Allison Road
Allison Road is a first-person psychological horror game from Lilith Ltd, a small UK studio led by Christian Kesler. It was revealed in 2015 and cancelled in 2016, and it never came out. People still talk about it because its…
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.
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando is a four-player co-op horde shooter from Saber Interactive, published by Focus Entertainment and released in 2026 after delays pushed it out of its original 2024 window. It is an action-horror game first: a mutant swarm…
Sanity Requiem
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is a 2002 psychological horror adventure from Silicon Knights, published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It spans two thousand years of cosmic horror across a dozen playable characters. Its real weapon is the sanity meter, which…
Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife
Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife is a 2021 first-person VR survival horror game from Swedish studio Fast Travel Games. You play a freshly dead ghost who is hunted through a haunted Los Angeles mansion by Spectres. It frightens you because…
Universal Horror Unleashed
Universal Horror Unleashed is a year-round haunted attraction from Universal Destinations & Experiences. It opened in August 2025 at AREA15 in Las Vegas. It is not a video game. It is a physical haunt built on the same craft as…
Abiotic Factor
Abiotic Factor is a first-person co-op survival crafting game from Deep Field Games, published by Playstack. It entered Steam Early Access in May 2024 and reached its full 1.0 release in July 2025. It traps a team of scientists in…
Kitchen
Kitchen is a short virtual reality horror demo by Capcom, first shown on Sony’s Project Morpheus prototype (the headset that became PlayStation VR) at E3 2015. It is a first-person, captive-in-a-chair experience that lasts only a few minutes. It frightens…
Silent Hill Townfall
Silent Hill: Townfall is the Konami-backed psychological horror game from Scottish studio Screen Burn Interactive (known as No Code when the game was first revealed), published with Annapurna Interactive and first revealed at Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission on October 19,…
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is Capcom’s 2017 first-person survival horror game, and the entry that dragged the series back to being frightening after the action-heavy Resident Evil 6. It swaps zombies and global conspiracies for a single rotting plantation house…
Resident Evil 4
Capcom’s Production Studio 4, under director Shinji Mikami, shipped Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube in January 2005 and rewired the whole survival horror genre with one over-the-shoulder camera. It is action horror, loud and bloody, and it frightens you…