The Greatest Survival Horror Games of All Time
The best survival horror games ever to hit gaming consoles. These scary video games take you out of your element to fight evil forces, and this list includes zombie games, RPG video games, and some of the most addictive games of all time.
The survival horror genre has been prolific since it's inception during the days of the original Playstation. Early games combined the elements of slasher films, science fiction, and haunted house stories, and other horror games included monster adversaries as well as varying degrees of gore or violence. Popular series such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill and releases like Amnesia: The Dark Descent are widely considered the most terrifying and groundbreaking of this killing games genre, which is constantly testing its own boundaries.
Vote for your favorite zombie survival, dino-horror, and even ghost-terrorizing games to move them up the list, or press re-rank to create your own best survival video games list.
The survival horror genre has been prolific since it's inception during the days of the original Playstation. Early games combined the elements of slasher films, science fiction, and haunted house stories, and other horror games included monster adversaries as well as varying degrees of gore or violence. Popular series such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill and releases like Amnesia: The Dark Descent are widely considered the most terrifying and groundbreaking of this killing games genre, which is constantly testing its own boundaries.
Vote for your favorite zombie survival, dino-horror, and even ghost-terrorizing games to move them up the list, or press re-rank to create your own best survival video games list.
List Criteria: Video games in the survival horror genre
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Jan 01 1998 - 7Up 347Down 225 Jan 01 2005
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Silent Hill Homecoming
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Resident Evil: Remake
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Dead Space 2
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Amnesia
Jan 01 1986added by: Micksandy - 25Up 108Down 53 Jan 01 2002
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Resident Evil Revelations
added by: buffyvssatan - 38Up 58Down 71 Sep 30 2000
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- 40Up 103Down 168 Mar 13 2009
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Slender
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Obscure: The Aftermath
added by: buffyvssatan - 43Up 61Down 115 Aug 09 2006
- 44Up 42Down 48 Apr 21 2005
- 45Up 57Down 79 Nov 17 2009
- 46Up 17Down 21 Apr 03 2005added by: buffyvssatan
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Resident Evil Deadly Silence
added by: buffyvssatan - 48Up 77Down 45 Oct 24 2005
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
added by: buffyvssatan - 50Up 12Down 27 added by: PeteBoyle
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