What are the best horror games? Scary games tend to turn traditional action concepts on their heads, forcing you to run and hide from your enemies. They leave you feeling vulnerable rather than ...

Indie horror games have a special knack for tapping into pure, unfiltered terror. These games may not have the budget of AAA titles, but they more than makeup for it ...

Successful horror games almost always make use of their atmosphere to generate terror, and these particular games use the uncanny to great effect. Some video games take this a step further by ...

Halloween or not, playing horror games alone or with your friends is exciting. All those jump scares, gut-wrenching scenes, and creepy adventures are something to look forward to. If you’re looking ...

Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self. Whether you want jump scares or that ...

This game is great to play with one or two friends. Play multiple times to try and get all three story endings. The Indonesian horror game The Jin is a unique scary experience set in a rural village.

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Where would we be without them? Perhaps having a lovely time with looping memories of playing titles that are all sweetness and light. But who wants that? Horror game villains are essential in a good ...

There are plenty of horror board games you could be playing this Halloween, but precious few are actually frightening. Setting a tabletop game in a haunted house or the world of H.P. Lovecraft does ...

Alien Isolation made the Alien scary again. For years, xenomorphs have been seen as nothing but cannon fodder in games, resulting in them losing any sense of threat. However, Alien Isolation ...