Horror games

Browse Horror games in the catalog — ranked, filterable, and updated as new releases land.

Horror games work by controlling what a player can see, hear, and do — a flashlight that only lights a few meters ahead, a save system that makes every checkpoint feel earned, a monster whose rules are never fully explained. The genre ranges from resource-starved survival horror where combat is a last resort, to games that remove combat entirely and rely on evasion and hiding, to more action-oriented entries that keep the dread while giving the player more ways to fight back. What separates the genre's best games from a cheap jump scare is atmosphere built over hours, not seconds — dread that accumulates rather than startles. The starting points below cover several horror traditions, from classic survival horror to evasion-only horror with no way to fight back to horror-action hybrids, worth exploring before deciding how much control (or how little) makes a scare actually land.