Resident Evil 7

I'll have to go with Alien:Isolation. If the lonely decaying space station stationed in far reaches of space isn't enough to give you uneasy feeling in a gut the Alien surely will give you even more than that. It constant presence will surely be on your mind throughout whole game and when it comes down to lurk in dark hallways of Sevastopol you better bring all your skills into play or you'll meet quick (not always) and brutal death. Honestly, the artificial intelligence of Alien and it's behavior is what makes this game stand out from the rest of horror games. Just imagine a monster out of this world always being somewhere around the corner and even a small mistake like knocking down something from a table can bring it to you. There are also other enemies in a game and few surprises along the way. Audio is simply marvelous and vital part of the game as you'll hear Alien stomping around station which will give you few precious moments to ready yourself. If you're Alien fan this game is a no-brainer. Hell-even if you're not.

Dracula - The Resurrection

The best horror game forgotten by time is clive barker's jericho¡

Dead Space is one of the most atmospheric Horror Themed games to this day still, and maybe with the new release that is coming soon it will be even more.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

Pioneering a lot of the first-person horror gameplay mechanics that Amnesia would popularise almost a decade later, White Day has you sneak into school after dark to leave candy for your secret crush. Just don't let the janitors catch you! However, you're not the only student locked inside the school and the way you interact with the others will drastically affect the way the game plays out, to the point where you won't be able to figure out what's actually going on until after two or three playthroughs.

This Korean-made work of mad genius was never officialy released in the west, even though a UK release was in the works (in fact, amazon still has a listing for this never released game, which is appropriately weird). A decent remake was released a few years back (still hoping for a gog release), fan translations of the original game are available online. I highly recommend checking it out, this one deserves to be retroactively recognized as a classic!

I would like to participate of this contest, my recommendation is Clive Barker's Jericho.
Jericho is a First Person Horror Shooter, where you lead a grup of characters, members of The Department of Occult Warfare. Your objective is to kill the Firstborn, a being so powerful created by God before Adam and Eve that cannot be killed by him, so God send it to the Abyss.
The Firstborn has escape other times and every time become more and more powerful, you must stop it once and for all, using all the special abilities of the grup to reach the end.
As a game from Clive Barker, has an incredible and rich lore, a very well written story, a great variety of locations, a lot of gore recreated with a many gruesome details in a game that frankly looks really good for being release in 2007.
The game was criticized because it was unbalanced at the time and it can be extremely crushing in higher difficults, but still is incredible fun, I can recommend the game just for it's story but I give you the advice to play the game in low or medium difficult and you will also enjoy the gameplay. Jericho is an underrated game and deserve some love.

Carrion is definitely the best. The reverse horror idea plays really well. It's fast, fun and furious :)

My recommendations are haunting ground, rule of rose and fatal frame 3

To be honest I haven't really played too many horror games per se probably my most memorable ones that were resident evil 1 and 2 but by far the most scariest was when my mom would bust into my room and bust me playing strip poker on the i386 and then make me go shovel coal and carrying wood in.

Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth

Horror is one of my favourite genres!!

I have a "it's nighttime gaming, time for scare" horror game, and a "relaxing beat em up horror adventure"

For relaxing horror adventure:
I highly recommend Dead Rising Trilogy
It is one of my favourite horror games
Many people didn't like the games starting from 3rd to 4th
But the series is more of a process.

You begin with a spooky mall beginning with Frank West
Then you get a little breather as Chuck Greene with silly weapons
Then you get a mash up of both silly and spook with crazy weapons and more zombies and gore.

As opposed to criticizing each game separately, it is like a beautiful combination together
Like a movie, no one likes a movie that only has thrills or only has downs.
It builds towards the climax and then has a down period for the audience.

And that is what this trilogy is, a perfect experience with all aspects one can ask for, divided into 3 games

The best part is some aspects of the games are randomly generated so even if you replay it, you won't be bored.
And you won't get nightmares from this one... unless you have Kinemortophobia (Fear of zombies)


For a nighttime horror session with lights off
I recommend playing Ride with Strangers.
It is one of the games that are frightening. Best lighting and sound combination to match the scares.
It also is a game that is not completely fantasy.
It presents a scenario that can happen in real life, which makes it even more spine-chilling...
You meet different characters, and learn about their background story.
Some are friendly and others might kill you.
However, which one is a killer?

This question will be stuck on your mind as you are locked inside of a moving car on a freeway.
I am already shivering thinking of that scenario in real life...
Being in a car with a potential psychopathic killer...

Let the horrors begin! *turns off lights*

My rec would have to be alan wake. The game has a all time great story and a unique play style to top it off. Remedy has made a name for themselves crafting uniquly different games that have complex dark twisted stories (control is the most recent) and I honestly believe alan wake is the best they've ever made. Plus the remake just dropped, no better time to expiernece the classic if you have not already

Maniac Mansion

Can't believe nobody has recommended Darkest Dungeon yet. It's a great party management / dungeon-crawler RPG in a lovercraftian-fantasy setting and it's pretty great.