The Resident Evil series has slowly but steadily reclaimed its place in conversations about survival-horror games.
Inside Sevastopol, the chase is constant. (Bumping into it dancing to BTS in Fortnite probably doesn’t help.) But like the (good) films of the franchise understand, it’s about the crescendo of suspense, and the terror of awaiting something you can’t see, while the vents rattle above your head, and your motion sensor beats faster and faster. Endless hallways and corridors make it easy for you to get lost vents are often a death trap rather than pathways to safety you only have a few weapons and gadgets at your disposal, and none of them erase danger permanently.īefore playing Alien: Isolation, I didn’t consider the Xenomorph design to be all that scary. It doesn’t matter how acquainted you are with the Alien universe - exploring the Sevastopol space station is a haunting experience. Alien: Isolation, however, is the best of them all. Amnesia, Outlast, and Soma are great examples of this simple, yet terrifying prospect. clones began to swarm the horror genre, it was all about the chase. (And if you need a break at any point, head over to our Polygon’s Halloween Countdown: 31 Days of Horror for the internet’s best spooky movie recommendations.) Alien: Isolationīefore PSX-like graphics and P.T. So turn off the lights, grab your headphones, lock the door, and make sure you have enough batteries for that flashlight. This list largely focuses on 13 horror games that you can play now (plus one more that most of you probably can’t) to get you in the right mood for Halloween. With all of these projects on the near horizon, along with Halloween itself, now is as good a time as any to take a wider look at one of video games’ most intense genres.
What’s more, the genre is coming into yet another burst of promising titles: Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space are getting remakes next year, while Scorn, The Callisto Protocol, Saturnalia, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, Alan Wake 2, Signalis, and Slitterhead are only a few of the dozens of games we’ll be seeing this year and the next. Whether it’s a dark, empty room waiting for me to step inside, a creature chasing me down labyrinthine corridors, or the mere sense that I’m being watched, horror games, by definition, can demand a lot from the player.Įven so, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of a well-crafted horror game, whether it’s geared toward survival, jump scares, or creeping terror.
I grew up reading Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, and have had many nights of sleep after watching Pet Sematary and the Goosebumps TV show. On one hand, I love exploring the genre in all of its forms. I’ve always had a conflictive relationship with horror.
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