Curated playlist
2010s horror video games
- Silent HillsA free horror demo from a studio that did not exist secretly teased Silent Hills.
- The Last of Us (video game)The Last of Us, a 2013 action-adventure game from Naughty Dog, ends with a man swearing to a girl that his story is true. It is not. Joel gives the oath because Ellie insists on it. Everything before that moment is a long walk toward it.…
- Alien: IsolationAlien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game in which the monster hunting the player cannot be killed. Creative Assembly developed it and Sega published it. No weapon in the game ends the threat. The player can only hide, listen and…
- Alan WakeAlan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game from the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment, published by Microsoft Game Studios. Its hero is a bestselling crime novelist whose wife vanishes during a vacation in Bright Falls, a small fictional…
- Dead by DaylightIn Dead by Daylight, four Survivors fix generators to escape one Killer who tries to hook them all.
- P.T. (video game)The free horror game P.T. was pulled by its own publisher less than a year after its 2014 release.
- Until DawnUntil Dawn is a 2015 horror game in which eight young adults must outlast one terrible night on Blackwood Mountain. Partway through the evening, two of them reach a radio tower and get a reply. It is not the reply they wanted. A storm…
- Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a prison shower murder by its own hero. The developers made him guilty on purpose.
- BloodborneIn the game Bloodborne, the miracle cure that heals almost any ailment slowly turns people into beasts.
- Resident Evil 7: BiohazardResident Evil 7: Biohazard, a 2017 survival horror game from Capcom, begins with an email. It comes from Mia, a woman who has been missing for three years. Her husband, systems engineer Ethan Winters, follows the message to a derelict…