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Top Survival Horror Games

60+ survival horror games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Horror, Action, Atmospheric, Singleplayer.

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  1. #1 Resident Evil Requiem
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 176,129 reviews2026
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 21.3hMean: 28.7h≥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.

  2. #2 Escape the Backrooms
    98% matchVery Positive90% of 148,533 reviews2025
    Developer: Fancy GamesPublisher: Secret Mode
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.9hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 90%

    Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

  3. #3 Lethal Company
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 509,102 reviews2023
    Developer: Zeekerss
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.2hMean: 29.1h≥1hr: 94%

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

  4. #4 Resident Evil 4
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 259,428 reviews2023
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 26.9hMean: 50.5h≥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.

  5. #5 Sons Of The Forest
    98% matchVery Positive88% of 309,677 reviews2024
    Developer: Endnight Games LtdPublisher: Newnight
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 15.0hMean: 32.3h≥1hr: 94%

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

  6. #6 The Outlast Trials
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 105,010 reviews2024
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 33.8h≥1hr: 95%

    Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

  7. #7 Resident Evil Village
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 149,416 reviews2021
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 15.7hMean: 32.9h≥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.

  8. #8 The Forest
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 674,499 reviews2018
    Developer: Endnight Games Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.1hMean: 37.2h≥1hr: 92%

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

  9. #9 Resident Evil 2
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 214,916 reviews2019
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 14.5hMean: 32.0h≥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.

  10. #10 Poppy Playtime
    98% matchVery Positive88% of 139,299 reviews2021
    Developer: Mob Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 51%

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

  11. #11 Dying Light
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 488,921 reviews2015
    Developer: Techland
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 21.6hMean: 61.1h≥1hr: 95%

    First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

  12. #12 DEVOUR
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 87,560 reviews2021
    Developer: Straight Back Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.4hMean: 13.5h≥1hr: 90%

    DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

  13. #13 SCP: Secret Laboratory
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 231,372 reviews2017
    Developer: Northwood Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.0hMean: 46.3h≥1hr: 65%

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

  14. #14 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 122,574 reviews2017
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.7hMean: 27.8h≥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.

  15. #15 Outlast
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 136,412 reviews2013
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 19.0h≥1hr: 83%

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

  16. #16 Resident Evil 3
    98% matchVery Positive83% of 121,796 reviews2020
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.8hMean: 19.8h≥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.

  17. #17 Resident Evil 4 (2005)
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 96,164 reviews2014
    Developer: Capcom
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.2hMean: 30.0h≥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.

  18. #18 Dead by Daylight
    98% matchMostly Positive79% of 908,889 reviews2016
    Developer: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 34.9hMean: 362.3h≥1hr: 95%

    10 years of horror. 10 years of jump scares and close calls. 10 years of brutal sacrifices and thrilling escapes. Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits.

  19. #19 Alien: Isolation
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 65,732 reviews2014
    Developer: Creative AssemblyPublisher: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 17.0h≥1hr: 82%

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

  20. #20 Resident Evil
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 35,162 reviews2015
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 16.6h≥1hr: 82%

    The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

  21. #21 Cry of Fear
    98% matchVery Positive89% of 84,992 reviews2013
    Developer: Team Psykskallar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 57%

    Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

  22. #22 SILENT HILL 2
    98% matchVery Positive95% of 61,761 reviews2024
    Developer: Bloober Team SAPublisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.8hMean: 27.0h≥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.

  23. #23 Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
    98% matchVery Positive86% of 69,088 reviews2021
    Developer: Steel Wool StudiosPublisher: ScottGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.4hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 91%

    In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, play as Gregory, a young boy who’s been trapped overnight inside of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy himself, Gregory must uncover the secrets of the Pizzaplex, learn the truth, and survive until dawn.

  24. #24 Five Nights at Freddy's
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 58,489 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 10.8h≥1hr: 56%

    Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!

  25. #25 Outlast 2
    97% matchVery Positive91% of 63,441 reviews2017
    Developer: Red Barrels
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 17.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.

  26. #26 The Evil Within
    97% matchVery Positive85% of 32,994 reviews2014
    Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.5hMean: 19.2h≥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.

  27. #27 Ultimate Custom Night
    97% matchVery Positive95% of 62,390 reviews2018
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 9.1h≥1hr: 54%

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

  28. #28 Barotrauma
    97% matchVery Positive94% of 87,309 reviews2023
    Developer: FakeFishPublisher: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 9.0hMean: 55.3h≥1hr: 91%

    Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

  29. #29 PROJECT: PLAYTIME
    97% matchMostly Positive79% of 57,148 reviews2022
    Developer: Mob Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 50%

    PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.

  30. #30 Dead Space
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 66,077 reviews2023
    Developer: MotivePublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.0hMean: 16.9h≥1hr: 86%

    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.

  31. #31 Subnautica 2
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 118,544 reviews2026
    Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.3hMean: 12.5h≥1hr: 93%

    Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

  32. #32 The Evil Within 2
    96% matchVery Positive92% of 30,631 reviews2017
    Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.9hMean: 22.4h≥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.

  33. #33 SIGNALIS
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,977 reviews2022
    Developer: rose-enginePublisher: Balor Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.5hMean: 9.1h≥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.

  34. #34 GTFO
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 66,048 reviews2021
    Developer: 10 Chambers
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 27.2h≥1hr: 92%

    GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

  35. #35 Inside the Backrooms
    94% matchVery Positive80% of 46,225 reviews2022
    Developer: MrFatcat
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 15.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

  36. #36 The Callisto Protocol™
    94% matchMixed65% of 43,147 reviews2022
    Developer: Striking Distance StudiosPublisher: KRAFTON, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.3hMean: 17.1h≥1hr: 88%

    Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.

  37. #37 Resident Evil 0
    93% matchVery Positive80% of 18,941 reviews2016
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.4hMean: 15.4h≥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.

  38. #38 Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
    93% matchVery Positive94% of 32,968 reviews2017
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 8.0h≥1hr: 55%

    Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!

  39. #39 Resident Evil Revelations 2
    93% matchMostly Positive78% of 31,618 reviews2015
    Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 19.4h≥1hr: 85%

    RE Revelations 2 continues the series acclaimed essential survival horror experience, while uncovering startling truths.

  40. #40 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
    93% matchMixed66% of 22,804 reviews2023
    Developer: Sumo DigitalPublisher: Gun Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.4hMean: 66.6h≥1hr: 91%

    Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film. Experience the mad and macabre for yourself in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

  41. #41 Backrooms: Escape Together
    93% matchVery Positive89% of 43,060 reviews2022
    Developer: Triiodide Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 91%

    A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

  42. #42 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    92% matchVery Positive94% of 25,775 reviews2014
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 17.5h≥1hr: 58%

    Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

  43. #43 City Car Driving
    92% matchVery Positive83% of 35,376 reviews2016
    Developer: Forward Development, Ltd.Publisher: Forward Global Group, Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 33.5h≥1hr: 80%

    City Car Driving – realistic car driving simulator, which will help you master the basic skills of the car driving in various traffic conditions, with plunging into the environment most closely resembling the real one.

  44. #44 Choo-Choo Charles
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 17,195 reviews2022
    Developer: Two Star Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.7hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 76%

    Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.

  45. #45 Nuclear Nightmare
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 18,433 reviews2024
    Developer: BG Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.4hMean: 5.2h≥1hr: 76%

    Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

  46. #46 Dead Space (2008)
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 28,891 reviews2009
    Developer: EA Redwood ShoresPublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 10.5h≥1hr: 79%

    You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.

  47. #47 Resident Evil Revelations
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 17,981 reviews2013
    Developer: Capcom
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.9hMean: 24.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.

  48. #48 SILENT HILL f
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 27,410 reviews2025
    Developer: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.Publisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.1hMean: 23.4h≥1hr: 91%

    Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.

  49. #49 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
    90% matchVery Positive95% of 35,454 reviews2010
    Developer: Frictional Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.2hMean: 10.4h≥1hr: 55%

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

  50. #50 Dead Space™ 2
    90% matchVery Positive94% of 29,062 reviews2011
    Developer: Visceral GamesPublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 14.8h≥1hr: 87%

    Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.

  51. #51 Five Nights at Freddy's 4
    90% matchVery Positive93% of 16,670 reviews2015
    Developer: Scott Cawthon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 23.2h≥1hr: 45%

    In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

  52. #52 Dead Frontier 2
    90% matchMixed70% of 28,159 reviews2019
    Developer: Creaky Corpse Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 16.3h≥1hr: 47%

    Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

  53. #53 SOMA
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 51,536 reviews2015
    Developer: Frictional Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.6hMean: 10.2h≥1hr: 89%

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

  54. #54 Look Outside
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,051 reviews2025
    Developer: Francis CoulombePublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 15.1h≥1hr: 76%

    Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.

  55. #55 Escape from Tarkov
    89% matchMixed48% of 54,291 reviews2025
    Developer: Battlestate Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 41.2hMean: 178.6h≥1hr: 95%

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

  56. #56 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,853 reviews2022
    Developer: Miro Haverinen
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.3hMean: 25.0h≥1hr: 80%

    F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!

  57. #57 Bendy and the Ink Machine
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 35,388 reviews2017
    Developer: Joey Drew Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.8hMean: 12.8h≥1hr: 60%

    Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.

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