10 horror games that will scare the living daylights out of you

9 years ago

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Watching a horror movie is one thing, but experiencing horror real time is a whole new level altogether. Thanks to technology (or not) we can now be bang in the center of a horror movie. No time for nail biting, no closing your eyes at really scary scenes, no getting sick in the stomach at gore and no turning it off, because you’re not watching a horror movie, you’re playing the lead character in it.

Here’s a list of 10 horror games that will give you sleepless nights

10) Daylight

Daylight is a first person adventure horror game that is set in an abandoned hospital. The player has only a smartphone flashlight to navigate the hospital. As far as gameplay is concerned it gets a little monotonous navigating the map, but when the level change kicks in it gets a whole lot better. The game has some pretty impressive graphics and the jump scares catch you when you least expect it. Overall, Daylight could use better gameplay.
Gameplay – 3/10
Scare Score – 3/10
Creep Score – 3/10
Gore – 0

9) Among The Sleep

Among the sleep is a mind game, it uses a 2 year old’s sleeping psyche as its setting. You guessed that right, this is a first person game and you are playing the child. The game takes the player through eerie landscapes that exist only in a child’s mind. The game itself isn’t scary when you play it for the first time, but it really messes with your head as you go deeper into it. The sights and sounds are morbid in a very twisted way, overall, Among The Sleep has some growing up to do.
Gameplay – 4/10
Scare Score – 2/10
Creep Score – 4/10
Gore Score – (Like Duh)

8) Slender: The Arrival

The game is set in a house on a creepy farm where Lauren (the lead character) goes to visit her friend Kate, but she finds Kate missing under mysterious circumstances. With no possible exit from the farm, Lauren is forced to find Kate before the Slender Man gets her. A lot of detail has gone into the game to make it as real as possible and it shows in the gameplay. The only prominent light that the player has is a flashlight, the game has some amazing Jump Scars.
Gameplay – 3/10
Scare Score 6/10
Creep Score 4/10
Gore Score – 0

7) Until Dawn

Until Dawn is more of a thriller than a horror game, it follows the same story line as movies such as ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legends’ and the likes. The game is set in a remote mountain location where a couple of friends spend a few days. Sam, the lead character is chased around by an unknown masked man trying to kill her, the player is given options to explore the house and eventually try and escape. It’s got a couple of nice jump scares and there is an old Grandfather clock that goes off time and again to give the player the creeps.
Gameplay – 4/10
Scare Score – 4/10
Creep Score – 6/10
Gore Score – 2/10

6) Soma

Soma is a Sci-Fi horror game, it is set in Pathos-2 a research facility which is slowly dissolving into chaos. It is ideally a FP escape game that is centered around behavioral anomalies and strange experiments, the half human, half machine types. There are no weapons, the player has to go around the facility trying to survive. There are very few human/robot interactions, therefore the game beautifully incepts loneliness in the player. If you liked Amnesia and Penumbra, Soma is a must play.
Gameplay – 4/10
Scare Score – 5/10
Creep Score – 3/10
Gore Score – 5/10

5) Alien Isolation

Just like the 1979 Ridley Scott movie, Alien Isolation is packed with jump scares, gore and action. The first-person survival horror game creates an atmosphere that has constant unpredictable dangers, the player is massively underpowered but must somehow finish the mission by scavenging for resources, and the end objective is to simply stay alive. The graphics are very realistic the gore is off the charts, the overall gameplay is tense and exciting.
Gameplay – 5/10
Scare Score – 6/10
Creep Score – 3/10
Gore Score – 7/10

4) Murdered: Soul Suspect

Murdered is not actually a horror game considering the fact that the player is the ghost. Although, it deserved to be on this list for its story line, graphics and gameplay. In Soul Suspect you play a FPS cop who’s dead. Yes! That is correct, the player is a ghost cop in search of his killer, but being a ghost, the player can see both worlds, the dead and the living, both worlds pose their own set of challenges which the player has to overcome. Murdered: Soul Suspect is one of the most underrated games.
Gameplay – 8/10
Scare Score – 4/10
Creep Score – 3/10
Gore Score– 2/10

3) Asylum

This one is a personal favourite of a lot of horror game fans. The story is set in an Asylum, hence the name, firstly if an Asylum is not a scary enough place to be, try a haunted one. The game is filled with locked cells, chained inpatients and a creepy receptionist. If Shutter Island had to be a horror movie, this would be it.
Gameplay – 3/10
Scare Score – 6/10
Creep Score – 6/10
Gore Score – 4/10

2) The Evil Within

Detective Sebastian Castellanos finds himself hanging feet up in a deranged world after his partners were killed while he and them were investigating a gruesome mass murder. He wakes up in a world where unearthly creatures wander among the dead. The game is a journey in which Sebastian investigates what’s behind the evil force behind the mass murder. Word of warning, this game is not for the weak stomach, it’s got jump scares, up front horror, unimaginable gore, blades, pins, knives, torture instruments and extremely creepy music.
Gameplay – 7/10
Scare Score – 5/10
Creep Score – 7/10
Gore Score – 10/10

1) Outlast

The story of Outlast is set in Mount Massive Asylum on the isolated mountains of Colorado. Journalist Miles Upshur breaks into it and (The Player) what he discovers is something terrifying, something that is not natural, he is confused as to whether it is science, religion or out-worldly, an abomination at its best perhaps. Outlast is a First Person escape game and it is sure to scare the living daylights out of the player.
Gameplay – 7/10
Scare Quotient – 8/10
Creep Quotient – 7/10
Gore Score – 7/10

So, that’s our list of 10 must play horror games, If you know of any other ones, put them down in the comments and we’ll add it to our list.