A collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, P.T. still has my vote for the scariest game of 2014 so far. – PS4ĭespite turning out to be an elaborate demo for the next Silent Hill game, P.T. I don’t know why ghosts are scarier when you’re looking at them on a screen on another screen, but somehow they just are. Imagine Fatal Frame but with smartphones and digital cameras, and you’ve got something close to DreadOut. Give it an hour of your time, and prepare to sleep with the lights on tonight. It might be text-based, but the uncle who works for nintendo manages to channel terror and childhood uncertainty in ways that very few stories (let alone games) have ever done before. Sounds like a nice place! the uncle who works for nintendo – Browser Based There you’re tasked with finding shelter and tools oh, and avoid the roving bands of nocturnal, cannibal mutants who live in caves beneath the island. The game places you on a forested island as the lone survivor of a plane crash. It might still be in Early Access, but that doesn’t mean The Forest is missing any scares. This one is not as overtly terrifying as others on this list, but it’s got a creeping sense of dread that’s going to stick with you for long after you finish playing. Have you ever woken up from a dream, only to find that you’re actually still asleep? In Neverending Nightmares, Thomas is in that boat, only every time he “wakes up,” he finds himself in an even more twisted version of his dream. That’s not a particularly scary gig, if it weren’t for the fact that the animatronic animal characters get a little bit more… animated when the sun goes down. Five Nights at Freddy’s – PC, Mobileįive Nights at Freddy’s tasks you with being the night security guard at a struggling Chuck E. No walkthrough is going to help you here. Daylight gets even more terrifying when you realize that the maze-like environment is randomly generated.
Waking up with no memories in an abandoned hospital ? No thank you. On a personal note, it scared me so much that I wanted to throw up. Instead of the usual assortment of jump scares that most games rely on, Isolation‘s monster instead hunts you using a complex artificial intelligence system, tracking you by sight, sound, and smell. Inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror movie, Alien: Isolation pits you against a single murderous monster who stalks you across the entire game. In space, no one can hear you scream… but my neighbors certainly can.
Alien: Isolation – PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Among the Sleep puts you in the tiny shoes of a two-year-old navigating a nightmarish dreamscape with his talking teddy bear, and considering you’re a baby, there’s not a whole lot you can do but hide when things get dangerous. The world can be a scary place for a toddler, especially when there might be actual monsters about. If you can’t wait that long to get your horror fix on though, we’ve got 9 games to keep you up at night while you wait. Shinji Mikami, the guy who brought us the original Resident Evil, is returning to horror games later this month with The Evil Within.