Pretty Good Horror Games, Ranked By Gamers Who Appreciate A Solid Scare

What it's about: Search an abandoned Japanese mansion and fight ghosts with your antique camera. When you should play it: Real haunted houses are too scary for you and Luigi's Mansion isn't scary enough.

What it's about: Make your way through unmapped terrain in this survival stealth game where you pinpoint the location of zombie-creatures by tapping into their senses. When you should play it: When a time-consuming game where you have to sneak everywhere in some run-of-the-mill graphics sounds great to you.

What it's about: Fight paranormal threats as a member of the US government's special ops unit. When you should play it: You want a game that's just as mindless as Call of Duty but also scary.

What it's about: The game reflects ancient styles of Japanese horror as you explore your occult environment while fighting off Doman, the evil enemy who's been fusing people with corpses. When you should play it: You want a super psychologically creepy story with little action with outdated graphics.

What it's about: Navigate a horrific and psychedelic labyrinth of your own art. When you should play it: You're not really into a deep storyline, but you know that jump scares will get you. Every. Single. Time.

What it's about: Wander around totally defenseless in this obscurely colored and unsettling horror house. When you should play it: You want to be spooked on a deep, internal level, but you don't have the energy to engage in any heavy action.

What it's about: Unlock the mysteries surrounding the brutal murders of various souls and banish demons into their nightmare realms before the clock strikes midnight. When you should play it: You want a gory game, you don't care if the story trails off, and you don't mind playing a victim.

What it's about: College bros versus some of the monsters in Silent Hill. When you should play it: You always thought it would be super awesome to go on a haunted house crawl with your frat house.

What it's about: Action-oriented third-person shooter where you must fight through waves of monsters in a bloody battle to unlock your forgotten past. When you should play it: Your favorite game is House of the Dead but you don't want to go out and spend money on arcade tokens.

What it's about: A survival horror/third-person shooter hybrid where you play as a daring and dashing US Coast Guard who must fight both the living and undead. When you should play it: You want to play a game where you can totally shut your brain off and fight hordes of gory monsters.

What it's about: A visual novel combined with a psychological horror story that takes you on an adventure filled with twisted tales. When you should play it: You're in the mood for a ghost story, but don't actually want to go through the effort of engaging in full-on gameplay.

What it's about: You're a two-year-old who has to hide from their mom and other scary random household things in first-person view. When you should play it: You want to feel like a big baby and you also want a Five Nights at Freddy's game with a twist.

What it's about: A point-and-click horror game that doubles as an interactive movie where you interact with various people in your eff'd up life. When you should play it: You always wanted to be the star of a horror film and don't mind what role you play.

What it's about: Fight through hordes of horrific Manpigs in order to reach the depths of (essentially) someone's basement. When you should play it: You want a scary dungeon crawler, but the kind of scary that's easily telegraphed.

What it's about: Atmospheric horror game where you search for your son in an abandoned amusement park. When you should play it: The carnival is in town, but their rides are janky. One of the carnies gave you the creeps and now you're totally in the mood for a creepy carnival.

What it's about: An experiment has gone horribly wrong and players must fight through an onslaught of death sequences to survive. When you should play it: Graphic violence, extreme gore, and overwhelming amounts of torture are the only things that truly unnerve you anymore.

What it's about: Essentially the original Slender: The Eight Pages plot but with better graphics and more mechanics and now, apparently, both you and Slender Man are in the same house. When you should play it: You've played the previously released titles featuring Slender Man so many times they're not scary anymore.

What it's about: Play as a paranormal investigator who must make his way through this survival horror adventure that takes place in New York's Central Park. When you should play it: You want something like Resident Evil and don't mind the trope of a foul-mouthed tough guy combined with your stereotypical monster-fighting amnesiac.

What it's about: You're a police officer who was fired and blamed for the disappearance of a young girl. Now, you must solve puzzles and investigate the rumors circulating around her recent sightings. When you should play it: You want to solve a spooky murder mystery and you're not bothered by obscure puzzles in the middle of a survival horror game.

What it's about: You thought you would enjoy a really cool cruise but some creepy entity is murdering all of the guests and crew members. When you should play it: Your trip to the Queen Mary wasn't the haunted adventure you thought it would be.

What it's about: Folklore-themed horror game that's super artsy and inspired by various tales of Little Red Riding Hood. When you should play it: You want to play a game with no winning path and you're down to just explore some unsettling, fairy-tale-themed environments.