The PlayStation 4's library of exclusives is as good as it gets and one of its brightest stars is Supermassive Game's . Besides Telltale's Square Enix's Life is Strange and Quantic Dream's relatively short list of games, there are few that are as magnificent as Until Dawn.
In 2019 Supermassive tried to replicate their success with the release of The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan -- another interactive survival horror game -- but unfortunately came up a bit short according to gamers and critics. The company is set to release a new chapter to The Dark Pictures Anthology by summe🐼rtime, so for the time being let's find some games that'll scratch that slower-paced survival-horror itch.
10 Alan Wake
Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake do😼minated survival horror in the 2010s without feeling derivative in the slightest. When it comes to third-person survival horror there's a small little game developed by Konami that devs love to replicate. Hint-hint it rhymes with violent shrills.
Regardless, the game is a psychological nightmare that involves battling creatures who have an acute weakness to light and deciphering what is real and what is not. It's even more fun because our protagonist Mr.🍸 Alan Wake himself is an acclaimed writer and a skeptic who doesn't believe in the paranormal. Boy is he꧑ in for a rude awakening.
9 Fahr🐠enheit: Indigo Prophecy ꦓ
Quantic Dream's second release, 2005's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a game that was way ahead of the technology at the time. While the company did produce a game in the late '90s, this was one of the first examples that peopl𝄹e could point to as a game presented as a movie.
Fahrenheit isn't known for its gameplay, which is essentially a point-and-click adventurer with some brain dead QTEs thrown in there for good measure. Instead it's known for it's bonkers as hell story that throws everything but the kitchen sink at you. That includes relatively simple story-elements like being a cop who's possessed to kill people to Dragon Ball Z type action on the rooftops of New 𓆉Yor🐼k City. The rest is best if you discover it yourself.
8 Silent Hill 2 ꦿ
If there's one horror series that every game in the genre owes a debt of gratitude to it'd be Silent Hill. Sure, Resident Evil, is just as influential if you're putting the two against each other, but where that series turned more to action as it progressed, Silent Hill continued to double down on🧸 the psychological horror that made it so popular (for better or for worse as it progressed).
A good place to start in the series is with 2001's Silent Hill 2 which fans mostly agree has the best story in the series, a story that may be one of the best ever to🌜ld through a game.
7 🍌 The Evil Within
And now for a game that wears it's influences on its sleeves when it comes to paying homage to Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but still manages to deliver one fun and terrifying experience. The Evil Within doesn't break any new ground unlike Until Dawn, but has instead perfected the groundwork laid out by classic survival horꦕror🧔 games.
Terrifying creatures follow your every step while you try to solve the mystery of how to escape this increasingly decaying world. The game is also excruciatingly hard, especially on higher difficulties. Both the first and second game a💮re excellent, but we'd recommend starting with the OG.
6 🐠 🔯 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
There probably isn't another modern horror game that is as influential as Frictional's Amnesia: The Dark Descent. That's saying a lot especially since the 2010s were probably the best and certainly the most prolific decade for horror games. But Amnesia pioneered it's own s🃏ub-genre in horror -- one that has been replicated to death -- that, of course, being running and hiding (and occasionally puzzle solving).
There were games that did it before Amnesia like Penumbra, another game developed by Frictional. But Amnesia is the game that put this style of gameplaꦯy on🃏 the map, and horror hasn't looked back since.
5 Outlast
Speaking of running and hiding (but no puzzles, those would come in Outlast 2), let's talk about the wildly successful horror series that was built off the back of Amnesia, Red Barrel's Outlast. This 🉐is the apex of running and hiding in horror, the monsters are dialed up to nine and the slimy grotesque environment you explore is enough for you to ask for a refund if you aren't crazy enough to pursue further.
It's receivܫeಞd both love and hate over the years because of its constant jump scares and reliance on past horror tropes, but boy is it just so much fun. It's a must-play horror game and will continue to be for years to come.
4 Fatal Frame II: Crimsonꦅ Butterfly
Fatal Frame 2 came out in the golden era of survival games back on the PS2. It's another game that hasn't aged a day when it comes to the tense atmosphere and terrifying creatures it throws your way. Even from a graphic standpoint the game🍌 still looks solid and can even be played on PS3 (sadly no PC or Switch support as of now).
It's probably the scariest game that has ever been placed in Japan and the game masterfully utilizes that 🎶culture in ways you don't expect. You'll certainly think twice about visiting the forests at night the next time you visit the country.
3 Visage
It's funny to think that when it comes to influential modern horror games, the only game that's in the same ballpark as Amnesia is a demo -- but that demo is Kojima's Silent Hills. The best horror g𒈔ame that never was still managed to push horror into its next phase being ultra-realistic psycholo🔴gical horror.
Games like Layers of Fear, Contempt and perhaps the best of the bunch, SadSquare Studio's Visage all owe PT and Kojima for the cutting edge work they put in 2014. Visage is the best and certainly the scariest your going to get if you want to fill the void that PT left.
2 🐠 I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream 💯
It's only right to add one stripped back game to the bunch in case you're not into all the flashiness that a lot of the modern horror games have become obsessed with. The Dreamers Guild's I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an extension on 𝄹a horrifying sci-fi novel b𒈔y Harlan Ellison. Although the game is the oldest of our bunch being released in 1995, it knows how to flex its muscles when it comes to stressing you out.
Almost every decision has consequences as you dive into the past of five humans that are being tortured by a corrupted AI that fancies itself a god. This is right up your alley if you're a fan of making critical decisions like the ones in Until Dawn.
1 Bioshock
Ending our list off is a bit of a controversial pick when it comes to strict horror, but the atmosphere cultivated in Irrational and 2K's Bioshock is just too intense to ignore. You play as a stranger who's ﷽plane has crashed into the ocean, conveniently next to an obtuse tower that leads you into the underwater city of Rapture.
The city was once a haven for creatives and geniuses from around the world to escape to, but has since turned into a nightmare full of junkies and monsters in deep-diving equipment. Bioshock has serious layers t💎o unfold in its narrative, and the closer you come to discovering the truth about Rapture the more you'll find yourself saying, "Ok, just one more hour."