The 10 best survival horror games

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Survival horror is typically characterized by heroes who have to face a threat while armed with very few weapons and scant ammo. Within that definition, there’s a lot of room for experimentation. Survival horror games can take us to haunted houses, space stations, and everywhere in between. That also means that finding the best ones can be tricky.

Here you’ll find our picks for the 10 best survival horror games out there. They’re presented in alphabetical order, and do note that we stuck with just one title from major franchises. Otherwise, this list could have just been 10 Resident Evil games.

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It says a lot that a licensed game can make this list, but Alien: Isolation genuinely manages to capture the atmosphere of the original movie. Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda is out to find the truth about her mother, and she’ll have to tangle with murderous Xenomorphs along the way. Better make good use of that scanner, because they can come out of the walls.

Amnesia wasn’t the first horror game to be set in first-person or to put nothing but a lantern in your hand, but this 2010 title was still a watershed moment for the genre. Since then, there have been endless indie games that have ripped off its mechanics, forcing you to hide from the monsters rather than face them head-on. Trust us, you don’t actually want to look at them.

This isn’t the only multiplayer game on this list, but it is the only one with an asynchronous design. One player takes on the role of a killer, while everyone else teams up to survive the night. Funny enough, it’s crossed over with several other games on this list, with characters from Resident Evil and