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Horror Video Games of the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s
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Horror Video Games, 1970s
Horror Video Games, 1980s
Horror Video Games, 1990s
Horror Video Games, 2000s
Horror Video Games, 2010s
Horror Video Games, 1970s
Haunted House for the Atari 2600 puts you in control of a pair of eyes exploring a dark mansion to find three pieces of a magical urn, all while avoiding ghosts, bats, and spiders using limited matches to light your way and a scepter to become tempor...
Haunted House - Official Atari Adventure Video Game
Hunt the Wumpus is an early computer game where the player navigates a dark, invisible cave system (often 20 rooms) to find and kill a monster called the Wumpus, using clues from adjacent rooms like drafts (pits), bats (which move you), or the monste...
Hunt the Wumpus
Players drive muscle cars to run down stick-figure "gremlins" on an endless highway, transforming them into tombstones with each hit, creating more obstacles.
[Video Games] Death Race Lights A Fire Storm Over Digital Violence
The synopsis for the classic "Killer Shark" video game (Sega, 1972) is simple: it's a first-person electro-mechanical arcade shooter where players use a light gun to shoot approaching sharks, aiming to score points before time runs out, with the game...
Killer Shark
Voodoo Castle (1979) is a classic text adventure where you play as someone trying to break a voodoo curse placed on Count Cristo, who lies trapped in a coffin, requiring you to explore his castle, solve puzzles, and gather magical items for a ritual ...
Game 40: Voodoo Castle (1979)
"The Count" (1979) is a classic Scott Adams text adventure where you play as someone trapped in Dracula's castle in Transylvania, tasked with defeating the Count before he turns you into a vampire within three in-game days, requiring clever item use ...
Missed Classic 101: The Count (1979) - Introduction
Shark Jaws (1975) is an unlicensed arcade game where players control a diver to catch fish while dodging a deadly great white shark, featuring simple controls and underwater sounds, cashing in on the Jaws movie's popularity; while later games like Ja...
Shark JAWS - Videogame by Atari
Pyramid of Doom (1979) is a classic text adventure game where you play as a treasure hunter exploring a treacherous Egyptian pyramid, solving puzzles, collecting 13 hidden treasures, and avoiding deadly traps like mummies and worms, all through simpl...
Pyramid of Doom (1979)
Akalabeth: World of Doom (1979) is an early computer RPG where you, a peasant hero, help Lord British restore the land of Akalabeth by slaying monsters, a task begun by the evil wizard Mondain. Gameplay involves exploring an overworld map to find dun...
Akalabeth: World of Doom
Not much of a plot here, as you can imagine. Dungeon of Death is a game in which the player searches a 12-level dungeon for the Holy Grail.
Dungeon of Death: An RPG For The Commodore PET
Horror Video Games, 1980s
A Pac-Man clone where you play a crew member, crushing alien eggs (dots) while avoiding Xenomorphs (ghosts) and using a limited flamethrower or temporary power-ups (pulsars) to turn enemies blue and vulnerable.
Alien (Atari 2600, 1982)
The 1986 arcade game Chiller is a controversial horror-themed light-gun shooter with no actual plot or story provided in the game itself. The player assumes the role of an unseen character tasked with torturing and murdering helpless, restrained non-...
Chiller
Take control of the hero, Rick, and use the power of the spirit in your mask to make your way through the cursed mansion to rescue your girlfriend Jennifer. Fight off merciless monsters to get out of the haunted mansion alive!
Splatterhouse: The Cult Horror Arcade Game of 1988
Players take on the role of a teenage babysitter (Laurie Strode) who tries to save as many children from an unnamed, knife-wielding killer (Michael Myers) as possible.
Halloween Atari 2600
The 1983 Texas Chainsaw Massacre Atari 2600 game synopsis is simple: you play as Leatherface, chasing and killing helpless victims with a chainsaw while avoiding obstacles like fences and skulls, all to manage a depleting fuel bar, making it a contro...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Atari 2600
The 1986 Castlevania synopsis centers on Simon Belmont, a vampire hunter from the legendary Belmont clan, venturing into Dracula's castle in 1691 to defeat the Count who has mysteriously reappeared after a century, all while battling classic horror m...
Castlevania (video game)
The NES Friday the 13th synopsis involves controlling camp counselors at Crystal Lake to stop Jason Voorhees from killing campers over three days, navigating forests, caves, and cabins, fighting zombies, wolves, and bats, finding weapons like torches...
Friday the 13th : Unknown: Video Games
The 1984 The Evil Dead video game for 8-bit computers (C64, ZX Spectrum) follows Ash in the cabin, defending against possessed friends (Deadites) by shutting windows, collecting weapons like axes, and ultimately finding and destroying the Necronomico...
THE EVIL DEAD – Commodore 64 (1984) | Classic Horror Adventure Game
The 1983 Imagic video game Dracula for Intellivision puts you in the role of the Count, where you must rise from your coffin at night to bite a required number of victims (joggers, people in apartments) to keep your blood meter full before sunrise, a...
DRACULA (Imagic; 1983)
Ghost House (Sega Master System, 1986) follows young Mick as he explores Count Dracula's mansion, trying to collect hidden family jewels to inherit his fortune, battling ghosts, mummies, and vampires by finding keys, opening coffins, and using enviro...
GHOST HOUSE SEGA MASTER SYSTEM : Video Games
Horror Video Games, 1990s
Alone in the Dark (1992) traps players in the haunted Derceto Mansion in 1920s Louisiana, where they choose between detective Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood to investigate the suspicious suicide of Jeremy Hartwood, uncovering occult secrets and batt...
Alone in the Dark
The 1996 Resident Evil synopsis involves S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team (Chris Redfield & Jill Valentine) investigating the disappearance of Bravo Team near Raccoon City, getting trapped in the zombie-infested Spencer Mansion, and fighting mutated creatur...
Resident Evil (1996)
Silent Hill 1 follows Harry Mason, a father searching for his missing daughter, Cheryl, in the foggy, monster-infested town of Silent Hill after a mysterious car crash. He discovers the town is haunted by a dark cult, led by Dahlia Gillespie, who see...
Silent Hill Ps1
Clock Tower is a point-and-click survival horror series where defenseless protagonists, often orphans like Jennifer Simpson, are hunted by an unstoppable killer (usually Scissorman) in a mansion, forcing players to use stealth, hide, solve puzzles, a...
Clock Tower (PS 1)
Parasite Eve synopsis: In 1997 New York City, NYPD officer Aya Brea attends an opera on Christmas Eve where the lead singer, Melissa, spontaneously causes the audience and cast to combust, except for Aya, who gains special powers. Aya discovers Melis...
Parasite Eve
Phantasmagoria (1995) is a landmark horror adventure game where writer Adrienne Delaney and her photographer husband move into a mysterious mansion, only for Adrienne to be terrorized by supernatural forces linked to the house's previous owner, a mag...
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Night Trap is a cult classic 1992 interactive movie game where you play as a SCAT (Special Control Attack Team) agent monitoring a house party of teenage girls, using surveillance cameras and hidden traps to protect them from vampire-like creatures c...
Night Trap
The 7th Guest synopsis: You play as an unnamed character, "Ego," exploring the eerie, abandoned mansion of legendary toymaker Henry Stauf, trying to uncover the mystery of what happened to six guests invited years ago, who all disappeared after Stauf...
The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition
The 11th Hour is a 1995 horror puzzle adventure game, the sequel to The 7th Guest, where you play as reporter Carl Denning, searching for his missing producer/lover Robin Morales at the haunted mansion of toy maker Henry Stauf, confronting his evil l...
The 11th Hour
Dark Seed is a 1992 psychological horror point-and-click adventure game where you play Mike Dawson, a writer who buys a mansion and discovers he's been implanted with an alien embryo by sinister beings from a parallel "Dark World," forcing him to nav...
Dark Seed
Horror Video Games, 2000s
Resident Evil 4 (RE4) follows US agent Leon S. Kennedy six years after Raccoon City, sent to a remote Spanish village to rescue President's daughter Ashley Graham from the cult Los Illuminados, who infect villagers with the mind-controlling Las Plaga...
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The story of the F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) game series centers on a special US Army unit fighting paranormal threats, primarily focusing on the malevolent psychic child, Alma Wade, and her son, Paxton Fettel, a rogue psychic commander ...
F.E.A.R.
Left 4 Dead is a cooperative horror shooter where four immune survivors—Bill, Zoey, Francis, and Louis—fight through hordes of zombie-like "Infected," mutated by the "Green Flu" virus, to reach rescue points like military extraction zones, emphasizin...
Left 4 Dead
Fatal Frame (or Project Zero) is a Japanese survival horror series where protagonists fight ghosts using the Camera Obscura, a special camera that can capture and pacify spirits, often uncovering tragic local legends and failed rituals, like the orig...
FATAL FRAME
Dead Space follows engineer Isaac Clarke as he boards the derelict mining ship USG Ishimura, responding to a distress call, only to find the crew slaughtered and reanimated as horrific alien monsters called Necromorphs, forcing him to fight for survi...
Dead Space
Silent Hill 2 is a psychological horror game about James Sunderland, who travels to the foggy town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his wife, Mary, who died three years prior, beckoning him to their "special place". The story is a deep di...
SILENT HILL 2
The Suffering is a 2004 action-horror game where you play as Torque, a death row inmate on Carnate Island for murdering his family, though he remembers nothing of it, who must fight his way to freedom as an earthquake unleashes monstrous apparitions ...
The Suffering
Vampire: The Masquerade video games center on personal horror, political intrigue, and the struggle to maintain humanity while surviving as a vampire in the secret "World of Darkness," balancing bloodlust (the Hunger) and strict rules (the Masquerade...
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
BioShock is a first-person shooter where you play as Jack, a plane crash survivor who discovers the underwater city of Rapture, a failed Objectivist utopia built by Andrew Ryan, now in civil war and overrun by genetically-mutated, deranged citizens c...
BioShock
Doom 3 synopsis: In 2145, the Union Aerospace Corporation's (UAC) Mars research base descends into chaos when teleportation experiments open a portal to Hell, unleashing demons and turning personnel into zombies. You, an anonymous space marine, are o...
DOOM 3
Horror Video Games, 2010s
Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game where you play as Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley's daughter, searching for answers about her mother's disappearance 15 years after the first Alien film. You arrive at the decaying Sevastopol space ...
Alien: Isolation
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard follows Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his missing wife, Mia, which leads him to a dilapidated Louisiana plantation owned by the cannibalistic, supernaturally enhanced Baker family. Trapped in their grotesque ...
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
The Last of Us game plot follows hardened survivor Joel escorting immune teenager Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States, ravaged by a fungal infection, to deliver her to the Fireflies who hope to develop a cure, forming a deep, surrogate fath...
The Last of Us
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a survival horror game where you play as a night security guard, Mike Schmidt, at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, trying to survive 12 AM to 6 AM for five nights against homicidal, possessed animatronics (Freddy, Bonnie, Chi...
Five Nights At Freddy's
Alan Wake is a psychological action-thriller about a bestselling novelist, Alan Wake, searching for his missing wife, Alice, in the eerie town of Bright Falls, Washington. While searching, Alan experiences blackouts, discovering pages from a horror n...
Alan Wake
Amnesia: The Dark Descent follows Daniel, who wakes in Castle Brennenburg with amnesia, guided by a note from his past self to find and kill a man named Alexander. As Daniel explores, he pieces together his horrifying past through journal entries, di...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 asymmetric multiplayer survival horror game where four Survivors try to escape a single Killer in procedurally generated maps, all as offerings to a cosmic entity. Survivors work together to repair generators to power exit g...
Dead by Daylight
The Evil Within synopsis: Detective Sebastian Castellanos investigates a mass murder at Beacon Mental Hospital and is pulled into a twisted, shared nightmare world created by a machine called STEM, controlled by the villainous Ruvik, forcing him to f...
The Evil Within
Zombie Army Trilogy is an alternate-history third-person shooter set in the final days of WWII, where a desperate Hitler unleashes "Plan Z," resurrecting fallen German soldiers as a Nazi zombie army using occult rituals to fight the Allies. Players j...
Zombie Army Trilogy
Friday the 13th: The Game is an asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror game where 7 players as camp counselors try to escape Camp Crystal Lake while one player hunts them as Jason Voorhees, using unique abilities to stalk and kill, while counselors...
Friday the 13th: