# The best horror video games

The scariest and most acclaimed horror games, from survival-horror classics to modern remakes: the consensus of OpenCritic's horror ranking and several 'best horror games' rankings.

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- Feb 18, 2026 · Jason Schultz
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## Top 20

1. **Silent Hill 2** (55 · ▲57 ▼2) — Konami, 2001. James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill after a letter from his dead wife; voted best horror game ever by IGN readers.
2. **Resident Evil 4** (42 · ▲45 ▼3) — Capcom, 2005. Leon S. Kennedy rescues the president's daughter in rural Spain; remade in 2023 (OpenCritic 92).
3. **Alien: Isolation** (33 · ▲38 ▼5) — Creative Assembly, 2014. Amanda Ripley is hunted aboard Sevastopol station by a xenomorph that learns from you.
4. **Resident Evil 2** (30 · ▲32 ▼2) — Capcom, 2019 remake of the 1998 game. Leon and Claire in Raccoon City, stalked by Mr. X; OpenCritic 92.
5. **Amnesia: The Dark Descent** (26 · ▲31 ▼5) — Frictional Games, 2010. No weapons, just hiding in the dark; often called the scariest game ever made.
6. **Dead Space** (24 · ▲28 ▼4) — Visceral Games, 2008. Engineer Isaac Clarke dismembers Necromorphs aboard the USG Ishimura; remade in 2023.
7. **Alan Wake 2** (23 · ▲27 ▼4) — Remedy, 2023. A writer and an FBI agent caught in a horror story come true; OpenCritic 89.
8. **Silent Hill** (20 · ▲22 ▼2) — Konami, 1999. Harry Mason searches for his daughter in a fog-bound town; the start of the psychological horror series.
9. **Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly** (18 · ▲21 ▼3) — Tecmo, 2003. Twin sisters fight ghosts in a lost Japanese village using only an old camera.
10. **Inscryption** (17 · ▲20 ▼3) — Daniel Mullins Games, 2021. A card game in a creepy cabin that keeps turning into something else.
11. **System Shock 2** (16 · ▲19 ▼3) — Irrational Games and Looking Glass, 1999. The rogue AI SHODAN on board the starship Von Braun.
12. **Resident Evil** (14 · ▲21 ▼7) — Capcom, 1996 (remade for GameCube in 2002). The Spencer Mansion and the birth of the term 'survival horror'.
13. **Five Nights at Freddy's** (14 · ▲19 ▼5) — Scott Cawthon, 2014. Survive five nights as a security guard watched by animatronics; it spawned a huge franchise.
14. **Until Dawn** (14 · ▲18 ▼4) — Supermassive Games, 2015. Eight friends on a mountain where anyone can die depending on your choices.
15. **SOMA** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — Frictional Games, 2015. Existential sci-fi horror in an underwater research station.
16. **Bloodborne** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — FromSoftware, 2015. Gothic and Lovecraftian horror in the cursed city of Yharnam.
17. **Resident Evil 7: Biohazard** (12 · ▲16 ▼4) — Capcom, 2017. The series' switch to first person, in the Baker family's Louisiana farmhouse.
18. **Outlast** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Red Barrels, 2013. A journalist with only a night-vision camera inside Mount Massive Asylum.
19. **The Last of Us** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Naughty Dog, 2013. Joel and Ellie among the Infected; its 2014 remaster tops OpenCritic's horror ranking (94).
20. **Doki Doki Literature Club!** (9 · ▲13 ▼4) — Team Salvato, 2017. A cute dating-sim visual novel that turns into psychological horror; OpenCritic 87.
21. **Silent Hill 2 (2024 remake)** (6 · ▲12 ▼6) — Bloober Team, 2024. A ground-up remake of the 2001 classic; OpenCritic 87.
22. **Half-Life: Alyx** (5 · ▲10 ▼5) — Valve, 2020. VR horror-action in City 17, with the infamous Jeff level; OpenCritic 93.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.