Best Horror games: The 32 Scariest Games 2022
This article was updated on 10 October 2023. We’ve added a game and adjusted the ranking of the top horror games. Check out our new article featuring the best horror games of 2023, based on the latest scores given by players.
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Best Horror games: The 32 Scariest Games 2022
Here is the ultimate list of the best horror video games released in 2022. We have selected the most terrifying games of the year on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
Here, you’ll find all genres of scary games, including survival horror games, action-based, psychological, multiplayer horror games, co-op games, with or without VR, and even reverse horror games.
For each game, we have prepared a summary, highlights, and a video to give you an idea of what they are about, and we’ve compared prices to help you buy each of these scary games at the best price.
Make sure to click on the offers to see other valid promos and discount codes to pay even less for each game.
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Scary Games 2022 PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX, Switch:
2022 was an incredible year for horror game releases on PC and consoles, including Elden Ring, voted Game of the Year and Best RPG at The Game Awards 2022.
Other highly anticipated releases included the survival horror Dying Light 2, the latest episode of The Dark Pictures Anthology series, and Resident Evil Village.
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Top Horror Games 2022:
- Faith: The Unholy Trinity
- Dread Delusion
- Elden Ring
- SCP: Secret Files
- The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation
- Last Days of Lazarus
- Bad Dreams
- Ghost Watchers
- Signalis
- The Mortuary Assistant
- Immortality
- SCP: 5K
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Yomawari Lost in the Dark
- Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel
- The Quarry
- Madison
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Thymesia
- Dying Light 2
- Saturnalia
- In Nightmare
- Martha is Dead
- Choo-Choo Charles
- Scorn
- The Chant
- Oxide Room 104
- Evil Dead the Game
- DO NOT OPEN
- The Callisto Protocol
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
- Resident Evil Re: Verse
Summaries of the Best Horror Video Games 2022
1. Faith: The Unholy Trinity
PC Download: Steam, Gog.com
Genre: Adventure, Indie, Retro, Exorcism
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 9.6
Faith: The Unholy Trinity is a spooky game made for fans of pixelated retro gams from the 8-bit era of the 80s.
Summary:
You are a young priest that fights evil by practicing exorcism against evil entities and satanist sects.
Visit cemeteries and abandoned chapels, prevent satanic cults aimed at awakening demons, fix the mistakes of previous exorcists, and drive out the darkness of this terrible world armed only with your crucifix.
Faith: The Unholy Trinity is a PC-only horror game.
Price of Faith: The Unholy Trinity:
2. Dread Delusion
PC Download: Steam
Genre: RPG, Action, Adventure, Early Access, Magic, Alchemy, Retro
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 9.4
Dread Delusion is a PC horror game set in a vast open world populated by scary monsters, in which your choices influence the course of your journey.
Summary:
As a prisoner of the Apostatic Union that rules the floating islands of Oneiric, you are offered freedom in exchange for the capture of the outlaw Vela Callose, the leader of the Black Star mercenaries.
Go on an adventure, explore, interact with NPCs, take on challenges in the many side quests, and change the course of history.
Price of Dread Delusion:
3. Elden Ring
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: RPG, Action, Dark Fantasy
Features: Single-player, PvP, multiplayer, online co-op, open world
VR: No
Rating: 9.4
Elden Ring is easily the Game of the Year for 2022 after it swept all the awards: Best Role-Playing Game, Best Art Direction, Best Direction, and Best Multiplayer Game in its more than 365 GOTY (Game Of The Year) awards.
As well as having incredible scenery, it features single-player, co-op, and PvP modes.
Summary:
The Circle of Eden has been fragmented and scattered in The Land Between, and chaos has set in with the demi-gods who possess the fragments reigning supreme.
You play as a Shardless who must find the Circle of Eden’s pieces and restore them to save the world from destruction.
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4. SCP: Secret Files
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: Scheduled for 2023
Genre: Adventure, Independent, Paranormal, Science Fiction
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 9.0
Greatly inspired by the TV series X-Files, SCP Secret Files is a game based on the stories of the SCP Foundation, a collaborative writing site focused on science fiction.
Nominated in several Indieplay 2022 categories for its narrative and visual excellence, SCP: Secret Files is a single-player first-person horror game with plenty of jump scares.
Summary:
Karl has just been hired as a researcher in this secret organization to archive various files when a paranormal event seriously affects his mental health.
During the investigation, he faces many unexplainable events and strange phenomena that are often frightening.
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5. The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: Scheduled for release in 2023 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Action, RPG, Survival Horror, Infiltration, Stealth, Exploration
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 9.0
The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation is a psychological horror game based on a well-known Taiwanese legend and directed as a first-person film.
Immersive and very scary, it will make you jump for sure! It’s an excellent game to play alone in the dark on Halloween.
Summary:
At Tunghu University, six students who do not believe in the paranormal legend of the female ghost on the campus bridge, unfortunately, awaken her curse.
Now they must use their detective skills to explore and gather all the information that will allow them to unravel the secret of this cursed girl and escape the campus without being killed.
The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation is a truly terrifying game, and it is available on Windows PC while releases on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch are scheduled for 2023.
Price of The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation:
6. Last Days of Lazarus
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS5, Xbox Series
Genre: Adventure, Indie, Investigation, 1st person
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 9.0
Last Days of Lazarus is a walking simulator set in Romania amid post-soviet decadence.
The game is divided into eight chapters; in the odd chapters, you explore the house, and in the even chapters, you’ll find yourself in other places.
Summary:
After the death of his mother, Lazarus decides to join his sister in the family home when a series of bizarre events transforms his reality and the world around him.
A curse is at work, and he must find a way to stop it.
Price of The Last Days of Lazarus:
7. BAD DREAMS
PC Download: Steam,
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, Early access
VR: Yes
Features: Single-player
Rating: 8.9
Bad Dreams is a VR horror game that works with a VR headset (Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, and it also works on Meta Quest 2 and Pico Neo) for an even more immersive experience.
The terror is palpable, and your worst nightmares come to life. A wristband tells you if you’re going crazy!
Summary:
You are on a beautiful sandy beach watching the sunset, an idyllic vision, but you sense that something is not quite right, and soon this dreamy vision turns into a frightening nightmare.
The beach is home to an underground labyrinth teeming with horrific and evil creatures. Solve puzzles as you explore this complex, choose to fight or avoid the monstrosities that haunt the area and try to escape without losing your mind.
BAD DREAMS PC Price:
8. Ghost Watchers
PC Download: Steam,
Genre: Adventure, JCE (player vs environment), Early Access
VR: Yes (tag is present on Steam)
Features: Single-player, online co-op
Rating: 8.8
Ghost Watchers is a PC co-op horror game that allows up to 4 players to play as a team online.
This horror game, where you play as ghost hunters, is currently in Early Access.
Summary:
Form a team of 4 players and hunt for ghosts that haunt gloomy places, and use your equipment to detect, study and capture various entities, tortured souls, evil demons, vampires, and other evil creatures.
Price of Ghost Watchers:
9. Signalis
PC Download: Steam, Microsoft
Consoles: PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Survival Horror, Science Fiction, 3rd person, Action, Adventure
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 8.8
Signalis is a classic sci-fi aerial survival horror inspired by the works of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch.
Like the first Resident Evil, you’ll solve many puzzles and have a limited inventory, but you can store items in dedicated locations.
Signalis received an overall positive reception and was nominated for Best Horror Game in 2022 thanks to its environment and story.
Summary:
Under the totalitarian regime of EUSAN, individuals no longer have free will. Elster is one of the mass-produced android replicas created to do various jobs. When her spaceship crashes on an unknown ice planet, she searches for her Gestalt (human commander), Ariadne.
She must solve puzzles until she discovers the terrible mysteries that lurk in this abandoned colony.
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10. The Mortuary Assistant
PC Download: Steam
Genre: Horror, Supernatural, 1st person, Indie
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 8.4
There is probably no more macabre game than The Mortuary Assistant, literally and figuratively!
Awarded Indie Game of the Year 2022, this PC horror game occurs in a morgue. What could be more morbid?
Summary:
Having just graduated in Thanatopraxy (the practice of embalming the dead), you assist the undertaker at the River Field Mortuary. One night you are called to embalm some bodies only to find supernatural forces possess them.
Alone, you must find a way to embalm the dead while fending off demonic forces, using occult rituals, and performing exorcisms.
Price of The Mortuary Assistant:
11. Immortality
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: FMV, Adventure, Drama, Puzzle
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 8.4
Immortality’s creator Sam Barlow recruited two renowned writers, Amelia Gray and Allan Scott, to compose a captivating artistic thriller in FMV (Full Motion Video).
The game is loved by video game critics and was even nominated for the Golden Joystick Awards 2022 and The game Awards 2022 in the categories of Best Narrative, Ultimate Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, and Best Performance, and actress Manon Gage won the Best Performer trophy.
Summary:
Marissa Marcel is an actress who has been in 3 films that were never released, and after she mysteriously disappears, you must find clues to solve the mystery.
Price of Immortality:
12. SCP: 5K
PC Download: Steam,
Genre: Action, Standalone, Massively Multiplayer, Strategy, Early Access, FPS
VR: No
Features: Single-player, online co-op
Rating: 8.3
SCP 5K, formerly known as SCP Pandemic, is a tactical horror FPS based in the SCP universe.
Summary:
After discovering the existence of an evil entity in the subconscious of the human race, the CPS decides to develop a plan to exterminate the population. As part of the AFA (Anti-Foundation Alliance), you and your team are tasked with thwarting these plans by raiding Area 12.
Price of SCP 5K:
13. A Plague Tale: Requiem
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS5, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Action, Adventure, Infiltration, Horror
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 8.2
A Plague Tale Requiem is considered one of the best video games of 2022. It has been nominated in several categories and won many awards, especially for its soundtrack, artistic quality, and storyline.
The reviews are unanimous, and the scores are excellent for this sequel to A Plague Tale Innocence, released in 2019.
The game features a well-written story, fabulous scenery, a beautiful soundtrack, and a heartbreaking adventure.
Summary:
Amid the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death epidemic, Alicia and her brother Hugo, who is stricken with a strange curse, attempt to escape their painful past in search of a way to control Hugo’s strange power.
Price of A Plague Tale: Requiem:
14. Yomawari Lost in the Dark
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS4, Switch
Genre: Adventure, Strategy
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 7.9
Yomawari: Lost in the Dark is the third game in the Yomawari series that started in 2016 (a compilation of the first two episodes was released on Nintendo Switch in 2018).
Underneath its childish airs with the use of chibi (child or baby in Japanese), its praised for its originality in combining childhood innocence and night terror, as the heroine has no way to defend herself.
Summary:
Yuzu, a little girl bullied at school, decides to run away but wakes up in a forest with no memory of what happened. She learns she is cursed and must remove the curse before sunrise by recovering all her memories. Armed only with her torch, she must avoid the creatures of the night that haunt the town and face her fears.
Yomawari: Lost in the Dark is an excellent Switch, PS4, and PC horror game!
Price of Yomawari Lost in the Dark:
15. Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Genre:Independent, Survival Horror, Gore, FPS, Thriller
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 7.9
Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is a first-person survival horror game that is very much inspired by the Resident Evil series in terms of game mechanics and gameplay.
The game has been very well received and has received several awards and nominations, particularly thanks to its storyline, soundtrack, and visuals.
Summary:
Roberto Leite Lopes is a journalist who goes to investigate a hotel where paranormal activities are said to be taking place. He finds a strange camera that allows him to travel in time and parallel realities. He searches for the secrets hidden in this mysterious hotel through different stories in different timelines while fighting against the scary creatures that haunt the corridors.
Price of Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel:
16. The Quarry
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Genre: Survival horror, Adventure
Features: Single-player and local co-op
VR: No
Rating: 7.8
The Quarry is the typical video game influenced by 90s movies such as Scream, and I Remember What You Did Last Summer:
The game’s originality lies in the QTEs (quick time events), where the player has to make a quick choice that will influence the rest of the adventure.
Summary:
The summer camp ends at Hackett’s Quarry, and the counselors decide to celebrate. But unfortunately, one of the counselors sabotages the van to flirt one more night with the girl he is in love with, not knowing that a strange creature is lurking in the darkness.
Soon the evening turns into a nightmare, and everyone will have to make cruel and decisive choices that will upset relationships and become a matter of life and death. Who will you let survive?
Price of The Quarry:
17. Madison
PC Download: Steam, Gog
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Psychological Horror, Puzzle
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 7.8
Madison is an excellent psychological single-player horror game. The first-person camera view adds an oppressive atmosphere to an already disturbing narrative and its eerie sound effects.
Multiple times nominated for Best Horror Game 2022, it won the award for People’s Choice.
Summary:
Alone in a cursed house, you wake up in a dark room with your hands covered in blood. A demon named Madison forces you to continue an evil ritual begun decades ago and compels you to perform macabre acts. Armed with an instant camera that belonged to a serial killer 30 years ago, you must solve complex puzzles to stop the torture. Your polaroids will help you reveal the truth and connect the world of the living to the afterlife.
Madison is a great horror game for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Switch.
Price of Madison:
18. Ghostwire: Tokyo
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS5 Temporary Exclusive, planned for Xbox Series
Genre: Action, FPS, Survival
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 7.8
Ghostwire Tokyo is a first-person action-adventure game set in Japanese folklore.
Summary:
Following a paranormal event triggered by the dangerous Hannya, 99% of the world’s population disappears without a trace. Empty of its inhabitants, the city of Tokyo is invaded by specters, ghosts, and other inhuman creatures.
Young Akito Izuki was riding his motorbike when he got hit. This is the moment that KK, the spirit of a cynical and grumpy detective, chooses to take partial possession of his body and give him access to supernatural powers. They will have to cohabit in Akito’s body to discover the mystery behind the mass disappearance and find a way to save the world.
Price of Ghostwire: Tokyo:
19. Thymesia
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS5, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Action, Souls-like, RPG, Hack’n’Slash
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 7.7
Thymesia is a Souls-like (a game whose gameplay system resembles the Dark Souls series) with a strong Bloodborne influence and some technical aspects similar to Sekiro Shadows Die Twice.
Thymesia is a good hack-and-slash game with a double life bar system that requires you to combine combos and finishing moves to eliminate your opponents.
Another stand-out feature is that you can steal weapons during fights and make them more powerful.
Summary:
The plague has invaded the kingdom of Hermes and is turning its inhabitants into monsters. Corvus is the only hope to save this world in chaos. But unfortunately, he has amnesia and must find his memories deep within himself to reveal the truth and use his alchemical skills to find a cure.
Price of Thymesia:
20. Dying Light 2
PC Download: Steam, Epic Games
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Action, Adventure, RPG, Gore, Survival Horror, Crafting
Features: Single-player, online co-op, Zombies
VR: No
Rating: 7.6
Dying Light 2 has received many awards since its announcement at E3 and Gamescom in 2018, making it one of the most anticipated horror games of 2022.
It has been critically acclaimed for its dynamic parkour-rich gameplay, a compelling story full of twists and turns, creepy sound design, a game-changing day/night cycle, innovative combat, and its 4-player co-op mode.
Your choices will have consequences in this post-apocalyptic world, as each one will influence this fragile environment in real-time.
Summary:
15 years after the events of the first Dying Light released in 2015, where a strange virus infected the entire planet and turned the population into zombies, the survivors have taken refuge in The City, one of the last bastions of humanity.
Unfortunately, the city is plagued by conflicts between different factions during the day, and zombies invade the streets at night.
Fight in hand-to-hand combat, make alliances, and make the most of your parkour agility to explore The City and unravel the secret that will mean you stay human!
Price of Dying Light 2:
21. Saturnalia
PC Download: Epic games
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Horror, Survival, Adventure
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 7.4
Saturnalia is a rogue-lite, meaning a role-playing game played in a changing environment each time you play, and each time all your heroes die, the maze changes completely, but you keep your progress.
The critics praised this horror adventure game for its originality, rather frightening atmosphere, and artistic quality.
The developers of Santa Ragione borrowed several techniques from the cinema to refine their graphics, which gives the player the impression of being in a film adaptation.
Summary:
Choose one of four characters to explore an old Sardinian village, Gravoi, where myths and traditions are deeply rooted.
Discover clues, and collect tools and objects that will allow you to solve riddles to open secret passages in this dark labyrinth haunted by a frightening creature that hunts you. Your only weapon is a matchbox, which you must manage to avoid falling into darkness.
Price of Saturnalia:
22. In Nightmare
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS4, PS5
Genre: Adventure, Standalone, Survival, Strategy, Infiltration
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 7.4
In Nightmare is a stealth game set in an eerie dream world based on a little boy’s memories, where you move through a colorful world and solve increasingly complex puzzles while avoiding increasingly scary monsters.
Summary:
You play as a little boy from a broken family who is being bullied at school. Gradually, he closes himself off from the world to escape into his self-made reality. Finally, after a deep sleep, he finds himself trapped in his dreams, where his most terrible fears come to life and force him into an eternal nightmare.
To escape, he must show courage and ingenuity to avoid being caught by the terrifying creatures his own mind has created.
Price of In Nightmare:
23. Martha is Dead
PC Download: Steam, Epic Games, Gog.com, Microsoft
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Aventure, Thriller, Indie
Features: Single-player
VR: No
Rating: 7.3
Martha is Dead is a psychological horror video game not recommended for sensitive souls, probably because there is nothing supernatural here, only potentially inhuman, cruel, and disturbing events. It’s a cold horror intended for a mature and informed audience.
Critics have praised the game for its excellent storytelling, the quality of the visuals, and a remarkable soundtrack that sticks to the reality of the time.
Summary:
World War II rages in 1944, and in the Tuscan countryside, Giulia, the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer, discovers the death of her twin sister Martha and decides to take her place to find the truth about the cause of her death and protect her own secrets.
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24. Choo-Choo Charles
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: TBA
Genre: Action, Adventure, FPS, Open World
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating:7.1
Choo-Choo Charles is a first-person PC indie horror game inspired by the children’s book Charlie the Choo-Choo written by Stephen King in 2016.
Set in an open world, you must complete various objectives for NPCs to complete the main quest.
Summary:
You are a monster-hunting archivist called to the island of Aranearum to fight Charles, an evil half-train half-spider creature. To defeat him, you must upgrade your train, collect loot, add powerful weapons that you earn by completing quests for NPCs (non-player characters), and find Charles’ 3 glowing eggs that will allow you to summon him for the final battle.
But beware, you must eliminate him before others use him for world domination.
Price of Choo-Choo Charles:
25. Scorn
PC Download: Steam, Epic games, Gog.com, Microsoft
Consoles: Xbox Series
Genre: Horror, Gore, FPS, Puzzle
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 7.0
Scorn is a PC and Xbox Series X|S open-world horror game set in a genuinely terrifying single-player environment.
Everything is dark, gruesome, sinister, and dangerous. Every detail is important in this nightmarish maze. Immersion is total, and your life is hanging by a thread. You will have to make choices, including when to fight and when to hide.
Summary:
You are immersed in a gloomy universe where everything seems organic and dead. However, every setting has meaning; every world is interconnected, and to survive, you must solve complex puzzles while avoiding the horrible creatures that haunt these tormented places.
Price of Scorn:
26. The Chant
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS5, Xbox Series
Genre: Action, Adventure
VR: No
Features: Solo, 3rd person
Rating: 7.0
The Chant is a solo psychological survival horror game played in the third person. Its game mechanics are reminiscent of early Resident Evil titles, featuring an inventory system, combinable objects, puzzles to solve, and plants for healing. Players often feel a profound sense of vulnerability. The game’s bestiary is meticulously crafted and highly original, although one of the monsters bears a striking resemblance to the Demogorgon from the Stranger Things series. It’s a narrative-rich game with multiple endings and an atmosphere that ranges from eerie to panic-inducing.
Summary:
Jess Briars, profoundly affected by the death of her younger sister, accepts an invitation from a childhood friend to attend a New Age seminar on a remote island. During a sacred rite that goes horribly wrong, a rift to another dimension opens, unleashing supernatural creatures. Jess must monitor her mental and physical health, as well as her spiritual well-being, which is represented by gauges. She must be vigilant to avoid succumbing to overwhelming fear. As the situation unfolds, Jess faces decisions: to fight or flee, to explore further, craft new weapons, and gain experience to bolster her defenses.
Price of The Chant PC:
27. OXIDE ROOM 104
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Independent, Gore, FPS, Psychological Horror, 1st person, Escape Game
VR: No
Features: Single-player, Multiple endings, Multiple choices
Rating: 6.8
Oxide Room 104 is a single-player psychological first-person horror where you must interact with the environment to solve puzzles that require a certain amount of precision, making it a game primarily developed for PC.
Your choices will change the game and the story’s ending.
Summary:
After several bad life choices and an affair gone wrong, Matthew wakes up naked in a motel bathtub, where he’s forced to escape from a scary creature that lurks in the hallways.
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28. Evil Dead the Game
PC Download: Epic Games
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series (Switch version to come)
Genre: Horror, co-op
Features: Multiplayer, PVP, Single player, Competitive
VR: No
Rating: 6.8
Evil Dead: The Game primarily focuses on its 4-player co-op multiplayer mode, although it does have several missions in a single-player mode where you play as the famous Ash Williams.
Evil Dead: The Game is a horror game to play with friends. Although far from terrifying at times, the game is fun, dynamic, and gory, and it does feature fan-favorite weapons like Ash Williams’ chainsaw in Evil Dead 3.
Summary:
As a survivor, you must collect the necessary materials to survive by fighting evil entities to close the Necronomicon. As a demon, you’ll focus on having fun by destroying the survivors.
Price of Evil Dead the Game:
29. DO NOT OPEN
PC Download: Steam,
Consoles: PS4, PS5
Genre: Action, Adventure, Survival Horror
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 6.7
Do Not Open is a horror escape game played in first-person, in which you will have to solve puzzles to move to the next rooms. There are over 2 million combinations in the puzzles, making each game completely different.
Summary:
Mike has inherited his aunt’s mansion after her death, and one day, he realizes that he’s trapped in an evil version of the building, and to escape it, he must gather all the clues that will help him solve its terrifying mystery, ignoring the guilt he feels for betraying his family.
Price of Do Not Open:
30. The Callisto Protocol
PC Download: Steam, Epic Games
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Survival Horror, Science Fiction, Violent
VR: No
Features: Single-player
Rating: 6.3
The Callisto Protocol is a third-person survival horror game that was thought up and developed by the creators of the incredible Dead Space series and battle royale PUBG.
If you need the motivation to buy it, remember that Japan’s video game rating agency (CERO) censored The Callisto Protocol as being far too violent, meaning it’s gory.
Summary:
Jacob Lee’s spaceship crashes on Jupiter’s Moon, Callisto, where he is incarcerated in a maximum-security prison as a mysterious infection turns the inmates into bloodthirsty monsters. To escape the prison, Jacob must first find a way to survive.
The Callisto Protocol Price:
31. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Survival Horror
Features: Single-player, online co-op, local co-op
VR: No
Rating: 6.0
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of survival horror video games, of which The Devil in Me is the 4th and final episode of season 1, after Man of Medan (2019), Little Hope (2020), and House of Ashes (2021).
Each game in the series is a multilinear interactive narrative-focused game focusing on five characters whose choices influence the story’s outcome and can be fatal to other protagonists.
The Devil in Me switched things up by featuring an inventory and new modes of movement.
Summary:
A team of documentary filmmakers receives an invitation to visit the replica hotel of Henry Howard Holmes, considered the first American serial killer at the end of the 19th century said to have perpetrated over 200 murders.
They soon realize that they are being watched, and that the replica is a trap set by a sadistic man who wants to become the greatest serial killer in history, and to survive, they will need to outwit the many traps set and risk their lives to help each other.
Price of The Devil in Me:
32. Resident Evil Re: Verse
PC Download: Steam
Consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch
Genre: Action, Shooter, Horror, Gore, TPS
VR: No
Features: Multiplayer, Co-op, Online PvP
Rating: 4.4
Resident Evil Re: Verse is the competitive version of Resident Evil that was released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise. There’s no story or plot in this third-person shooter set in iconic locations from the series. There’s just adrenaline.
Summary:
Play as one of the six heroes of the Resident Evil franchise: Jill Valentine, Leon S. Kennedy, Ada Wong, Hunk, Chris Redfield, and his sister Claire in online multiplayer.
Defeated players turn into horrific biological weapons from the series, such as the Mycomorph Colossus, Hunter Y, Jack Baker, Nemesis, and Tyrant S, as they seek revenge. When they die, they become human again.
Price of Resident Evil Re: Verse:
Where to buy cheap scary games?
To buy horror video games for less, the easiest way is to find a price comparison site like Allkeyshop.com.
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How to get free scary games?
Some platforms specialize in free horror games, but these games are often poor quality.
If a game is free, it’s often because they are relatively simplistic and don’t require much effort in terms of graphics, soundtrack, or storyline.
Some platforms like Epic Games regularly offer free games from their catalog, but they are not necessarily scary games.
Game Pass-type subscriptions can be a great way to try out games for a while, but they may not contain the game you want.
Sony offers free PS4/PS5 horror games every week with the PS+ subscription.
On the other hand, you can earn free horror games with our loyalty program. Sign up for these benefits and earn your free horror game!
How to buy scary games for less?
- Compare the offers of horror games on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox, and Switch.
- On Allkeyshop, prices are updated several times a day and they are listed in ascending order.
- See the payment fees and taxes to find the best offer.
- Choose your payment method (credit card or PayPal) and display the actual costs by clicking on the “parameter” logo (the cogwheel).
- Use a discount code to pay less.
- Online shops provide us with their current coupon code to lower prices. Before paying, copy the coupon to get the discount.
- Buy gift cards.
- On platforms like Steam, buying a prepaid card to credit your account can save you money as they are often sold for less than they are worth (a €50 Steam card can sometimes cost €45).
- Participate in our loyalty program and spin the wheel to win a free horror game.
