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.
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1,289244Resident Evil 2
1998Platform: 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
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1,405361Silent Hill 2
2001Platform: 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- 31,202317
Resident Evil
1996Platform: 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 - 4954245
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 - 5934281
Silent Hill 3
2003Platform: 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 - 61,175325
Dead Space
2008Platform: 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 - 71,172389
Silent Hill
1999Platform: 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 - 81,210462
Resident Evil 4
2005Platform: 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 - 9744240
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 - 10739255
Dead Space 2
2011Platform: 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 - 1150081
Alien: Isolation
2014Platform: 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 - 1242393
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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 - 14481129
The Evil Within
2014Platform: 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 - 15712232
The Last of Us
Jun 14, 2013Platform: 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 - 16515181
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 - 17574154
Outlast
Feb 4, 2014 - 1825573
Platform: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Personal computer, Mac OS, RISC OS, DOS
Alone in the Dark is an action-adventure horror video game originally designed by Frédérick Raynal and developed and published by Infogrames for the PC. Alone in the Dark was released on DOS in 1992,... more - 19590275
Fatal Frame
March 4, 2002Platform: 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 - 20559247
Alan Wake
2010Platform: Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
Alan Wake is a survival horror video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The story follows... more - 2122441
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 - 22440216
Dino Crisis
Jan 01, 1999Platform: PlayStation, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
Dino Crisis is a survival horror video game developed and produced by Capcom originally for the Sony PlayStation console in 1999. Directed by Shinji Mikami, Dino Crisis was developed by the same team... more - 23471264
Parasite Eve
September 9, 1998Platform: PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, PlayStation 3
Parasite Eve is an action role-playing survival horror video game developed by Square. The game is a sequel to the novel Parasite Eve, written by Hideaki Sena. It is the first game in the Parasite... more - 24575261
F.E.A.R.
2005Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows
F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon is a survival horror first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi. It was released on October 17, 2005, for Windows, and... more - 25453155
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
