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.
Every entry opens with the essentials: developer, publisher, release dates, platforms, engine, sequels and remakes, and the production history that shaped the final product.
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.
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.
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.
Naughty Dog’s 2013 PlayStation 3 exclusive is a survival horror road trip across a United States wrecked by a fungal plague. It frightens us with scarcity rather than spectacle: a handful of bullets, a flickering flashlight, and the wet clicking…
Scott Cawthon built this 2014 point-and-click survival horror game on his own in Clickteam Fusion, and it quietly rewrote the rules for indie scares. You sit in one chair for the whole game, with two doors, a power meter and…
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a point-and-click survival horror game made solo by Scott Cawthon and released on Steam on November 10, 2014, barely three months after the original. It takes away the doors that kept you safe in…
Phasmophobia is a four-player co-op ghost-hunting game from the small British studio Kinetic Games, launched into Steam Early Access on 18 September 2020 and still in Early Access today. You and up to three friends walk into a haunted house…
