While watching scary movies is the best way to enjoy popcorn, playing horror games creates an entirely different experience. Not only do they give the best scares but also makes you relive the tensed moments experienced in horror movies.
Ten Best Horror PC Games
Zombies, hideous aliens and haunted houses are perfect ingredients of a horror game. However, only scary monsters don’t make a game frightening. An engaging plot full of twists and turns, great sound effects and realistic graphics determines its scariness. While there are hundreds of horror PC games available, few have the ability to scare you to your bones. Here is a compilation of the best horror PC games with a perfect blend of creativity, unique story and, of course, hideous monsters.
10. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu is horror adventure game filled with monsters, serial killers and hideous extraterrestrials. With a scary atmosphere and gothic setting, Dark Corners of the Earth is heavily influenced by Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. You play the role of a private detective with psychic abilities who tries to unearth deep secrets of a quaint town of Innsmouth. In an attempt to solve a missing person case, the detective deals with several types of monsters including deep sea creatures, alien entities and psychos. Unlike other horror games, Dark Corners of the Earth has different classes of monsters in the most bizarre situations.
While the story is classic lovecraftian that guarantees some terrifying moments, the graphics are quite disappointing because of numerous glitches and bugs. To make things worse, developers did not provide any patches for Windows Vista. However, there are mods for Windows XP that make you get past those bugs.
Dark Corners of the Earth mainly consists of investigation, puzzle-solving elements and unarmed escapes, though there are certain situations where you have to wield weapons to kill those hideous creatures. With a blend of different monsters and great movie-like atmosphere, the game guarantees some of the best terrifying moments ever seen in horror games.
9. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Talk about survival horror games and the Resident Evil franchise will certainly make your blood curl. Popularly known as Biohazard throughout Japan, Resident Evil 3 can give those serious panic attacks and fear if played at night. The RE franchise, with 3 superb movie adaptations and an upcoming fifth installment, is known for producing some of the most horrifying zombies and monsters ever seen in any horror movie, let alone a videogame.
The game revolves around Nemesis, a hideous prototype programmed to hunt and kill STARS members. Your random encounters with Nemesis in the city and in boss fights make the game very different from other RE games. Of course, there are those occasional zombie monsters that always come between you and your objectives. In addition to those scary monsters, the environmental puzzles make RE3 even more difficult to play. Players control Jill Valentine, who, incidentally, is voted as the sexiest female video game character by news.com.au. Well, there’s more than one reason to play this game!
8. Doom 3
Doom 3 is one of the best horror-themed FPS games after the original Doom. Set in 2145 AD in Mars, the game blends sci-fi and horror pretty well. A failed teleportation experiment in Mars has opened the gateway to Hell, inviting demons with the most hideous features ever encountered. You play the role of an enigmatic space marine with the objective to stop and prevent the influx of demons from hell.
Doom 3 differs from Doom in story and gameplay. You will not only confront zombies and demons from hell, but also interact with friendly NPCs to provide hints and maps. It is a button-mashing game with a linear plot, but the monsters are very diverse and have different tactics that can make your heart freeze with panic and fear. If you are a Doom fan, then this game is surely for you.