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The Scariest Video Games

The best suggestions for horror video games lovers.

By Tyler MilesPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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The widespread use of video games leads to the existence of different genres of them. Scary game lovers say that the feeling of playing horror games is far better than watching movies and gives you that real adrenaline rush. In these games, the quality must always be more than the quantity to give a greater experience to the player. The graphics help players to transfer to another reality and feel the fear that their character feels. Horror games are based on narrative or visual presentation. Haunted House is one of the first horror games, released in 1992 but which is the scariest video game ever made?

Silent Hill 2

It is a survival horror game, published by Konami for PlayStation 2 in 2002. The main character is James Sunderland, who is a widower. He receives a letter from his wife, but she has been dead for 3 years ago and wants to tell him that she’s waiting for him. James has to go search for his wife because of his hope for her to still be alive. He has to go through different creatures, killing them and surviving along the way, which will prove to be a real challenge. The gamer can walk or run and he doesn’t have much visibility around. The health of the character is kept up and regenerated by drugs. In addition to playing, you have to listen to the story in order to fully immersive yourself in this world. The more you get into the game, the scarier and more real it gets.

Litte Nightmares

The game is a puzzle- platform horror game published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One on April 28, 2017. It is quite a simple game in terms of the idea. A young girl, dressed in a yellow raincoat, is in the nightmarish world of Maw and she has to go through many rooms and has to run away from some carnivorous creatures. The game gives the player the feeling of always being in a nightmare and the terrible atmosphere around gives the player more frightening and horrific feelings than any real-world encounter would!

Condemned: Criminal Origins

This is one of the scariest first-person survival horror video games. Condemned is published by Sega in 2005 on the Xbox 360 and on Windows in 2006. The creation of the game is inspired by films such as The Silence of the Lambs and Seven. In the game, there is only one mode: single-player. The gamer must solve puzzles, look for fingerprints and also look for evidence. The player fights against killers, drug addicts by fighting physically and the weapons are boards of pipes and whatever else they find. But also the player can shoot his enemy with just one shot if he uses powerful weapons.

Darkwood

Darkwood is a top-down survival horror video game, which is developed by Acid Wizard Studio. The game was released on July 24, 2014 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, SteamOS and Ubuntu. It’s only available in single-player mode and the player here is in a different world. The gamer is in a forest where he is fighting for his survival. Different creatures are trying to attack you and the only way to survive is to be in your hut and defend yourself. You can work during the day and repair your hiding place but at night you must fight with scary creatures. Your aim is to survive the night and if you succeed – win some privileges and get bonuses. If you fail, wake up the next morning and will have lost half of your inventory.

Until Dawn

This game is a 2015 interactive drama survival horror published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. The game is played only by one person. The player doesn’t know what awaits him at night and depending on his decisions to survive, the game story will change. The player is being chased by an unknown figure and this terrifies the characters in the game.

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