Summary

• Horror games have expanded beyond just adults, with game options available for kids.
• There are rare horror games with an E rating suitable for children under the specified age, such as Stray and Rain World.
• Kid-friendly horror games include Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and Luigi's Mansion 3.

Horror games have branched out a lot since their early beginnings, and it's not just a genre for adults anymore. Many appropriate options are available to ease kids into more mature series like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Little Nightmares or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Five Nights At Freddy's that they mayꦏ choose to check out later as they g🌃row up.

As you might imagine, a horror game having an E rating is incredibly rare, givওen the standard content and st🧜ory elements. But while the majority of these are labeled E10+ for Everyone 10 and up, they are still generally okay for children under the specified age. And the following are the perfect scares for your little horror fans.

Updated October 9, 2023, by Dennis Moiseyev: It's understandable that kids can easily take great interest in the horror genre, whether that be in movies, books, or video games, but some of the best horror games are unfortunately still too much for younger audiences. However, there are some games out there that offer horror in a more suitable design for children. And with Halloween coming up, these are the perfect ones to dive into.

14 Stray

What can be so scary about a game where you play a cat wandering the streets and alleyways of an abandoned cyberpunk ciཧty? Well, you have some creepy alien blob-like enemies called Zurks chasing you around similar to the rat hordes in A Plague Tale games, along with some eerie environments.

Stray, however, is still a better starting point than Little Nightmares and Limbo for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dark🅰er and grotesque horror puzzle games with whimsical aesthetics. You're an orange tabby cat trying to make it back to your family after being separated, and there are some unique robot companions you'll make friends with along the way.

13 🎃 ꦰ Rain World

Metroidvanias can get incredibly dark, gruesome, and horrifying, particularly those like Salt and Sanctuary, Carrion, and Blasphemous. Rain World is a lighter PG version that still contains elements of the horror-like atmosphere and imagery you'll see in Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, but with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an adorable slugcat protagonist similar in design to Ori.

As typical of the genre, this game can get pretty challenging and not the easiest one to master of all the o𒊎ptions here. There are puzzle mechanics, survival mechanics, and mꦺany formidable enemies to deal with, but all within an immersive post-apocalyptic setting with stunning graphics, level design, and world-building.

12 Dredge

Lovecraftian games are often dark psychologi♍cal🃏 horror titles like Call of Cthulhu or Sherlock Holmes Awakened. Dredge, on the other hand, is probably one of the rarest family-friendly options in this genre and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an RPG perfect for kids interested in fishing games and Lo൲vecraft mythos because this game blends th꧒e two together.

The gameplay revolves around you captaining a fishing boat around a fictional archipelago where strange Eldritch fish populate the waters, with the scariest and most giant sea monsters among them surfacing in the night. There's also a mystery tied to these depths and an enigmatic Collector asking you to find strange relics.

11 Halloween Forever ဣ

Halloween Forever sounds like the title of a new Halloween movie, but don't worry, there's no Michael Myers or any gore in this one. This game is a cute retro pixel art 2D platformer that combines Mario and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ghoulish Halloween aesthetics, where the protagonist is, in fact, a humanoid Jack-o'-lantern in overalls named Pumpkin Man.

If your child is all about candy during Halloween and loves it when Mario uses his fireballs to take down enemies with the Fire Flower, Pumpkin Man's default ability pretty much has him shoot out candy corn from his mouth. While there are some spooky level and enemy designs featuring cemeteries, Gothic dungeons, spiders, skeletons, and chainsaw slashers, they're not too scary at all.

10 Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures 🍸

While more mature horror games like Vampyr and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow allow you 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to play as a vampire, this is a perfect kid-friendly option where you play as Dracula from Hotel Transylvania. Despite Adam Sandler not returning to voice, Dracula's personality and humor are hardly any different from the Sony animated movies.

Even though "Scary-Tale Adventures" is in the name, this one is the least scary of all the titles here, exploring more fantasy adventure than horror. As Dracula reads stories to his little ones around the fire, you're transported into them where solving puzzles, collecting, and platforming are the key goals.

Other ghoulish Hotel Transylvania characters make some appearances, and you'll also get to play Dracula's daughter Mavis.

9 👍 Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed ಌ

The classic Ghostbusters movies aren't super frightening and are packed with comedic actors and an iconic soundtrack. Though Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is rated T, there's an online multiplayer Ghostbusters game more appropriate for children called 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed.

It's an asymmetrical multiplayer style similar to Dead by Daylight, where four players take on the role of the Ghostbusters squad equipped with proton packs to capture another player who's the ghost responsible for haunting the location. The visual effects overall are pretty cool, and the spirits keep their classic design.

You'll also encounter Dan Aykroyd's character Ray Stantz and Ernie Hudson's Winston Zeddemore.

8 Subnautica And ꦅSubnautica: B🌞elow Zero

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Subnautica is an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:underwater exploration survival and base-building game taking place in an alien world. And it's a much more welcoming horror below the sea than BioShock and Soma.

In fact, the𝓡 central horror aspect of this game primarily relies on darkness and the hostil🃏e giant alien sea creatures that can hunt after you.

If your kid is fascinated by marine life and dreams of becoming an oceanographer or marine biologist, this is a fun sci-fi horror way of exploring that interest. There's also now a follow-up called Subnautica: Below Zero, which allows you to navigate the planet's new arctic biome.

7 Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection

Starting as arcade titles in 1985, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghosts 'N Goblins series is probably the most kid-friendly horror available from developer Capc𝔉om. And now the latest entry has come to modern consoles, including the Nintendo Switch.

You continue as the bearded armor-clad knight Sir Arthur a🦩nd fight supernatural forces acro🔴ss 2D side-scrolling levels.

As the name suggests, this fantasy world is filled wit꧂h ghoulish enemies showcasing incredible designs without being too scary for a younger audience. There are zombies, weapon-wielding Pigman, dragons, cyclopses, and Satan himself.

As Sir Arthur, you have a variety of weapons and magic of your own to🍎 vanquish foes.

6 Zombies Ate My Neighb♍ors And Ghoul Patrol

This here is a double-feature remas🐭ter of two classic LucasArts SNES and Sega Genesis-era horror adventures. Zombies Ate My Neighbors and its sequel Ghoul Patrol star characters Zeke and Julie, who are ordinary teenagers battling a litany of monsters that seem straight out of creature features.

Mummies, werewolves, UFOs, zombies (of course), and even a play on the Creature from the Black Lagoon are all here to cause the neighborhoo෴d some terror. The seque💃l is designed the same and has a story reminiscent of an Evil Dead setup.

Zeke an🐻d Juliꦕe find an ancient spirit book buried in their local library, and 16-bit supernatural horrors abound.

5 🧸 Goosebumps Dead Of Night 🐭

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps is among the most popular horror media for the younger crowd, whether it be classic books, TV shows, or the Jack Black movies. And there have been quite a few Goosebumps games over the years inspired by its iconic horror characters like Slappy the Dummy and the Werewolf of Fever Swamp.

Goosebumps Dead of Night is an FPS stealth horror endeavor that's probably among the scariest of the bunch, while still sticking to an E rating. Much like the movies, a whole slew of these literary monsters has their sights set on you as you try your best to evade them in your quest to defeat Slappy.

Jack Bl💧ack also returns as author R.L. Stine in this one.