Humans are characterized by their ability to feel unique emotions, even in video games, and terror is in its case the ultimate expression of fear that takes us to a point of thinking irrationally, fear generates adrenaline and dopamine. In short, feeling fear is pleasure and keeps us alert, so, we are currently in dates where terror is the main feature of Halloween.
In the Top 8 of the best Horror videogames there are many surprises
8. Carrion
If you don’t want to be the victim in these stories, then place 8 is the perfect game for you. Carrion is an 8-bit themed, platformer and roguelike game where you are the villain and you must cause absolute terror in people. You are a creature without form and with an unknown origin that has to make its way once you get out of a cell in which you were locked up, the more individuals you absorb the more you will grow, accumulate more and more to become even more terrifying, get to who locked you up and achieve your desired revenge.
7. Darkwood
Darkwood game is one of the most unpopular in the genre, however, it may be one of the best horror games in one of the most rustic formats and it’s on the Unity monitor, a game set in some forest in Poland, with day and night transitions. During the day you can go out to collect resources to create a shelter and hide until morning from “intruders” the impressive thing about the game is the setting, the immersive sound and that, if you get stranded at night, the noises are even more disturbing and you must prepare for certain death.
6. The Quarry
The Quarry is an interactive and very immersive horror game, it is multiplatform and comes from the renowned 2K, like all interactive games, your decisions will affect the course and end of the game and the terror is always present. However, it has a terrifying setting and the goal is to get out alive from a desolate place while you are stalked and hunted by a ferocious and hungry werewolf that has as its identity one of the most unexpected characters in the game.
5. Bloodborne
It could not miss a Souls in the count and this is Bloodborne, although we can also include the beautifully beautiful Lies of P. Bloodborne is an exclusive game that PlayStation created the genre “Soulsborne” and is perhaps the best game in terms of plot of Miyazaki. In this we are a hunter in the city with a gothic setting of Yharnam, facing beastly enemies inspired by the tales of Lovecraft, these beastly enemies are the same citizens who were transformed due to a pandemic. You will also discover disturbing secrets and you will have to advance by defeating increasingly strong and legendary enemies.
4. Days Gone
Exclusive to PlayStation, Days Gone is a survival-horror game set in a post-apocalyptic world, the former being one of the least popular of the genre, but which involves a lot of emotions. It has a background in the character of Deacon St. John and his partner huge, as well as in the ways of behavior of the new society. Days Gone will make you empathize with any character, but it will also make you recognize that the real villains of the story are not only the zombies, but humans in their most natural state.
3. Dante’s Inferno
This may be more of an action game or a parry, but Dante’s Inferno has one of the best stories from Electronic Arts along with Alice in Madness Returns. Dante’s Inferno is based on the masterpiece of Italian literature “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri more specifically on the first part (The Inferno). In the game we will descend and discover the 9 circles of hell, starting with purgatory, the monsters are beastly, the bosses too, the plot is incredible, the rivers of blood are spectacular and listening to the souls in pain while we descend leaves the blood cold, a worthy horror game.
2. Resident Evil 7
The Resident Evil saga redefined the genre of zombie video games, although not all are pure terror, Resident Evil 7 is the game is the game that revolutionizes the franchise, is the first first in first person that puts you in the role of a worried Ethan Winters receiving the message from his wife Mia, whom he believed dead. Ethan goes to her whereabouts in a plantation near Louisiana, you will enter a huge house with a disturbing Baker family that has been possessed by a strange entity, besides having a rare “infection”, the setting is from beyond the grave and the bosses as well as the final boss are simply perfect.
1. Silent Hill 2
“Silent Hill” revolutionized the concept of ‘Survival Horror’, but it was only Silent Hill 2 that has transcended among all horror games to the point of being considered the ‘Best horror game ever’. In addition to its classic setting, for the symbology, the background of each character and perhaps the best ending in the history of survival horror. James Sunderland, a man who lost his wife to an illness, arrives to the cursed town because of a letter that his wife Mary writes to him where she tells him that she is waiting for him in her “special place”, a confused James deals with all his demons until he discovers Mary’s true outcome, achieving his redemption.
These were some of the best games you can buy and play on these dates where terror is paramount and although we know that there are missing titles such as: Little Nightmares I and II, the Metro trilogy, Alone In The Dark and Alan Wake 1 and 2 as well as Undertale and Outlast, these have their deserved honorable mention for the legacy they have given us in this genre of Horror games.