Town of Salem
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.
#1 Rust
Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#2 The Forest
The Forest is a super exciting Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Exploration video game. The game takes you to a mysterious forest on an unknown island and leaves you in the middle of cannibalistic beings after your plane crashes there. In order to survive you’ll have to hunt down the resources and supplies such as Food, Water, medicinal items and materials to make weapons, shelter etc. The unique crafting system of the game allows you to gather up the required resources and build shelters to live in, weapons to kill the deadly attacking cannibals, set traps for food and to prevent the cannibals from reaching out to your shelters. The Forest lets you experience one of the most horrifying game-plays from first-person perspective and enjoy. With an amazing story-line, clean visuals and a challenging game-play, The Forest is a great game to play.
#3 H1Z1: Just Survive
H1Z1: Just Survive is a brilliant Sandbox Style Action and Thrill filled Horror-Survival, Third-person and MMO video game that offers game-play to the popular DayZ. The game is set in a massive open world in Rural America and leaves you right in the middle of a Zombie infested area where your only task is to survive. In order to survive you’ll have to hunt for supplies such as Food, Water, Weapons, Shelter and Medicines etc. H1Z1: just Survive allows you to either go alone on scavenging quest or team up with your friends playing as other survivors online, go hunting down the zombies or find the valuables. Be aware of the friendlies turned enemies, because not everybody is your friend in the game. With a great Action and Adventure packed game-play, well-written story and fantastic visuals, H1Z1: Just Survive is one of the best Action, Adventure, horror-Survival and exploration video game to play and enjoy.
#4 Savage Lands
Savage Lands is a Recently released Fantasy-based Co-Op First-person Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival video game by Signal Studios and Smart ghost. The game kicks off with your ship crashing on the shores of an unknown and mysterious Island. With no other option left, you get forced to move to the island and find means to survive. You and your crew should make proper refuge by the use of all the available resources like trees; rocks etc. find supplies such as Food, Drinking Water and things that you can use to make weapons. The hostile environment keeps on throwing you right in the middle of hordes of unknown creatures and forces you to learn how to survive and live until the help arrives. Amazingly bloody battles against the bloodthirsty creatures, a truly unforgiving environment, and freedom of exploration and crafting abilities, Savage Lands lets you experience an amazingly engaging gameplay, cool mechanics, and state of the art visuals.
#5 Contagion
Contagion is a Multiplayer Co-Op, Horror Survival, Shooter video game by Monochrome LLC. Based on three main game modes (Hunted, Escape and Extraction), Contagion allows you to engage yourself in a 16 player Multiplayer Co-Op gameplay and kill the zombies. Every mode allows a limited number of players to play with weapons best suitable for the concerning game modes etc. Your duty in the game is to select a mode to play, explore the game world from a first person perspective and fight against the undead. Just like the different player characters, Contagion provides with a lot of different enemies, dynamic and thrilling gameplay, cool visuals, a great story, etc. along with cool weapon choices, great tactical skills, and strategic thinking, etc. Contagion is one of the best Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Shooting video game to play and enjoy, Contagion will entertain you to the limits. Do give it a try.
#6 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.
#7 Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason, developed by Action Forms and published by 505 Games and Aspyr is an Action-Adventure and a Psychological Horror-Survival video game available to play on Microsoft Windows only. The twisted story of the game is about a Meteorologist Alexander Nesterov who after completing his time on North Pole gets back to his ship (North Wind) for a lift up to home. Upon reaching the ship, he finds out his ship wrecked and the dead crew-members with a bizarre metamorphosis wandering on it. Alexander falls in the icy ocean and after a lot of struggle gets back on the ship but with a psychotic condition. The story continues and further entangles Alexander into the abyss of the ships tragic past and happenings occurring in the present, tightly connected with the conscience of his own. Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason provides with an amazingly well written and dramatic story that directly plays with your mind and makes you feel like being there in the game with the protagonist sharing his thoughts with yours.
#8 Faceless
Faceless, previously known as the Slender Source is a Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Sci-Fi video game developed by Blacklight Studios and published by Sklarlight. This game is available to play on Microsoft Windows and Steam only with single and multiplayer gaming modes. As this game bases on the previously known game Slender Source, it features a tall, thin and a faceless being that haunts you wherever you go or whatever you do. In the game, the player sets out to collect the Dolls scattered and hid all over the place. With every doll collected, the faceless being becomes more fast and tries to trap you in any way possible. Once again, the player character is loaded with just a flashlight instead of all the fancy weapons in the world. If the player is able to collect all the dolls in time without being caught by the faceless being, he finishes the search and the episode of the game concludes. Faceless offers beautiful visuals, dark theme and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#9 Haunted Memories
Haunted Memories is an Episodic, Action-Adventure, Shooter and Horror-Survival video game. The game kicks off with an amnesiac man waking up in the woods nearing a power station. You are allowed to set yourself up into the character of that amnesiac man, explore the world around you, collect items and weapons, fight and kill the enemies. Your worst fear is that you are continuously being hunted by Mark Slender a giant paranormal entity with no face, black suit and lots of tentacles. You must find out the map, explore the surroundings and find out the way out of the woods before that Slender creature captures you. Haunted Memories is an episodic video game that allows you to experience the game in different environments, settings and with different objectives. With a mystic nature, a lot of enemies to fight with, six different episodes, an amazingly horror and creepy game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy. Play it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#10 Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game created and published by Tecmo. It is the 2nd marvelous entry in the series of Fatal Frame video game and features an exciting story. The story of the game revolves around twins sisters named as Mayu and Mio Amakura as they navigate the world of an abounded ancient villages. Their lives become terrifying when the spirits of village attack them and select them as the sacrifice for a ritual. The game lets you explore the ghost town either Mio Amakura or Mayu. Your main task is to manipulate objects, explore the game world and reveal its mysteries. Your character wields with an enchanted camera which can be used to take the snap of spirits. To earn points, you must fight against ghost and defeat them by clicking their pictures. It has two different modes such as Viewfinder mode and field mode. You can take on the role of Mio and can investigate objects and items to find areas for clues in field mode. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#11 Dino Crisis 2
Dino Crisis 2 is an Action-Adventure video game designed for hardcore players who love playing Shooting games. It combines the elements of horror-survival, open environment, and combat. The game supports single-player mode and plays from both First and Third-person perspective. It is the 2nd entry in the series of Dino Crisis. The game takes place in the fictional city of Edward, and the story starts after the event of an earlier entry. According to the story, the scientist works on a secret project and search for the mysterious third energy. After the wrong experiment the whole Island has vanished and move back in the time of dinosaur era. A team of Soldier is sent to rescue the survivals, scientist team and recover the research data. Unfortunately, all soldiers are slain by dinosaurs. The game offers two protagonists named Dylan and Regina and let you control the protagonist and complete your tasks. In the game, your main task is to find a way out, locate the survivors, retrieve the data, and use the third energy to get back your time. You have to collect items, complete complex puzzles, and fight against dinosaurs to save your crew. Dino Crisis 2 offers enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals. Try it out.
#12 Cry of Fear
Cry of Fear is a Horror-Survival, FPS (First-person Shooter), Co-op and Single-player video game by Team Psykskallar. The game takes place in the deserted town populated with horrific zombies and nightmares. The story of the game revolves around the protagonist who is a young man and his efforts to find a way out. According to the story, the protagonist found himself in a strange place after a car accident. The ultimate task is to explore the game world, solve challenging puzzles and fight against monsters to progress through the game. It offers the similar gameplay like Silent Hill game. To kill monsters, the protagonist can use a weapon such as rifles, pistols and more. The game represents a series of challenging levels, and each level is challenging as compared to last one. It has a single-player campaign and multiple endings. You can play with four friends in co-op mode and can play complete levels together. Cry of Fear offers key features such as Twenty-four unique Weapons, Unlockable Content, Extra Campaign, Terrifying Atmosphere and more. Try it out.
#13 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.
#14 Fable: The Lost Chapters
Fable: The Lost Chapters is an Action Role-playing, Third-person Exploration, Open World and Dark-Fantasy Single-player video game created by Lionhead Studios. The game takes place in the breathtaking fantasy world and puts you on an adventure, in which your every action describes your skills, reputation, and appearance. Create your unique story from start to end. Choose your path of evil or dedicate your life to righteousness. Assume the role of the protagonist, customize it using different accessories, select your path and start your journey. There is a variety of challenging quests that you must accomplish to enhance your reputation. Use different weapons and fight against enemies, defeat them to earn points and unlock further content in the game. Interact with NPCs, and explore the open environment using third-person perspective. Fable: The Lost Chapters offers prominent features such as Real-time Combat, Build your Legend, Explore Evolving World, Dynamic Weather System, Deformable Environment and more. Fable: The Lost Chapters is the best Role-playing as compared to other games like same genres.
#15 Gone Astray
Gone Astray is a Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective and Single-player video game which features unforgettable environment, rich atmosphere, and superb interior. The game takes place in the historical 1970’s year and casts you in the role of the protagonist named as Tom, who is an adventurer and loves to be out in nature. Tom have a pet who is a dog, as a routine he takes his pet, triggers out for a search of an adventure every Sunday. Each Sunday Tom struggles to find new locations to explore. As the protagonist, you are exploring the environment, and then you encounters horrific creatures ahead and your main task it to run before they catch you. Navigate the world, interact with NPCs, solve puzzles to uncover the secrets and clear each objective to score the points. As the game progress, it becomes more horrific. With superb visuals, addictive mechanics, and detailed environment, Gone Astray is the best Horror game to play and enjoy.
#16 Clive Barker’s Jericho
Clive Barker’s Jericho is an Action, First-person Perspective, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game released by MercurySteam. It offers an exciting gameplay revolving around seven team members that you have to control during the match. It takes place in the unforgettable world invaded by deadly creations and monsters. Your ultimate task is to control all seven members team known as Jericho and guide them through various environments. You have to survive as long as possible to dominate the world. The game offers new features known as Quick Time Events, in which you must press the buttons shown at the top of the screen to survive. Each member has both primary and secondary attack such as rifle, grenades, and fire while secondary weapon like a pistol, and more. Engage yourself in FPS gameplay experience show off your shooting abilities by defeating a set of vicious creatures. Clive Barker’s Jericho is the best game horror game for hardcore players. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#17 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.
#18 Bonetown: The Power of Death
Bonetown: The Power of Death is an Adventure, Exploration and Single-player video game developed and published by CPsoft. The game revolves around an exciting story, in which all kinds of monsters and dark forces will come to the planet earth to punish the humanity for their disobedient to the god. They’ll be demolished in blood’s pool. There is an ancient buried in the world and told a legend that would come and punish the dark forces and rescue the humanity. In the game, you can take on the role of the little boy who is the protagonist and a legend who has to save the humanity from dark forces and monsters. After showing your power, the people starts calling you the Power of Death. The game takes place in the Fantasy-based world and embarks you an epic adventure where you have to manipulate the environment and perform everything you want. Build shelters, search treasure, craft items, and gather resources. Become the legends and battle for your liberty. Bonetown: The Power of Death is the best game to play and enjoy.
#19 Shadow Man
Shadow Man is an Action, Horror, Third-person Perspective, Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Acclaim Studio Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. The game follows the comic book known as Shadow man published by Valiant Comics. It takes place in the historical year in 1988 and the story centers on the protagonist named as Jack who are try to take his own life after becoming fail to uncover the secret behind the murder scene. A Legion occurs and tells the protagonist about the power that he seeks and offers a proposal to share this power with him if he construct an asylum in the land of dead known as Deadside. You can take on the role of the protagonist and your ultimate objective is to navigate the environment from third-person and fulfill your objectives to progress through the game. You can interact with environment and objective to collect valuables. The game offers open environment filled with monsters, deadly animals, and more. Use weapons to slaughter them and score the best points. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#20 The Ship
The Ship is a Role-playing, Stealth, First-person Shooter and Single-player Exploration video game developed and published by Blazing Griffin. The game offers an exciting story, revolving around a luxury ship. According to the story, a strange man named as Mr. X distributed free tickets for his amazing luxury cruise. Lots of people join him and enter into the ship, some of the people knows about his evil plan, but they ignore. As the journey start, the strange man asks the people to fight against each other and murder another passenger. Mr. X will kill the person who selects not to do. As the story progress, the game unlocks other levels and exciting scenes that you can enjoy. You can assume the role of the protagonist named as Charlie Panther, who is a second class passenger. Your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from first-person, rescue the people and fight against Mr. X to progress through the game. With challenging gameplay, superb mechanics, and addictive graphics, The Ship is the best game to play and enjoy.
#21 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.
#22 Agony
Agony takes place in the depth of the hell and introduces terrifying gameplay for those players who love playing horror-survival games. The game combines the First-person perspective, Horror-Survival and Exploration elements developed by Madmind Studio and published by PlayWay. It offers the breathtaking environment populated with strange creatures like demons and evils. You start your journey as a tormented soul in the center of the hell without any past memories. The primary objective is to survive in the extreme horrific condition by using the unique ability to control the people in their ways and possess the small minded demons. You can manipulate the world from a first-person perspective and can control one of the Martyrs to manipulate the hell. You can avoid demons by holding your breaths while solving a variety of intense puzzles to unlock new areas. The game features multiple statues and you must collect them and discover painting to become the master. With heart-breathing Environments, stunning gameplay, and realistic soundtracks, Agony is the excellent game to play.
#23 Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is an Adventure, 3D Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed Zeotrope Interactive and published by Lighthouse Interactive. The game takes place in the stunning location called Welllsmoth. The player assumes the role of the protagonist named as E. Loreid, who must solve a case of elaborate murder, a wealthy man involved in the case. In the game, your first suspect in Loath Nolder, a private investigator. It mixes the Puzzle and Points and click, and Adventure elements, offering the exciting gameplay inspired by the Works of H.P. Lovecraft. There are a variety of levels, and each level provides tough objectives to accomplish. As the player advanced through the game, it becomes challenging to achieve. During the exploration, the player can interact with Non-player characters, find clues, and interrogate the suspects to solve the mystery. The game introduces dynamic features and puzzles with compelling special effects and stunning graphics. Explore the environment from a first-person perspective and solve multiple cases to become the master. Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder offers core features such as Built-in Hint System, Dynamic Puzzles, Eerie Gameplay Environment, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#24 Hobo: Tough Life
Hobo: Tough Life is an Adventure, Role-playing, Survival, and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Perun Creative. The game mainly revolves around Survival Role-playing elements, and it takes place in the city environment. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is homeless and must effort to survive in the brutal world. During the gameplay, the player has to deal with hunger, human unconcern, hostile environment, and with forthcoming winter. The player can play with his fellows or other players from all around the world in an online mode and do whatever it takes to survive longer. The player needs to fight for his life on the merciless street. He must search for food and booze. The player can explore the land from a first-person perspective, interact with non-player characters and environment o advance through the game. The game offers the large environment where the player can move freely. Hobo: Tough Life includes prominent features such as New Areas of Town, Combat System, Story-based Quests, Public Transport, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy the gameplay.
#25 House of Velez
House of Velez is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Dark Room Games. The game offers the terrific environment where it takes place and the plot revolves around the female protagonist named as Lily Velez, the beloved daughter of an archaeologist known as Victor Velez. Upon returning to her home, the protagonist receives a new of the disappearance of her father. Now, the player as the protagonist must explore the environment, find clues and evidence to trace the location of her father. She must start his search, solve tricky puzzles and earn points to advance through the game. It mixes the Puzzle and Stealth elements with emphasizes running, sneaking, and hiding mechanics. The game comes with focus Mode, enabling the player to see her fields of pursuers of vision and hearing the radius while monitoring her noise level. House of Velez includes prominent features such as a variety of Levels, Heart Rate Suspension, Haunting Ground, and more. Try it out, if you love playing horrific games.
#26 Shadows 2: Perfidia
Shadows 2: Perfidia is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by MrCiastku and published by New Reality Games for Microsoft Windows. The game comes with a terrific gameplay inspired by Layers of Fear and Penumbra series. It offers you a chance to navigate the darkened office and struggle to uncover the secrets behind the terrible events. There are two playable characters available and you need to select one of two to start the game with unique storyline, depending on the character. The world of the game is full of monsters, strange creatures and challenges. During the gameplay, you will explore the multi-story maze that grows harder, scarier, complicated as you advances through the game to escape the madness. The game introduces more than eighteen challenging levels and each with unique puzzles and scares. Shadows 2: Perfidia includes prominent features such as Creepy Atmosphere, New Gameplay Mechanics, Two Playable Characters, Realistic Sound Effects, and more.
#27 Throne of Lies: The Online Game of Deceit
Throne of Lies: The Online Game of Deceit is a Medieval-themed, Party-based Role-playing and Multiplayer strategy video game developed and published by Imperium42 Game Studio. The game has an exciting gameplay where up to sixteen players from all over the world can mix their social deduction skills with more than hundred unique abilities to fend off their enemies from taking over the kingdom. Like modern Tabletop video games, it takes place during the time of medieval war where each player is assigned one of forty classes, ranging from hapless Fool to King. The game features day/night cycle, enables the player to congregate across the table, interact with each other and discuss the searches during the day and use unique abilities to kill the fellow players at night. The player can select his favorite class and pick up his character from available, jump into the world and battle against enemies to earn points. With exciting gameplay, brilliant visuals, and smooth controls, Throne of Lies: The Online Game of Deceit is the wonderful game to play.
#28 Damned
Damned focuses on those players who love playing Horror-Survival video games with Adventure twist. The game mixes the Co-op, First-person Horror, and Team-based elements to offers the heart-pumping gameplay developed and published by 9heads Game Studios. It supports Multiplayer mode support up to five players, four of which acts as the survivors while the last one serves as a monster. The player is capable of playing as one of four players who trapped in haunted places like hotels, hospitals, abandoned houses, and more. As the survivor, the ultimate job of the player is to find his way out as well as helping out his fellows get out too. During the gameplay, the player will often find himself on edge, seeing and hearing ghostly things, struggling to find a key and useful items to help in his escape. In the game, the player navigates the sense of being defenceless against the strange being. The player can’t affect the brutal monster directly in any way. With core features, dynamic sound effects, terrific gameplay, and smooth controls, Damned is the horrific-themed game to play and enjoy.
#29 Silent Hill: Homecoming
If you have played any game of the Silent Hill series, you would know that Silent Hill: Homecoming is not so different from other games in the series. Maintaining the standard, Double Helix Games and Konami Entertainment have provided with yet another masterpiece that truly mimics the characteristics of a brilliant Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Shooter video game. The game makes you the protagonist Alex Shepherd, an Army veteran who returns home after a brief time spending on overseas duty. Moments after returning home, Alex finds out about the mysterious disappearance of his Father and Brother that leaves his mother in Coma. Alex starts off his journey to find his brother Josh and maps the area for search from his home town to the Fog-shielded Town of Silent Hill. This is where you get into the paly and your duty is to continue Alex’s journey, get to Silent Hill, kill some grotesque monsters and mutants, solve challenging puzzles and search for clues and objects that will eventually lead you to the location where Josh is being held. Silent Hill: Homecoming offers an amazingly fast-paced Action, cool weapons (guns and melee), amazing stealth abilities to use against the enemies, eerie and haunted environment, great story and a wonderfully engaging game-play to enjoy.
#30 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.
#31 BlackSoul
BlackSoul is a super Thrilling Third-person Shooter, Horror-Survival and Action-Adventure video game by XeniosVision. The game offers a similar game-play to Alan Wake and takes you to England in the year 1972, offers beautiful old school visuals and environment. The story of the game revolves around the main characters of Sean and his sister Ava who both are forces to take shelter in the quarantined facility after the outbreak of a deadly infection that turned almost all of the humans into psychotic killers. Your task in the game is to set yourself up into the character of Sean and focus on surviving along with your sister in a brutally unforgiving environment. The secondary objective of the game is to find out the root causes of the insanity outbreak and stop it by finding a cure. BlackSoul lets you scavenge for medical supplies, food and weapons in order to survive and kill the enemies in close and long distance combats. BlackSoul offers wonderful apocalyptic setting, great interactive drama type visuals, a brilliant story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#32 Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is a great Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Shooter video game that offers an engaging game-play, enhanced mechanics and a really well-written story. The beautifully embedded mystery and thrill makes this game even more engaging and addictive. Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage lets you set yourself up into the character of Howard Loreid, a long time police Detective who gets tasked to explore the village the game is set in, find out the clues and notes that will eventually help you go further with the story of the game, go into the woods, dark caves and Catacombs to find the artifacts and other items, shoot down the creatures and enjoy an amazing game-play. With multiple difficulty levels, amazingly haunting locations, a number of mysteries to solve, great story-line, cool visuals and a wonderfully immersive game-play, Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is a Adventure-based RPG and Shooter video game to play and enjoy.
#33 Darkout
Darkout is another great inclusion to the Sandbox Genre and it offers wonderful Action-Adventure, Indie, Horror-Survival and RPG aesthetics. The game basically is focused on Survival and allows you to survive in a procedurally generated game world, craft different items like weapons, armors, shelter and research about new technologies to enhance your chances of survival and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. The world around you is called The Land of Illuna and is filled with dark enemies, so in order to survive and find the parts for your ship, you’ll have to go through hordes of enemies, kill them to level up your chances of survival, collect resources and master the survival. If you are a good crafter, your chances of survival are high, so you better be good at that. With eye catching dark world visuals, super thrilling game-play and a lot of other great things, Darkout is a quite a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#34 Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Dark Fall: Lost Souls is a great Action and Adventure, Point-and-Click and Horror video game. If you are a fan of horror games with adventure elements, this one’s definitely a good one to try. The game blends in Puzzle solving with the core game-play and offers a truly new experience of adventure gaming. Dark Fall: Lost Souls is set on the eerie locations of Dowertown Hotel and The Train Station where you in the Character of a Disgraced police officer will have to follow the story. Evidence Tempering in Amy Haven disappearance case leads to Protagonist’s expulsion from the force and now after half a decade, crimes are being committed in a same manner as Amy Heavens. The protagonist finds this opportunity a investigate Amy’s case again on his own and regain his dignity. You are required to get into the character of the protagonist, explore the places of interest, gather up the clues and objects that will eventually lead you to the murderer, help the police arrest the Killer, regain your dignity and conclude the game by finally sending the responsible behind bars. Dark Fall: Lost Souls offers a wonderful story, great visuals and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#35 Neverending Nightmares
Neverending Nightmares is a Horror-Survival and Single-player video game created and published by Infinitap Games for Cross Platform. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist named Thomas, who finds himself into another nightmare after waking up. As the player explores the protagonist throughout the game, the nightmare becomes worse, including the deadly and bloody monsters that lurk within them. During the gameplay, the protagonist dies each time in the nightmare and comes across some serious issues of commit self-harm, depression, and more. The game has three different endings, depending on the actions taken by the player during the game. It takes place in the 2D hand-drawn style world heavily influenced by Edward Gorey’s works. The storyline of the game follows the protagonist, suffering from the endless string of nightmare. Another character will be introduced in the story named Gabby, the little sister of Thomas frequently appears in nightmares. With thrilling storyline, horrific gameplay, and smooth controls, Neverending Nightmares is the best game to play.
#36 Welcome to Hanwell
Welcome to Hanwell is an Action-Adventure, Survival Horror, Atmospheric, and Single-player video game created and published by Nathan Seedhouse. The game is set in the open world environment, once the safe place from the horrors of the world. It enables the player to navigate the dense open world full of terror, where every building unique locations and comes with a stunning storyline. The player controls the protagonist and can explore the environment from a first-person perspective. The main objective of the player is to battle against terror and struggle to reach the end of each level. As the player proceeds, the game becomes terrible and challenging to play. There is a city contains various environments, and each has several distinct compared to the last. The player needs to find a way out from the strange world while facing the terror and completing the objectives. Welcome to Hanwell includes prominent features such as Ranged Weapons, Detailed Weapons, First-person Exploration, and more.
#37 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.
#38 DayZ
DayZ is a Multiplayer Open World Horror-Survival and First, and Third-person Shooter video game by Bohemia Interactive. The game is set in the fictitious world of Chernarus City, Russia, where an unknown plague outbreak turns almost half of the population into deadly Zombies. As one of the survivors, player scavenges for Food, Water, Shelter and Medical Supplies while encountering and killing the Zombies and other mutant creatures, alone and with other survivors as a team. The main goal of the game is to stay alive for as long as possible in a world filled with Zombies and loads of other types of Mutant creatures. To stay alive, you must avoid getting infected by any means, keep on searching for the medicines and, food because food provides with nutrition that is needed to stay immune. DayZ offers no weapons at startup so you’ll have to use whatever you think can be a weapon and keep on exploring the world covering almost 225 Kilometer radius of Chernarus. You must also keep on searching insides of houses for any types of helping materials and useful tools that can come handy when there is nothing else to defend yourself against the deadly zombies, or you can simply make any abandoned home your refuge against all the deadly creatures lurking outside as a threat. The combats in the game are mainly Melee type so you must master the art of melee combats so whenever you get into a survival war against the enemies, you will be able to defend yourself. DayZ is all about Survival and your abilities to deal with situations like you experience in the game. With an amazingly haunting setting, brilliant visuals, and immersive gameplay, DayZ is one of the trendsetters of the games with similar subjects.
#39 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.
#40 Among The Sleep
Among The Sleep, Developed and produced by Krillbite Studios and Ole Andreas Jordet respectively is an action-adventure horror survival game presented in a first person gaming perspective. The story of the game revolves around a toddler and his friend, a Teddy Bear. On his birthday, his father visits his home and asks his mother to let him meet with his son but the toddler’s mother disapproves the meeting and closes the door. His father leaves a gift for him and leaves. Mother picks up the toddler and all the gifts and leaves the toddler alone in his room to play. The teddy bear gets out of the box who happens to be alive and takes the toddler to the wardrobe which is actually a long passage filled with long black coats. After some time in the closet, the teddy gets falls into a giant washing machine and the toddler worries with grief. The toddler starts finding his mother because he thinks that only his mother can save the teddy. The game begins and the objective now changes to finding the mother of the toddler. The toddler starts his journey, faces some unforeseen hazards, and gets face to face with the mystic beings of a mystic world. Do give it a try.
#41 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.
#42 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.
#43 Dead Island Definitive Edition
Dead Island Definitive Edition is an Open World, Action, First-person Perspective, Single-player and Multiplayer Horror video game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the stunning world overrun by zombies who are struggling to transform the remaining humanity into dead creatures. The game welcomes the player to the zombie apocalypse and puts the player in the role of the survival, who is trapped in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the massive tropical island of Banoi. During the game, the player needs to smash heads, crack skulls and slice zombies up with melee combat and modern weapons. There are several levels and each level comes with a set of objectives that the player needs to complete at any cost. The player explores the island from a first-person perspective with an aim to kill zombies to survive. During the gameplay, the player will experience the improved graphics, photorealistic lighting system with shading. Dead Island Definitive Edition includes prominent features such as Adrenaline Combat, Discover the Island, Experience the Thrilling Island, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#44 Deadly Premonition
The last entrant on our list of games like “State of Decay” is Deadly Premonition. Deadly Premonition is developed by “Access Games” in collaboration with “Rising Star Games and is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming platforms. The game is a super hit amalgamation of Open world, Psychological Horror Survival and shooting elements. The game kicks off with the investigation of the murder of “Becky Adams and Diane”. Protagonist as the investigator “York” find out that the murders are a work of the “Raincoat Killers” and suspects Thomas in the murders and Thomas after some time dies with a hook in his neck. Thomas’s death halts the investigation a bit but “York” keeps on gathering the evidence. Emily joins the investigation with York and finds out the final victim “Carol”. Carol infects Emily with red seeds and she falls ill. York leaves Emily with Kaysen and continues the investigation, encounters George and makes him confess the murders and kills him. The game concludes. The story of the game is a bit twisted and takes you to the heights of amazingness in horror-survival and psychotic experience. Try it out and you’ll definitely have your head spinning.
#45 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.
#46 The Solus Project
The Solus Project is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Exploration video game with VR (Virtual Reality) elements. The game supports Single-player mode developed and published by Teotl Studios. It is the successor to the previous installment of The Ball developed by Teotl Studios. It takes place in the beautiful environment and puts the player assume the role of an astronaut, who is on an epic mission to save humanity. According to the story, the player stuck on a mysterious alien planet called Gliese-6143-C, due to a crash landing. The primary task of the player is to survive as long as possible while facing challenging factories such as thirst, hunger level, weather condition and body temperature. The planet is full of exotic places and ancient temples. The player can explore the world from the first-person perspective and can interact with environments and objects to progress in the game. The player must find a colony, grow plants, harvest resources to survive as long as possible and save the humanity. Discover new technologies, change the weather from scorching to chilling storms and more. The Solus Project offers prominent features such as Exploration, Crafting, Dynamic Weather, VR, Linear Gameplay, Adventure, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#47 Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 is the unique blend of Role-playing and Survival-Horror elements, developed by Techland and published by Techland Publishing. The game acts as the sequel to Dying Light video game and offers the improved graphics, few modifications, and new content. It offers the similar gameplay to the previous title, where the player has an option to make choices while playing the game like repairing the water supply for citizens, and more. The parkour feature is returned and work similarly to the previous title. Unlike the original game, waves of bloodthirsty peoples have swept away to the fringes during the daytime but came back into the forefront at night. The game puts the player in the role of the survival equipped with necessary items, weapons, and equipment. In the game, the player discovers himself trapped into the zombie-apocalypse with an objective to survive as long as possible while slaying zombies to restore the world into its former condition. The game has several missions to accomplish, and the player needs to complete each one to advance through the game. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#48 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.
#49 Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle
Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle is a Downloadable Content Pack for Dying Light: The Following: Enhanced Edition developed and published by Techland. The game mixes the Action Role-playing, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. The DLC pack introduces a new buggy paint job, outfits for your character, armors, four new blueprints, and more. You assume the role of the protagonist with a task to explore the thrilling environment from a first-person perspective to solve multiple objectives. The game takes place in the open world detailed environment, consisting of mountains, jungle, and rivers. You explore the broad landscape either on foot or by vehicle. Fight enemies and take down them to earn experience points that you can use to unlock additional content. The game becomes tough, as you advanced. Immerse yourself in Role-playing gameplay experience and raise up your rank throughout the game. Craft multiple weapons and change the appearance of your character using customization features. Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle includes core features such as New Outfits, Weapons, Upgrades, and more. Try it out.
#50 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.