive psychological VR nightmares that leave YouTubers shrieking. The PCMag staff has reviewed...
