Miasmata
Miasmata is an Open Word, First-person Horror-Survival and intensely Action-packed Simulation by IonFX Studios. The game sets on a Mysterious Island where you are the lone wanderer whose only task is to survive in a Hostile environment where an unknown Entity is haunting you. As the main character named as Robert Hughes and a plague-stricken Scientist, your task is to find the cure. Authorities left you stranded on the island after the virus infected you and now you must survive without any food, water, medical supplies and weapons. You must get out from the hiding, scavenge for the supplies, make weapons and survive while saving yourself from the unknown entity at your back. Get hold of your advanced lab and scientific research outpost, start experimenting and finally find a cure to save your old colleagues and all the infected ones. The game world is filled with all kinds of deadly creatures who continuously hunt you so you must be aware of them at all times. So are you ready for this haunting yet exciting adventure? Well if you are then you must know that this game is one of the best in the Horror-Survival genre. You’ll enjoy it.
#1 Silent Hill
Silent Hill is a 1999’s Top-Hit Horror-Survival and Shooter video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The game offers a wonderfully designed 3D Real-time environment and allows you to play from a Third-person perspective. Story revolves around the character of Harry Mason who struggles to find his adopted daughter who ends up in the possession of a cult taking refuge in Silent hill, America, a town filled with all kinds of gory monsters and creatures. In effort of freeing her, Mason fights off the Cult members, kills them and finally frees her. Silent Hill offers five different endings of the game and offers different environments and objectives as well. Combat and Exploration elements in the game add up a bit more fun to the game as they let you traverse through a number of different environments, fight off hordes of monsters, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles in order to keep going on in the game. Other cool features of the game include Third-person perspective, Heads up Display, Health bar, and Dual Shock controller that helps you keep track of your heart beat and know about when to take a pause. Silent Hill lets you combat against the monsters using Melee Combat techniques and weapons, a number of firearms, and your parkour abilities. With a very challenging and quite addictive gameplay, a fantastic story, brilliant visual details and loads of other great things to discover, Silent hill is one amazing Action, Horror-Survival and Shooter video game to play.
#2 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.
#3 The Suffering
The Suffering is a Single-player Third and First-person Shooter video game with Psychological Horror elements developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games. The game offers an exciting story and revolves around the protagonist named as Torque, who is a prison on death for murdering his two children and his ex-wife. The protagonist is innocent and doesn’t know what happens with him and his family. After reaching the Abbot State Penitentiary on an Island called Carnate, an earthquake occurs, causing in prison to be attacked by supernatural entities. So the protagonist needs to fight his way for his freedom by going against demons. There are three different endings, depending on the actions taken by the player throughout, each of which uncovers the different story of the murder of the protagonist’s family. The player can assume the role of the protagonist, who is capable of running, shooting, jumping, and interacting with NPCs and environments. With the addictive story, brilliant mechanics, and detailed graphics, The Suffering is the excellent game to play and enjoy.
#4 Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It takes place in the fictional town of America, and the game doesn’t serve as the direct sequel to Silent Hill video game. The storyline revolves around the protagonist named as James Sunderland, who receives a letter, written by his wife, saying she is waiting for him. The player is joined by an AI character named as Maria, who resembles her, the player struggles to find her and search for the truth about the death of her wife. The player simulates the environment from a third-person perspective, and the game involves finding the items, solving the tricky puzzles and exploring the environment. The game introduces psychological elements like gradual disappearance of the letter of Mary, films and literature. The task of the player is to command the player through the monster-filled town, known as Silent Hill where the player struggles to find his deceased wife. With horrific gameplay, brilliant graphics, and superb mechanics, Silent Hill 2 is the wonderful game to play.
#5 Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 is a Single-player Horror-Survival video game developed by Konami. It is the 3rd entry in the heart-pumping video game series of Silent Hill and serves as the direct sequel to the first installment, Silent Hill. It takes place 17 years after the Silent Hill’s event, in which the protagonist named as Harry Mason takes down the legend of the town cult and is given a cute baby girl to look after, the game revolves around Heather Mason, who is a teenage girl raised in the fictional Poland by Harry. During the gameplay, the player finds out that the cult plans to use her to birth the lord and becomes captured in the war within the cult. The game offers similar gameplay to its previous titles, and the third title of the game deals with puzzle-solving, exploration and combat elements. Exploration, as well as combat, takes place in the Third-person Perspective, with the player capable of wielding weapons found over the course of the game. During the gameplay, the player can perform side-step maneuvers to overcome attacks of enemies. With horrific gameplay, cool graphics, and brilliant mechanics, Silent Hill 3 is the best game as compared to other Horror-Survival video games.
#6 The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Suffering: Ties That Bind offers the mix of First and Third-person Shooter and Survival Horror gameplay elements developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games. Only Single-player mode is available and the game starts the storyline of Torque in this title, a man sentenced to death after killing his ex-wife and two innocent children. In the main title, after reaching the death row on the island, an earthquake badly shakes the rocks and the prison is threatened by supernatural creatures. The game deals with both a First and Third-person perspectives to offers the superb gameplay, in which the player commands the protagonist. The player is capable of playing the game in both third and first-person viewpoint, with all actions. During the gameplay, the player can run, jump, crouch, shoot, and can interact with environment as well as NPCs to advance through the game. There are several items that the player uses while navigating the world such as shrapnel grenades, flash grenades, flashlights, Molotov cocktails, and more. With challenging gameplay, brilliant graphics, and superb mechanics, The Suffering: Ties That Bind is the best game to play.
#7 Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Developed by Climax Studios and published by Konami Digital Entertainment a fantastic Horror Survival and Action-Adventure video game. it is available to play on PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii platforms. The game is set in the fictional surroundings of Silent Hill in Northern America and it revolves around the Protagonist Harry Mason who struggles to find his missing daughter Cheryl. Harry gears up and starts the search and on his way to the snowy Silent Hill, he encounters the hostile monsters and furthers on his way by solving the hard mechanism puzzles. The game features an open world gaming environment, a great story and marvelous 3D graphics. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a fantastic Horror Survival video game to play, do try it out.