Horror games has always been lovable for gamers and as the season is coming to an end, gamers are still giving themselves a thrilling suspense, terror and intense adrenaline mix. It is built to be as scary as it can be, either through that dark, dreary atmosphere, with blood chipping sound design, or the jump scare to keep you on the edge of your seat. And new titles are coming for the horror enthusiasts in the audience. In this article we review some new horror games that will keep you sleepless and scared.
1. Alan Wake 2
It’s finally time for the much delayed sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake to return. Players will once again step into the shoes of Alan Wake — writer sucked into a supernatural thriller. Alan Wake 2 embraces its predecessors promise of a cinematic experience combined with psychological horror but amps up the writing on the building walls, even darker and more intense.
Why You’ll Stay Awake:
I guarantee light and dark, with a narrative driven experience that will suck you in and terrified you. Survival horror mixed with the mystery will be a whole lot of the work to remember.
2. Resident Evil 4 Remake
Heads are already turning for the fact that Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake has been making a lot of noise, and with good reason. This evergreen classic of survival horror gets reimagined with updated graphics, improved gameplay and updated mechanics and takes the terrifying tension of the original and flips it. As usual, they are back once more and will have to drag Leon S. Kennedy through a horrible village infested with horrid creatures.
Why You’ll Stay Awake:
If you want every frightful enemy, spine-curling combat and atmospheric environment you can think of, you’re going to be sitting at the edge of your seat — literally fearing for the next terror.
3. The Callisto Protocol
A survival horror game designed by the Dead Space creators set on a remote prison station on Jupiter’s moon, Callisto, The Callisto Protocol is what it is. This is a dystopian future game which is about Jacob Lee, the player is now taking role of Jacob Lee, the prisoner who is trying to survive during the horrible outbreak of turning people monster.
Why You’ll Stay Awake:
Callisto has literally no place to hide, with brutal combat mechanics that will ensure that once your foot has set on Callisto you won’t be able to sleep easy.
4. Dead Space Remake
Ironically, one of the Dead Space series is getting remade special treatment. But Modus Games has rebuilt the original game from the ground up with modern technology and visuals, which hailed the original game as one of the scariest for survival horror games at its time. Players once again go back in the shoes of Isaac Clarke in order to stay alive on a derelict ship filled with horrific monsters for a third time.
Why You’ll Stay Awake:
The combination of claustrophobic environments, nerve wracking moments and horrific monsters is going to keep you terrified long after it’s all over.
5. Amnesia: The Bunker
Amnesia has, of course, ripped the guts out of psychological horror games long before now, with its horrors and white knuckle gameplay. Amnesia: With players entering the spooky confines of World War I bunker, The Bunker is one of the latest to be released. As a trapped soldier bouncing around in the bunker, players solve puzzles, explore dark corridors, and try not to get eaten by terrifying enemies trying to eat your brain.
Why You’ll Stay Awake:
It will not sacrifice not being scary and making you a living, breathing case of second guessing everything you hear and every shadow that could be hiding just outside to not being scary.