🎮 Best Horror Games of 2025-2026

Here you won't find numerical scores from press outlets or system requirements. What you'll find are the games people are actually playing right now, the ones being talked about in chat, and the ones worth knowing even if you're not a lifelong gamer. Some are from 2024, some from 2025, a couple are 2026 launches. All of them are worth your time.

8 games · Horror

🔥 Best Horror games

👻 #1 9.6

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Horror · 2023

Remaking an untouchable classic and improving it. Leon returns to the village, the tension is fresh, and the charm remains.

PS5 Xbox Series PC

👻 #2 9.0

Silent Hill 2 Remake

Horror · 2024

Bloober Team remakes the most revered survival horror and, against all odds, nails it. James returns to Silent Hill.

PS5 PC

👻 #3 9.0

Alan Wake 2

Horror · 2023

Remedy blends survival horror and psychological thriller with brazen audiovisual flair. As strange as it is brilliant.

PS5 Xbox Series PC

👻 #4 8.8

Lethal Company

Horror · 2023

Co-op horror to laugh and scream in equal measure. Scavenge scrap on hostile moons and don't die (you will).

PC

👻 #5 8.4

Until Dawn

Horror · 2015

Eight youngsters in an isolated cabin and a killer on the prowl: you decide who lives. Teen slasher horror turned into a game.

PS5 PS4 PC

👻 #6 8.4

Little Nightmares

Horror · 2017

A tiny girl flees grotesque creatures through a nightmare ship. Puzzle-platforming with art direction that gives you chills.

PS5 PS4 PC Switch

👻 #7 8.4

Phasmophobia

Horror · 2020

You hunt ghosts with a microphone and investigation gear, solo or in a group. The co-op horror that blew up on streaming.

PC

👻 #8 8.0

Dead by Daylight

Horror · 2016

Four survivors against one killer in a deadly hide-and-seek. An asymmetric multiplayer packed with licensed horror icons.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch