17 Best Serial Killer Games for PC

Still Life 2 revolves around Adventure gameplay and supports Single-player mode developed by Gameco Studios and published by Microids for Multiple Platforms. The game is the sequel to Still Life, released in 2005, and revolves around the characters and themes of Post Mortem video game, released in 2003. The story follows the FBI special agent named Victoria McPherson who is struggling to track down and fending off the serial killer. The gameplay has moved with the murderer called the East Coast Killer, to Maine. It uses the similar storytelling device of switching back and forth between two different playable characters to its predecessor. The 2nd character in one of the victims of the killer, named Paloma Hernandez, covering the crimes of the East Coast Killer, making the game switch between survival and investigation. The player can use the point-and-click interface to control the actions and movements of the protagonist and can explore the environment to find clues and include them in his inventory to use later when needed. Still Life 2 includes prominent features such as Puzzle Solving Gameplay, Detailed Graphics, Original Soundtracks, and more.

Party Hard is an Action, Stealth and Single-player video game developed by Pinokl Games and published by tinyBuild for multiple platforms. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is the serial killer and infiltrate several parties with the aim of slaughtering all attendants without getting caught. The attendants will alert and call the cops, if the player kills the person with another sigh of the party-goer, or if the non-player characters find a dead body. During the gameplay, to avoid cops, the player must hide the bodies in dumpsters and other locations. In the game, the player can set the traps, like making speaker noise, poising drinks, destroying the floors, cutting down trees, short-circuits, etc. The game limited the player to use weapons like bombs, swords, stun grenades, and bombs gathered from containers. The game rewards the player with bonuses regularly, and the bouncers will damage the player, if the player gets spotted, causing the death. Party Hard includes prominent features such as Serious Storyline, Multiple Unlockable Characters, Local Co-op Mode, Special Random Events, Weapons, and more. Try it out, and enjoy.

El Matador created by Plastic Reality Technologies is an Action-packed, Third-person Shooter and Single-player video game for Windows platform. It offers a thrilling story and revolves around the protagonist named as Victor Corbett, who is a DEA agent. Upon returning from his training camp, the protagonist finds his beloved brother was killed in the fictional land South America by a serial killer who was sent by the gang called La Valedora. The protagonist decides to take the revenge of his brother’s murder from the boss of the group. You control the main character named Victor Corbet, who has to explore the environment from a third-person shooter, use a variety of weapons and fight against the supporters of the gang boss. You have an ability to control your arms in both hands and complete your objectives to progress the story. It has the similar gameplay to Max Payne. Movie-style Storyline, realistic Weapons, a wide range of graphical effects, etc. are the key features. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy.

Town of Salem is a Party, Role-playing and Strategy video game developed and published by BlackMediaGames. The game offers the similar gameplay to Mafia with similar roles. It tasks place in the fictional world populated with criminals, gangsters, enemies, and others. It consists of seven to fifteen players and they are divided into different alignments such as Serial Killers, Town Mafia, Neutrals, and Arsonists. If the player assume the role of the good guy, then his ultimate task is to take down the bad guys, criminals and evils before they kill him. In the game, the player don’t know who is the villain and the member of the town. If the player take on the role of the evil as a serial killer, his aim is to silently murder the members of the town at night and struggle to avoid getting captured. Town of Salem offers prominent features such as Day/Night Cycle, Judgement, Defense, Achievements, Customization and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Hearthfire is a 2nd Expansion Pack for Action Role-playing and Single-player video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The game takes place in an open-world environment, and the DLC pack focuses on acquiring and improving the land, enabling the player to create and modify his home. It offers adoption system, letting the player option of adopting up to two children to love with them in his beautiful and customizable house. The game allows the player to buy a plot of land and construct the house using raw materials like clay and lumber, with the choices of additional features such as beehives, greenhouses, and alchemy, and other facilities. There are three different homesteads that the player can create such as Windstad Manor, Lakeview Manor, and Heliharchen Hall. During the gameplay, the player can hire stewards to look after his beautiful house, carriage drivers for safe transportation, and more. In the game, the player has an option to raise the family by adopting children and advances through the game. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Hearthfire includes core features such as Select your Land, Customization, New Objectives and Interaction, Adoption System, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard is an Expansion Pack for the Action Role-playing and Single-player Open World video game The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim, developed by Bethesda Game Studios. The DLC pack offers the Vampire lord named as Harkon, who has returned to power and looking to end the sun by using the Elder Scrolls. The game invites you to join the ancient order of the Dawnguard and struggle to fend off him. The DLC pack comes with all new faction quests and locations. It has two unique skill trees such as one for Lycanthropy and one for vampirism. At the starting of the game, the player is given a choice to either become a part of forces with the vampiric Volkihar Clan, or battle as the vampire hunters called the Downguard. The player can explore the world from a third-person perspective with a task to take down enemies to score the points. The game introduces a variety of weapons, spells, armours, and shouts. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard includes core features such as New Weapons, Become the Vampire Lord, Werewolf Perks, New Locations, and more.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is an Action Role-playing, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game published by Bethesda Game Studios and developed by Bethesda Softworks. The game brings the epic fantasy to the real life in fabulous details and introduces the acclaimed title and DLCs with new features like remastered effects and art, dynamic depth of field, volumetric god rays and more. The game is playable from both first-person and third-person perspective. The player assumes the protagonist’s role and his ultimate goal is to navigate the landscape of Skyrim, comprising dungeons, towns, wildness expanses, villages and fortresses. During the gameplay, interact with non-player characters and environment to progress through the plot, and explore the world either on foot or by riding horse. The game features a variety of challenging quests and each quest has a special requirements that the player has to fulfill to gain experience points and use them to upgrade his character and more. With improved mechanics, superb graphics, and wonderful controls, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is an Action and Role-Playing Game (RPG) video game. The game sets in the fantasy world of Skyrim located in the territory of Tamriel, in which the protagonist roams in an open world and fights with the enemies. The game focuses on a war that started almost 200 years ago between Stormcloaks and Imperial Legion. The game kicks off with the protagonist being transferred for execution along with other Stormcloak soldiers and their leader Ulfric Stormcloak when a dragon suddenly comes and interrupts the procession by attacking and devastating the whole town. The protagonist runs and takes refuge in a nearby village of Riverwoods and starts gathering items and weapons and a place to live. Upon returning to Dragonstorm he slays a dragon and absorbs the soul of the dragon to use the abilities and fight against the Legion. The story continues and the protagonist continues his search of Paarthurmax. After finding Paarthurmax, player gets to the land of Legion and kills their lord and this installment of the Skyrim Series concludes. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim provides with an amazingly addictive and quite engaging game-play, a beautifully embedded and character oriented story along with super realistic graphics. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as an absolutely fantastic creation of Bethesda Softworks that will surely entertain you enough. Do try it out.

L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is an Action-Adventure, Virtual Reality (VR), Detective-based, and Single-player video game developed and published by Rockstar Games for Microsoft Windows. It offers fascinating gameplay takes place in 1940s Los Angeles setting. The game places the player in the shoes of a detective named as Cole Phelps with several objectives of solving brutal crimes, inspired by real cases from the historic year 1947 in Los Angeles, one of the most brutal and violent times in the history of Los Angeles. In the game, the player has an opportunity to show off his detective skills to solve challenging cases. The game introduces seven cases of VR and offers a new layer of realism and immersion to atmosphere crime as the player solve choose chases from the previous title. The player navigates the land from a first-person viewpoint, engage in various chases, and take part in fistfights and shootout to take down the suspects while advancing through the plot. L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files include core features such as Search for Clue, Engage in Chases, Interrogate Witnesses, Detective’s Notebook, and more.

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is an Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. The game acts as the spin-off of the Danganronpa series of visual novel video games, taking place between the events of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and Danganropa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Unlike other Visual Novel video games, the game offers the Third-person perspective and adventure gameplay with horror elements, in which the player assumes the role the protagonist named as Komaru Naegi. The player must struggle to survive in the harsh city threatened by Monokuma robots. The player is armed with a megaphone-shaped gun that can use different types of bullets. Using the gun, the player can perform different actions such as taking control of foes, attacking enemies, attractive machinery, and more. During the gameplay, the player explores the world from a third-person perspective, the battle against enemies, and take down them to earn points. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls includes core features such as Third-person Shooter, Puzzle-based Gameplay, Ton of Ammo, and more.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game created and published by Spike Chunsoft. The game serves as the third installment in the series of Danganronpa and brings a thrilling storyline revolves around the female protagonist, a high school student named as Kaede Akamatsu, who is abducted and finds herself in the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles. During the exploration, the player will discover fellow students including Shuichi Saihara. The gameplay is similar to its previous titles, and the ultimate task of the player is to manipulate the land, interact with non-player characters to progress through the game until coming across a brutal murder. After that, the player needs to gather evidence for the murder and use in the class rail. Like previous entries, the game focuses on endless debate, in which the player discusses the case with other NPCs and struggle to fulfill the requirement of each case while earning experience. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony offers prominent features such as Murder Mysteries, Detailed Debate, new Mini-Games, and more.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. It is the 2nd marvelous title in the series of Danganronpa and the sequel to Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The story of the game centers on a team of high school students who stuck on a remote Island by their headmaster named Monokuma, who is a crazy scientist. The player has to kill one of his companions and not be captured in the investigation to escape the Island. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous entry and lets the player select his character to dive into the fun-filled game where he has to fulfill a variety of quests to get freedom otherwise he has to face death. The player has to explore the environment, find clues, interact with NPCs and solve the mystery of the Island to make an escape. To unlock achievements, the player has to survive as long as possible and earn lots of points to unlock further content. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair offers prominent features such as Deadly Island, Lots of Levels, Challenging Gameplay, Survival Elements and more. It is the best game as compared to other Visual Novel games.

Saw is a Horror-Survival video game for those players who love playing terrifying games developed by Zombie Studios and published by Konami. The game supports Single-player mode and available to play on PlayStation and Xbox platforms. The game is inspired by the horror movie having the same name. It casts you in the role of the protagonist named David Tapp who is detective and revolves around his struggle for his life. In the beginning, Tapp stuck in an abundant asylum and he must travel to collect clues and take revenge from Jigsaw for the murder of his beloved friends. As he navigate the environment, he encounter lots of people with past and his relation with them, whom he has to rescue. The asylum is populated with a strange inhabitant who wants to kill Tapp. There are challenging levels, and the protagonist must complete each one to save his and his friends life. Earn points and explore the world from third-person perspective, interact with NPCs, and objectives and complete tasks. With superb and horrific gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Saw is the best game to play and amuse.

Broken Sword is an Adventure game series with strong Point and Click elements. The first game in the series was released in 1996 named Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. The story of series revolves around the protagonists named Nicole Collard, an American Patent Lawyer, a Freelance Journalist and George Stobbart. In the story, Gorge Stobbart is the victim and witness on a café named La Chandelle Verte. After an investigation, the secrets comes out the name of the serial killer who steals a briefcase and set off a bomb inside the case. The series includes various scenarios and lets you get into the role of the protagonist and explore the crime scenes. Interrogate the criminal, find clues, analyze suspects, and catch the man who is guilty. In the series, each entry has a set of unique cases, crimes, and scenes. The series contains a lot of games such as Broken Sword: The Shadow of Templars, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Broken Sword: The Angel Death, and Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse.

Murdered: Soul Suspect is and adventure game developed by Alright Games and Published by Square Enix. The story of the game kick starts from an American town named Salem. With a third person perspective, the player controls the main character of the game Ronan (formerly and agent) and explores the town walking and running through different places and buildings like churches, apartments, graveyards etc. Ronan is bound to collect different collectibles scattered around the town. Ronan being a ghost gets the advantage to use a lot of ghostly powers and benefits himself along the way and the story continues. The game comes with a lot of amazing and special characters like a ruthless serial killer Bell, Julia the wife of Ronan, Abigail a Puritan era girl, Cassandra Ronan’s mother and Joy the only witness to the murder of Ronan. Ronan is back to finish what he started and wows to kill his killer. Amazing graphics, details and gameplay forces you to stick to your chair and play till you get tired. Packed with all the action and drama, Murdered: Soul Suspect is worth giving a try. You can play this game on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Still Life is an Adventure video game created by Microids and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. The game come with Single-player mode and it serves as the sequel to Still Life 2 video game, released in 2009. It uses the storytelling device of switching back and forth between two characters. The story follows FBI Special Agent named Victoria McPherson, who is investigating the set of brutal murders in Chicago to advance. While exploring her father for Christmas, the player finds out an old notebook that related to her grandfather, who is a private investigator named Gustav McPherson. After finding the book, the player is surprised to learn that her grandfather has been involved with investigating the similar series of murders in old 1920s. During the gameplay, the player can alternate the storyline between two characters as they struggle to work their way to hunt down what seems to be the same serial killer over seventy years apart. Still Life offers exciting gameplay, set of puzzles to solve, complex murder cases, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

Ripper is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, Interactive Movie, and Single-player video game relies on Full Motion Video elements. The game takes place in the fictional New York City in 2010, and the gameplay starts with an investigation of the recent murder of Renee Stein, who was a third victim of the serial killer called The Ripper. The player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Jake Quinlan, a reporter for the Virtual Herald, whom the serial killer sends a short message to detailing his murders. Along with the police, the player must find the true identity of The Ripper to save other citizens from being killed with the serial killer’s hands. After investigating the murder of Renee Stein, the player receives a message from the serial killer, who warns him that his beloved girlfriend will be the next victim, as she is gotten very close to finding his real identity. Now, as the protagonist the player must save the life of his girlfriend and uncover the identity of the serial killer. With thrilling storyline, addictive gameplay, and superb graphics, Ripper is the best game to play.