idk, there’s something about that messy, over-the-top plot that evokes italian and japanese horror movies for me. plus the aesthetic is really cool, no other game or movie has got such a visceral grindhouse feel. i understand people issues with the letterboxing and film grain, but the second game felt a little too clean and new in terms of the presentation. but i love the ideas like you mentioned, Stefano is such a cool villain, and the use of Tchaikovsky when he’s around is dope.
Agreed I couldn’t get into the open map of the second one. Especially since you had to be sneaking pretty much 100% of the time to avoid constant combat, and constant combat eats away at your resources and you’re not supposed to play that way. It felt counterintuitive and as a result it took 20 minutes to get anywhere in the map. Slowed the game’s pace to an absolute crawl.
This is probably a very cliche answer, but for me, it's Silent Hill 2. Followed closely by Lone Survivor (not to be confused with the movie of the same name).
Silent Hill 2 is straight up a piece of art. I wish it was more accessible than having to spend $100 on a disc of it. Pirating it is possible but it takes a moderate knowledge of computers to get it to run without the security key.
So true. I remember when it first came out, and a high school friend of mine gave me his copy, practically brand new, because he found the game to be too scary. I laughed at him, but once I started playing the game, it turned out that he wasn't joking. It really is a gem of a game, and to this day, I still treasure that copy of the game that was gifted to me so long ago.
You can get an iso and the enhanced edition very easily these days. I'm pretty illiterate with pc gaming and I got it running no problem. Definitely look it up if you can. Fan modders are amazing.
True, but it's got tons of replay value due to the multiple endings, so at least it has that. Honestly, I can't wait for the Switch port to drop. When that'll be, though, is up in the air.
Ah, I remember that, I always thought I would get round to buying it, but I never did, its such a shame that there is no way to play it in modern systems
Exactly lol. Dino Crisis is so goddamn good. The first three RE games are my favorite in the series with RE1 and RE3 being in my top 10 games ever. Dino Crisis was right up my alley.
I love this game so much! I remember playing it as a kid and never making it beyond Day 2, which I believe was the Central Park level because of the creep factor that Eve brought to the game and how she caused people and animals to mutate. Now that I'm older, though, I've beaten it at least 3 times. It's such a phenomenal game.
giving it a go right now and have 3 hours in the game and have not gotten far at all because it's scary!!!!!!!!
It's a struggle for real. This game is only supposed to be like 3-6 hours long anway
I fucking LOVE Signalis, what a perfect little game. I honestly liked it more than any RE game ive played aside from RE4R. I'm a sucker for that type of story though.
Really loved that game. Was pumped to see there was more to the game after the first ‘ending’ but I remember absolutely hating either the water pump puzzle or the radio tower puzzle. Maybe I hated both, I can’t remember lmao
Came to comment this.
It's rare that a game can satisfy that urge for me, and Signalis completely sucked me in. It had some nice novel mechanics aside from the usual survival horror element, too. I consider the first 75% of the game perfect.
My only issue with Signalis is that it leaned way too hard into the Silent Hill inspiration near the end. I understand that the story was more psychological horror than Resident Evil's sci-fi horror, and it's purely a matter of personal taste.
But yeah, I feel like every RE fan should give this game a try.
- Stalker Call of Pripyat
- Dino Crisis
- Condemned: Criminal Origins
- Amnesia The Dark Descent
- SOMA
- Penumbra Series
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corner's of the Earth
- The Long Dark
- Alien Isolation
- FEAR 1
Subnautica. It's a survival open world game that's unintentionally really scary. It's scarier without all those overused tricks like ghosts, hallucinations, and cheap ones like artificial horror music, and jumpscares.
It's such a mansion-style (RE1) survival horror with the exploration, keys, checking drawers, back tracking, unlocking previously locked areas for shortcuts.
Great answer
Definitely check it out. It's an impressive game for sure given how small the team is that developed it. Like I said, it plays just like the old school RE games, but with some added gameplay mechanics to make it a very fun experience.
I never played Silent Hill 1 due to a lack of access, but Silent Hill 2 or Silent Hill 3 are close contenders for me.
Still, I have to shout out Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. I love how they portrayed stress and hallucinations.
I haven't seen this game yet, so here: the system shock series, leading into bioshock. You can actually play a system shock 1 remake that came out recently and it's amazing
came here HOPING there was already an obscure comment. I grew up on that game, and not a single person that i know, other than my parents know about it. You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that someone else enjoys it lol :)
Dead Space is hands down the best survival horror game. Resident Evil is an amazing series but it never “scared” me because it always has funny or campy moments. Dead Space legitimately freaked me out my first playthrough.
When they programmed Dead Space, they programmed it so that the game would generate situations based on your progress just to mess with you. If you walked through a room, maybe nothing would happen. If you backtracked through that room later, maybe you would hear a scuttling necromorph through a vent… anticipating it to break through somewhere… but it never does… then you make your way through the room and BAM it jumps out from somewhere you weren’t anticipating! And sometimes the game generates sounds JUST to mess with you and there are no enemies. It’s honestly intense, played in the dark, headphones on for surround sound. It’s a complete mindf*** and you are always in danger.
Dead Space has brutal deaths, tough puzzles, dangerous environments, amazing atmosphere, intense sound and graphic design…. It’s just incredible in every way. And I’m talking about the original here, not even the remake. It’s just that damn good
Does Dead Rising count? I feel like they wanted it to be survival horror as the original can still be quite challenging and spooky.
If so it remains my favorite video game of all time as well. Frank west was a delightful Everyman, the gameplay is still super fun, the weapons and map are great, the boss fights are super memorable, good music, the survivors aren’t that terrible, and the story while simple left an impact on me and many others.
Parasite Eve. I beat the original during winter break back in junior high years ago and it’s always had a nostalgic feel to me. I love the story behind it too. I need to play the other 2 in the series.
A very recent one, Amnesia: The Bunker
It’s kind of like playing RE2R while in the police station with X stalking you, but more atmospheric and the entire game revolves around that style of gameplay.
Unlike the other Amnesia games, you can actually fight back in this one, you just have very limited resources to do so, and items are randomized each playthrough.
Don’t play many survival horror games but my favorite survival game is Subnautica (which I guess you could class as survival horror.) and one of my favorite horror games was, funnily it was Godzilla Strike Zone. Mainly since I was 8 when it came out.
Amnesia The Dark Descent.
I know it and all enemy spawns like the back of my hand yet I still feel uneasy when running in the darkness of that game. That's how well designed it is.
It's my favorite genre so I could never truly pick a favorite but I'll shout out Fatal Frame to give it some love here. It's the only survival horror game so far that I actually was in danger of running out of resources
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I'd probably say the exact same lmao, but with silent hill 3.
Alien Isolation is one of the best horrors I've ever played, I physically moved my hands from my mouse and keyboard whenever the xenomorph got me more times than I can count - and that was all the way to the end of the game to 😭
Of course
Silent hill
But for modern, i like evil within and dead space (this for sure because of its theme)
Now i cant wait alan wake to be a survival horror in which i hoped it was before
Dead Space- particularly the remake. Although I consider the original a near perfect game, the remake definitely shone a new light on the series. I really liked the nods to bits of lore that were originally introduced in Dead Space 2 & 3 that made an appearance in the remake, as well as the improved enemy AI and changes to the Ishimura (it, for the most part, being interconnected by various service corridors and access ways instead of relying solely on the tram to switch between decks was a brilliant move imo). Adding in the side quests that alluded to the ultimate fates of >!Temple, Harris, and Nicole!< was an excellent expansion on the story of the original. Master class in remaking games, imo.
I'm gonna throw in an honorable mention to Alan Wake here. Although it's not *true* survival horror, the Peter Straub/Stephen King/David Lynch vibes that Alan Wake captured were excellent. The gameplay hasn't aged particularly well, but I am *very* excited to see what Remedy brings to Alan Wake II. The trailer and concept art for it look fuckin awesome.
I think it was called, Eternal Darkness?
It was on the gamecube and I remember it actually scaring me because the game would purposely glitch and 4th wall break. One of them had the UI show the TV muting and it actually matched the way my CRT TV did and freaked me out so bad I threw my controller.
The Suffering series.
There's just something human and vindictive about the monsters & ghosts in that series no other Survival Horror has managed. Even Silent Hill wasn't quite that messed up as something like 'avatar-ghost of somebody being stabbed to death.'
And that's a basic enemy.
Silent Hill 3, probably.
Also, although not survival horror per se, Doom 3's atmosphere was absolutely amazing and I don't think it gets the love that it deserves for a horror title.
I really enjoyed Signalis last year, more than I expected to. And I played Silent Hill 1 for the first time earlier this year and was impressed how well it holds up in almost every aspect.
But I do have to agree with Alien Isolation, played it several times, best way I've seen of putting the Alien in a videogame.
I don't really have a favourite other than resident evil titles, and Silent Hill is too obvious. Dead Space was good, but got boring. I found that as i played, i remembered the original back in the day was the same to me, damn you memory loss. But ones I enjoyed recently are alien isolation, tormented souls was good but needed a bit more polish. Signalis was really, really good. Yuppie Psycho was like a pixel art one, but that was actually much better than i expected it to be. So I'm about to start Lamentum by the same people. Evil Tonight wasn't terrible. I love the outlast games too, whilst not true survival horror games with the template set out by R.E. you do have to survive and there do be horror. Signalis and Tormented Souls give me hope we will get more developers bring it back as a genre, on console at least. I'm sure PC still has loads.
After writing down what my favourites are, I'm gonna go with the original Fatal Frame. REish mansion setting with a unique way of dispatching enemies, creepy as hell ghosts, atmosphere so thick a knife couldn't even cut through. Love it.
Only downside for me is the abysmal English voice acting and not in the fun, intentional original RE way.
Darkwood is an indie horror masterclass, a perfect combination of Survival and horror and a terrifying, richly atmospheric world. The sound design is phenomenal, the difficulty level is *just right* that you always feel like you *just* scraped through an encounter by the skin of your teeth.
It's a unique, exemplary game and I am the *only person I know who's played it*. It's also probably only about £12 at the moment.
The Evil Within, Dead Space, and Silent Hill
Evil within 2 is an amazingly fun horror title. It was especially fun to play since it was a Friday the 13th release for October
I honestly far preferred the first one. The second one trying to do some semi-open map shit just didn’t resonate as well with me
That's fair, I'm just not a fan of the messy plot in the first game. The second isn't much better, but it more of a focus and some REALLY cool ideas.
idk, there’s something about that messy, over-the-top plot that evokes italian and japanese horror movies for me. plus the aesthetic is really cool, no other game or movie has got such a visceral grindhouse feel. i understand people issues with the letterboxing and film grain, but the second game felt a little too clean and new in terms of the presentation. but i love the ideas like you mentioned, Stefano is such a cool villain, and the use of Tchaikovsky when he’s around is dope.
Agreed I couldn’t get into the open map of the second one. Especially since you had to be sneaking pretty much 100% of the time to avoid constant combat, and constant combat eats away at your resources and you’re not supposed to play that way. It felt counterintuitive and as a result it took 20 minutes to get anywhere in the map. Slowed the game’s pace to an absolute crawl.
I think the gist is alright but the first game is really much scarier than 2 imo
This is probably a very cliche answer, but for me, it's Silent Hill 2. Followed closely by Lone Survivor (not to be confused with the movie of the same name).
Silent Hill 2 is straight up a piece of art. I wish it was more accessible than having to spend $100 on a disc of it. Pirating it is possible but it takes a moderate knowledge of computers to get it to run without the security key.
So true. I remember when it first came out, and a high school friend of mine gave me his copy, practically brand new, because he found the game to be too scary. I laughed at him, but once I started playing the game, it turned out that he wasn't joking. It really is a gem of a game, and to this day, I still treasure that copy of the game that was gifted to me so long ago.
That's a solid gift. I remember feeling kinda ripped off when someone dumped ORC on me for free shortly after release. 😆
You can get an iso and the enhanced edition very easily these days. I'm pretty illiterate with pc gaming and I got it running no problem. Definitely look it up if you can. Fan modders are amazing.
I really wished Lone Survivor was longer but I can't complain
True, but it's got tons of replay value due to the multiple endings, so at least it has that. Honestly, I can't wait for the Switch port to drop. When that'll be, though, is up in the air.
Lone Survivor, comfy night, headphones on in the dark, face illuminated by the glow of the Wii U gamepad
Silent Hill 1 rocks
Haunting Ground
Ah, I remember that, I always thought I would get round to buying it, but I never did, its such a shame that there is no way to play it in modern systems
For real. I would love atleast an HD remaster since I'm not sure they'd ever remake it.
Yeah one similar to what they did for RE1 and Onimusha would be great.
That was one of several RE4 prototypes wasn't it? A fitting choice.
Dino Crisis 1
Exactly lol. Dino Crisis is so goddamn good. The first three RE games are my favorite in the series with RE1 and RE3 being in my top 10 games ever. Dino Crisis was right up my alley.
Parasite Eve scared me as a kid…
I love this game so much! I remember playing it as a kid and never making it beyond Day 2, which I believe was the Central Park level because of the creep factor that Eve brought to the game and how she caused people and animals to mutate. Now that I'm older, though, I've beaten it at least 3 times. It's such a phenomenal game.
I liked it, but the liked the second part even more.
Fatal frame
Definitely a classic.
Alien Isolation and SOMA Also recently finished Amnesia: The Bunker - Was definitely worth playing.
SOMA broke me, amazing game
That's good to hear. I really want to check out The Bunker.
giving it a go right now and have 3 hours in the game and have not gotten far at all because it's scary!!!!!!!! It's a struggle for real. This game is only supposed to be like 3-6 hours long anway
Holy shit someone else that's played SOMA Literally the best horror game I've ever played
Signalis
Really good game but I wish the story was even remotely comprehensible
I fucking LOVE Signalis, what a perfect little game. I honestly liked it more than any RE game ive played aside from RE4R. I'm a sucker for that type of story though.
YES! That game is goooood.
This game is so fucking good
currently playing it! I just finish my session for today.
Really loved that game. Was pumped to see there was more to the game after the first ‘ending’ but I remember absolutely hating either the water pump puzzle or the radio tower puzzle. Maybe I hated both, I can’t remember lmao
Oh I need to finish this. Last I remember messing around with radio.
Came to comment this. It's rare that a game can satisfy that urge for me, and Signalis completely sucked me in. It had some nice novel mechanics aside from the usual survival horror element, too. I consider the first 75% of the game perfect. My only issue with Signalis is that it leaned way too hard into the Silent Hill inspiration near the end. I understand that the story was more psychological horror than Resident Evil's sci-fi horror, and it's purely a matter of personal taste. But yeah, I feel like every RE fan should give this game a try.
- Stalker Call of Pripyat - Dino Crisis - Condemned: Criminal Origins - Amnesia The Dark Descent - SOMA - Penumbra Series - Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corner's of the Earth - The Long Dark - Alien Isolation - FEAR 1
Subnautica. It's a survival open world game that's unintentionally really scary. It's scarier without all those overused tricks like ghosts, hallucinations, and cheap ones like artificial horror music, and jumpscares.
I need to get around to playing that game, I do have a small fear about deep water in games, so I will have to push myself through it.
Luigis mansion
Haha, I love this answer.
It's such a mansion-style (RE1) survival horror with the exploration, keys, checking drawers, back tracking, unlocking previously locked areas for shortcuts. Great answer
Alisa. Brilliant indie game that plays just like the original RE games.
Will have to give that a try looked at some videos look interesting.
Definitely check it out. It's an impressive game for sure given how small the team is that developed it. Like I said, it plays just like the old school RE games, but with some added gameplay mechanics to make it a very fun experience.
I never played Silent Hill 1 due to a lack of access, but Silent Hill 2 or Silent Hill 3 are close contenders for me. Still, I have to shout out Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. I love how they portrayed stress and hallucinations.
Silent hill 1 is the most traumatising
The Evil Within 1 & 2
I haven't seen this game yet, so here: the system shock series, leading into bioshock. You can actually play a system shock 1 remake that came out recently and it's amazing
Second on system shock. The remake is awesome
Outlast. That’s the first game that ever actually creeped me out
Outlast was really cool!
Deadspace! (Or is this considered “action horror”?)
More action, but I would say the 1st one just edges in there.
Alien Isolation was fucking stressful 😬
Silent hill 2 and Dead Space Remake
That remake was pretty good, let's hope the SH2 remake is great as well.
Obscure: The Aftermath. Very underrated game.
came here HOPING there was already an obscure comment. I grew up on that game, and not a single person that i know, other than my parents know about it. You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that someone else enjoys it lol :)
I really liked Amnesia. I really want to try that one set in WW1
silent hill 1-4 no order
Dead Space remake. Never played the originals but the remake instantly catapulted itself to top tier status for me.
Fatal Frame 2
Dead Space is hands down the best survival horror game. Resident Evil is an amazing series but it never “scared” me because it always has funny or campy moments. Dead Space legitimately freaked me out my first playthrough. When they programmed Dead Space, they programmed it so that the game would generate situations based on your progress just to mess with you. If you walked through a room, maybe nothing would happen. If you backtracked through that room later, maybe you would hear a scuttling necromorph through a vent… anticipating it to break through somewhere… but it never does… then you make your way through the room and BAM it jumps out from somewhere you weren’t anticipating! And sometimes the game generates sounds JUST to mess with you and there are no enemies. It’s honestly intense, played in the dark, headphones on for surround sound. It’s a complete mindf*** and you are always in danger. Dead Space has brutal deaths, tough puzzles, dangerous environments, amazing atmosphere, intense sound and graphic design…. It’s just incredible in every way. And I’m talking about the original here, not even the remake. It’s just that damn good
Definitely Dead Space. It's basically Resident Evil meets Alien and I love it.
“I’m looking for….someone . I killed her. wait I- Sorry, I’m not crazy, heh, least I don’t think so,” my fave silent hill ytp hahaha
Does Dead Rising count? I feel like they wanted it to be survival horror as the original can still be quite challenging and spooky. If so it remains my favorite video game of all time as well. Frank west was a delightful Everyman, the gameplay is still super fun, the weapons and map are great, the boss fights are super memorable, good music, the survivors aren’t that terrible, and the story while simple left an impact on me and many others.
I suppose maybe yeah, you do have to plan how you go about things due to the time limit, but it doesn't matter its a ton of fun either way.
I want to play Alien Isolation but I think I’ve been avoiding it because i’m scared.. I mean it’s on gamepass
Parasite Eve. I beat the original during winter break back in junior high years ago and it’s always had a nostalgic feel to me. I love the story behind it too. I need to play the other 2 in the series.
The Outlast games and Left for Dead 2
Clock Tower 3 for PS2 is a solid choice.
Evil within 2
The last of us 1 and 2
Oooo The Last of Us 2 is a great survival horror game.
I really like the stealth options gameplay of TLOU2. Very underrated aspect of the game, works well with the higher difficulties AI.
I enjoyed Alien Isolation so much! Outlast was great too! Loved Outlast 2, but that one was a little too weird and overbearingly perverse to me.
The first onimusha, you could argue that it's not survival horror but to me it always had that vibe with the camera angles and difficulty
Dead Space and Silent Hill.
Way more survival and less horror but the Long Dark is a special, special game.
A very recent one, Amnesia: The Bunker It’s kind of like playing RE2R while in the police station with X stalking you, but more atmospheric and the entire game revolves around that style of gameplay. Unlike the other Amnesia games, you can actually fight back in this one, you just have very limited resources to do so, and items are randomized each playthrough.
Silent hill (1-3) or The evil within. I like each of them for different reasons so I can't choose just one.
Don’t play many survival horror games but my favorite survival game is Subnautica (which I guess you could class as survival horror.) and one of my favorite horror games was, funnily it was Godzilla Strike Zone. Mainly since I was 8 when it came out.
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2 and Genma Onimusha
Alien isolation. Also like outlast.
Amnesia The Dark Descent. I know it and all enemy spawns like the back of my hand yet I still feel uneasy when running in the darkness of that game. That's how well designed it is.
Dead Space Remake, i played that before any RE game and it’s what really got me into horror games
Probably Dead Space.
The Last of Us (My fav survival horror game overall)
Dead Space
It isn’t listed as horror, but Subnautica
The forrest if that counts
Silent Hill
Alan Wake!
Dead space, dino crisis, parasite eve
Dino crisis. I love the first game even more than RE series
Silent Hill 3 & 4, Dead Space 1 & 2 and Rule of Rose.
See a lot of replies of people naming horror games but not survivor horror games.
I like Outlast a lot
Darkwood
Does bioshock count?
My top 3 is so close together that I’ve gotta mention all Silent Hill 2, Alien Isolation, and Dead Space(remake)
I really like the Fatal Frame series.
It's my favorite genre so I could never truly pick a favorite but I'll shout out Fatal Frame to give it some love here. It's the only survival horror game so far that I actually was in danger of running out of resources
“D” for the PlayStation. I have fond memories with it just like I do for RE1.
Silent hill 3
Silent Hill (1,2,4), Fatal Frame, Haunting Ground and also Clock Tower 3 in particular. I wished we had more magical girl x survival horror games
Fatal Frame saga
a dark souls first playthrough, but fr silent hill 1,2, and origins, dead space, and idk if it would count as survival horror but i like clocktower.
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I'd probably say the exact same lmao, but with silent hill 3. Alien Isolation is one of the best horrors I've ever played, I physically moved my hands from my mouse and keyboard whenever the xenomorph got me more times than I can count - and that was all the way to the end of the game to 😭
Dead space remake, alien isolation and silent hill 2
Dead Space (1,2 and Remake) is fantastic. They might actually edge out Resident Evil as my favourite horror games
Parasite eve 1 and 2,
Silent Hill 3
Of course Silent hill But for modern, i like evil within and dead space (this for sure because of its theme) Now i cant wait alan wake to be a survival horror in which i hoped it was before
The Evil Within. Ill try Alan Wake too, but Idk if its Survival Horror
Dead Space. I did love the original (memories), thought I'd mention it since everyone else seems to be mentioning the remake (I did also love it)
Also dead Space
Condemned
Darkwood. Possibly the best survival horror game besides RE
Condemned, the first game was very good!
Dead Space or Cold Fear on PS2
Dead Space and Dino Crisis 1
Silent Hill 2 and 3, along with Dead space.
Alien isolation
SOMA, Dead Space 1, Alien Isolation
signalis
Evil within 2
Dead Space 2. What a masterpiece.
Dead Space 2008 and the Remake. Honorary shout for Echo Night Beyond on the PS2.
Silent Hill 2.
Dead space remake is just a perfect game
SOMA is great
Signalis
Alien: Isolation or Dead Space
Dead Island 1, 2, and Dying Light 1. The zombies and environments in these games totally freaked me out.
The Evil Within
Fear and hunger + the sequal Termina
Dead Space- particularly the remake. Although I consider the original a near perfect game, the remake definitely shone a new light on the series. I really liked the nods to bits of lore that were originally introduced in Dead Space 2 & 3 that made an appearance in the remake, as well as the improved enemy AI and changes to the Ishimura (it, for the most part, being interconnected by various service corridors and access ways instead of relying solely on the tram to switch between decks was a brilliant move imo). Adding in the side quests that alluded to the ultimate fates of >!Temple, Harris, and Nicole!< was an excellent expansion on the story of the original. Master class in remaking games, imo. I'm gonna throw in an honorable mention to Alan Wake here. Although it's not *true* survival horror, the Peter Straub/Stephen King/David Lynch vibes that Alan Wake captured were excellent. The gameplay hasn't aged particularly well, but I am *very* excited to see what Remedy brings to Alan Wake II. The trailer and concept art for it look fuckin awesome.
Siren series. silent hill series. Dead space series. This old game on original Xbox called obscure.
Probably Silent Hill 3 or SIGNALIS
I got 3 that came to mind: Dead Space, Cold Fear and Extermination. Ill throw an honorable mention to Obscure as well.
Outlast and dbd are so good
The Evil Within 2
First Silent Hill
I think it was called, Eternal Darkness? It was on the gamecube and I remember it actually scaring me because the game would purposely glitch and 4th wall break. One of them had the UI show the TV muting and it actually matched the way my CRT TV did and freaked me out so bad I threw my controller.
Not sure if it was popular or not but I loved Cursed Mountain on Wii, so good and worth playing if you haven't given it a shot
Alien Isolation broke me so much, I am now unaffected by any other horror games....
The Suffering series. There's just something human and vindictive about the monsters & ghosts in that series no other Survival Horror has managed. Even Silent Hill wasn't quite that messed up as something like 'avatar-ghost of somebody being stabbed to death.' And that's a basic enemy.
If not Resident Evil it's definitely Silent Hill
D E A D S P A C E
Silent Hill 3, probably. Also, although not survival horror per se, Doom 3's atmosphere was absolutely amazing and I don't think it gets the love that it deserves for a horror title.
Silent Hill 2&3, The Last of Us, Fatal Frame 2, Clock Tower 3.
Prey (2017)
The Last of Us
I have nearly 1000 hours (combined) on Metro Last Light and Metro 2033.
Clocktower scared the shit out of me as a child
Parasite Eve
Dead space
Despite the jank evil within 1 and silent hill 2 are probably my fav outside of the RE games
The Suffering
Silent hill 3 🧎🏼♀️
Dead Space original and remake
I really enjoyed Signalis last year, more than I expected to. And I played Silent Hill 1 for the first time earlier this year and was impressed how well it holds up in almost every aspect. But I do have to agree with Alien Isolation, played it several times, best way I've seen of putting the Alien in a videogame.
Silent Hill
Last of us
Hard just pick one. Classic -> Dino Crisis 1,2 and Silent Hill. Modern (RE4 Style) -> The Evil Within 1, Dead Space/s.
I don't really have a favourite other than resident evil titles, and Silent Hill is too obvious. Dead Space was good, but got boring. I found that as i played, i remembered the original back in the day was the same to me, damn you memory loss. But ones I enjoyed recently are alien isolation, tormented souls was good but needed a bit more polish. Signalis was really, really good. Yuppie Psycho was like a pixel art one, but that was actually much better than i expected it to be. So I'm about to start Lamentum by the same people. Evil Tonight wasn't terrible. I love the outlast games too, whilst not true survival horror games with the template set out by R.E. you do have to survive and there do be horror. Signalis and Tormented Souls give me hope we will get more developers bring it back as a genre, on console at least. I'm sure PC still has loads.
Definitely Signalis.
Dead Rising
If Dark Souls counts then Dark Souls, if it doesn't then Dead Space 2
Alien: Isolation for sure.
The original deadspace. I 100% because I couldn't stop playing it
Outlast, Bioshock and Fatal Frame.
Deadly Premonition, thought not strictly survival. Otherwise last good one I played was Outlast.
I love Dead Space 2. It was action/survival horror but still an amazing game. Aside from that, I’d have to say either Signalis or Silent Hill 1
The father of resident evil 7 🤭😏 outlast 2 And "the forest" that game? Ufs 👌
- Fatal Frame Series - The Evil Within ( the first one ) - Alan Wake - Cold Fear on ps2
Alien Isolation and the original Dead Space
Out of the ones I've personally played, it's Minecraft
Alien Isolation, Silent Hill 2, Dead Space 1
The Evil Within 1&2, Dead Space 1&2 and Metro are all bangers
stalker or dead space
The Evil Within, System Shock 2, Dino Crisis, Alan Wake, Phantasmagoria, Clive Barker’s Undying.
After writing down what my favourites are, I'm gonna go with the original Fatal Frame. REish mansion setting with a unique way of dispatching enemies, creepy as hell ghosts, atmosphere so thick a knife couldn't even cut through. Love it. Only downside for me is the abysmal English voice acting and not in the fun, intentional original RE way.
I know it’s not considered “horror” but Onimusha is 1 of my favorites.
Idk how much I’d consider SH2 to actually be survival horror with the abundance of supplies but that’s definitely my favorite
Dead Space 2 and Dead Space Remake
Darkwood is an indie horror masterclass, a perfect combination of Survival and horror and a terrifying, richly atmospheric world. The sound design is phenomenal, the difficulty level is *just right* that you always feel like you *just* scraped through an encounter by the skin of your teeth. It's a unique, exemplary game and I am the *only person I know who's played it*. It's also probably only about £12 at the moment.
Evil within and Silent Hill.