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The Greatest Survival Horror Games Of All Time

These are the best survival horror games ever to hit gaming consoles. These scary video games take you out of your element to fight evil forces, and this list includes zombie games, RPG video games, and are some of the most addictive games of all time. Survival horror games are classified by their ability to make the player feel less powerful because of limited ammunition, health, speed, or a multitude of enemies. The best survival horror games of all time strike the right balance between making the player feel out of control and like they can still beat the game. The survival horror genre has been prolific since it's inception during the days of the original Playstation. Early games combined the elements of slasher films, science fiction, and haunted house stories, and other horror games included monster adversaries as well as varying degrees of gore or violence. Popular series such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill and releases like Amnesia: The Dark Descent are widely considered the most terrifying and groundbreaking of this killing games genre, which is constantly testing its own boundaries.

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Resident Evil 2
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Silent Hill 2
Editor Note: The Silent Hill 2 remake was released October 8th, 2024 to universal acclaim. It almost doubles the length of the original, and features various improvements in gameplay and graphics.
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Resident Evil
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Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
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Silent Hill
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Dead Space
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Silent Hill 3
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Resident Evil 4
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
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Resident Evil 7
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Alien: Isolation
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Dead Space 2
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Resident Evil Code: Veronica
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The Last of Us
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Outlast
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The Evil Within
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Resident Evil Village
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Fatal Frame
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Resident Evil Zero
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Silent Hill 4: The Room
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The Evil Within 2
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Alan Wake
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Dino Crisis
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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
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Until Dawn
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F.E.A.R.
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Parasite Eve
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Condemned: Criminal Origins
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The Suffering
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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
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Alone in the Dark
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P.T.
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Resident Evil Outbreak
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SOMA
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Resident Evil Revelations
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Doom 3
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Silent Hill: Origins
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Resident Evil 3 Remake
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Parasite Eve II
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BioShock
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
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Dying Light
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Doom
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Days Gone
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Dino Crisis 2
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Doom II: Hell on Earth
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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
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Siren
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Metro 2033
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Left 4 Dead 2
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Haunting Ground
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Resident Evil 5
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Silent Hill: Homecoming
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Clock Tower 3
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Silent Hill: Downpour
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
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The Quarry
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Forbidden Siren
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Left 4 Dead
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Dead Island
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Devotion
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ObsCure
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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
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A Plague Tale: Requiem
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Sweet Home
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
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Obscure: The Aftermath
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Scorn
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Dead Rising
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Resident Evil 6
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Detention
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American McGee's Alice
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MADiSON
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Dreadout 2
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Dead Rising 2
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Haunted House
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Cult of the Lamb
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Lone Survivor
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Evil Dead: The Game
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Uninvited
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GTFO
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
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