Top 10 Games: Horror

The highest-graded horror games we have reviewed, best first.

  1. Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake)2023The remake that dared to rewrite a perfect game's combat and came out ahead.Read the review
  2. Alan Wake 22023Remedy stops apologising for being weird and delivers the most formally daring big-budget horror game in years.
  3. The Last of Us Part II2020Technically staggering, mechanically superb, and structurally determined to make you resent it.
  4. Bloodborne2015Gothic horror that mutates into cosmic horror mid-game, powered by the most aggressive combat in the Souls line.
  5. Resident Evil (2002 Remake)2002The rare remake that beats the original at its own game and then quietly keeps going.
  6. Silent Hill 22001The monsters are the guilt, the town is the sentence, and the whole thing was about the letter from the start.
  7. Silent Hill 22024The remake nobody trusted, and it understood exactly which parts of the original were untouchable.
  8. Dead Space (2023 Remake)2023A remake that keeps the original's silences and rebuilds the Ishimura into one continuous ship you can walk end to end.
  9. BioShock2007A city with a thesis, and the moment a game turned its most invisible convention into a knife.
  10. Lies of P2023A belle epoque Pinocchio built out of borrowed parts, and the first imitator to earn a seat at the table it copied.

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