The Boiled One
The Boiled One is not a video game. It is an analog horror creature from The Boiled One Phenomenon, a short found-footage-style video by the YouTube creator Mr Greening T. Productions. The video was first posted to YouTube on March…
Horror Games Archive: Every Scare, Catalogued
A growing archive of horror video games, built one entry at a time, with a case file of hard facts, a scare profile, a plain-language guide to the story and lore, and current details on where each game can be played. It is written for players deciding what to pick up next, fans trying to untangle a franchise timeline, and anyone who wants to know exactly how frightening a game is before they commit an evening to it.
What you'll find here
Case files for each game
Every entry opens with the essentials: developer, publisher, release dates, platforms, engine, sequels and remakes, and the production history that shaped the final product.
Our scare profile
Each game is rated on scare level, gore, jump scares, atmosphere, difficulty and length, so you can tell a slow-burn psychological crawl from a gory survival gauntlet at a glance.
Story and lore explained
We lay out the plot, the setting, the monsters and the mythology behind them, flagging spoilers clearly and connecting the dots across series that span decades.
Where to play it
Current availability on consoles, PC storefronts, subscription services and cloud platforms, plus notes on remasters, delisted versions and the best way to experience older titles today.
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 is Capcom’s 2012 action-horror blockbuster, first released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and later on Windows, where Steam lists its release as March 22, 2013. It splits one global bioterror outbreak across four linked campaigns starring…
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 is Capcom’s 1998 survival horror sequel for the original PlayStation, directed by Hideki Kamiya and produced by Shinji Mikami. It scares you through scarcity and blindness: tank controls, fixed camera angles that hide what is around the…
Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight is Behaviour Interactive’s asymmetric multiplayer horror game, released on PC on June 14, 2016. Four survivors try to escape while one player, as the killer, hunts them. It’s frightening because the monster is a real person who…
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is a 2015 point-and-click survival horror game from solo developer Scott Cawthon. It is set in a cheap horror attraction built from the ruins of the old pizzeria. FNAF 3 strips the series down to…
Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil 0 is Capcom’s 2002 survival horror prequel. It sends rookie S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers onto a train full of corpses the night before the original game’s mansion incident. The fear comes from a slow squeeze: fixed camera angles…
Silent Hill f
Silent Hill f is a 2025 psychological survival horror game developed by NeoBards Entertainment and published by Konami, written by Ryukishi07 of Higurashi: When They Cry. It moves the series out of the American town and into a 1960s Japanese…
Kindergarten
Kindergarten is an abstract puzzle adventure game from Con Man Games and Sean Young, published by SmashGames on Steam on June 15, 2017. It looks like a cheerful cartoon about a kid’s first day at school. Underneath, it is a…
99 Nights in the Forest
99 Nights in the Forest is a 2025 Roblox survival horror experience from the group Grandma’s Favourite Games. You and a small squad have to keep a campfire burning, rescue four missing children, and outlast a deer-headed monster across 99…
Until Dawn
Until Dawn is Supermassive Games’ 2015 PlayStation 4 slasher. It puts eight friends in a snowbound mountain lodge and lets your choices decide which of them sees sunrise. It plays like a teen slasher that turns into creature feature horror…