SCP: Containment Breach
SCP: Containment Breach is a Horror-Survival and Single-player video game available to play on Microsoft Windows platform only. The game centers on a secret organization known as SCP Foundation, an organization dedicated to consisting of anomalous entities, artifacts, and locations. It lets the player assist D-9341, a subject, through an unknown site while trying to survive. Blinking is the main features in the game, and the player must keep this important thing in his mind when encountering SCP 173, a status is moving at the fastest speed and will get close to the player. The player can blink in an unknown environment manually by hitting the spacebar and can shut his eyes by holding down the spacebar. There are several procedurally generated rooms, and each room needs a completion of objectives. The player can manipulate the world from the first-person perspective and can interact with the environment to solve puzzles. The primary aim of the player is to survive as long as possible while avoiding obstacles. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#1 Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation is one of the best Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival, Stealth and Shooter video game. The game offers a similar gaming experience to System Shock 2 video game and allows you to be the protagonist Amanda Ripley who embarks on a journey to find her mother Ellen Ripley and on her way to the secrets, she encounters the otherworldly aliens, engages into amazing combats with them on a space station named as Sevastopol. She gets trapped on the station and the only way out is to fight all the aliens, kill them using the advanced tech weapons and gadgets, eventually complete the game objectives. Alien: Isolation offers a huge arsenal of weapons at your disposal, a wonderful setting and story-line along with brilliant visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#2 Outlast
Outlast is a First-person Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game, developed and published by Red Barrels. This Psyche-horror game set in psychiatric hospital and features Miller Upshur as a patient of the above mentioned hospital who is incapable of any combat but knows about how to clear his way. With only a camcorder and a notebook in his inventory, he tries to get out of the facility and on his way out he faces the most unbelievable and unearthly hazards. Crawling and sliding through the vents, he carries on, on his way and gets followed by some really bizarre and strange beings, all trying to kill hm. Dodging all of the difficulties he continues his effort and finally gets out of the asylum but only to find out that he never actually is free yet. The twisted story and events of the game make you think like being a patient of the asylum too. You are forced to think like Miles and all the fears seem to be so real that you feel something crawling on your back. Play the game and feel the creepiness if you like playing games packed with Horror and Survival elements. You’ll definitely like it.
#3 Layers of Fear 2
Layers of Fear 2 is a Puzzle, Horror, Adventure, Simulation, and Single-player video game developed by Bloober Team. It serves as the sequel of Layer of fear by offering some advanced features but similar gameplay. While exploring the world, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective.
During the gameplay, the player gets trapped by the old memories of his film, where the player needs to decide what is real and fake in a horror surrounding. The film took place on a ship, and the scenes provide terrific and haunted gameplay. The player inspects the ship to search out the reason for his casting in a film by exploring many mysteries.
Several voices from all around the screen will tease and terrify the character, but the player needs to be stable throughout the gameplay to know the reason for his appointment. The core features of the game are Walking Simulator, First-person Perspective, Surreal World, Exploration, Psychological Horror, and Terrible Soundtrack.
#4 The Sinking City
The Sinking City is a Horror, Thriller, Action-Adventure, Open-world, and Single-player video game offered by Frogwares. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Charles W. Reed as a detective and needs to investigate all the traces that make his visions terrible and happenings around.
The game takes place in the city of Oakmont, where the outcome of the game depends on the player’s investigation. The player finds different pieces of evidence where he must examine these clues perfectly to reach the perfect end of the gameplay. The city contains seven different regions, such as Advent, Oldgrove, Salvation Harbor, The Shells, Coverside, Reed Heights, and Grimhaven Bay, where a flood overcomes all the cities and the player needs to discover the dry places by controlling a boat to survive humankinds. The game allows the player to swim in the water, but it may affect the character’s health as the water contains infections.
The player can enjoy the game multiple times as this is a multiple ending game depends on the strategies and mental logic of the player. Several weapons and tools a player can use to kill unknown creatures and chase away many illusions. The major feature of the game is sanity that allows the player to review the crime pictures and analyze the pieces of evidence. The Sinking City with Sanity Feature, Swimming Ability, Seven Regions, Half-Submerged City, Different Tools, and Multiple Endings, is the best game for a detective to reveal several mysteries.
#5 Dead Rising 3
Dead Rising 3, by Capcom Vancouver, is an Open World, Action-Adventure, Horror Survival and a third person beat em’ up video game. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic era and features the protagonist Nick Ramos, who after the three initial days of the outbreak, scavenges for supplies like water, food and medicines. You as the protagonist act as you see suitable to survive by encountering the zombies and killing them in Melee Combats. You search for the possible safe zones to get to safety and find out that the only safe passage goes through the lairs of zombies. As the game mostly bases on the melee combats so you get only melee weapons to fight against the zombies. You can buy weapons and different melee techniques from in-game stores by spending your experience points (XP). Dead Rising 3 provides with an open world bigger than the world in Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 combined, in which you can roam freely and travel to different locations and scavenge a larger area for goods. The game also provides with an extremely horror and action-packed gameplay. You will surely enjoy it a lot.
#6 Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighbor is an Action, Stealth, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild Games. The game takes place in the fictional land and introduces a variety of levels. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to sneak into the basement of his neighbor’s home to unearth the terrible mystery. Each neighbor has its unique behavior, depending on the past action of the player. According to the story, the protagonist finds himself moving into a new home across the street of strange neighbors, who seems to be keeping a mystery in their home’s basement. The ultimate task of the player is to get into the home, collect objects needed to access and unlock the basement of the home. During the exploration, the player needs to move carefully without making any noise, otherwise the neighbor will chase and catch him. There are four inventory spaces available, same kind of items can’t be placed together in the same space. With superb gameplay, immersive soundtracks, high detailed graphics and smooth controls, Hello Neighbor is the best game to play and enjoy.
#7 Call of CthulhuA
Call of CthulhuA is an Adventure, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by Cyanide for Windows. Throughout the gameplay, the player assumes the role of a private investigator named Edward, who needs to investigate a case. The game took place in 1924 when the player was sent to investigate the tragic demise of the Hawkins family on the Darkwater Island.
Edward comes into an alarming universe of cultists and inestimable horrors. As the main sign was a strange picture painted by the insane mother just before her death. Bending upon decisions such as investigation and there are four possible endings, and the player can reach the perfect end.
In the first ending, if the sanity is intact, he can refuse to take part in the ritual, and if the sanity found as broken, he can choose to shoot himself in the second one. The third end will allow the player to perform a counter-ritual along with Shambler.
#8 The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead, Developed and published by Telltale Games is an Action-Adventure, Graphic and Interactive Drama based on the comic book (The Walking Dead Comic Book Series) of Robert Kirkman. The game is set in an era of Zombie Apocalypse in Georgia, the story revolves around the life of the protagonist Lee Everett a former university professor, and a young girl named Clementine. Lee Everett helps a group of survivors stay alive and he leads them. Due to an open world gaming environment and a third person gaming perspective the player along with all the people roams freely and interacts with the item easily. The player controls the protagonist and helps him and other people fight against the hordes of zombies using every weapon they have. The life rate of survivors depends on the fighting abilities of all the fighters. With super cool graphics, a well-written storyline and many weapon choices, The Walking Dead provides with an amazingly fascinating game-play.