1. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
The year is 1839 and you play as Daniel, an amnesiac who
wakes in Brennenburg Castle with a letter, from himself, stating he
deliberately wiped his own memory and instructing himself to murder Alexander,
the Baron of the castle. Daniel only remembers three things: his name, where he
lives and that something is hunting him. There is no combat mechanic, so you
are forced to hide, and to run. As Daniel spends more time in the dark hiding
from monsters, he gradually descends into insanity, seeing and hearing things
that aren’t there.
2. Slender
Slender is a free first person survival horror game based
around the urban legend of the Slenderman, a tall, faceless, suit wearing
individual who makes a habit of abducting children. In the middle of a dark
wood, you have to collect 8 cryptic notes explaining the true terror of the
Slenderman, before succumbing to his horror. It is a chilling game with
incredible atmosphere that greatly succeeds in furthering the terror spread by
the urban legend.
3. Cry of Fear
Cry of Fear is a first person survival horror mod of Half
Life utilising Valve’s source engine. You play Simon, another amnesiac who
wakes in a dark alley in a twisted version of Stockholm. Desperate to find out
if he has gone insane, Simon will confront horrific creatures to get to the
truth. Although based of the source engine and maintaining Half Life’s stellar
combat mechanics, Cry of Fear is a total conversion mod and utilises new tools
and abilities, making for a chilling experience.
4. Dead Space
Set in a dark and distant future, mankind has the ability to
“crack” planets: literally crack a planet open and harvest its resources. When
a religious artefact related to a twisted cult is discovered on the planet
Aegis VII, The Ishimura mining ship goes dark. Isaac Clarke, whose girlfriend
is stationed aboard The Ishimura, is part of the engineering team sent to
uncover what is really going on. What follows is, in our humble opinion, one of
the best and most terrifying gaming experiences of the last decade.
5. Manhunt 2
Rockstar London’s psychological horror game follows Daniel
Lamb and his escape from Dixmor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Daniel is an
amnesiac and his journey brings him face to face with insane inmates and
mysterious, deadly organisations. The gameplay centres on stealth
combat and
brutal third person “executions”. What makes Manhunt 2 a truly frightening game
is the “horror film” setting which provides the perfect atmosphere to
compliment the game's gut wrenching brutality.
6. Penumbra: The Black Plague
The Black Plague is the second instalment of the Penumbra
series of first person survival-horror games. Penumbra is the spiritual prequel
to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and both games are developed by Swedish studio
Frictional Games. Penumbra follows Phillip and his unsettling journey through
an underground research base. Much like Amnesia, combat mechanics are shelved
in favour of puzzles, stealth and just plain running away to survive at all
costs.
7. SCP: Containment Breach
SCP: Containment Breach is a free first person survival horror
game currently in Alpha testing. You play an SCP containment site worker when
something goes catastrophically wrong, leaving you trapped inside the darkened
facility with something lurking behind you. Do you try escape? Or find out
what’s going on? SCP: Containment Breach features randomly generated levels and
“perma-death” meaning once you die, your save file is deleted and you must
start over again. This adds a whole new layer of depth to the intensity of the
horror, knowing that every threat is potentially your end.
8. Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3 follows Heather, adopted daughter to Harry
Mason who ten years prior to the events of the game defeated a god brought
forth by the cult of Silent Hill. Set in the aforementioned Silent Hill, a
place shrouded in fog and evil, Heather attempts to discover the truth about
her father and why the cult of Silent Hill is following her. With gritty hand to hand combat, exploration
and puzzle solving in a dreary, twisted universe, Silent Hill 3 is intensely
unnerving.
9. Siren: Blood Curse
Siren: Blood Curse is a 3rd person, over the shoulder
survival horror game from Project Siren. Recently released episodically on the
Playstation Network, the story focuses on an American Television crew in Japan
looking for a lost village where supposedly human sacrifices took place.
Whether solving puzzles, fighting or fleeing the undead, Siren: Blood Curse
offers a blood curdling narrative with the most tense of atmospheres.
10. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Stalker is an open world FPS from Ukrainian developer GSC.
In an alternate reality, a second disaster in Chernobyl has caused widespread
mutation leading to the creation of a race of mutant animals. You play an
amnesiac (who saw that coming?) and you’re forced to search the
post-apocalyptic wasteland to discover the strange truth about “The Zone” and
why you are referred to as a “Marked One”.
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