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Looking for a scare this year? Whether it’s zombie apocalypses, underwater horrors to demonic possessions, the things we fear run deep in our psyche. And horror is one of the easiest genres to dive into right when Halloween season hits.
Are you a detective of the paranormal forces at work in Alan Wake 2, a survivor of classic chills in Resident Evil 2, or just tripping through nightmarish surrealism in Signalis and Hell Is Us? Whatever your poison, there's a horror game for you.
Below, you'll find our curated list of horror games that has something for everyone. From AAA hits to indie gems, all these games have something in common - they are perfect for this spooky time of year.
11 best horror games to play for Halloween 2025
Here is a curated list of some of our favourite horror games you can play this Halloween on all platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Nintendo Switch.
- Alan Wake 2
- Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days
- Resident Evil 2 (2019)
- Silent Hill 2 Remake
- Until Dawn
- Hell Is Us
- Signalis
- Dredge
- Madison
- Cronos: The New Dawn
- Fears to Fathom
1. Alan Wake 2
- Developer: Remedy Entertainment
- Publisher: Epic Games Publishing
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
- Scare Factor: 9/10
Remedy's sequel traps you between two realities, neither of them safe. You alternate between Alan Wake - still imprisoned in his own twisted stories - and FBI agent Saga Anderson investigating ritual murders in the Pacific Northwest.
What makes it terrifying: The Dark Place sequences distort reality itself. Corridors reshape as you walk through them. Enemies materialize from shadows, and your flashlight is your only weapon. Unlike action-horror games, Alan Wake 2 makes you feel vulnerable. Combat is hard and slow by design, and the atmosphere never lets up.
READ MORE: AltChar Review of Alan Wake 2
Best for: Players who appreciate slow-burn horror with dense storytelling and AAA-quality at every corner.
2. Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days
- Developer: PikPok
- Publisher: Boltray Games, PikPok
- Platforms: PC
- Scare factor: 6.5/10
Remember the mobile zombie runner? This isn't that game. Our Darkest Days transforms the franchise into a side-scrolling survival simulator set in zombie-infested Texas.
What makes it terrifying: You manage multiple survivors, each with their own needs, fears, and breaking points. The game forces impossible choices - do you risk a supply run for medicine, or let someone die? Resources are never enough, and every decision carries weight.
The side-scrolling perspective creates claustrophobic tension as zombies close in from both sides. The grungy art style and muted colors emphasize the hopelessness of your situation.
Best for: Strategy fans who want their horror games to hurt emotionally, not just physically.
3. Resident Evil 2 (2019)
- Developer: Capcom
- Publisher: Capcom
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC
- Scare factor: 9.5/10
Capcom's remake proves that classic horror can terrify modern audiences. The Raccoon City Police Department becomes a maze of locked doors, limited ammo, and relentless undead.
What makes it terrifying: Mr. X. This unstoppable bio-weapon stalks you through the police station, his heavy footsteps audible through walls and ceilings. You can't kill him - only slow him down. Every safe room loses its safety when you hear those boots approaching.
The game's camera angles and lighting design ensure you never feel comfortable and in control of the situation. It's one of the scariest games ever made, one that will keep you on your toes from start to finish.
Best for: Anyone who wants a classic survival horror experience. Resident Evil 2 is the blueprint for the genre.
4. Silent Hill 2 Remake
- Developer: Bloober Team
- Publisher: Konami
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, PC
- Scare factor: 10/10
Polish studio Bloober Team recently resurrected gaming's most disturbing psychological horror game. James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill searching for his dead wife, but the fog-shrouded town has other plans.
What makes it terrifying: Silent Hill 2 doesn't rely on jump scares. It crawls under your skin with symbolism, ambiguity, and creatures that represent trauma. Pyramid Head, which is both the terrifying monster and a manifestation of guilt is one the most iconic characters in horror games and every encoutner with him will make your hair raise.
READ MORE: Silent Hill 2 Remake AltChar review
The updated visuals make every peeling wallpaper texture and rusted grate feel tactile. Akira Yamaoka's industrial soundtrack creates constant unease, while the new combat system makes every encounter feel desperate.
Best for: Horror fans who prefer dread over adrenaline, and don't mind ambiguous storytelling that demands interpretation.
5. Until Dawn
- Developer: Supermassive Games
- Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, PC (2025 Remaster)
- Scare factor: 8/10
Eight friends. One mountain lodge. Too many secrets. Until Dawn plays like an interactive horror movie where every decision determines who survives until sunrise.
What makes it terrifying: The butterfly effect system means your choices in Chapter 2 can kill someone in Chapter 8. Miss a quick-time event? Someone dies - permanently. The game weaponises your attachment to characters, then forces you to sacrifice them. Simpy brilliant but also terrifying design.
The remastered version enhances the motion-capture performances that made the original so effective. You'll recognize the slasher film tropes, but that familiarity makes the twists hit harder.
Best for: Group horror sessions. Pass the controller and collectively suffer through impossible choices.
6. Hell Is Us
- Developer: Rogue Factor
- Publisher: Nacon
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox
- Scare factor: 7/10
This action-horror game drops you into a war-torn country where supernatural creatures hunt between the ruins. No map. No quest markers. Just environmental clues and your survival instincts.
What makes it terrifying: The game's atmosphere is haunting and the world will make you feel lonley. The scars of war are everywhere around you, be it pits with burned corpses or vurnable and hungry orphans looking for your help.
The game explores trauma and PTSD through its narrative, making the horror feel grounded despite the supernatural elements. Isolation becomes a constant companion as you navigate empty villages and abandoned military installations.
Best for: Players who enjoy challenging combat and horror that makes you think as much as it makes you flinch.
7. Signalis
- Developer: Rose Engine
- Publisher: Humble Games
- Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Scare factor: 8/10
This love letter to classic survival horror uses pixel art to evoke PS1-era terror while telling a deeply emotional sci-fi story. You play as Elster, a Replika (synthetic human) searching for her missing partner in a decaying facility.
What makes it terrifying: Signalis understands that limitations breed fear. Your inventory holds six items. Ammo is precious. Save points are rare. The pixelated graphics force your brain to fill in the horrific details, often imagining something worse than what's actually there.
The claustrophobic corridors, cosmic horror elements, and puzzles that demand attention create constant tension. The story explores identity, memory, and love through an increasingly surreal lens.
Best for: Indie horror fans and anyone nostalgic for Resident Evil 1 and Silent Hill 1's design philosophy.
8. Dredge
- Developer: Black Salt Games
- Publisher: Team17
- Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Scare factor: 6/10
Don't let the cozy fishing game aesthetic fool you. Dredge hides eldritch horrors beneath its deceptively calm surface.
What makes it terrifying: By day, you're fishing. By night, reality unravels. Fog rolls in. Your sanity meter drops. Things that shouldn't exist breach the surface. The game never explains what's happening, forcing you to piece together the cosmic horror through environmental clues and mutated catches.
The slow-burn approach means you'll spend hours thinking you're safe before the game reveals its true nature. Once it does, every fishing trip becomes an exercise in managing dread.
Best for: Players who want their horror subtle and atmospheric rather than in-your-face. Perfect for late-night sessions.
9. Madison
- Developer and publisher: Bloodious Games
- Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Scare factor: 9/10
Armed only with a possessed Polaroid camera, you unravel a demonic possession that spans decades. Every photo you take might reveal something lurking just out of sight.
What makes it terrifying: Madison commits fully to atmospheric horror. Jump scares exist, but they're earned - the game builds tension until the release feels inevitable. The camera mechanic forces you to document your own torment, with photos sometimes revealing entities that weren't visible moments before.
The realistic graphics and sound design create oppressive dread. Floorboards creak. Walls whisper. The environment itself feels hostile, and your only defense is a camera that might be making things worse.
Best for: Fans of Visage, Resident Evil 7, and first-person horror that prioritizes atmosphere over action.
10. Cronos: The New Dawn
- Developer and publisher: Bloober Team
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch 2
- Scare Factor: 8/10
From the team behind Silent Hill 2 Remake comes a sci-fi survival horror mashup inspired by Dead Space and Resident Evil. You're a Traveler for the mysterious Collective, jumping between the apocalyptic future and 1980s Poland to extract people before "The Change" wipes out humanity.
What makes it terrifying: The Orphans - grotesque mutated humans whose bodies can merge together into larger abominations. The game's retro-futuristic brutalist setting draws from communist-era Poland, creating an oppressive atmosphere rarely seen in horror games.
Combat borrows from Dead Space with limb dismemberment and Isaac Clarke-style stomping, but resources stay brutally scarce.
Best for: Fans of Dead Space and Resident Evil who want a fresh sci-fi horror setting with body horror cranked to eleven.
11. Fears to Fathom
- Developer: Rayll
- Publisher: Rayll
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
- Scare factor: 8/10
This episodic anthology adapts real horror stories into playable experiences and that alone is terrifying enough. Each episode puts you in someone else's nightmare: home invasions, stalkers, kidnappings, and unexplained encounters.
What makes it terrifying: The mundane settings hit different when you know these events actually happened. You're not fighting demons - you're locking doors against very human threats. The VHS-style visuals and deliberately slow pacing create paranoia that something's wrong even when nothing's happening.
Each episode stands alone, making this perfect for single-session horror experiences. The first-person perspective and minimal UI keep you immersed in scenarios that feel disturbingly plausible.
Best for: Horror fans who find realistic scenarios scarier than supernatural ones. Ideal for Halloween night marathons.
Final Thoughts
Halloween is a time to embrace the things that scare us, and these games have it covered in every conceivable way. If you're still solving occult enigmas in Alan Wake 2, revisiting old terrors in Resident Evil 2, or exploring dystopian dreams like Signalis and Hell Is Us, you've got games to satisfy your horror cravings.
From creeping unease to outright panic, you're sure to find something here to keep your Halloween frightfully good.
Turn off the lights. Put on headphones. Pick your nightmare.
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