Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame is a Single-player Horror-Survival video game developed and published by Tecmo for PlayStation platform. It is the first entry in the series of Fetal Frame. The game takes place in the historical year 1986 and revolves around the story of the siblings named as Mafuyu Hinasaki and Miku. According to the story, Muffy disappears while looking a popular novelist in the unforgivable mansion. Miku worries about his sister and goes to locate her sibling. You can get into the role of the protagonist named as Miku, and your ultimate task is to manipulate the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with objects, find a clue, fight against ghosts, and uncover the truth behind a mythical mansion. The game is about exploration and fighting off ghosts using the unique camera. The entire game is divided into four chapters, and each chapter is more challenging as compared to previous. Fatal Frame offers superb gameplay, brilliant story, horrible sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#1 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#2 FarSky
FarSky takes you to an amazing world of Seas where you’ll witness an amazing Action-Adventure and Survival experience ever. The game lets you be the protagonist named Nathan who gets lost in the deep seas after his submarine gets crashed badly. With no possible way to go, you’ll have to remain in the seas and learn how to survive as all the sea creatures do. In order to survive, you’ll have to get familiar with the environment, gather up the resources such as different materials to craft different items and tools, build a base, build an oxygen making and storing unit, use different weapons to secure yourself from all the hazards of the sea and explore to the limits. In order to stay well fed, you must create a fish hunting and keeping farm and survive as long as you can. The ultimate goal is to find all the missing pieces of your crashed submarine, repair them and repair your submarine and escape the seas. With a colorful and randomly generated environment, amazing sea creatures to interact with, cool visuals and an immersive game-play, FarSky is a brilliant game to play.
#3 Dead Island
Dead Island developed and published by Techland and Deep Silver is an Action, RPG, Shooting and Horror Survival video game. The game is set in a zombie-infested open world where you get into the role of the protagonist who struggles to survive by fighting off hordes of zombies and engages in combats using melee techniques, melee weapons and different kinds of guns. Dead Island features a game-play with a first person perspective in which the protagonist roams in an open world, completes different quests, and gathers XP (Experience points) by killing the enemies to buy upgrades, weapons and different skills etc. Dead Island provides with a thrilling game-play, a well-written storyline, state of the art graphics along with single and multiplayer gaming modes. Built using Chrome Engine 5, Dead Island is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Linux gaming platforms.
#4 Sir, You Are Being Hunted
This super thriller, Action-Adventure, Horror Survival and shooter video game is a great creation of Big Robot Games. Sir, You Are Being Hunted lets you roam into an open world and survive the hordes of Hunters (Robots dressed as the Victorian Gentlemen). The robots are following you only to capture you and kill you after the investigation. You must survive using all the things like weapons and objects and escape the island. There are a lot of items of interests hidden in the towns, you can find them and use them to survive and plan your escape. The enemies are way too stronger in the game and they can get help from dogs, balloons or sentries etc. to keep you out from the premises you are not allowed to enter. The robots with all the unique tactics try to lure and capture you so you better be careful even when touching an object. Other great features of the game are the Unique and engaging game-play, Randomly generated game worlds, super realistic graphics and a great story. Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an awesome game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#5 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a Horror Survival and Action-Adventure video game produced in the studios of Frictional Games. The game is about a man named Daniel who finds himself in an asylum like castle and has absolutely no memory of his past. He gets up, picks up the notes with strange writings scattered all around the place, and starts finding his way out of the haunted castle. While walking down the corridors, he feels the presence of an unknown entity who keeps on following him wherever he goes. Haunted by the fear and bizarre happenings and voices all around him, he struggles to remember his past and get rid of the unearthly being following him. Your task is to get into the character of Daniel, start exploring the Asylum. collect all the notes and objects necessary to plan your escape. Amnesia: The Dark Descent offers beautifully created visuals, a great storyline and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#6 Penumbra
Penumbra is a Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Episodic game series developed by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Penumbra game series consists of three sequels (Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and Penumbra: Requiem) and features the same protagonist in all of the games. Protagonist named as Philip stars as the main character in all the games and acts as the story of the game directs him in accordance with the appearance and plot of the specific game. This whole series is super awesome to play and features unique stories for each game with amazingly crafted 3D graphics and thrilling game-plays. If you love playing games with dark themes and Horror-Survival elements, you should totally check out the Penumbra Series game. You’ll love them.
#7 Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague by Frictional Games and Paradox Interactive is the second installment of the Penumbra series. The story of the game is about the protagonist Philip moves away from the abandoned mine setting to find out the underground research base. On his way in the search of the Underground research base, Philip encounters with the dangerous and most eerily haunted beings who just want to him in a most mystical way. A series of puzzles makes him feel like being buried in the sand in in pitch black environmental wonder. Physics based puzzles like building the stairs out of boxes, placing boards to cross obstructions etc. are the most spell bounding tasks the protagonist is forced to complete in order to survive and continue his journey. With true HD graphics, a well written story-line and an engaging and challenging game-play, Penumbra: Black Plague proves to be a really wonderful Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#8 Anna
Anna is a Puzzle, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game created by Dreampainters Software and published by Kalypso Media. One day the protagonist woke up and find himself in a haunted called Sawmill situated in the North of Italy. The game casts you in the role of the protagonist, and your main task is to explore the horrific world, find clues and solve a series of complex puzzles to find a way out. The game world filled with spirits, ghosts, and other deadly creatures and can raise your heartbeat. Explore the game world, unearth its secrets, interact with objects and NPCs and progress through the game to unlock further content. It features multiple ends depends on your decisions during the gameplay. Other unveil environment unlocks as you fulfill the game’s requirements. Anna offers core features such as a Hunting Tale, Physics-based Environment, Eight Endings, New Environments, Puzzles, Heart pumping Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#9 Anna: Extended Edition
Anna: Extended Edition is a Psychological Horror video game takes place in the abandoned sawmill in the mountains of Italian. It mixes the elements of First-person Perspective, Puzzle, and Exploration. The story revolves around the protagonist who dreams of a mountain near his village. He attempts to go on an adventure to locate its connection to his missing memories and a strange woman known as Anna, who seems in his dreams and calling out for him. The protagonist enters in the house where he has to solve complex puzzles by finding clues in the garden and soon he comes to know that the house is haunted after a horrific event. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, and as the player start exploring the world, he hears strange voices which are belonging to him and the Anna. Anna assigned the task to the player to unearth the horrific clues and solve complex puzzles by using them related to the protagonist’s past. The behavior of the player doesn’t affect only his mental health but can change locations and reveal new mysteries leading to one of eight ending. Anna: Extended Edition offers core features such as Physics-based Environment, Enhanced Graphics, a Haunting Tale Terror, Eight different Ends, and more. Try it out to enjoy.
#10 Soma
Soma is a mixture of Science Fiction, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Exploration elements developed and published by Fictional Games. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Simon Jarret, who finds himself at the facility under strange circumstance, struggling to unearth his past. According to the story, the world in threatened by strange creatures, trying to taking over humanity. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary goal is to explore the facility from first-person perspective, encounter various creatures and struggle to solve puzzles. During exploration, the protagonist discovers a huge array of clues including audio tapes and notes, which creates atmosphere and progresses the plot. There is no combat system like other games by Fictional Games, and instead the player can use stealth elements, and can explore the environment, and solve puzzles to progress through the game. Players can manipulate the underground world, interact with NPCs, and objects to solve puzzles and earn experience points. Soma offers prominent features, immersive gameplay, and highly detailed environment. Try it out.
#11 Slender: The Eight Pages
Slender: The Eight Pages is a Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game, developed and published by Parsec Productions. The game brings the terrible gameplay based on the folklore meme figure, known as the Slender Man, who is described as the tall man warning black clothes with a white face with no facial features. It takes place in the midst of the forest during the midnight and is played from a first-person viewpoint. The ultimate objective of the player is to gather all eight pages located in different areas of the jungle while avoiding the Slender Man. The fog in the jungle grows thicker as the player gathers all pages, and the Slender Man appears closer to the character controlled by the player, though the sprinting speed of the character increases slowly. The Slender Man can move by creeping, and teleporting around the player, but only from the specific distance. In the game, the player is loaded with a flashlight to see through the dark environment. Slender: The Eight Pages is the brilliant game for those, who love playing Horror-Survival games.
#12 The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.
#13 Killing Floor 2
Killing Floor 2 is a super-Fast-paced Action-Adventure, Single and Multiplayer Co-Op First-person Shooter video game by Iceberg Interactive. The game is set in Continental Europe and focuses on a deadly virus outbreak in the aftermath of a failed experiment in Horzine Biotech’s lab that leaves humanity in fears of extinction. In a time when every means of communication are down, huge organizations have collapsed, military forces are nowhere to be seen and chaos is everywhere, the people have took the matters into their own hands and are surviving in hiding. Killing Floor 2 allows you to be part of a team of mercenaries and freelance killers who are hired by the Horzine to encounter the mutated clones and set up a secret base into the most remote area of the Europe. The Co-Op mode of the game allows you to get into the play and fight off the enemies (The Zeds) as a team, complete the objectives and finally be part of a league that saves the humanity and restores the order. With a huge arsenal of weapons, a lot of playable characters, Multiplayer Co-Op , 6 Player and solo game play options, Challenging and technically advanced enemies, multiple difficulty levels, melee combats and loads of other great things, Killing Floor 2 provides with an amazing game-play to enjoy.
#14 Amnesia
Amnesia is a fantastic series of Horror Survival video games. All of the games in the series are published by the Frictional Games and offer a similar type of gameplay but different storylines, characters, and gameplays. Amnesia offers three main games in the series including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: Justine (an expansion to Amnesia: The Dark Descent), and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent). Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is the most recent game in the series released back in 2013. With a variety of gameplay, fantastic mechanics, and characters throughout the series, Amnesia offers a truly realistic approach to the environments presented in the games. All the Horror, Thrill and Dark themes of the games are enough to scare the players to the edge of a breakdown. Playing the games of Amnesia series literally feels like being part of the game world and that actually makes all the games in the series more entertaining and thrilling at the same time. Another significant aspect of the Series is that it offers all the stories from the past. In Amnesia: The Dark Descent the game is about the protagonist named as Daniel, who struggles to know about his past while being haunted by the unknown entities. In Amnesia Justine, the protagonist is a Female named as Justine who finds herself in a competitive environment, helps and saves the homeless people, and pursues the only antagonist Dr. Victor Fournier, kills him and the game concludes. In Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the Protagonist is Oswald Mandus, the grand nephew of Daniel who is an explorer and goes on various expeditions, creates a massive machine that builds Manpigs and other disastrous Swine monstrosities. Betrayed by an Engineer Oswald gets in trouble when the engineer takes control of the machine and unleashes the said monsters into the open. Oswald struggles to save his family and all the other in the game. Considering all the fantastic inclusions to the series, Amnesia is an excellent combination of highly addictive and engaging games. Try any one of the games and enjoy an amazingly immersive experience of Horror and Survival elements.