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Considered by some to be the best in the series. Basically refined everything that was in the first game, and threw in some more disturbing atmospheric effects and of course, Pyramid Head. Play as JAAAAAAAAMES SUNDERLAND as he is drawn to Silent Hill after he recieves a letter from his '''dead '''wife. Ported to the Xbox with some extra content. PC Port also has same content, higher resolution textures, but horrible camera angles.
 
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|The black sheep of the Silent Hill family. Definitely has a westernized feel to it, and borrows aspects from the movie. While it ''does ''loses some of its edge here, with its horror being more "ohno a scary monster aaaaah SHOCK SCENE" than previous titles, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Graphics are the best in the series, however.
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The black sheep of the Silent Hill family. Definitely has a westernized feel to it (this is because Konami allowed a Western studio to develop it), and borrows aspects from the movie. While it ''does ''loses some of its edge here, with its horror being more "A SKELETON POPPED OUT!" than previous titles, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Graphics are the best in the series, however.
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Note: Do yourself a favor and DO NOT get this on the PC. The PC port has so many problems that it's not funny: keybinding failure, constant crashing, out of sync cutscenes, etc.
 
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By the same developers as Penumbra. You play as Daniel, an amnesiac who must investigate the mysterious Castle Brennenburg, with only two goals in mind: Find your memories, and kill the castle's owner, the mysterious Alexander of Brennenburg. VERY loosely based on Lovecraft's "The Outsider" (So loosely based that you will only understand the similarities after you beat the game). It uses the same physics system as Penumbra, but with an influence on pants shitting instead of hard puzzles (Though the stupid should beware, there are puzzles that could baffle you for a while, but nothing hard enough to require a walkthrough).
 
By the same developers as Penumbra. You play as Daniel, an amnesiac who must investigate the mysterious Castle Brennenburg, with only two goals in mind: Find your memories, and kill the castle's owner, the mysterious Alexander of Brennenburg. VERY loosely based on Lovecraft's "The Outsider" (So loosely based that you will only understand the similarities after you beat the game). It uses the same physics system as Penumbra, but with an influence on pants shitting instead of hard puzzles (Though the stupid should beware, there are puzzles that could baffle you for a while, but nothing hard enough to require a walkthrough).
   
TL:DR; Decently hard puzzles. Loads of NOPENOPENOPE
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TL:DR; Decently hard puzzles. No weapons. Loads of NOPENOPENOPE
 
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Based on the Cthulhu short story "The Shadow over Innsmouth", you are a private detective investigating the mysterious town of Innsmouth and it's people. Great atmosphere and some awesome running away sequences (you don't get a gun until half-way through the game).
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Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow over Innsmouth", you are a private detective investigating the mysterious town of Innsmouth and it's people. Great atmosphere and some awesome running away sequences (you don't get a gun until half-way through the game).
   
   
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|3D Chat client, Mindfuckery
 
|3D Chat client, Mindfuckery
|[http://worlds.com/ Worlds.com] is an ancient 3D chat client from 1994, running on a DOOM like 3D engine. For some reason it's still up and gets somewhat updated, even though almost nobody inhabits this virtual reality. Explore the vast, empty user created worlds and get freaked out by the still remaining players ''(or apparitions?)''. It feels like you're doing Internet archeology. Finding some abandoned guild hall with creepy pictures of the members everywhere and links to their godforsaken 90s style websites, jesus christ it's horrifying. It kinda plays kinda like LSD, but it's online.
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|[http://worlds.com/ Worlds.com] is an ancient 3D chat client from 1994, running on a DOOM like 3D engine. For some reason it's still up and gets somewhat updated, even though almost nobody inhabits this virtual reality. Explore the vast, empty user created worlds and get freaked out by the still remaining players ''(or apparitions?)''. It feels like you're doing Internet archeology. Finding some abandoned guild hall with creepy pictures of the members everywhere and links to their godforsaken 90s style websites, jesus christ it's horrifying. It kinda plays kinda like LSD, but it's online.
 
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Box Art Title Genre Description System of Choice

Yume Nikki

Yume Nikki

Mindfuck, Adventure

Unique game based around traveling in a young girl's dreams. Expect a trade of action for atmosphere as the gameplay revolves around exploring and experimentation. However, the atmosphere is indeed incredible. Has quite a fanbase as well. There are numerous fangames based off Yume Nikki, though the only particularly notable ones are Yume 2kki and .flow.

PC

Nanashi no Game

Nanashi no Game

Horror, Retro, Mindfuck

A DS-only game, you explore around the world in a first-person perspective as you try to solve the mystery of the cursed game that's killing people within seven days of playing it. Japan only, but very recently has received a fan translation. Has a sequel that was also only released in Japan but no translation as of October, 2011.

PC

Irisu3 Irisu Syndrome Puzzle, Mindfuck, Horror

A freeware puzzle game that plays like an inverse Tetris and tells a story after every play.

Unfortunately, nothing can be said about the game or it will ruin the experience. A couple of tips though: Keep your game folder open and check it every time you lose and reach 40k points for a surprise.

Download here and translation patch here.

PC

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Neftelia

Mindfuck, Adventure

Has somewhat the same atmosphere as Yume Nikki.

PC

Inhevil

Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel

Horror, Mindfuck, Point and Click, Psychological Horror

Despite its age, this game still looks great, and works great. Classic point and click, you come to a haunted hotel to find your friend, but uncover a ancient horror.

Silent Hill 1

Silent Hill

Survival Horror, Psychological Horror

The first in the famous survival horror series. A game revolving around a town covered in mist. The town was once a resort, but because of its dark, satanic past, it is seemingly abandoned. The only thing left inside is an individual's personal demons turned into monsters and other nightmarish objects. You CANNOT buy this in the PSN store in Europe.

PS1, PSN
Silent Hill 22 Silent Hill 2 Survival Horror, Psychological Horror, Mind Fuck

Considered by some to be the best in the series. Basically refined everything that was in the first game, and threw in some more disturbing atmospheric effects and of course, Pyramid Head. Play as JAAAAAAAAMES SUNDERLAND as he is drawn to Silent Hill after he recieves a letter from his dead wife. Ported to the Xbox with some extra content. PC Port also has same content, higher resolution textures, but horrible camera angles.

PS2, Xbox, PC
Sh3 boxartt Silent Hill 3 Survival Horror, Psychological Horror Direct sequel to the first game. You play as Heather who one day wakes up after a nap in the shopping centre and suddenly monsters everywhere. One of the most frightening and disturbing titles in the series. PC has hi-res textures and more dizzy camera angles. PS2. PC
Silent2002 Silent Hill 4 Survival Horror, Psychological Horror Originally not a Silent Hill game, Konami modified it to make it one. Takes place in a town near Silent Hill and you are trapped in your apartment. It still works out in the end, but there are some changes that are somewhat strange. Items break, etc. Still worth playing. Last Silent Hill game developed by Team Silent. GOD DAMMIT PC WHAT'S WITH THOSE CAMERA ANGLES PS2, Xbox, PC
Silent hill origins Silent Hill: Origins Survival Horror, Psychological Horror One of the best looking PSP titles out there, Origins is... a prequel. WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT? Formula seems kind of dry, but atmosphere and Akira's music keeps it alive. Also has a shitty port for the PS2. First title not directly done by Konami. PSP, PS2
C4f4 26 Silent Hill: Homecoming Survival Horror, Psychological Horror

The black sheep of the Silent Hill family. Definitely has a westernized feel to it (this is because Konami allowed a Western studio to develop it), and borrows aspects from the movie. While it does loses some of its edge here, with its horror being more "A SKELETON POPPED OUT!" than previous titles, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Graphics are the best in the series, however.

Note: Do yourself a favor and DO NOT get this on the PC. The PC port has so many problems that it's not funny: keybinding failure, constant crashing, out of sync cutscenes, etc.

Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Shsm25478 Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Survival Horror, Psychological Horror

Not a remake, but more of a reimagining of the first Silent Hill game. Originally for the Wii, and ported to the PSP and PS2. Wii version is considered to be the greatest, with some great flashlightan puzzles and good controls. Important note, this game scraps combat. There is NO option to fight back, it's all running, which either adds to the fear, or becomes so tedious that it becomes a shitty remake. Hopefully, you think of the former.

Wii, PSP, PS2

Fatal Frame Xbox

Fatal Frame /
Project Zero
REI~zero~

Survival Horror

You enter an abandoned mansion in search of your brother. Inside, you obtain a camera that can fight the ghosts that haunt the mansion. Tough as nails, but absolutely fear-inducing.

PS2, Xbox

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Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly

Survival Horror

Considered by some the best in the series. You play as the younger sibling of twins, who ends up in a haunted village when following your older sister. Inside the village, you find a camera with the ability to fight off ghosts that aids you in surviving long enough to find your sister and escape the village.

PS2, Xbox

Fatal frame III

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

Survival Horror

The third of the series, has the same concept: Killing vengeful ghosts with a camera. You play as a photographer who one day has a dream about following her deceased lover into a mansion. From then on, every night you dream about this mansion, and the ghosts that inhabit it. After every dream, you wake up with a tattoo that spreads a little bit every time. The game has tie ins from the first and second, giving you the ability to play as the girl from the first game and the uncle of the twins from the second.

PS2

Zero- Tsukihami no Kamen

Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen

Survival Horror

The fourth in the Fatal Frame/Project Zero. Unless they announce otherwise later on, it is not going to be released outside of Japan because it's really buggy. The fanmade english translation is available here: http://zero4.higashinoeden.com/

Wii

Alan wake cover

Alan Wake Action/Adventure

A famous writer Alan Wake comes to a small town of Bright Falls in a hope to find an inspiration to finish his new book, but instead some incident happens and he finds himself with no memory of the last few days and a missing wife.

Isn't really that scary but contains a big dose of creepiness and a lot of eerie moments. Your most important weapon is a flashlight. Short game but the story is very good.

Xbox 360
Undyingcover1 Clive Barker's Undying Horror, FPS

This is from Clive Barker so you know it's good (and by good I mean fucked up beyond belief). You are Patrick Galloway, a badass with occult powers who wants to help his old friend Jeremiah with his family problems, just to discover that his family became batshit crazy after playing with some ancient standing stones...

Great novel-like story, great enemies, creepy FUCK-YOU-I-AM-NOT-GOING-IN-THERE ambients to explore, blood, gore and scares all in one game. Not to mention one of the best fighting systems ever seen in an FPS (just think Bioshock, only that you can shoot plasmids WHILE shooting with your main gun).

Unfortunately, there seem to be some compatibility issues with Vista/7.

PC
Clive Barkers Jericho Clive Barker's Jericho Horror, FPS

Probably one of the biggest let downs in history of gaming, especially for those who played Undying before it, expecting anything similar to it.

You control a group of special forces with occult powers who need to fight the Antichrist. You can switch between fighers, each one with peculiar weapons and psychic powers. This adds up a lot of variety, but unfortunately the awfully retarded AI makes this game almost unplayable. Very repetitive and monotonous level design. Even the first enemies you'll meet are tanks for some reasons and need approximately 200,000 bullets each to be shot down. Not scary at all, mostly nerve racking, since most intense battles can be very long and difficult.

The enemies design is great though, very disturbing and stomach wrenching with bones and organs out in the air, in pure Barker's style.

PC, PS3, XBOX360

Condemned

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Survival Horror

You take the role of detective Ethan Thomas, a police officer who investigates violent crimes in a city which seems to be deteriorating into nothing except that. Soon, however, you are charged with a murder you did not commit and hours of beating hobos with boards and wrenches ensues.

PC/360

Condemned 2 Bloodshot Condemned 2: Bloodshot Survival Horror Takes place some time after the events of the first one. Story starts amazing, ends awfully (in the end you can kill people by screaming like tarzan, I mean, what the fuck man). Some very creepy levels (imagine getting stuck in an house with a grizzly), great gory melee combat, but the end ultimately falls flat. PS3,360

Clocktowersnes

Clock Tower

Survival Horror, Point and Click

Pretty scary point'n'click adventure where you play as a girl trying to escape from a mansion inhabited by a crazy disfigured kid with a giant pair of scissors. You run, hide, and get scared a lot. Pretty short, but has a ton of endings. Japan only, but there's a patch available. The PSX version is called "Clock Tower: The First Fear".

SNES, PSX, Wonderswan, PC

Clock Tower 1 Game

Clock Tower Second

Survival Horror, Point and Click

The real sequel to Clock Tower, with 2 being more of a spin-off. Confusing, I know. Following the SNES game plot, this game is more of the same, only this time in 3D graphics.

PS1

Clock tower 2

Clock Tower 2

Survival Horror, Pint and Click

The so-called "sequel," still good but Clock Tower Second is so much better. Called "Clocktower: Ghost Head" in Japan.

PS1

Ps2 clocktower3-1-

Clock Tower 3

Survival Horror

You play as a schoolgirl being pursued by some serial killers. Prepare to RUN. Has some pretty brutal scenes. Removes the point and click system in favor of a third person standard control.

PS2

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Eternal Darkness

Psychological Horror

You play as several people throughout history, piecing together a story about a battle between eldritch gods. Uses the sanity meter, which lowers every time you encounter an enemy. The effects can sometimes be very comedic, such as tricking you into thinking your data card is corrupt, or that your TV randomly turned off.

GCN

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Theresia: Dear Emile

Survival Horror

You wake up in an abandoned area with no memory. Very stereotypical at first, but quickly unravels into an unpredictable, almost depressing story. Most puzzles are simple, but expect traps to be EVERYWHERE and constant traveling from room to room.

NDS

System-shock-2-box-art-1-

System Shock 2

Survival Horror, FPS

Fuckwin FPS with RPG tones where you play as a hacker trapped inside a ship controlled by SHODAN, a powerful A.I. with a Goddess complex. Great atmosphere, and one of the greatest villains of all time.

PC

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Siren (Forbidden Siren in Europe)

Survival Horror, Stealth

Very much like Silent Hill with a sprinkle of Eternal Darkness. You play as a cast of different characters in different places and situations in a haunted village. There is some very light combat and you can look through the eyes of the "infected?" villagers help you avoid confrontations. If you played the SH series beyond all hope for enjoyment this is a title to check out. However, be wary that it is a very difficult game. Has an interesting sequel and a "American reimagining" called Siren: Blood Curse which surprisingly enough actually isn't bad at all.

PS2, PS3 (Remake)

Penumbra Overture2-1-

Penumbra: Overture

Survival Horror

The first part of somewhat under appreciated horror-adventure game series. The story starts from  the main characters receiving a mysterious letter from his deceased father. This sets him on a trip to investigate his bizarre past and events, taking him to dark, abandoned tunnel-mine-bunker complexes of underground Greenland. The game is very dark and does not focus on battle like most survival horrors, the main point is always hiding and escaping, or using the environment to your advance.Main selling point of these games are their control style: Instead of classic "quick-keys" to operate things, everything is used, opened and examined with real mouse movements, giving a very unique atmosphere to the games.

Linux, Mac OSX, PC

Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent-Cover-Art Amnesia: The Dark Descent Survival Horror/Lovecraftian Horror

By the same developers as Penumbra. You play as Daniel, an amnesiac who must investigate the mysterious Castle Brennenburg, with only two goals in mind: Find your memories, and kill the castle's owner, the mysterious Alexander of Brennenburg. VERY loosely based on Lovecraft's "The Outsider" (So loosely based that you will only understand the similarities after you beat the game). It uses the same physics system as Penumbra, but with an influence on pants shitting instead of hard puzzles (Though the stupid should beware, there are puzzles that could baffle you for a while, but nothing hard enough to require a walkthrough).

TL:DR; Decently hard puzzles. No weapons. Loads of NOPENOPENOPE

Linux, Mac OSX, PC

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Penumbra: Black Plague

Survival Horror

Sequel to the Overture. See the above. Considered by many to be the best one in the series for even reduced action and more focus on survival and puzzle solving.

Linux, Mac OSX, PC

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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

    Survival horror, First-person adventure, Lovecraftian Horror

Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow over Innsmouth", you are a private detective investigating the mysterious town of Innsmouth and it's people. Great atmosphere and some awesome running away sequences (you don't get a gun until half-way through the game).


Note that the game is not incredibly polished and has a well-known graphical bug that for some people makes one segment near impossible to pass, as well as a very unrealistically tough ending sequence. Save games and an unofficial game editor respectively are floating aound the dark corners of the internet to remedy these if needed.

    Xbox, PC

Pathologic

Pathologic

Mindfuck, Survival Horror, Mystery

You arrive in a small, backwards village just in time for a mysterious, deadly plague to come down on it. Your goal, survive for 12 days, and discover the mystery behind the disease and the village infected by it. Not even called a game by the developers, but "An exercise in decision-making", Pathologic suffers from several problems; very slow pacing, rudimentary combat, a poor translation of a already ornately written story, and sub-par graphics for its time.



However, a complex plot rarely seen in video games, coupled with an extremely disturbing atmosphere, and a very fitting soundtrack makes this game more than worth it if you have the time and patience.


Not for everyone, if you have the patience you'll love it, if not you'll hate it.

PC

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The White Chamber

Psychological Horror

Wake up on a ship in space, encounter some very horrifying scenes (despite the cartoonish art direction), slowly piece together what the hell was going on (it wasn't pretty). This is also a free title and one you can finish in a couple of hours.

PC

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Dead Space

3rd Person Action Horror

The space station USS Ishimura ceased all communications and it's up to you (an engineer) and your team to find out what has happened inside there. Maybe the flesh-eating creatures that try to dismember you when you get there have something to do with it. Think Doom 3 with more lights, in 3rd person view, and less shotguns, and you get close. Think Resident Evil 4, but in space, less presidents daughters/quick time events, more fucked up monsters/awesome presentation. Note: you end up with about as much ammo as you did in RE4, so this is in no way a survival horror game, but that is until you try the Impossible difficulty.

Make sure you're either using a surround system or a good set of headphones, the atmosphere in this game is phenomenal.

PC, 360, PS3

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Haunting Ground (Demento)

Survival Horror

Considered to be a spiritual successor to Clock Tower. You play as a big breasted, useless chick who wakes up after a car crash inside a castle. Quickly, you befriend a dog who basically saves your ass, which is very useful considering 75% of the game is running away from people who want to kill you. A fun game with cool enemies (especially the maid) and a metric fuckton of symbols representing "girly" fears, kind of like a less gritty Silent Hill 3. Don't misunderstand, though, it's nothing at all like Silent Hill. Not very frightening, either. Fiona is a pretty nice piece of ass, though.

PS2

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In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

Lovecraftian Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure

Standard point and click adventure, containing pretty much all of the standard Lovecraft themes. If you've read lovecraft you'll find that the games basically rips off some novels as you play through. Convoluted puzzles which can be annoying but great atmosphere and an interesting plot.

PC

Darkfall Dark Fall: The Journal Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure The first game of a rather unknown series (unfortunately) of great ghost stories from Jonatan Boakes. It's the classical haunted station story where you are the dude who needs to discover the shit that happened there. Very creepy atmosphere and lots of cheap scares, with things moving at you in the dark and noises. Some annoying puzzles. If you even remotely like ghost stories all the games from Boakes are a must. PC
Dark-fall-lights-out-351 Dark Fall 2: Lights Out Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure This one is similar to the first one as atmosphere and scares, only it is set in a town. Get the director's cut edition since it improves a lot the game over the precedent version. PC
Lost souls Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure The creepiest and scariest of the series. The best in the series so far. It will literally rack the nerves off your skin. Do not play if you have a scissor phobia. Some stupid puzzles and veeerrryyy sllloooowww movements tend to be a little bit annoying but in the complex is a solid horror game. PC
Lost crown The Lost Crown Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure

Another game from Johnathan Bakes, the creator of the Dark Fall series. Arguably one of the best ghost stories ever told from a videogame. Very haunting atmosphere with some occasionally disturbing scenes (poor kittens!). If you like ghost hunting you must play it since you have a lot of paranormal stuff you need to use all the time. The visuals are amazing.

PC
Barrow Hill Barrow Hill Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure

Barrow Hill has a wonderful creepy feel to it. Are you being stalked?

PC
Rhiannon Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches Psychological Horror, Point-and-Click Adventure

The game is set on the Celtic fringes of Britain; a place where myth and magic spill into reality, threatening the sanity of a teenage girl named Rhiannon Sullivan.

PC

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Resident Evil

Survival Horror

Very famous and popular zombie apocalypse game with perhaps even more influence on the survival horror genre than Silent Hill. The older games are more of a third person horror survival, while the more recent games have a more FPS feeling to them. Either way, most of them are very good for thrills if not chills.

PS1, PC, Saturn, GameCube, DS, PSN, Wii

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Resident Evil 2

Survival Horror

Considered to be the pinnacle of the series and one of the games that made the genre famous. Aged a little bit, especially with the 3D models on static background effect, but definitely worth playing. There is indeed a PC port of this game, but it is very difficult to get working properly. Although it has double the resolution of the first game, it's better to just run it through ePSXe with a clean plugin. Playstation, N64, PC, Dreamcast

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Resident Evil 3

Survival Horror

STAAAAAAAAAAAAARS PS1, PC, Gamecube, Dreamcast

Residentevil4wiie

Resident Evil 4

Survival Horror

This is where the Resident Evil series got sidetracked and started going for the third person-shooter-action style instead. Arguably the best of the Resident Evil games. Similar to Deadspace in that it has horror-themed enviroments and enemies but is otherwise not much of a horror game. Gamecube, PS2, Wii, PC

Resident evil5 cover

Resident Evil 5

Survival Horror

It's not exactly a survival horror anymore; think of it in terms of Left 4 Dead 2 in terms of scare. There isn't as much scare as there is shooting things like a manic. Which, of course, is a lot of fun. I mean, it does have its (kind of laughable) moments, but as said with the first game, the newer games feel more like a FPS than anything.

Also, it has coop.

Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Alone in the dark

Alone In The Dark

Survival Horror

The original Survival horror game. Definitely worth playing, even though its age severely hinders its fear factor and even at times playability, but it's always fun to bitch slap some rats.

PC, Mac, 3DO, RISC OS

Phantasmagoria Coverart

Phantasmagoria

Psychological horror, Adventure, Interactive movie

Played on like 7 fucking CDs, the fvm RAEP scene made people and the medias and stuff to freak the fuck out.

PC, Mac, Sega Saturn

Phantasmagoria2 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh

I HEARD THAT, CURTIS.

PC

Darkseed

Dark Seed

Adventure, Horror, Point and Click Adventure

Classic point-n-click adventures, make sure you run these through SCUMM. The designs for all the horror material came from H.R. Giger, the designer of the famous Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. If you ever wondered what an entire world designed by him would be like, this is it. Known for their absolutely ludicrous difficulty, while the visuals do a decent job of building a suitably creepy atmosphere, the rest of the game is undone by extremely haphazard design. It is practically guaranteed that you'll get stuck in some kind of unwinnable situation at some point, as the many scenarios that require you to have thought of a solution in advance are poorly telegraphed to the point that you would need to be able to see the future to prepare accordingly and often said preparation make absolutely no sense in the context of whatever situation you currently find yourself in.

PC

Dark Seed II Coverart Dark Seed II Adventure, Horror, Point and Click Adventure Dark Seed II makes such tremendous improvements over its predecessor that it practically feels like a whole new game. Gone are the time limits and dead-end events, in favor of a more straightforward mystery. There are actual characters this time around, with plenty of background and dialogue, and the story is much more intricate than simply going into the Dark World and stopping the aliens, even though the basic goals are the same. While it does take away some of the ambiguity (some would say "loose ends") of the first game, the narrative depth definitely makes for a more involving experience. PC

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LSD

Mindfuck, action-adventure

Wander about in bizarre dreamscapes for 5 minutes or so and then repeat. Not really a game, per se, it's more about exploring and seeing what shit you can find. Sometimes it's fucked up, sometimes it isn't. Japanese only, but there's very little text.

PS1

7guest

The 7th Guest

Horror, Puzzle, Adventure

The quintessential classic horror-themed adventure game. Not particularly scary, but has a creepy vibe to it.

PC

The 11th Hour Coverart

The 11th Hour Horror, Puzzle We return to the house in the original and further puzzle-based gameplay ensues. Also not particularly scary. PC

Cryostasis

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason

Survival Horror, FPS

Also known as: «The Worst Optimisation Ever: The Game». An FPS where you play as an investigator trying to find out what happened to a Russian ice breaker ship. The game is set during the 80s and lets you play through a huge map based of the intimate details of a huge freighter. Has possibly one of the best endings in a videogame.

PC

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Exmortis

Psychological Horror, Point-and-click adventure

Very atmospheric point-and-click flash games with fantastic art and two of the only flash games to be scary without relying entirely on screamers. You wake up deep in the woods in front of an abandoned, run-down house and no memories - surprise! The house is full of pissed off dead people. Exmortis 2 takes place a few years after Exmortis 1 and is even moodier, given the setting. Both can be found on Newgrounds Exmortis 3 was released in 2009 but came with a ten dollar price tag, so naturally nobody's ever played the fucking thing.

Flash

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Exmortis 2

Psychological Horror, Point-and-click adventure

Flash

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Purgatorium

Psychological Horror, Point-and-click adventure

More haunted amnesiac hijinx from the creator of Exmortis. Much shorter than his other games, and also on Newgrounds.

Flash

Thehouse

The House

Horror, Point-and-click adventure

It maybe looks like a shitty horror flash game, but that's because it is. Graphic and sounds are fine, but the gameplay is just "click on the only thing you can click on X times and then another thing to click on appear and you have to click on it a few times then click on the first thing again then click on the other one again a few times then SCREAMER." This is litteraly the first part of the game, and the clicking order makes no sense. Good for a few jump, but nothing more.

Flash

The bright in the screen

Bright in the Screen

Mindfuck, Platform

Screens inform you about what to do, what those crazy red guys are and other stuff. More like an experimental platformer.

Flash

The ugly flash game

The Ugly Game

Mindfuck, Point-and-click adventure, Horror

Point-and-click flash game that pretty much runs on the "trial-and-error" thing (hint: don't do any, and I mean ANY noise in the game). Can actually build some suspense. You're a little girl who comes back from school only to notice something happened in your house. Where are your parents?

Flash

Badmojo redux

Bad Mojo / Bad Mojo Redux

Mindfuck, Adventure

Bro unwittingly puts on a cursed ring while chilling in his messy apartment. Bro gets turned into roach. Roach Bro has to navigate all the nasty shit in his apartment and find a way back to the ring and crawl through it to undo the curse.
Redux features a bit higher resolution artwork and video.

PC

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Sanitarium

Psychological Horror, Point-and-click adventure

An adventure game where you play as an amnesic man who wakes up in a mental hospital and tries to uncover his past. Pretty fucked-up.

PC

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl

Survival Horror, FPS, RPG

BLOW OUT SOON FELLOW STALKER. Go grab the LURK mod at http://getoutofherelurker.blogspot.com/


While the main point of these games is not horror, but exploration and survival in the dangerous, radioactive and twisted version of Chernobyl's danger Zone, they do contain plenty of locations and event that can spook you up. Enjoy traveling in the middle of the game-night with just your flashlight.

PC

Imagess S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky Survival Horror, FPS, RPG PC
Stalker Call of Pripyat cover S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat Survival Horror, FPS, RPG PC

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Planescape Torment

RPG

Macabre. Baldur's Gate with a script over 9000 pages long. The combat is lacking and the game shows its age but it will suck you in if you let it. Not particularly scary, but definitely epic.

PC

Hotel-626

Hotel 626

Horror, Adventure

Made by Frito Lays. Yeah, the chip company. Wat.

You can only play from 6PM to 6AM.

Flash

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Rule of Rose

Survival Horror

You play a little girl trapped on a 1930's airship with other girls and adults who seem like they're out to get you. Banned in several countries for themes of lesbianism, bullying, suggested pedofilia, and alluding to cannibalism. While graphics and music are good (great even) the combat feels clunky and it's not that scary. It is, however, quite atmospheric and the story's pretty damn unsettling. The monsters themselves can be pretty fucked up, but they're overshadowed in the creepy factor by the supporting cast.

PS2

Void tension

The Void/TENSION/Typrop (RUS)

Mindfuck, Survival-Adventure, Horror

Another weird game by the creators of Pathologic. You end up in some sort of limbo land, where you're not being told shit and better start wrapping your head around the place as you are quickly dying, time stripping away color from your body.. and that's not even the greatest threat as you will soon see. Enigmatic naked sisters are your only guides in this very bleak and desolate place.. at least if you can reach them before starving.

It's grim, even in the later parts of the game when crazy shit keeps happening. Most players starve out of color in their first attempt, but the further you are in the game, the harder it is to become really stuck (while paradoxally your prospects for survival become always dimmer and dimmer).

Little-known yet awesome game to many players.

PC

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NOCTURNE

Survival Horror, Action

Old action-horror game that certainly hasn't aged well. Laughable dialogue with the main character named "Stranger". Ya, rly. Still very imaginative and fun to play, looked good for the time. You get to fight werewolves on a moving train while wearing sunglasses and a trenchcoat. 'Nuff said.

PC

Mondo Agency

Mondo Agency

Mindfuck, FPS

As an agent it is your mission to kill laser indians and save the president!

Turn off your lights and turn up your speakers for maximum enjoyment!

PC

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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Survival Horror, FPS

A game where you're searching for your family in a vampire-infested, randomly generated castle. Creepy as fuck.

PC

Shadow of memories

Shadow of Destiny/Memories

Mindfuck, Adventure

Adventure game where you're trying to prevent your own death by time traveling. Good voice acting and multiple endings. Time Hollow is it's spiritual sequel, also by Konami.

PC, PS2, XBOX

Scratches

Scratches: Director's Cut

Mindfuck, Mystery, Adventure

If you are looking for atmosphere this is the game for you. You arrive at your new house, an old victorian mansion to write the end of your book. As you explore through the house clues reveal more and more about the past of the house and what was going on. Not that many reatarded puzzles. Personally, this is the scariest point and click game i've ever played.

PC

The path

The Path

Psychological Horror

You choose one out of a large array of sisters, aging from girls not even 10 to young adults. Your job is to follow the path to grandma's house and deliver her the items your mother gave you, and no matter what, do not stray from the path. You can, obviously, follow the path to an open to interpretation ending, or you can stray off the path into the forest. What you may find's effect may vary on what sister you are playing as, and each girl may interact with it differently. Very symbolic, and there's no real story. Your main job is to just wander and find objects, some more dangerous and depressing as others. If you dislike wandering, this is not the game for you.

PC

Amgrimm

American McGee's Grimm

Mindfuck, Action-Adventure

LOL what is this even doing on this list this game ain't scary

It is fucking awesome though. You control a hilarious dorf asshole who goes around trolling everything and turning good shit into terrible shit.

PC

Hellnight

Hell Night (EU)

Dark Messiah (JP)

Survival Horror,
Point & Click

The description says it best. Very much like an old first person adventure game. You walk down several corridors and pick up obvious key items. Not a bad way to waste a couple hours. Also don't expect anything in the way of combat.


Better yet, just read this: http://www.dreamdawn.com/sh/info.php?name=Dark%20Messiah,%20Hell%20Night

PS1

Kuon

Kuon

Survival Horror

Two girls fighting weirdass shinto spirits. Very Japanese horror.

PS2

Nomouth

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream  

Horror, Point and Click Adventure

In the future, AM, a mad supercomputer, kills almost the entire earth population, saving only five people. After torturing them and keeping them alive for more than a hundred years he sets them on a final "game" . You control each of this five people in their separate quests. Lots of moral dilemmas and ethical issues and an AI of such awesomeness that he easily matches SHODAN of System Shock.

Based on a short story by the same name.

PC

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The Suffering

Psychological Horror, FPS

One of the few Third Person Shooters able to achieve the sense of dread and fear, the suffering has you playing as a convicted murderer sentenced to death row. But the prison you are in is home to crazed experiments performed by the government during the 1950s and is a hotbed for the most grotesque and horrifying abominations that run rampant inside the prison and cause mass chaos.

PC, PS2, Xbox

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American McGee's Alice

Horror, Action adventure

Makes you wonder who this American McGee guy is(Spoilers: He's one of the guys who created Doom and Quake). Alice is back in wonderland, but something has gone horribly wrong while she was outside.

PC

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Echo Night Series

Horror, Mindfuck, First-person adventure

Echo Night is a first person adventure game series where your goal is to uncover the dark past of yourself or those close to you. It is horror themed, although the horror is more of a mindfuck type. Overall, a VERY interesting series, though the last one, Echo Night: Beyond is probably the only one worth your time. It's presentation is GLORIOUS.

PS, PS2

Tallman

Chzo Mythos

Horror, adventure

Before he became "Internet Famous" for his witty video game reviews, Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw actually made some games himself.  A number of them turned out to be quite good, the best of which is the series of adventure/horror games known as the Chzo Mythos. They're free to download off of his site. Prepare for pixelated, but disturbing, scenes of slaughter.

 PC

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Saya No Uta

Visual Novel, Eroge, suspense

A Lovecraftian visual novel about madness and a love without borders.

PC

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The Dark Eye

Horror, First-person Adventure

Creepy point 'n click based on Edgar Allan Poe's works. Interesting note, the characters are all made in stop motion/claymation.

PC

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Shadow Man

Horror, Platform, Action Adventure

Mario 64-like game with some brick shitting moments. The N64 version is passable if you have the expansion pak, but the PC and Dreamcast versions are superior (just stay the hell away from the PS1 version)

PC, DC, PSX, N64

Demonophobia

Demonophobia

Horror, Adventure, Guro, H game

A prime example of why little girls should never experiment with strange rituals. Those crazy nips did it again.

Expect lots of blood and gory/creepy deaths. Assuming you live long enough. All sorts of sick fappable shit in here to enjoy.

PC

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Hanakanmuri

Adventure, Guro

Vore and guro fest.

PC

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Overblood

Survival horror, adventure

PSX

Prisoner

Prisoner of Ice

Point and Click Adventure

Adventure game based on the Cthulhu mythos, and a sequel to Shadow of the Comet. A british submarine rescues a spy who fled from a Nazi base with two "Top Secret" crates. Of course, nothing good can come from inside of them.  

PC, PSX

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Eversion

Horror, platformer

Super bright and happy indie platformer. Until the world gradually 'everts'...

PC

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Snatcher

Visual comic

One of Hideo Kojima's early works. In a future which is completely not Blade Runner, Gillian Seed and his wife are found wiped of their memories in the middle of the Siberian Neutral Zone. Remembering only the word 'Snatcher', Gillian decides to become a JUNKER - an agent which is completely not a Blade Runner tasked with killing robots which are completely not Terminators, called Snatchers. Being a Hideo Kojima game it's wordy as fuck, ass-numbingly melodramatic and rips off every movie you have ever seen; but, being a Hideo Kojima game, it's also stylish, well-made, deeply engrossing, full of well-developed and likeable characters, and stuffed full of fun little easter eggs and genuinely witty humour. If you like his style, it's a must-play.

It's got its moments, but the lighthearted atmosphere keeps it from being too scary, so it should be fine for wusses.

Sega CD

Comet

Shadow of the Comet

Adventure, Lovecraftian Horror

Adventure game based on the Cthulhu mythos. The controls are weird for a game of this genre (everything is done with the keyboard) but it's got a great story.

PC

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Doom

Horror, FPS, Being A Badass

An awesome FPS series. Doom 1 & 2 won't be that scary to newcomers, whereas Doom 3 was chosen to be a horror game from the start. Most of the scares are pretty cheap, but there are one or two pantshitting moments.

PC

Doom2 Doom 2 Horror, FPS, Being A Badass Pretty much nothing has changed graphically, but is just as fun as the original. Think of it as being Doom 1 with extra levels and more weapons. Same with Final Doom. PC
Doom 3 Limited Collector s Edition Doom 3 Horror, FPS, Being A Badass While not faithfully true to the original, this game took to series from being an awesome, badass FPS to an awesome, badass FPS that also has some SCARY BADASS SHIT to boot. Great Atmosphere, combined with surround sound or headphones. PC, Xbox
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White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

Survival Horror

You end up trapped in your school when you try to sneak in to put chocolates in the girl you like's desk. While trapped inside, you are constantly pursued by a psychotic security guard and the ghosts that inhabit the game. There is currently no English version or patch, making the game difficult to play at times. Fun fact: there's a follow up holiday to Valentine's in Japan and Korea called White Day, where boys give chocolate to girls who gave them chocolate on Valentines (or Red) day, because Japan is confusing like that, and also loves stupid bullshit holidays, so the title of this game basically amounts to saying "Valentine's Day" except marginally less gay while still being ironic as fuck.

PC

Sweet Home

Sweet Home

Survival Horror, RPG

Has RPG elements to it. Each character has a special ability. You team up (you can only have a certain amount of people team up I believe, which leaves one or two people to go alone). You can control each individual character (you will still be teamed together when you switch, which is prrty kewl). Basically an 8-bit precursor to the Resident Evil series (and even has cutscenes when you open doors). What makes this RPG unique is that once you die, you die forever. Also, there is not unlimited healing (there's only 23 or so potions scattered throughout the mansion), so you must use good strategy as you play. Although an NES game, there's parts which are a huge minefuck.

NES

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Dementium: The Ward

Survival Horror, FPS

A DS First-person horror game with a great framerate and a lot of effort put in. It looks great. Just don't get too close to anything. Best played together with the sequel, Dementium II.

NDS

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Fear Effect

Survival Horror, Action-Adventure

One of the most popular PSX horrors. You play as a bunch of mercenaries who are trying to complete their task of finding and escorting some mafia offspring back home, homever as you can guess things will get complicated somewhere along the way. It plays much like Resident Evil, though you can shoot while running.

The story and visuals are very good (delishus cell shading)

PS1

Feareffect2 Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix Survival Horror, Action-Adventure

It has lesbians.

PS1
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Thief 3 'Enter The Cradle' Level

Stealth, First Person

It's only really one level but

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PC

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Horror, RPG, FPS

Great RPG in which you play as a fledgling vampire who has just been embraced, and forced into working for the political agendas of characters to make your way in the secret underworld of vampire society. There's many alliances, choices and enemies to be made. Focused on the warring and rivalry of the vampire clans. Great graphics and combat for a 2004 game, featuring attributes, a range of melee and ranged weapons, and unique vampiric powers, that is incredibly atmospheric and story driven, with brilliant dialogue. The game is full of creepy parts, but the Ocean House Hotel fucking take the cake.

PC

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Dear Esther (Half Life 2 Mod)

Mindfuck, Horror, Narrative

Experimental mod for HL2 in which you basically explore a desolate island while the main character narrates. Excellent writing and haunting atmosphere. A remake with updated graphics is in the works.

PC

Paranoia

Paranoia (Half Life Mod)

Survival Horror, FPS

Visually very advanced HL mod, focusing on the russian Spechnaz-team, which soon notices that what seems like a "normal terrorist-hostage situation" isn't quite so normal.

PC

They hunger

They Hunger (Half Life Mod)

Survival Horror, FPS

A decent Half-Life mod involving a bunch of people, in particular the local police force, being overtaken by a zombie virus that makes them evil. The player's task is stopping them.

PC

AoM

Afraid of Monsters Director's Cut (Half Life Mod)

Survival Horror, FPS

One of the spookiest mods available for the original HL. AoM plays like the HL, but just everything else is self-made, creating a very dark and twisted survival horror experience with multiple endings.

PC

Parasite Eve Front

Parasite Eve

RPG

Awesome games. The rat morphing in the first game is just plain awesome. Second Game is not as good, ditching most of the RPG elements.

PS1

Parasiteeve2 Parasite Eve 2 Survival Horror A lot more detailed than the first and much more engaging. Ditches the active time bar in favor of real time combat with tank controls, which, on harder difficulties, is sure to pucker your asshole. Features only several locales compared to Parasite Eve's dozen, but each area is larger and Aya gives more descriptive analyses of objects. Very short, but a worthwhile entry if you want more pseudoscientific horror. PS1

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F.E.A.R.

Horror, FPS

Really solid FPS from Monolith studios. The game succeeds and giving you that sense of paranoia throughout the entire game with strange anomalies, electric shocks in the air and psychotic little girls running around. It also merges correctly with a great shoot-out system, with excellent bullet time. Killing enemies has never been so satisfying. Get this for PC if you can. The sequel, even if it's not at the same level as the predecessor, is still worth it, though F.E.A.R.'s first expansion pack, Extraction Point, is pretty much better than the canon sequel in almost every way.

PC, PS3, 360

Extermination

Extermination

Survival Horror

A completly underrated and forgotten game. Basically The Thing meets Tomb Raider. You play as a Special Forces guy (named Dennis of all things) and have to infiltrate an Alaskan base where bad shit went down involving evil water. The whole thing has a nifty exploration and weapon mechanic, and for a survival horror game it can actually make you feel pretty nimble and powerful.

PS2

Killer7

Killer7

Action-adventure, Rail-shooter, Role-playing, Mindfuck

Kill Heaven Smiles to save the world. Maybe. The supplemental materials clear up a lot of the plot, but still fall short of explaining everything. This is a Suda51 game.

PS2, GCN

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Sega Saturn, PSX, PC

Higurashi

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni

Survival Horror, Graphic adventure, Puzzle

Started off as a visual novel, became a video game, an anime, etc. Inside a village named Hinamizawa, things become hectic fast. Problems occur and trust is misplaced, leading to brutal murders and mindfucks. Several alternative stories using the same characters, different events More like, several stories about the same event with varying details and different focus each time.

PS2 port has enhanced graphics, voice acting and additional arcs.
NDS port also has improved graphics, its own set of new arcs and is splitted into four games. Overall remakes are better experience visual wise and extends the story, but only PC version is available in English. There's a graphic patch made out of PS2 port though.

PC, DS, PS2

Umineko cover Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Visual Novel, Mindfuck, Puzzle

From the same people that did Higurashi. Umineko follows the same formula of multiple scenarios tying theirselves to unfold a story. A family of several rich fucks gets stuck on an island and soon someone claiming their self to be a witch starts a murder spree. Not really scary, but some scenes, especially at the begining are creppy as hell. After the first arc though a giant mindfuck occurs and things continue to get crazier and crazier afterwards. The series is also known for its godly soundtrack. English patch available.

A remake of the first part of the game was released on PS3 featuring full voice acting, pretty graphics and glorious full HD. Japan only. BUT THE FULL PATCH IS IN THE WORKS GUISE!

PC, PS3
Carrier

Carrier

Survival Horror

A RE clone that takes place on an aircraft carrier. Not the best, but has it's moments. Main character's name sounds like a porn star's.

DC

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Obscure I

Survival Horror

Imagine playing "the Faculty" from 1998. You're stuck in your school at night, and there's monsters about. Rather unique party system where you have a second character with you, out of a selection of 4 or 5, which grants bonuses in certain situations. Oh, and if they die, they die, like, forever.

PC, PS2, Xbox

Obscure2 Obscure II Survival Horror Direct sequel to the first. Now instead of zombie mutants you have deadly plants or some other derp PC, PS2, Wii, (Aftermath) PSP
Cold fear

Cold Fear

Survival Horror

You play as a coast guard officer investigating a suspected foreign freighter for illegal activity when you discover much more is happening and pits you against a zombie infestation that you must get to the bottom of.

PS2, Xbox, PC

Mistake mod Mistake Survival Horror Short half life mod where you have to escape from an asylum. PC (Half-Life 1 mod)
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Illbleed

Illbleed

Survival Horror, Mindfuck

Very strange, but great game. You're at a haunted theme park created by a psychopath and have to find your lost friends. The game play involves avoiding traps by marking them in a variety scenarios. If you don't successfully avoid a trap then your character risks blood loss and death. The scenarios are campy, funny and fucked up in a disturbing kind of way.

DC

Ao oni

Ao Oni Survival Horror, Puzzle A freeware horror game done in RPG maker. Similar to Clock Tower but with a more cliched plot. A group of middle schoolers go to investigate a haunted mansion where people supposedly do not return from, because they are devoured by a blue demon. Even though the Ao Oni looks laughable, there are some genuinely scary moments in this short game. Untranslated currently Now translated, but all of the puzzles can be done without knowing Japanese except for one. (Answer to said puzzle)

PC

Worlds

Worlds.com 3D Chat client, Mindfuckery Worlds.com is an ancient 3D chat client from 1994, running on a DOOM like 3D engine. For some reason it's still up and gets somewhat updated, even though almost nobody inhabits this virtual reality. Explore the vast, empty user created worlds and get freaked out by the still remaining players (or apparitions?). It feels like you're doing Internet archeology. Finding some abandoned guild hall with creepy pictures of the members everywhere and links to their godforsaken 90s style websites, jesus christ it's horrifying. It kinda plays kinda like LSD, but it's online.

PC

Fragile-Dreams-NA Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Action, Adventure, Mind Fuck

You're the last human human in the world(as far as you know) and leave your now dead grandfathers observatory to seek out others.

As you explore, you learn more and more about what killed everyone. Every item you find reveals the original owners story of dealing with what was killing off humanity.

Its depressing, and there are quite a few "WTF moments".

Wii


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