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In addition, the old controls force you to rethink combat very carefully and figure out how to properly hit your enemy without getting damaged yourself. If you have an emulator and the patience of a saint, Alone In The Dark is worth checking for a fun history lesson in game development.

You will really get to see where so many tropes in games like Resident Evil come from and how they evolved in later games. Though a great deal of the mystery is lost for this sequel, since the first one answered most of the questions, A Machine For Pigs still holds up as a good scary game. Remarkably, the story continues with just as much interesting depth as you slowly realize the character you are playing is less and less innocent than one might usually presume.

This unreliable narrator is uncovered with journal entries and the occasional speech from the antagonist determined to make you think you are even worse than he is. The sanity meter is removed, a very unfortunate change, but that does not make the environment any less frightening.

Pig-headed monsters are still attracted by your light, like a moth to a flame, but this time the only things you sacrifice is a loss of sight and not knowing if the monster saw you or not. That said, A Machine For Pigs lacks the interesting puzzles of its predecessor. They are boring, annoying, and do nothing to immerse you in the world of Amnesia. There is no descent into madness when you are replacing fuses, and moving boxes in a crawl space. Though a rather short game, at about three hours long, Among The Sleep has both interesting gameplay elements and story.

The gameplay elements include playing the part of a toddler, the act of hugging your teddy bear gives off an extra light, and much more that are plot relevant. As a toddler, your height and the basic understanding of the world make for compelling details, like the inability to read or how you get to things out of your reach.

This game might give parents a few heart tugs, like a two-year-old climbing around the kitchen and opening anything with a door. It only gets worse, as there is so much more to Among The Sleep than a child running from a scary monster. This game is about the journey of coping with childhood trauma and doing so through more abstract experiences like dreams that can help make more sense of something a toddler might not fully understand.

Infidelity is a sin that will never stop haunting you and your dreams in Catherine. You play the part of Vincent Brooks, who is hesitant to commit to the idea of marriage to his girlfriend Katherine. Just as Brooks begins to seriously mull over the situation, the beautiful Catherine comes along.

His act of cheating haunts his dreams and Catherine is never letting go either. Catherine combines supernatural and role-playing elements which might be described as a platformer but is hardly that. The goal of the gameplay is to get to the top of the tower, but it is not about jumping or climbing. Brooks must pull out blocks and push them to the appropriate spots to get higher, all the while some horrible monster is coming after him.

Nevertheless, Deadly Premonition makes it to the list with a compelling story, a unique cast of characters you will never see anywhere else, and deeply terrifying visuals that will stick with you forever. Despite being a little on the weird side, Deadly Premonition does tell a good story and the combat is an average FPS flavor.

This case turns out to be a part of a series of similar murders across America done by the Raincoat Killer. Unlike most horror crime games, Deadly Premonition also has survival elements. Not the lack of weapon type, but the feed your main character and make sure he puts on clean clothes type. It is an odd choice to be sure and does not really influence the main plot, though it is something that could be worked within a future sequel if there ever is one.

Japanese developers sure know horror and it is displayed yet again in Forbidden Siren. This game follows the events within a Japanese village called Hanuda. Isolated from the rest of the world, the village has some rather extreme religious beliefs that make living there, or even stumbling upon it, a study in survival and stealth. This is a psychic power that hijacks an enemy character so you can see through their eyes and hear what they hear. You cannot move them, however, but it is a useful tool to tell where your next objective is and how to get around the enemies.

However, what really puts this game in the history books, is the facial animation. This was done by taking images of real human faces from various angles and plastering them on the polygon game version.

This actually ended with an exceptional result, easily making it a part of the motion capture development history. This psychological horror twists the story of Alice in Wonderland by focusing less on the fantastical world of Wonderland, and more on Alice herself and her struggle to overcome her trauma-induced psychosis.

The player alternately must traverse a corrupted Wonderland and a hallucination-wrought Victorian London as Alice. Wonderland is separated into sections, each of which has a different theme, and a different memory as the prize.

Each step you take puts you further along the path toward discovering the truth about how your family really died and simultaneously saving Wonderland itself. In Limbo, you control a little boy as he traverses a series of sinister environments on his quest to find his sister.

The game uses an almost film-noir stylization to boost the visuals and ambiance into horror genre levels. Failure, however, results in your vicious and often gruesome death. Limbo has been esteemed more as art than an actual video game. The absence of a direct narrative allows the player to come up with their own conclusions about the boy and his unfortunate situation.

Despite its short gameplay, Limbo is well worth the money, especially since it has been made accessible on so many different consoles, even iOS, and Android systems. This game technically counts as a puzzle platformer like its predecessor, but the dystopia in which it is set is unnerving enough to earn it a spot on this list. Inside is a platformer wherein you control a little boy who has to navigate his dystopian world.

The goal of the game? Like any good game with horror elements, the goal is to survive. Inside complicates this process by making the player complete clever environmental puzzles throughout. There are so many ways for him to die, many of them vicious, including dog-attacks or being shot by his pursuers. You eventually begin to feel the anxiety of his flight just as if you too were running for your life. Little Nightmares is a game about an insatiably hungry little girl in a yellow coat named Six.

The creatures you encounter are grotesque and hardly human. The object of this game is to hide from and evade the Guests as you ascend from the lower depths of the Maw, a hotel-like vessel that caters to the whims of the Guests.

Much like Inside, Little Nightmares is a survival horror platformer. Despite being a simple platformer, Little Nightmares tells its story through the background. The devil is in the details. This game relies entirely on its soundboard and its visuals to provide its horrific elements. The animalistic sounds of the Guests and the eerie music combine with the ghastly, filthy world create the necessary suspense. This game follows Senua as she traverses Helheim to retrieve her lover from the clutches of Hela.

While none of the mythology is faithful, this game shows an incredible awareness and accurate depiction of psychosis. Ninja Theory worked closely with neuroscientists, mental health specialists, and people with similar conditions to ensure that they would provide an accurate portrayal.

Stunning graphics and unparalleled use of voice acting have caused critics to applaud this game as a work of art. Truly, this game is one you must wear headphones while playing because the voice acting is absolutely crucial to getting the full experience.

The vast majority of this game exists in a subaquatic city called Rapture during the s. Where once it was a playground for plutocrats of all kinds, it is now a twisted, macabre shadow of its former glory. BioShock is a biopunk game that immerses the player in an environment that makes them question a number of moral dilemmas, including whether or not a life is precious when it has been so thoroughly perverted.

You as the player must navigate through this first-person shooter under the direction of the mysterious Atlas, who very politely sets you on a number of tasks. All the while, you must fight off horribly disfigured, once-human Splicers. Return to Rapture in this sequel to the original BioShock game. This survival horror game tasks your character, Joel, with chaperoning a young girl, Ellie, across post-apocalyptic America in a desperate attempt to cure humanity of a fungal infection that turns those affected into rabid, zombie-like monsters.

Naughty Dog brilliantly based the strain of fungal infection in this game after the real-world Cordyceps fungus. What makes The Last of Us one of the best games across both PlayStation systems are the incredible graphics, intense gameplay, and a storyline that will have you sobbing in T-minus 20 minutes after you pick up your controller.

The character development alone is heralded as one of the finest points of the game, with you as the player watching Joel become a little more human, and Ellie turning into one of the most badass characters in-game.

Every aspect of this game puts you in survival mode, and your actions in-game quickly become less about morality, and more about what it takes to get you to the next step. While it still used a lot of the mechanics from its predecessors, Resident Evil 4 is what changed the whole Resident Evil series from the survival-horror it was at the outset to the action-packed genre we know it as today. It took a beloved character from Resident Evil 2, made him better, and then gave him his own game.

The influence of this game on the industry as a whole cannot be overstated enough. Any 3rd person shooter within the last decade has aspects in it that were undoubtedly drawn from the success of Resident Evil 4.

Kholat is an indie walking-exploration horror game based on the Dyatlov Pass incident of , wherein nine Russian college students mysteriously disappeared on Kholat Syakhal in the Ural mountains.

Nobody knows to this day what happened to them or why which is where Kholat gets a foot in. In the game, you as the player investigates path these disappeared hikers took, as well as the recovery team that later found their brutally murdered bodies. This game features an incredibly large map that you can spend hours exploring, but be warned; there is more on this mountain than just you. Entities track the tracker, and your expedition is not a deathless one. As you walk about the mountainside with little to no defense, the tension in Kholat comes from needing to avoid these harbingers of death, the eerie music, the ambient desolation of the Urals, and the well-timed voice-overs from narrator Sean Bean.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a detective-style horror game where you surprise! You as the investigating character Paul Prospero traverse the incredible open world of Red Creek Valley, WI as you come up against paranormal phenomena and clues that suggest something sinister has happened here.

Things are not always as they seem, though, and this must-buy game will have you sitting at the edge of your seat with its inventive storytelling and use of ambiance to keep tensions high.

Though this game is obviously a part of the Resident Evil series, it must be listed separately simply because it is the first in the series to enter VR. It was also the first game marketed for the PSVR that anyone thought might be half decent. But it's the exploration of some really disturbing themes and Japanese horror stories that makes the original title in the franchise a standout.

A survival horror game by the original creator of Resident Evil , The Evil Within is an extremely brutal experience that gives you almost no moments of reprieve. These are frantic confrontations with genuinely frightening monsters, and each victory you manage to eke out feels extremely narrow. We've talked a lot about survival horror and psychological torment in this list of scary games, but we've yet to address one of the smartest twists in the genre: A sanity meter. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is largely cited as the first game to add such a mechanic, especially in the West, though earlier Japanese releases Laplace no Ma and Clock Tower did this first.

It's also listed among the best Gamecube games but is often lost in the conversation among the more globally recognizable franchises. But for our money -- and our nerves -- it's still one of the best when it comes to getting under your skin. So good, in fact, that Nintendo patented the standout "Sanity Effects" mechanic. Eternal Darkness can deliver a slightly different gameplay experience every time you pick it up. The hardcore gamers out there will take the "red" path, while completionists will have to tackle all three paths if they want to play any one path twice.

The game gives you a level or so to warm up and get used to the combat style, but once you hit chapter two, keep an eye on your sanity; it'll drop whenever an enemy spots you Those effects range from slight visual changes like a tilted camera angle or environmental effects, to full-on mind-blowing fourth-wall-breaking moments that'll have the player questioning whether or not their game is actually malfunctioning.

It's brilliant stuff and it paved the way for many other games that came after it. Unfortunately, despite attempts to revive the title with sequels and possible franchise runs, those efforts ultimately failed. Perhaps some tortured soul out there will give it another go. Until then, we'll have to be happy with returning to the original nightmare. The Last of Us comes at you from all angles. Its combat sequences, in which your playable character Joel hides, stalks, and does his best to reckon with the corrupted, vilely designed zombies not to mention the corrupted, vilely temperamented humans dealing poorly with this post-apocalyptic warzone , truly take my breath away.

They are visceral, physical, immersive pieces of game design that raise the stakes, alongside your heart rate, with ruthless, borderline cruel efficiency. And then, psychologically, The Last of Us hits you harder than twelve Bloaters in a row. Its cold open? Emotionally devastating. Its moments of mercy and comfort, including that beautiful giraffe? Only momentarily relieving, the inevitable calm for the doubly devastating storm.

Its central relationship, between Joel and Ellie? What can I say? And the ending fate of these two is presented in a sequence I desperately did not want to perform. A frightful game no matter how you slice it. I was so relieved to finally get a gun that I foolishly tried to stand toe-to-toe with the titular space demon and it just slapped that thing out of my hands like it was a giant cartoon lollipop and murdered the shit out of me.

Isolation is a survival horror game that casts you as the daughter of Ellen Ripley, making her way through a chaotic space station in search of answers about what happened to her mother.

The tension and atmosphere are pitch-perfect for fans of the Ridley Scott film it even features DLC where you can play as the crew of the Nostromo in a mini-mission. It is a chilling game with incredible atmosphere that greatly succeeds in furthering the terror spread by the urban legend. When a religious artefact related to a twisted cult is discovered on the planet Aegis VII, The Ishimura mining ship goes dark. Isaac Clarke, whose girlfriend is stationed aboard The Ishimura, is part of the engineering team sent to uncover what is really going on.

What follows is, in our humble opinion, one of the best and most terrifying gaming experiences of the last decade. Daniel is an amnesiac and his journey brings him face to face with insane inmates and mysterious, deadly organisations. The Black Plague is the second instalment of the Penumbra series of first person survival-horror games. Penumbra follows Phillip and his unsettling journey through an underground research base.

Much like Amnesia, combat mechanics are shelved in favour of puzzles, stealth and just plain running away to survive at all costs. Silent Hill 3 follows Heather, adopted daughter to Harry Mason who ten years prior to the events of the game defeated a god brought forth by the cult of Silent Hill.

Set in the aforementioned Silent Hill, a place shrouded in fog and evil, Heather attempts to discover the truth about her father and why the cult of Silent Hill is following her.

With gritty hand to hand combat, exploration and puzzle solving in a dreary, twisted universe, Silent Hill 3 is intensely unnerving. Siren: Blood Curse is a 3rd person, over the shoulder survival horror game from Project Siren.

Recently released episodically on the Playstation Network, the story focuses on an American Television crew in Japan looking for a lost village where supposedly human sacrifices took place. Whether solving puzzles, fighting or fleeing the undead, Siren: Blood Curse offers a blood curdling narrative with the most tense of atmospheres. In an alternate reality, a second disaster in Chernobyl has caused widespread mutation leading to the creation of a race of mutant animals.

You play an amnesiac who saw that coming? A classic survival horror game that sees you step into the shoes of Jack, a passenger on a plane that crashes somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Jack is the only survivor and is drawn to a mysterious lighthouse which, once in side, reveals itself to be a bathysphere terminal that transports you to the dystopian underwater city of Rapture. To say much more about the plot and cast of characters would spoil this game, however, putting it bluntly, things haven't exactly gone to plan in the new Eden.

Deranged, pychopathic humans, mutated monsters and more lie in wait within the well-realised watery grave of a city that is Rapture, with some fantastic storytelling and level design to be found within. Clearly influenced by Ayn Rand, George Orwell and Paradise Lost, this is one hell of entertaining survial horror game. Now, would you kindly check out some more awesome content on T3. Deputy Editor for T3. You can find Rob's work in magazines, bookazines and online, as well as on podcasts and videos, too.

Feel free to contact him with any related products, events, and announcements. Samantha comes face to face with a masked killer, wearing only her towel!

Poor girl. She must be freezing. Mike finds a bizarre contraption inside of an old and abandoned hospital. And from then on … Ethan more or less descends directly into Hell. This game is a gorefest! This game breathes a breath of fresh air into the Resident Evil series, and rejuvenates it by making the setting, graphics, and storyline graphic, gory, and great. The feeling of rot permeating is only added onto the setting by the vicious, fungus-like mold that grows in every inch of the house.

Do be warned: This is a dark, twisted game. There were parts I had to watch with my eyes covered. If you decide to play it yourself, I hope you have a strong stomach.

This is the van you find that belongs to the last people who decided to step foot into the Baker residence. The lovely Ms. If I were you, buddy, I would have just left. Your wife, Lyn Langermann, is also missing among residents who believe she is the mother of none other than the Antichrist. Dark, gore filled, twisted, and heavily biblical, Outlast 2 is a masterpiece of horror.

You are more than just helpless, you are prey walking straight into the den of the monsters. With the great transition between memory and reality, the question of the Antichrist really being inside of your wife, the terrifying, unkillable NPCS who only want you to die at the hands of their violent tools, and the found footage aspect that people loved about the first Outlast, Outlast 2 is the kind of game to give you nightmares within the first five minutes of playing it.

If your stomach churned over Resident Evil 7, maybe a lets play is more your speed, I know I had to keep my lunch down a few times while just watching this cinematic, pulse-shaking game. Oh, and be warned also that there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of referenced sexual violence against men and women. A crazed villager with a machete in hand looks for Blake as he hides underneath a bed. This is one of the many stealth elements that are essential to survival.

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