The Best Survival-horror Games

Update : Midnight Special added at rank #1.
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Midnight Special (2026)

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early access PC Windows

Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1978 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

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  • horror
  • genres
  • 1980s
  • survival-horror
  • point-and-click
  • various
  • text
  • psychological
  • retro
  • historical
  • alternate
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • pixel
  • atmospheric

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Cronos: The New Dawn (2025)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch 2 PC Windows Mac OS

A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.


  • survival-horror
  • travel
  • horror
  • 1980s-era
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • post-apocalyptic
  • third-person
  • time
  • retro-futurist
  • tps
  • resource-management
  • futuristic
  • dystopian
  • gore

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Heartworm (2025)

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PC Windows j

Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.

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  • survival-horror
  • horror
  • retro
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • psx
  • gothic
  • surreal
  • puzzle
  • investigation

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Whispers in the Dark (2025)

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PC Windows

Whispers in the Dark is an online cooperative RPG horror game mixing exploration phases of haunted and management places. Improve your character, his knowledge of the paranormal, his skills and his tools thanks to a research system.

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  • investigation
  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • rpg
  • class
  • customization
  • idler
  • gun
  • supernatural
  • resource-management
  • 3d
  • heist
  • character
  • realistic
  • action

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Night of the Consumers (2025)

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PC Windows

Start your new job in a store overrun by maniacal consumers and their unrelenting thirst for customer service. RETAIL IS HELL!

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  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • first-person
  • horror
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • blood
  • action-adventure
  • fps
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • comedy
  • arcade
  • pixel

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Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (2025)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Reclaim your destiny. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny returns with higher resolution graphics and modernised controls to perform issen critical counter attacks and intense swordplay. Experience this dramatic revenge story set in Feudal Japan.

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  • demons
  • swordplay
  • action-adventure
  • ninja
  • survival-horror
  • hack-and-slash
  • historical
  • action
  • story
  • cinematic
  • romance
  • puzzle
  • combat
  • fight
  • dark

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Labyrinth Of The Demon King (2025)

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

Venture through the Labyrinth Of The Demon King, solving puzzles and fighting fearsome monsters in an epic quest to track down the demon who betrayed your lord and end its life.


  • horror
  • dungeon-crawler
  • survival-horror
  • retro-grim
  • demons
  • first-person
  • fantasy
  • swordplay
  • dark
  • mythology
  • psychological
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • medieval
  • action-adventure

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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 (2025)

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PC Windows

MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.

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  • match-three
  • survival-horror
  • escape
  • room
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • comedy
  • cyberpunk
  • mystery
  • narrative
  • rpg
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • exploration
  • horror

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Post Trauma (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • cinematic
  • puzzle
  • thriller
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • old-school
  • gore
  • action-adventure
  • blood
  • third-person

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White Knuckle (2025)

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early access PC Windows

White Knuckle is a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game. Ascend through the guts of SUB-STRUCTURE 17 using precision movement mechanics. Sharp reflexes and resource management will bring you out from under ten thousand meters of concrete and decay.

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  • parkour
  • horror
  • platform
  • underground
  • first-person
  • rogue-like
  • survival-horror
  • precision
  • perma-death
  • attack
  • score
  • pve
  • dark
  • 3d
  • old-school

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