Top 5 best horror games to play in 2023

Horror games are often looked at as a thrill to enjoy and to be struck with fear in the heart of players. What’s even more scary is that players are equipped with responsibility to take charge and decide the next move. That is the soul of playing horror games. When it come to horror games studios like Konami, Capcom are front runners in this race but in recent years Indie has made an entry into horror games too and left a mark of their own.

Horror games garner a lot more views and play hour than conventional games. Viewers show a lot more response and affiliate to watching as well as playing and getting jump scares. The shadowy environment filled with instilling fear and suspense adds to the excitement. Survival in horror games has main emphasis in the game. It forces the players to ration their supplies and make risky decisions to make it more engaging. Horror games captivate their players through confined spaces that feels uncomfortable and edgy.

Here are the 5 best horror games that players can play in 2023.

Best horror games to play this year

10. Silent Hill 2 (Remake)

Slated for a 2023 release, Silent Hill 2 remake has been teased online already. This time around, the game revolves around the story of a man called James Sunderland. The game has introduced a new type of over-the-shoulder view. Sunderland wanders the town of Silent Hill in search of his wife, who is supposedly dead. The voices of his wife keeps echoing in his head. He goes around the near abandoned town and is only grappled by the crushing reality of it.

• Developer: Bloober Team SA
• Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment
• Release date: coming soon.
• Platform: PC, PS4, PS5 , XBOX.

The cramped spaces and always ensuing background music keeps you wide awake. This game definitely will be worth the shot.

9.Dead space (remake)

Do you want to shoot your way through enemies and still linger around to get jump scares? Then you have hit the jackpot with this one. Dead Space fathoms in space and treads a sci-fi horror in deep space. The game has a good balance of gore, blood and violence. Players have experienced huge dismemberment making it psychologically disturbing. It has uncluttered UI that shows stat and health reveal. The game is going to be better given new visual and better audio. It has redesigned soundscape featuring occlusion and plenty fights.

• Developer: Motive
• Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Release date: 27 Jan , 2023
• Price: 2999 rupees
• Platform: PS5, PS4, PC.

The game has upgraded and armed the character to teeth for engaging and scary fights. This will be a treat for the action-horror genre.

8. S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chernobyl

Stalker 2 is set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The game is set after Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Nearly 2 decades later there’s a conflict brewing in the area. Stalker 2 has made the environment look dim and intimidatingly intense for players to take a good hint of details. The game was supposed to come out in 2022. But Russian-Ukrainian conflict derailed the release date and the game is all set to be released in 2023. The game features various conflicts in storyline making it action sparring behemoth. With bullets flying around , there’s enough carnage for everyone.

It also features mutated radiated monsters. The multiplayer is coming out after launch. This will engage players in map even more.

• Developer: GSC Game World
• publisher: GSC Game World
• Release date: Dec, 2023.
• Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox.

7. From the Darkness

Set in the Soviet era, From the Darkness is a psychological horror game that infuses dark music in background. As scary as it is , the game has a barely visible threat in sight. MC is sent to an old apartment to retrieve old pictures and albums of the deceased Russian grandfather.

• Developer: N4bA
• Publisher: N4bA
• Release date: 30 March , 2023
• Price: 259 rupees
• Platform: PS5, PS4.

The mission is to return apartment but not without facing the unknown enemy. The game is an FPS and features disturbing imagery.

6. Resident Evil 4

The most influential game of all time Resident Evil has made a comeback with the entry of the year with its fourth installment. The game has won many awards since it’s entry and iconic gameplay. Our beloved main character Leon Kennedy has been entirely updated from the 2005 original game in this installment. The game added nostalgia by adding some iconic original location from old game and village attack scene as well with updated sound and graphics.

The game is a feast for the fan following and new graphics with improved game mechanics is cherry on the top. So go all out hunting zombies and mind boggling action packed story line.

• Developer: CAPCOM LTD.
• Publisher: CAPCOM LTD
• Release date: 24, march 2023
• Price : 3599 rupees
• Platform: PS4, PS5, PC.

The game will be one of the most awaited and famous for it’s lineage and popularity in the past.

5 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The game is actually based on the real events from year 1974 and is known among the American people. There have been numerous talks and documentaries on the same and depicted a lot of fictional characters in the movie and upcoming game. The game is based on same theme and comes under category of survival. With it’s already widespread story and myths the studios is going to make a lot of money out of this one.

• Developer: Sumo Digital
• Publisher: Gun Interactive
• release date: 18 Aug, 2023.
• Platform: PC, PS4, PS5.

4 Amnesia: The Bunker

This is fourth upcoming installment of Amnesia series under the flag of Frictional games. It was first announced on Dec 1 , 2022. Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a desolate WW1 Bunker. Face the oppressing terrors stalking the dark corridors.

The game is free to play and available on steam. The game contains a of of blood , gore and extreme graphic details. Immerse yourself in the multiple ways of tackling survival. In the shoes of the French soldier Henri Clément, you are armed with a revolver gun, a noisy dynamo flashlight, and other scarce supplies to scavenge and craft along the way. With randomization and unpredictable behavior, no play-through is the same.

• Developer : Frictional Games
• Publisher: Frictional Games
• Release: 23 May , 2023.
• Platform: PC , PS4, PS5.

3 Alone in the dark

Psychological Horror meets Southern Gothic in this reimagination of the classic survival horror game, Alone in the Dark. Deep in the 1920’s south, Emily Hartwood’s uncle has gone missing. Together with private investigator Edward Carnby, she embarks on a journey to Derceto Manor, a home for the mentally ill where something is lurking. You’ll encounter strange residents, nightmarish realms, dangerous monsters and ultimately uncover a plot of rising evil.

• Developer: Pieces Interactive
  Publisher: THQ Nordic
  Released: Coming soon
• platform : Xbox, PS4, PS5.

2 Grey Hill Incident

This story-driven Survival-Horror game is about an classic Alien-Invasion which takes place during the early 90s. As Ryan Baker, equipped with a baseball bat and a few bullets in his revolver, the story takes you across the atmospheric neighborhood of Grey hill which is invaded by UFOs & Grey Aliens.

The small neighborhood of Grey hill are afraid to speak up and fearing being sent to the psychiatric ward, they avoid calling the police.

• Developer: Refugiam Games
• Publisher: Refugiam Games
• Release: 9 June, 2023.
• Platform: PS 4, PS5, Xbox series, Windows.

1 The Outlast Trials

Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control.

In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed. All in the name of progress, science, and profit.

• Developer : Red Barrels
• Publisher: Red Barrels
• Release date: 19 May, 2023
• Platform: PS4, PS5.

Horror is one of the most enjoyable genres of gaming out there if you can stomach the gore. So check out the list and make sure to try out all the games mentioned above!

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