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The Greatest Survival Horror Games of All Time
List Rules
Any video game is the survival horror genre
These are 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 are some of the most addictive games of all time. Survival horror games are classified by their ability to make the player feel less powerful because of limited ammunition, health, speed, or a multitude of enemies. The best survival horror games of all time strike the right balance between making the player feel out of control and like they can still beat the game.
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.
What are the top survival horror games? 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.
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1998- Platform: GameCube, Personal computer, Dreamcast, Game com, IBM PC compatible
Resident Evil 2, known in Japan as Biohazard 2, is a 1998 survival horror video game originally released for the PlayStation. Developed by Capcom as the second installment in the Resident Evil ...more - 22001
- Platform: PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, Personal computer
Silent Hill 2 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The game was ...more - Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Resident Evil 2 is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. A remake of Resident Evil 2 (1998), it follows rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield ...more- 41996
- Platform: GameCube, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Sega Saturn
Resident Evil, originally released in Japan as Bio Hazard, is a survival horror video game developed and released by Capcom originally for the Sony PlayStation in 1996. It was later ported for the ...more - Platform: Personal computer, Dreamcast, GameCube, IBM PC compatible, PlayStation 3
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, known in Japan as Biohazard 3: Last Escape, is a survival horror video game developed by Capcom and originally released for the PlayStation video game console in 1999. It is ...more- 62008
- Platform: Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Personal computer, PlayStation 3
Dead Space is a 2008 science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through ...more - 71999
- Platform: PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo group. The first installment in the Silent Hill ...more - 82003
- Platform: PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows
Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It is the third ...more - 9
Resident Evil 7
- 102014
- Platform: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game developed by Creative Assembly and based on the Alien science fiction horror film series. It was published by Sega and released for Windows, PlayStation 3, ...more - 112005
- Platform: GameCube, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Wii, iOS
Resident Evil 4, known as Biohazard 4 in Japan, is a survival horror video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and released by multiple publishers, including Capcom, Ubisoft, Nintendo ...more - 122022
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
MADiSON is a first-person, psychological horror, survival, horror, indie, puzzle game developed and published by Bloodious Games. The game was released in 2022 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, ...more - 132014
- Platform: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One
The Evil Within, known as Psycho Break in Japan, is a third-person survival horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released in October 2014 for the ...more - 14Feb 4, 2014
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The Evil Within 2
- 162011
- Platform: Personal computer, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Dead Space 2 is a 2011 science fiction survival horror video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Set three years after ...more - 17Jun 14, 2013
- Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3
The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013; an ...more - Platform: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Dreamcast
Resident Evil Code: Veronica is a 2000 survival horror video game, originally released for the Dreamcast. It was the first Resident Evil title to debut on a non-Sony platform, in contrast to the ...more- 192015
- Platform: PlayStation 4
Until Dawn is a horror adventure video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. It was originally scheduled to be released for PlayStation ...more - 20
- Platform: Wii, GameCube
Resident Evil Zero is a 2002 survival horror video game that was developed and published for the GameCube by Capcom. The game's storyline serves as a prequel to the first Resident Evil and covers the ...more - 21March 4, 2002
- Platform: PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation 3
Fatal Frame s a survival horror video game developed by Tecmo for the PlayStation 2. The first installment in the Fatal Frame series, it released in 2001 in Japan and 2002 in North America and ...more - Platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a ...more- 23
- Platform: Xbox, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Personal computer
Silent Hill 4: The Room is survival horror video game, the fourth installment in the Silent Hill series, published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer ...more - 242015
- Platform: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Soma is a science fiction survival horror video game being developed by Frictional Games. It is expected to be released in early 2015. The game will take place on the PATHOS-2, an underwater remote ...more - 252010
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Alan Wake is a survival horror video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows and a remaster was ...more
