The best horror games for pc 2011

Action, Adventure, Fantasy. To uncover the secrets of his dead father's haunted mansion in order to find portals to other dimension like hell and heaven and stop a demon from taking over the world, Adam Randall has to solve puzzles and kill monsters.

Or does he? M Action, Adventure, Horror. Point Man and his deceased brother Paxton Fettel both have supernatural powers and must work together to face off against an evil presence from their past. As he begins to search for her within the town, he starts to find more than he was looking for.

Seven years before the events of the first game, during one of his deliveries a lonely trucker passes through Silent Hill and faces his sad past in the mysteriousness of the city. Crime, Horror, Mystery.

Murphy Pendleton, a convict stranded in the foggy, malevolent world of Silent Hill finds himself lost and alone in the woods on the outskirts of the fabled town when his prison transport bus crashes.

M Action, Horror, Sci-Fi. A group of space colonists from the Aegis VII colony fight against the infection of Necromorphs created when the Red Marker was removed. Photojournalist Frank West finds himself trapped in a shopping mall overrun by flesh eating zombies. M Action, Horror, Thriller. In the rise of a new zombie outbreak, the new hero Chuck Greene has to help his daughter survive this zombie nightmare. Chuck Greene fights to save his daughter and himself in a small town after a zombie outbreak occurs in Las Vegas.

You play the part of a military team sent to investigate what happened at U. Outpost 31, and must face the Thing yourself.

Stars: Per Solli , Michael J. When a mysterious outbreak claims the island of Banoi, four individuals who find themselves immune must use that power to protect the remaining survivors, uncover the truth, and escape. Votes: 4, M Action, Fantasy, Horror. Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac are about to face their worst nightmare. Out to avenge the murder of their friend, Carnby and Aline arrive on Shadow Island and discover that it is caught in M Action, Adventure, Crime.

Cryptic action adventure about the undead voodoo warrior known as the Shadow Man who must stop Jack the Ripper and the biblical demon called Legion who plan to bring about the apocalypse using the souls of five notorious serial killers.

R Action, Adventure, Horror. Survival horror action adventure set circa s about The Stranger, a mysterious dual gun wielding operative sent on four missions by the Spookhouse, a secret Government agency set up by President Theodore Roosevelt to fight monsters. More notable for its cheap thrills instead of genuine horror, Doom 3 relied on gimmicks like monster closets and a separate flashlight that rendered you defenseless.

It is nonetheless one of the scariest games the platform has to offer. Metro is a first person shooter that takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where much of the world has been devastated by nuclear war. The player must venture out into the open and find a way to destroy the monsters at their source before they make humanity extinct. In this post-apocalyptic future of Washington D. Unfortunately for you, the wasteland is full of horrors they never told you about in the safety of the Vault.

Fewer things are creepier than having an Alien Facehugger latch onto the back of your head the moment you turn your back to the darkness. Such is the short life of a Colonial Marine in this intense first person shooter, where players can take on the role of a Marine, an Alien or a Predator in three distinct campaigns.

Silent Hill 3 is one of the scarier games in the series to make its way onto the PC from the console. As a port the game played fairly well and managed to preserve everything about it that made it terrifically scary. Closely resembling the gameplay of the first two games, players take on the role of the mentally troubled Heather, who like the previous protagonists finds herself drawn to the haunted town. Generic first-person horror this ain't, and while it does occasionally force tedious combat set pieces upon players, it thrives in its quirky, idiosyncratic moments that are filled with atmosphere and character and dread.

Sylvio is a thinking game and is unique within the horror genre. Horror games owe a significant debt to HP Lovecraft, and not just because he's long dead and his work is out of copyright. Plenty of games too many, really have included references to his brand of cosmic horror, but Anchorhead is more inspired than most, drawing from several of his novels and stories to tell the tale of the a married couple who have inherited an old mansion in a creepy New England town.

The sedate exploration of the game's opening segments eventually give way to tense, turn-limited puzzles as you struggle to stop an ancient, possibly world-ending ritual from being completed. No pressure then. It's free, and you can play it in your browser. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is great, but if you've already played it or don't mind skipping ahead, the much more recent Amnesia: Rebirth is brilliant, too—and it even turns the horror up a few notches with a "profoundly disturbing" story, as Leana described it in our review.

Prepare yourself for an eldritch nightmare amid somewhat dated but still scary design and environments. Pathologic 2 is nasty. It will sit on your hard-drive like a gangrenous limb, in need of amputation. If this sounds like a criticism, it isn't. Beyond the dirty, putrefied atmosphere, Pathologic 2 is weird and theatrical, frequently breaking the fourth wall and questioning your role as the player.

You have 12 days to save a town afflicted by disease, paranoia, mob justice, and paranormal happenings. That ticking clock isn't just for show—events unfold in real-time and you have to make difficult decisions about what you want to do and who you want to save. It's exhausting, yes. It's gruelling, yes.

But it's also unique and unforgettable. Not content with resting on Shinji Mikami's reputation—he's the man responsible for the best Resident Evil games, as well as God Hand and Vanquish—The Evil Within 2 swaps the purer survival horror of the first game with a more open world full of grotesque and at times stomach-churning sights. This is a psychological horror that aims to find terror away from pure jump scares.

It's intense, often thrilling and definitely ambitious. Of course, if you want the more traditional approach, the first The Evil Within is also worth checking out. Heavily inspired by 80s text adventures, it combines puzzle and point and click elements over four short chapters. Go in blind, and play it in a single session for the best experience. Have you ever shouted instructions or words of caution at a clueless teenager traipsing about the screen? Have you ever thrown your hands up in frustration and vented to someone about how that same teenager, now chopped into a billion little pieces, perished because they failed to listen to your sagely advice?

Horror movies are more interactive than almost any other kind of film, and Until Dawn understands why. The damp underwater research facility where it was set was spooky, to be sure, but the few enemies it contained, not so much.

Many felt the game was best enjoyed as a solitary experience. Years later, SOMA sticks with me not because of the few scary monsters it has tucked away in forbidden corners, but because of the lies it sold me.

I played the game assuming that my objective was clear and a goal would be reached, that my character would find redemption and happiness. Instead, it ended in the damning solitude of knowing my character would be alone and in the dark for eternity, a mere copy of him transported to a paradise he will never see or feel. That single moment of combined terror, joy and disappointment hit in a way that I have yet to shake. Remedy has worked hard to unite the mysterious and the mundane since at least Alan Wake , and Control is an almost ideal distillation of that theme.

At its heart is the bureaucratic exploration of the unknown and unknowable, with the player stepping into the role of the new director of a government organization devoted to classifying and controlling unexplained phenomena. In its depiction of humanity grasping for relevance and understanding in an indifferent and impossible to understand universe we see a clear reflection of our own existence. Designers Thomas Grip, Jens Nilsson and their team at Frictional have identified the nature of fear and recreated it with a surgical precision, and their moment-to-moment execution is peerless.

By enforcing player-powerlessness to a degree that most other horror games do not, Amnesia: The Dark Descent imparts an experience that is as deeply terrifying as it is satisfyingly original. Do try to enjoy yourself. Its core metafictional concept writer Alan Wake wars with his own inner darkness in a world created by his words is bolstered by fantastic atmosphere, memorable secondary characters and the cliffhanger twists of a great TV mystery.

The combat is fast, less clunky and more risky.