10 Video Games That Deliver Bone-Chilling Scares like No Other

Based on the film Alien (1979), this survival horror game follows Amanda Ripley as she embarks on a mission to uncover what happened to her mother when she went missing in space. However, she soon discovers that a sinister alien is stalking her. You have one goal: to help Amanda escape with her life.

As you navigate an eerie and dangerous town, you must find pieces of a map to guide your way and locate keys to make your way into the depths of the village. One fan of the game writes, "Silent Hill 2 delivers the best atmosphere and an emotionally complex story. That's what true horror is all about."

In a castle infested with dangerous monsters, you must solve puzzles and repair machinery in hopes of escaping with your life. The game is terrifying because you have no weapons to defend yourself from the dreadful monsters in your pursuit. The only thing you can do is run and hide.

In this first-person horror game, you control a man who killed his family before taking his own life. His spirit awakes in a house haunted by more ghosts, and you must explore the home to uncover its sinister past.

"I've played just about every horror game," remarks one commenter, "and though others fill you with dread, I've found this one relentless. And I love it."

In this violent and tragic game, you control the actions of a man who heads to a mansion in pursuit of his missing wife. But when the family who lives in the home, along with his missing wife, brutally attacks him, you must do everything you can to help him escape the terrifying situation with his life.

This classic horror game takes place in an abandoned Japanese manor with violent spirits walking the halls, ready to attack without warning. The soundtrack and sound effects in the game are just as haunting as the ghosts roaming the manor.

In a hospital that's traveled to an alternate reality filled with horrifying humanoid monsters, you control police officers who went to the hospital to investigate a mass murder. One player shares, "This game messed with me the longer I played it. I had to turn all the lights on in the house."

The Suffering takes place in a prison on a mysterious island, where you must guide a death-row inmate out of the now monster-infested prison on a journey for survival. The game has multiple endings, which depend on the choices you make while you play. Not to mention, the monsters in the game are both incredibly scary and creative at the same time.

This post-apocalyptic game takes place in an underwater research facility where the last remaining humans live after a comet struck the earth and killed everyone else. According to one fan of the game, Soma is bone-chilling because of the protagonist's horrible situation he found himself in. "It kept bouncing around in my head the week after finishing it," they admit.

What’s the scariest video game you’ve ever played?

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