Best horror games on Xbox: The scariest games to play right now

Eh I really enjoyed the first layers of fear, +1 for Blair Witch and Outlast.

I will never understand how people find shit like Visage scary though.

Just here for the comments on some lesser known games. Nice list, though. A horror game doesn't have to be full of nightmare fuel, just a good dose of tension from horror elements.

torrens7760 said:Someone after my own heart

I think it's also important to take into consideration that the SH HD Collection came out in early 2012 before the deluge of re-releases really took off. With so many today going to great lengths to increase visual quality, among other things, it's easy to forget that the early HD ports were just that: ports. I think that the 360 Silent Hill release is at least comparable to the Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 HD Collection which Konami released just a few months earlier.

torrens7760 said:Thanks for the info, as someone who never played the originals I can't really see any of that bothering me. I'm willing to let games get away with a lot in the audio and visual department as long as the game itself is good.

I guess the other thing to consider is that you probably played the originals on a CRT.

I think it's about time I dusted off the physical copy of Dead Space 2 that has sat on my shelf for the past decade. Cheers for the prompt.

RE2 Remake is probably my number one too. People saying it isn't scary (which it isn't massively) but the tension and pure anxiety I had when being chased by MR X for the first time (never played the original) was unmatched. I also have to give a shoutout to Alien Isolation. What a game. And Dead Space 2 was made more scary playing hardcore and only being able to save 3 times. Loved all of those games.

Day 9312983712987 of me begging TA to add a horror tag. T_T

Lord RoAlJo said:Haha I was trying to find it when I was putting together the "best type of horror" poll, I agree it's weird we don't have one. I'll look into it but no promises.

IanVanCheese said:I think the problem is that horror in video games is more of a theme than a genre. Saying something is “horror” really doesn’t imply anything about the gameplay unlike saying something is a shooter or a platformer.

But saying “action horror” or “survival horror” does, however that doesn’t come close to covering all horror.

TymanTheLong said:This is honestly such an annoying argument everyone tries. It could be said "Adventure" is a theme then but we have that option.

It makes no sense that 'Australian Football", with its whooping collection of 5 games, is listed yet horror isn't. Even if we say horror is a theme, there's still an insanely huge collection of games that falls under this. There's a huge community of horror gamers out there TA just ignores existing and I honestly have no idea why.

Other gaming-related websites have no issues with having horror as a genre.

Lord RoAlJo said:What I mean is that a game like SOMA is basically a walking simulator that has a horror theme. If someone says “walking simulator” that tells me something useful about the gameplay, the same way that someone telling me “Doom is a FPS” tells me about its gameplay.

“Horror” means almost nothing from a gameplay perspective. It’s why you see terms like “survival horror” to try and fix this issue. When we communicate genre in gaming generally we mean “game play mechanics” not theme.

In movies horror is very formulaic, that’s why we see so many repetitive tropes and plot points that a movie like Cabin in the Woods or Tucker and Dale vs. Evil can be made poking fun at them.

Adventure is wildly broad of course and that can be its own kind of problem (which is why we see stuff like Action Adventure), but that doesn’t mean using Horror as a genre isn’t a problem.

There’s no Dewey Decimal System for organizing video games (or maybe libraries for have a system now and if they do perhaps everyone should use it) so everyone is just muddling through the best they can.

Personally I say let’s have genre tags, I don’t think that would really upset people (except maybe the database people 😂).

Jsrc1990 said:I don't care what anyone says, that game is the creepiest of all RE games! And I love it!

Calisto Protocol should really be on this list! It is a great game to be played in the dark!

Tozi Tiberius said:I have my list:

Amnesia Collection, Blair Witch, Outlast 1 & 2,
The Evil Within 1 & 2, Maid of Sker, Infliction Extended Cut, Remothered: Tormented Fathers, Daymare 1998, Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition, Home Sweet Home, Five Nights at Freddy's, In Sound Mind, The House of the dead Remake, Bendy and the ink machine 1 & 2, Dead Island 1 & 2, Dead Rising 1-4, Dying Light, ZOMBI, Zombie Army Trilogy, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, F.E.A.R. 1-3, The Callisto Protocol, Prey, Silver Chains... I think that's enough xD but there are plenty other horror games out there.

Faust1und2 said:I said "top-ten", not derivative crap.

Tozi Tiberius said:It depends what you call crap. But i like all the games in that list. There are small good horror games and the big ones.

Faust1und2 said:Aaaand you just figured out the entire point of the article.

Tozi Tiberius said:I just wanted to help. Nothing more.

I'm glad the comments are full of 'no oulast??' comments.