- #1 Resident Evil 0
97% matchVery Positive80% of 19,883 reviews2016
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.
Why similar: Classic 24.8% ★, Zombies 22.4%, Survival Horror 20.7%, Horror 11.9%, Survival 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: It preserves the original game's fixed-camera presentation, tank-style movement, limited supplies, puzzle progression, and classic Umbrella-era survival-horror structure.
- #2 Resident Evil 2
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 224,292 reviews2019
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Why similar: Zombies 27.7%, Survival Horror 22.9%, Classic 15.7% ★, Horror 10.6%, Third Person 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: This remake delivers the closest modern counterpart to Resident Evil's tense exploration, key-and-puzzle gated police-station map, scarce resources, and zombie encounters.
- #3 Tormented Souls
96% matchVery Positive90% of 8,214 reviews2021
Dev: Dual EffectPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.7%, Horror 16%, Puzzle 6.9%, Survival 6.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deliberate modern homage to early Resident Evil, with fixed angles, item-combination puzzles, limited saves, backtracking, and a hostile mansion-like setting.
- #4 SIGNALIS
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,748 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Survival Horror 58.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Atmospheric 10%, Puzzle 7.8%, Third-Person Shooter 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its tightly managed inventory, sparse ammunition, cryptic puzzles, oppressive facilities, and vulnerable combat recreate classic survival horror in a distinctive sci-fi world.
- #5 Resident Evil Revelations
94% matchVery Positive81% of 18,591 reviews2013
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.
Why similar: Zombies 30.7%, Survival Horror 26.4%, Horror 16.5%, Third-Person Shooter 4.4%, Survival 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its shipbound campaign brings back claustrophobic survival-horror exploration, resource scarcity, puzzles, and a stronger focus on tension than many action-heavy series entries.
- #6 Resident Evil 4 (2005)
94% matchVery Positive94% of 98,620 reviews2014
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.3%, Zombies 23.6%, Classic 21.9% ★, Horror 10%, Third-Person Shooter 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts toward action but retains the series' satisfying inventory management, isolated horror atmosphere, memorable bosses, and methodical weapon-resource decisions.
- #7 Them and Us
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,665 reviews2021
Dev: TendoGames Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.6%, Zombies 20%, Horror 14.5%, Third Person 6.4%, Female Protagonist 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its classic camera options, zombie-filled mansion exploration, ammunition conservation, and puzzle-heavy structure are deeply rooted in the original Resident Evil formula.
- #8 Crow Country
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,366 reviews2024
Dev: SFB Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Why similar: Survival Horror 45.4%, Horror 17.5%, Female Protagonist 7.1%, Third Person 6.8%, Third-Person Shooter 6%
Why You'll Like It: This compact retro horror game emphasizes fixed-camera-style exploration, riddles, inventory items, constrained combat, and uncovering a sinister location's secrets.
- #9 Alisa
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,598 reviews2021
Dev: Casper Croes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Alisa is a Horror-themed Action Adventure game and a genuine throwback to the golden age of 90s 3D games.
Why similar: Survival Horror 57.3%, Horror 20%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Atmospheric 5%, Action 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Alisa closely imitates PlayStation-era survival horror through tank controls, pre-rendered environments, elaborate puzzles, limited resources, and an eerie estate.
- #10 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 127,598 reviews2017
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.6%, Zombies 20.4%, Horror 18.9%, Classic 8.4% ★, Survival 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: The first-person perspective changes the view, but its decaying estate, limited healing and ammo, escape-room-like puzzles, and vulnerable early hours strongly evoke Resident Evil's roots.
- #11 Echoes of the Living
90% matchVery Positive84% of 1,042 reviews2025
Dev: MoonGlint Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.4%, Zombies 37.7%, Horror 17.6%, Shooter 3.2%, Adventure 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: This modern fixed-camera survival-horror game is explicitly built around branching exploration, item management, zombies, and the tense pacing of late-1990s genre classics.
- #12 Resident Evil 4
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 279,839 reviews2023
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 26.7 hrsMean: 50.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Zombies 27%, Horror 16.8%, Survival 6.5%, Third-Person Shooter 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This remake updates the classic with atmospheric village exploration, an excellent inventory system, carefully paced combat, and horror-focused set pieces.
- #13 Resident Evil 3
89% matchVery Positive83% of 126,826 reviews2020
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Classic 13.2% ★, Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Though more action-oriented than the seed game, it retains zombie survival, healing and ammunition management, environmental puzzles, and a relentless pursuer.
- #14 Heaven Dust 2
88% matchVery Positive90% of 861 reviews2022
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Survival Horror 27.3%, Horror 16%, Puzzle 7.1%, Third-Person Shooter 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down view, it captures Resident Evil's loop of unlocking a sprawling infected facility, solving inventory puzzles, conserving ammunition, and surviving bosses.
- #15 SILENT HILL 2
85% matchVery Positive95% of 65,757 reviews2024
Dev: Bloober Team SAPub: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36%, Classic 20% ★, Horror 18.5%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Third Person 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly deliberate exploration, locked-door puzzles, oppressive environments, sparse combat resources, and a landmark survival-horror mood, albeit with psychological rather than zombie horror.
- #16 Resident Evil Revelations 2
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 32,252 reviews2015
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.
Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Survival Horror 25.1%, Horror 14.4%, Survival 5.2%, Third-Person Shooter 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its episodic campaign combines isolated horror locations, co-op-capable exploration, item searching, puzzles, and limited-resource combat against bio-organic threats.
- #17 Daymare: 1998
86% matchMixed69% of 4,297 reviews2019
Dev: Invader Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Why similar: Zombies 33.1%, Survival Horror 29.7%, Horror 14.2%, Survival 5.4%, Third Person 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A clear modern throwback to classic Resident Evil, featuring zombies, restrictive inventory systems, healing items, environmental puzzles, and tense third-person combat.
- #18 Dead Space
84% matchVery Positive91% of 71,387 reviews2023
Dev: MotivePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.2%, Horror 24.1%, Third-Person Shooter 6.8%, Survival 6.5%, Third Person 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its ruined spaceship works like a sci-fi survival-horror mansion, rewarding careful route exploration, ammunition management, upgrades, puzzles, and tactical dismemberment.
- #19 Heaven Dust
86% matchVery Positive91% of 696 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: Survival Horror 40.5%, Zombies 22.4%, Horror 17%, Adventure 7.8%, Action 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compact, top-down take on the original game's laboratory horror, with limited supplies, keys, herbs, puzzles, and virus-created monsters.
- #20 Resident Evil Village
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 154,752 reviews2021
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
Why similar: Survival Horror 35%, Zombies 26%, Horror 16.9%, Survival 5.2%, Gore 5%
Why You'll Like It: Its castle and village areas offer a modern take on Resident Evil's exploration, inventory management, key items, puzzles, merchant upgrades, and memorable monster-filled environments.
- #21 Obscure
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,276 reviews2014
Dev: Hydravision EntertainmentPub: Mighty Rocket Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
For some time now, Leafmore High School has been the setting for unexplained disappearances. In this survival horror game, you take control of a group of 5 American students. With your friends, you try to unravel the mysterious happenings at this unremarkable-looking school. The night will be long and survival not will not be easy...
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.4%, Horror 21.4%, Classic 20.8% ★, Zombies 5.7%, Third Person 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers school-set survival horror with zombies and mutations, puzzle-based progression, item scavenging, and a distinctly early-2000s Resident Evil-like structure.
- #22 SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,092 reviews2019
Dev: Protocol Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly... Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.8%, Horror 22.5%, Third Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It favors slow investigation of haunted spaces, environmental puzzles, scarce safety, and sustained dread over constant action, much like Resident Evil's exploration-heavy sections.
- #23 FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,982 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Japanese survival horror game "FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse" is back with better graphics.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.4%, Horror 28.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Third Person 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric Japanese horror game replaces guns with a camera but shares Resident Evil's deliberate exploration, locked-path puzzles, healing management, and haunted architecture.
- #24 The Evil Within
82% matchVery Positive85% of 33,760 reviews2014
Dev: Tango GameworksPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.9%, Horror 20.9%, Zombies 15.9%, Gore 5.7%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Created by Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, it combines grotesque monsters, limited resources, traps, tense set pieces, and survival-horror pressure with more action-heavy combat.
- #25 Lamentum
81% matchVery Positive88% of 842 reviews2021
Dev: Obscure TalesPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Why similar: Survival Horror 50.9%, Horror 20.5%, Gore 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Story Rich 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art presentation hides a serious classic survival-horror design built around a cursed mansion, puzzles, combat scarcity, branching paths, and grim occult horror.
- #26 Alone in the Dark
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,932 reviews2024
Dev: Pieces InteractivePub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 35%, Horror 32.6%, Third Person 11.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Adventure 5%
Why You'll Like It: As another foundational survival-horror revival, it mixes mansion exploration, occult monsters, environmental puzzles, and survival-focused combat in a closely related format.
- #27 Post Trauma
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 703 reviews2025
Dev: RED SOUL GAMESPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom.
Why similar: Zombies 29.5%, Survival Horror 28.4%, Horror 14.2%, Third Person 6.7%, Puzzle 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-forward survival-horror adventure uses fixed cinematic viewpoints, unsettling environments, deliberate exploration, and classic genre tension over fast action.
- #28 Fear the Spotlight
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,323 reviews2024
Dev: Cozy Game PalsPub: Blumhouse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.8%, Horror 17.7%, Puzzle 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Third Person 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on vulnerable exploration, environmental puzzles, stealthy evasion, and a tightly designed haunted location that captures Resident Evil's slower investigative side.
- #29 Hollowbody
79% matchVery Positive85% of 1,618 reviews2024
Dev: Headware Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
Why similar: Survival Horror 45.1%, Horror 10.3%, Third Person 10%, Puzzle 8.8%, Female Protagonist 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its fixed-camera-inspired visuals, dense urban environments, deliberate navigation, puzzles, limited ammunition, and unsettling isolation make it a strong modern retro-horror choice.
- #30 Resident Evil Requiem
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 185,609 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.5%, Zombies 33.2%, Horror 15.6%, Third-Person Shooter 5.4%, Female Protagonist 2.9%
- #31 Resident Evil (1996)
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,748 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Your squad has been choppered to a remote mansion to investigate a bio-experiment gone wrong. You’re plunged straight into a deathtrap. Arm yourself, solve puzzles, and unearth mysteries. But beware: every move you make draws you deeper into the deadly embrace of Resident Evil.
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.2%, Zombies 21.9%, Classic 19.8% ★, Horror 11%, Survival 7.1%
- #32 Resident Evil 2 (1998)
75% matchVery Positive91% of 2,288 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.8%, Zombies 23.7%, Classic 14.8% ★, Horror 12%, Survival 7.3%
- #33 Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
75% matchVery Positive89% of 2,539 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Join Jill Valentine, the survivor of the notorious disaster, as her nightmare continues. After resigning from S.T.A.R.S. Jill now prepares to head out of Raccoon City… but caught in a town crawling with zombies, more than ever she must rely on brute force and cunning to find a way to escape alive.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.5%, Zombies 23.6%, Horror 12.2%, Classic 11.6% ★, Survival 7.6%
- #34 Resident Evil 6
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 71,799 reviews2013
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 35.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
Why similar: Zombies 47.2%, Horror 14%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Third-Person Shooter 5.4%, Third Person 3.9%
- #35 Resident Evil 5
77% matchVery Positive87% of 68,266 reviews2009
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
Why similar: Zombies 40.1%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Horror 14.7%, Third-Person Shooter 5.3%, Third Person 4.1%
- #36 Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
73% matchVery Positive84% of 8,652 reviews2024
Dev: Aspyr
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored – Now with New Challenge Mode
Why similar: Puzzle 15.4%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Third Person 13%, Difficult 12.6%
- #37 Black Mesa
72% matchVery Positive95% of 145,002 reviews2020
Dev: Crowbar Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Relive Half-Life.
Why similar: Classic 42.9% ★, Zombies 22.8%, Horror 9.8%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Great Soundtrack 4.9%
- #38 Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
72% matchVery Positive80% of 4,124 reviews2024
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dead Rising returns with modern graphics in this Deluxe Remaster!
Why similar: Zombies 49.2%, Horror 18.7%, Survival 13.4%, Third Person 5.5%, Adventure 3.9%
- #39 DEAD RISING®
73% matchVery Positive88% of 7,298 reviews2016
Dev: Capcom
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
Why similar: Zombies 36.3%, Classic 24.6% ★, Survival Horror 11.2%, Horror 6.5%, Survival 5.5%
- #40 Alien: Isolation
71% matchVery Positive93% of 67,015 reviews2014
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Why similar: Survival Horror 41.9%, Horror 26.2%, Survival 8%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Female Protagonist 5.2%
- #41 Devil May Cry HD Collection
71% matchVery Positive93% of 25,884 reviews2018
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The popular stylish action games Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition return in one collection!
Why similar: Classic 61.1% ★, Difficult 7.7%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, Third Person 5.7%, Action 4.3%
- #42 DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
70% matchVery Positive92% of 155,884 reviews2018
Dev: QLOCPub: FromSoftware, Inc.
Windows
Median: 31.6 hrsMean: 56.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Why similar: Difficult 26.2%, Atmospheric 19%, Great Soundtrack 16.8%, Third Person 15%, Action 8.5%
- #43 Dino Crisis
68% matchVery Positive81% of 1,037 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Raw Instinct takes over in this new, adrenaline-pumping journey into Survival Horror. Something is terribly wrong. Your covert mission has gone haywire… now you find yourself pursued by a relentless, prehistoric terror. Suddenly, your mission becomes a desperate fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 41.4%, Horror 17.2%, Survival 12%, Classic 7.1% ★, Third-Person Shooter 4.9%
- #44 Flesh Made Fear
67% matchVery Positive94% of 419 reviews2025
Dev: Tainted PactPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.3%, Zombies 32.6%, Horror 15.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Third-Person Shooter 4.8%
- #45 Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition
70% matchVery Positive87% of 22,565 reviews2015
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.Pub: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The smash-hit stylish action game DMC4 is back and better than ever, boasting new playable characters and game modes!
Why similar: Classic 50.5% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Third Person 8.9%, Action 7.1%, Difficult 7%
- #46 The Evil Within 2
69% matchVery Positive92% of 31,065 reviews2017
Dev: Tango GameworksPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.5%, Horror 20.3%, Zombies 15.3%, Survival 4.5%, Gore 4.4%
- #47 Umbrella Corps
73% matchMostly Negative32% of 3,360 reviews2016
Dev: CAPCOM
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Join the corps! Umbrella Corps brings a competitive experience featuring new types of strategy and technique blended with elements from the world of Resident Evil, to create a unique kind of shooter!
Why similar: Zombies 54.1%, Horror 11.8%, Third-Person Shooter 6.4%, Survival 6.2%, Shooter 5.3%
- #48 EBOLA 3
70% matchMixed70% of 344 reviews2022
Dev: indie_games_studio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
EBOLA 3 - is created in the spirit of the great classics of survival horrors. In this game, you will control the main character with a first-person camera which makes you feel like you’re in a real horror movie.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.1%, Zombies 25.7%, Horror 13.5%, Survival 7.5%, Atmospheric 5.5%
- #49 The Last of Us™ Part I
67% matchVery Positive85% of 109,908 reviews2023
Dev: Naughty Dog LLCPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Why similar: Zombies 28.6%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Horror 13.6%, Survival 8.4%, Third Person 5.7%
- #50 DOOM 3
69% matchVery Positive86% of 12,566 reviews2012
Dev: id SoftwarePub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
Why similar: Classic 40.4% ★, Horror 19.6%, Zombies 12.6%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Gore 4%
- #51 The Walking Evil
71% matchMixed55% of 131 reviews2020
Dev: VikTor
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Walking Evil takes you to the great classic of the survival horror of the 90s, where you guide the main character with a fixed system of cameras, which enhances the feeling of being in a real horror movie.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.5%, Zombies 23.8%, Horror 12.9%, Survival 7.7%, Puzzle 5.9%
- #52 Left 4 Dead
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 68,256 reviews2008
Dev: Valve
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 65.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 67.2%, Horror 13.5%, Survival 6.9%, Shooter 3.1%, Action 2.3%
- #53 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake
68% matchMixed68% of 2,996 reviews2022
Dev: MegaPixel Studio S. A.Pub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake is a remade version of the game introduced in 1997 in arcade platform. A classic arcade rail-shooter receives a whole new entourage and gameplay changes to suit modern gaming standards.
Why similar: Zombies 54.2%, Horror 24%, Shooter 7.6%, Gore 6.6%, Action 5.5%
- #54 Remothered: Tormented Fathers
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,958 reviews2018
Dev: Stormind Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.9%, Horror 29.7%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Gore 7%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #55 Dead Island Definitive Edition
66% matchVery Positive82% of 28,366 reviews2016
Dev: TechlandPub: Deep Silver
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
Why similar: Zombies 53.5%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Survival 11.1%, Horror 10.7%, Gore 5%
- #56 Obscure II (Obscure: The Aftermath)
67% matchVery Positive82% of 1,664 reviews2014
Dev: Hydravision EntertainmentPub: Mighty Rocket Studio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Two years ago, a group of young teenagers found themselves trapped inside their school. They suffered through the longest night of their lives, chased by abominable creatures created by their principal. Some of them survived that terrible night, while others perished.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36%, Horror 28.3%, Zombies 12%, Survival 5.1%, Third Person 3.7%
- #57 The Thing: Remastered
63% matchVery Positive90% of 1,424 reviews2024
Dev: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.7%, Horror 16.6%, Third Person 8.8%, Gore 7.2%, Third-Person Shooter 6.2%
