Don't be ashamed to curl up in a ball, as these PC horror games will scare the pants off of even hardcore gamers. Here are twenty-five (chronologically ordered) retro computer games reeking of demons, devils, zombies and other dark conjurations, some devilish, some whimsical, and some truly terrifying. You absolutely have to play these 25 retro PC games for Halloween! And remember to click on any title to read up on the full review 1.
One of my favorite experiences this year is a little virtual reality demo called Sightline: The Chair, where your surroundings change every time you turn your head away. Take that concept, add creaking walls and spooky music and a crazed painter, and poof: You have Layers of Fear.It's unsettling. Walk into a dead-end room, turn around, and the door's gone. Turn around again and there's a new door waiting. Or the furniture's all changed. Or the furniture's on the ceiling.
The game's still in Early Access so the typical “Buyer Beware” disclaimers apply. But what I've seen so far seems smart and suitably nightmarish. Now we're digging into Frictional's truly great scares. A Victorian-era castle may not seem like the best setting for a horror game, but with Amnesia: The Dark Descent Frictional took everything it learned from its earlier games, polished it, and released one of the scariest games of all time. You play as Daniel, an archeologist who's lost his memory and has only a letter - apparently written by him - to guide his escape from the mad castle and shadowy figures that stalk him.While it's more polarizing, the sequel is also worth checking out, as long as you curb your expectations. Pathologic has been on this list since its inception, but as of October 2015 there’s an update: A new, HD remaster of the game (complete with new translations) has been released on Steam.
It’s not the full-fledged remake that, but rather an intermediate step called Pathologic Classic HD.Why’s the game so great? In short, Pathologic is like someone hired Kafka or maybe Camus (because of the plague storyline) to write The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. There’s a plague killing The Town, and you play as one of three characters trying to unravel the mysteries held within. Many people will die. It’s a cult classic, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s - about the game is pretty much required reading. It’s a point-and-click, but Stasis has atmosphere in spades.
You wake up on a strange spaceship surrounded by bodies, and it only gets worse from there.Styled after the classic isometric horror game Sanitarium and paying obvious homage to Alien, Event Horizon, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and other bits of beloved genre fiction, Stasis is easily one of 2015’s best horror games - not necessarily because of overt scares, but because it tells a compelling story and has a way of getting under your skin. I thought the first Five Nights at Freddy’s was a fun, jump-scare ridden gimmick. Three more of them in the past year? Diminishing returns.Still, if you’re looking for some lightweight horror, you could do worse. I don’t think you need to play all four, but the idea of bloodthirsty, Chuck-E-Cheese style animatronics coming to life remains terrifying and the “Trapped watching events play out through security cameras” mechanic is inspired. The fact that you can only watch the not-so-merry crew over grainy security cameras as they close in on your location gives the game an ominous, incredibly tense feel - though that fades after a few playthroughs.
F.E.A.RFirst encounter assault recon is a survival horror first-person shooter video game. One of the best FPS horror F.E.A.R. Experience action, tension, and terror as you see through the eyes of a first encounter Assault Recon team member, assembled to deal with extraordinary circumstances.The best part of this game that’s exactly the moments when you’d notice a strange figure staring at you from the end of a hallway you’ll come to dread the thought of bumping into a ghastly little girl, alma when you least expected it. So now play the game and do more knowledge. Metro ExodusMetro exodus is a first-person shooter video game with survival horror and stealth elements.
Set in the apocalyptic wasteland of the former Russian Federation the player must cope with the new hazards and engage in combat against mutated creatures as well as hostile humans. The wields an arsenal of hand-made weaponry which can be customized through scavenging materials and crafting systems.A quarter-century after a nuclear war devastated the earth, latest horror Gaming List a few thousand survivors still cling existence beneath the ruins of Moscow in the tunnels of the metro. They have struggled against the poisoned elements, fought mutated beats and paranormal horrors, and suffered the flames of civil war.
The walking deadThe walking dead is a graphic adventure, played from a third-person perspective with a variety of cinematic camera angles in which the player as protagonist Lee Everett works with a rag-tag group of survivors to stay alive in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. The game takes place in the same fictional world as the comic with events occurring shortly after the onset of the zombie apocalypse in Georgia. However, most of the characters are original to the game which centers on university professor and convicted criminal Lee Everett, who rescues and subsequently takes care of a young girl named Clementine as they join of survivors.