Curated playlist
2000s horror video games
- Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins was rewritten in one week after its first version became a dark comedy.
- Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
- BioShockBioShock, a first-person shooter released in 2007, hides its sharpest trick inside a polite request: "Would you kindly." The phrase sounds harmless. In the game it carries a hidden weight, and it changes what the player believes about…
- Silent Hill: HomecomingIn Silent Hill: Homecoming, the soldier hero was never really a soldier. Alex Shepherd has been in a mental hospital.
- Resident Evil 5In May 2026, Capcom's financial release reported that Resident Evil 5 had sold 19.01 million copies. That figure made this 2009 third-person shooter the best-selling game in the Resident Evil series. Capcom developed and published it, and…
- Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
- Silent Hill: Shattered MemoriesThe 2009 horror game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories has no combat at all. Harry can only run, hide and use flares.
- Dementium: The WardKonami turned down Dementium: The Ward when it was pitched as a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS.
- Silent Hill 4: The RoomIn Silent Hill 4: The Room, the safest place becomes the deadliest. Henry's apartment first heals him, then hurts him.
- Resident Evil 4Resident Evil 4 is a 2005 survival horror game from Capcom, released first for the GameCube, and by March 2025 it had sold 15.2 million copies. Its hero is Leon S. Kennedy, a special agent dropped into rural Spain on a rescue mission.…
- Higurashi When They CryHigurashi When They Cry is a Japanese murder mystery, released as a dōjin soft visual novel by the circle 07th Expansion. It opens in June 1983, when a boy named Keiichi Maebara moves to the village of Hinamizawa and befriends five girls.…