The Best Survival-horror Games

Update, : Amnesia: The Bunker added at rank #1.
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Amnesia: The Bunker (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.


  • horror
  • first-person
  • survival-horror
  • resource-management
  • i
  • survival
  • inventory
  • play
  • fps
  • gore
  • stealth
  • nonlinear
  • sandbox
  • violent
  • war

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Decarnation (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Decarnation is a story rich adventure horror game. Solve cryptic puzzles, fight disturbing enemies, explore a phantasmagorical world of dreams and nightmares, and face the most terrifying monsters from the darkest parts of your soul.


  • psychological
  • survival-horror
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • cryptic
  • lovecraftian
  • dark
  • mature
  • (
  • story
  • pixel
  • isometric
  • narration
  • rhythm
  • narrative

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The Outlast Trials (2023)

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early access PC Windows Android

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?


  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • first-person
  • stealth

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Resident Evil 4 (2023)

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Playstation 5 Android Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X

Experience the horror-survival genre at its finest with Resident Evil 4. As agent Leon S. Kennedy, you will be on a mission to save the President's daughter from a mysterious cult in a secluded European village. The modernized gameplay, updated graphics, and reimagined storyline add new life to this classic game. With terrifying locals to fight, it's a world where life and death, terror and catharsis intersect. Get the Deluxe Edition, and you get extra DLC packs, making the experience even more immersive.


Pros:
  • Satisfying gunplay
  • Thorough exploration with a lot of treasures and challenges
  • Reimagined segments with expanded areas
  • Improved handling of companion character Ashley
  • All-time action great with a balance of tension and cheesiness
Cons:
  • Controls may feel heavy
  • Dodging system can be frustrating
  • Over-explaining story elements detracts from the horror
  • Time limits for ranking rewards can be difficult to achieve without rushing through the game

  • survival-horror
  • zombies
  • horror
  • remake
  • shooter
  • inventory
  • action
  • boss-fight
  • classic
  • cooperative
  • puzzle

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Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (2023)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

“FATAL FRAME: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse” was released in Japan in 2008. The girls rely on the Camera Obscura, a camera with the power to capture and seal away unthinkable horrors.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • supernatural
  • detective

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Sons of the Forest (2023)

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PC Windows

Sons of the Forest is a thrilling open-world survival horror game where you're sent to a remote island to find a missing billionaire, only to discover that it's a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft and build your own way to survive alone or with friends, fight demons with a range of weapons, and survive changing seasons. The game has co-op mode, so you can work together with friends to build defenses and explore above and below ground.

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Pros:
  • Fun and entertaining to play
  • Endless building possibilities
  • Lovely story that can replace life
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Great potential for expansion and development
Cons:
  • Short game with not enough content
  • Minor or annoying bugs
  • High expectations not met
  • Disappointing or confusing endings
  • Needs more work and development

  • survival
  • survival-horror
  • crafting
  • horror
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • inventory

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Arrogation: Unlight of Day (2023)

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PC Windows

Arrogation: Unlight of Day brings you a mysterious exotic horror adventure. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.

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  • vision
  • 3d
  • horror
  • lore
  • survival-horror
  • immersive
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • gore
  • supernatural
  • detective
  • zombies
  • survival
  • first-person
  • story

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Boing (2023)

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Android PC Windows

Boing is a fast paced action game where you are the weapon, defending against waves of more and more challenging enemies.


  • incremental
  • collectathon
  • arcade
  • puzzle
  • survival-horror
  • platform
  • single-player
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • funny
  • shoot-em-up
  • cartoony
  • first-person
  • comedy

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Cannibal Abduction (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The family is hungry and he must provide, VHS slasher survival horror.

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  • 1980s
  • survival-horror
  • horror
  • gore
  • retro
  • mystery
  • violent
  • single-player

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PROJECT: PLAYTIME (2022)

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early access PC Windows

PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • romance
  • lore
  • character
  • team
  • psychological
  • 3d
  • dark
  • cooperative
  • customization
  • multiplayer
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • online

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