Horror Games

After Death Stranding 2, Hideo Kojima says OD will be "something totally different" and fans will either "love it or hate it" – but the real verdict will come "10 or 20 years from now"

After 9 years of live service horror games, I can't wait for the new Hellraiser game to push back against the Dead by Daylight effect

After 25 years, here's the 15 best Japanese horror games, from Silent Hill to Haunting Ground, that still terrify me

Bloober's Cronos: The New Dawn is like Dead Space in Hell, but it has a cool female protagonist because the devs say that's simply "more interesting"

Viral horror game Mouthwashing no longer appears in Itch.io search results, but that's not because of the new crackdown on NSFW games, marketplace confirms

Players debate characters' looks in everything from Marvel Rivals to The Witcher 3, but Silent Hill 2 devs sent them a warning 24 years ago: "Maria was sexier when we first started out, but her plunging neckline gave us too many technical problems"

He made a viral horror game in 2 months – it sold 6 million copies, and now he can make whatever he wants for the rest of his life: "My final theory is that gambling is very fun"

Space Marine 2 dev Saber announces single-player Hellraiser game with actor Doug Bradley returning as legendarily horny demon Pinhead for the first time in nearly 20 years: "Ripped straight from the bowels of oblivion"

Silent Hill creator is conscious of his age and wants to "pass the baton on to the next generation," but the horror icon's got at least one more game up his sleeve

Devs behind 2024's breakout indie horror hit "want to establish very clearly that Wrong Organ isn't a walking sim company only," and with their next game, "step into a different side of horror, explore the gameplay stuff"

The Silent Hill f writer's debut game was basically the original Doki Doki Literature Club, and it's still terrifying me 23 years later

I got a nicotine rush and set zombies on fire in this PS1-style survival horror demo, and it's basically Resident Evil on a submarine

Playing a horror game is my worst nightmare, but these two gnarly farming sims make me want to brave the genre

This insomnia simulator has Outlast enemies, Alan Wake dream sequences, and "evil" music by a Nine Inch Nails guitarist, and I already need to watch about 50 lore videos on it

5 years ago, this $5 PS1-style horror game went viral for turning retail work into even more of a hellscape, and it's finally releasing on Steam next month

Dying Light: The Beast dev reveals the unlikely inspiration for Kyle Crane's new abilities – "I think of Pac-Man as a survival horror game"

Until Dawn studio's first sci-fi game is a body horror fest inspired by John Carpenter with tons of Lethal Company tension, and I've never been so excited to turn into a pile of sludge