Curated playlist

Survival horror video games

Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins was rewritten in one week after its first version became a dark comedy.
Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
Resident Evil 3 (2020 video game)Resident Evil 3 is a horror game from Capcom, released in 2020, in which a former police officer named Jill Valentine tries to get out of a city full of zombies. She is not simply fleeing. Something was built to find her, and it keeps…
Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)Five Nights at Freddy's, released in 2014 by Scott Cawthon, ends with its hero getting fired. Night guard Mike Schmidt has just survived a custom seventh night, where the player sets how aggressive the hostile animatronics will be. Then…
Silent Hill: HomecomingIn Silent Hill: Homecoming, the soldier hero was never really a soldier. Alex Shepherd has been in a mental hospital.
Resident Evil ZeroResident Evil Zero begins on the 23rd of July 1998, aboard a train called the Ecliptic Express. The train belongs to the pharmaceutical company Umbrella, and a swarm of leeches is tearing through its passengers and crew. On a nearby…
Alan Wake 2Alan Wake 2 cost a reported 70 million euros, which makes it one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland. Remedy Entertainment developed the 2023 survival horror game, and Epic Games Publishing released it. Its…
Resident Evil: RevelationsResident Evil: Revelations is a 2012 survival horror game from Capcom, made for the Nintendo 3DS. It opens with agent Jill Valentine searching an abandoned cruise ship, the Queen Zenobia, for her missing colleague Chris Redfield. Chris…
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.
Survival horrorResident Evil began as a planned remake of the Nintendo game Sweet Home.
Silent Hill (video game)When Silent Hill's composer played his music, the team thought it was a software bug.
Resident Evil 2Resident Evil 2 is a 1998 survival horror game made and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. Across every platform it reached, it sold more than 6 million copies. That success came from a second attempt. The sequel players bought was…
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.
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…
Dead by DaylightIn Dead by Daylight, four Survivors fix generators to escape one Killer who tries to hook them all.
Silent Hill fSilent Hill f's first ending reveals the town's horrors were induced by red capsules.
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.
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.…
Dying LightDying Light is a 2015 survival horror game from the Polish studio Techland, and it turns the usual zombie story into a question about what time it is. The setting is Harran, a fictional city in the Middle East, cut off from the world by a…