Horror Games 2024

A multiplayer horror game: Remnant Records

Remnant Records is a cooperative horror game for 1 to 4 players, where the goal is to exorcize ghosts so they leave the world of the living for good. Players are members of a paranormal agency tasked with finding clues by exploring haunted locations to decipher each spirit’s life and better understand their death to free them from their torments.

The game features randomly generated missions, terrifying enemies with unpredictable behaviors, and rich gameplay that encourages strategy and cooperation. With customizable difficulty levels and character progression, Remnant Records promises suspense and twists in every game.

Embark on a ghost hunt in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a narrative action-RPG that takes you on an epic adventure filled with ghosts, set in the historical setting of New Eden in 1695. Developed by the studio DON’T NOD (Life is Strange and Vampyr), this game puts you in the shoes of Red and Antea, a couple of spirit hunters or Banishers tasked with lifting a curse afflicting the settler communities.

The gameplay blends dynamic combat against supernatural creatures and exploration, allowing players to combine Red’s physical abilities with Antea’s supernatural powers. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden invites you to solve puzzles in a mystical world full of dark secrets, where understanding the motivations of each inhabitant is essential to guide your decisions. Prepare to experience an emotional epic of life, death, love, and sacrifice, where every choice matters.

One of the best survival and horror games of the year: Sons of the Forest

Sons of the Forest is an open-world survival horror game set several years after the events of The Forest. As a private military contractor sent to find a missing billionaire on a mysterious island, you find yourself plunged into a nightmare filled with cannibals and terrible secrets.

The game offers total freedom in construction and survival, allowing for building shelters made of wood or stone and exploring an island with varied landscapes and changing seasons. Teamwork is at the heart of the adventure, with cooperative gameplay for up to 8 players, sharing resources and strategies to survive against increasingly dangerous enemies, both on the surface and underground.

Sons of the Forest has quickly become one of the hits of 2024, selling two million copies within 24 hours and reaching a peak of 350,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Drive to Survive in Pacific Drive

Pacific Drive offers a unique survival and driving adventure where your car becomes your only hope in the mysterious Olympic Exclusion Zone. This first-person game takes you through a surreal version of the Pacific Northwest, filled with supernatural dangers and inexplicable anomalies.

Each run is a race against death, where quick decisions and on-the-fly repairs can make all the difference between life and desolation. Explore, gather resources, adapt your car, and unravel the mystery of a secret organization while surviving the constant threats of the Zone.

One of the Best Horror Games of the Steam Next Fest: Terror At Oakheart

Terror At Oakheart is a retro 2D game rich in narrative and dark humor, inspired by the slasher horror movies of the 1980s and 1990s, in which a relentless killer eliminates all group members, like in Homebody or Killer Frequency. Here, the player embodies various characters, all destined to be murdered by a psychotic serial killer named Teddy.

The town of Oakheart is terrorized, and you must uncover the mystery behind the motivations of this murderer, who is possessed by a strange entity worthy of HP Lovecraft’s novels. Do not be fooled by the beautiful Pixel Art style that might make you nostalgic; fear is around the corner, and the game has been critically acclaimed and is considered one of the most beautiful and funniest independent horror games of the Steam Next Fest.

The Outlast Trials: the best multiplayer horror game of the year at Fear Fest 2023

The Outlast Trials is a terrifying psychological horror game where you are the guinea pig in the sinister experiments of the Murkoff Corporation during the Cold War. Playable solo or in co-op, you must survive their experimentations, gather evidence of the company’s psychological tortures, and escape the facilities, armed only with night vision goggles.

This installment of the Outlast series heightens the anxiety with an oppressive atmosphere and gameplay that relies on cooperation to overcome the terrible challenges aimed at manipulating your morality to break you mentally. Betrayal, guilt, prepare yourself to face the darkness and reveal the frightening secrets that await you.

A game that will chill your blood: Winter Survival

Winter Survival offers a unique mountain survival adventure that features cold, hunger, and thirst, as well as the anxiety and stress of being attacked by a wild beast at any moment.

A mundane winter hike with friends turns into a fight for life when you find yourself alone. Two game modes offer customizable difficulty levels: a story mode where you must find your lost friends and return to civilization and an endless mode with more resources and crafting possibilities to survive and thrive.

In the game, Your mental and physical health dramatically affects your abilities. Beware of injuries, diseases, and changing weather conditions that can quickly turn your experience into a nightmare!

A multiplayer horror FPS to share with friends: Hellbreach Vegas

Hellbreach: Vegas is a first-person shooter inspired by the Call of Duty zombie mode and the Killing Floor series. Playable solo or in co-op, you must face successive waves of demons straight out of hell on the streets of Las Vegas. Choose a firearm and a melee weapon from a futuristic arsenal, earn money to upgrade them, play slot machines to discover new ones, or unlock items and power-ups.

Stack the corpses in Survival mode, limit the space around you in Claustrophobia mode, or bet on your accuracy in Sharpshooter mode. Hellbreach: Vegas is a fun challenge to take on with friends!

Discover the major innovation of the year in Waking Tides

Waking Tides brings a revolution to the horror video game universe this year with an immersive first-person experience where reality and fiction merge through Augmented Reality (AR) integration.

This direct use of webAR functionalities integrated into smartphones adds an unprecedented dimension to your adventure, establishing Waking Tides as a must-play for those who love thrills and novelty. Stranded on a mysterious oil platform, you must solve ingenious puzzles and challenging riddles and gather clues to uncover the secrets of this parallel world.

The Remake of the First Ever Survival Horror Game: Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark is the remake of the 1992 classic survival horror that defined the genre. Praised by critics for its eerie atmosphere and technical execution, it inspired the horror franchises Resident Evil and Silent Hill with its gameplay mechanics and gloomy ambiance.

While faithful to the original storyline, the story of Alone in the Dark has been enriched with modern gameplay and stunning graphics, appealing to both veterans and newcomers. In this third-person action-adventure game, you’re trapped in a haunted mansion infested with zombies, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. Carefully explore and discover clues that will help you solve puzzles to escape. Weapons and ammunition are limited and sometimes ineffective against certain enemies, forcing you to find other ways to eliminate or bypass them.

A Super Fun Co-op Horror Game: Content Warning

Content Warning is the co-op multiplayer horror game for unforgettable moments with your friends. In this first-person game, you and your buddies head out to film creepy content in an abandoned town to create a buzz. The more views your videos get, the more money you earn. This allows you to upgrade your equipment and increase your oxygen reserves to stay longer in the dark zone as you bid to record the tragic end of your mates to become famous or die trying! Just make sure one of you survives to bring back the footage.

Content Warning has had a thunderous debut on Steam. In early April, it became the second-best-selling video game, with peaks of over 200,000 concurrent players.

A Challenging, Scary Single-Player Game: Withering Rooms

Withering Rooms is a horror video game that mixes the roguelike, Souls-like, and survival game genres. This single-player, 2.5D RPG takes place in a mansion haunted by the undead, witches, and even more terrifying monsters. The player embodies the young Nightingale, a customizable female character (clothing, weapons, tools) attempting to escape this old Victorian house, whose many rooms transform each night.

During this adventure, your interactions with various NPCs, whether friendly, deceitful, or hostile, will be crucial to the story’s ending. Will you manage to escape, or will you become powerful enough to control the mansion?

Be afraid, but silently in Silent Breath

Silent Breath is a realistic psychological horror thriller in the style of the 90s played in first-person. The game takes place in an open world within a haunted forest filled with nightmarish creatures, which you must explore in search of clues to find people who have gone missing. But be careful as the forest hears you!

Pursued by evil entities, your microphone picks up your reactions to each scare and may lead to your downfall. So stay silent, even if you are shaking with fear!

Silent Breath is a terrifying early-access game where you always need to watch your back!

All the anxiety of Russian roulette in Buckshot Roulette

Buckshot Roulette, as the name suggests, is a tactical and highly stressful Russian roulette game that plays out like a card game at a casino but with a shotgun!

At the start of each game, the dealer loads the gun with a certain number of red or blue shells in random order, and the player decides whether to shoot themselves or the dealer. When it’s a blank shell, the player continues their turn or hands the shotgun to the dealer; if the shell is live, the target loses a life.

The game is played in three rounds, and each player has several lives represented by defibrillator charges. When players have used up all their charges, they lose the round. In the first two rounds, players respawn as many times as their number of charges allows, but in the third round, if a player has only two charges left, the game goes into sudden death. From the second round, items providing advantages are distributed, such as knowing the location of the live shell. Buckshot Roulette has received highly positive reviews on Steam, and at that price, why hold back?