Hello, today I will tell you about games in the horror genre from an unusual point of view. We are going to talk about the games as the journey. We skip such things as gameplay, game mechanics, graphics. Leaving only the experience behind the game. Pure meditation. Fasten your seatbelt we start to dive into the abyss.

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10 - Fran Bow

Genre: Horror adventure game, Point-and-click adventure game

Release date:

• Windows, OS X, Linux
  August 27, 2015
• Android
  February 16, 2016
• iOS
  March 5, 2016

Our Top 10 start here with Fran Bow - Point-and-click adventure game.
Do you remember that feeling from childhood? The sun just went down and you still played outside. Your friends are telling you: "This abandoned building inhabited by monsters". First, you can't see it, but then your imagination starts to play with you. And after some time you can see that there really is someone watching you. In your heart born a vague feeling of fear and you decide to go home. Not knowing whether it was a monster or your imagination. This game gives you the same feeling, only this time you entered the building and can't find a way back. Sense of adventure mixed with fear and despair. Your imagination shows the real monsters that can hurt you now. The building has become a large maze and you start to think that you will never return home. As the main character of Fran Bow, stuck in a world of madness and magic. You need to walk to the end of the road with Fran and you'll never forget her story painted in the colors of madness, kindness, warmth, and despair.

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9 - Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason

Genre: Psychological horror

Release date:

• Windows
  February 27, 2009

The only one good russian game in the survival horror genre. The protagonist is meteorologist who is stuck on a huge icebreaker ship in the Arctic. Icebreaker was long time abandoned and only the ghosts and fears inhabit it holds. Among the dark and the cold you shall uncover the truth about the tragedy of what happened on the ship.
This journey offers a harsh lonely cold. The darkness and the physical embodiment of the fears of the dead crew's will be your companions. Time to wear warm clothes, however it will not help to keep you warm.

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8 - Lone Survivor

Genre: Survival horror

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows & OS X
  27 March 2012 (Website)
  23 April 2012 (Steam)
• Linux
  7 June 2013
• PlayStation 3 & PlayStation Vita
  NA 24 September 2013
  AUS 24 September 2013
  EU 25 September 2013
• PlayStation 4
  NA 14 October 2014
  PAL 15 October 2014
• Wii U
  16 October 2014

Our journey it a surreal story about a man who was left alone with strange creatures around. The only thing we have to do is survive. You can care about the main character or throw him completely into the abyss. All this affects the plot, scenes and gameplay. Despite the lack of deep story the game offers feeling of terror and despair. Where simple things like cooking food, finding the cat, and other little things will warm your heart. Can you survive in this place?

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7 - F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Genre: First-person shooter, survival horror

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows
  NA February 10, 2009
• PlayStation 3
  NA February 13, 2009
• Xbox 360
  NA February 13, 2009

You might ask why this game has got to this list? A simple FPS shooter with several plot twists and good graphics(for its time). But it is actually not like that. The game starts like a normal shooter, but closer to the middle of the game everything changes. The plot develops and the story does not seem so simple.Around main heroe only destruction and death.City sinking in the Apocalypse leaving the hopelessness and fear. It may be an ordinary shooter, but inside there is something that you may not notice - incredible atmosphere of death go across the game. Maybe you will see sorrow that will bring the game. Maybe not.

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6 - Saya no Uta

Genre: Visual novel

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows
  JP December 26, 2003
  NA May 6, 2013
• Android
  JP April 17, 2014

This is quite tricky case. First of all this is erogame and visual novel. Very specific genre of PC gaming. Why is this game here? Because this game has one goal - to make you feel awful. The whole story are based on the meat, skin, blood, disgust and dirt. In this game there is no light or hope, you need to beat the game to understand it. If you have a bad mood and you want to make it even worse. You want to fall in a mud puddle and lie down for a few hours. Welcome to Saya no Uta. But..but the game has a great story and a visual art with a great soundtrack. Although the story is not pleasant, and the characters all are crazy, game still deserves your attention.

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5 - Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth

Genre: Survival horror, first-person shooter

Release date:

• Xbox
  NA October 24, 2005
  EU October 28, 2005
• Microsoft Windows
  EU March 24, 2006
  NA April 26, 2006 (retail)
  NA June 16, 2009 (Steam)

We don't need to say much about the best game based on the works of HP Lovecraft. Carefully transferred the scenes from the book. Great atmosphere right from the stories of the writer. Mysterious creation rise from the bottom of the ocean. This game is a collection of several stories by lovecraft blended in one good journey in dark corners of the earth. If you looking for visual interpretation of stories HP Lovecraft this game was exactly for you.

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4 - The Evil Within

Genre: Survival horror

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows
  EU October 14, 2014
  NA October 14, 2014
  AUS October 16, 2014
  JP October 23, 2014
• PlayStation 4
  EU October 14, 2014
  NA October 14, 2014
  AUS October 16, 2014
  JP October 23, 2014

Very underrated game from the creator of Resident Evil series. We will not discuss the problems of the gameplay,game mechanics,the similarity with resident evil series. We're here to dive into something viscous and bloody and the game gives you this opportunity. The whole game is filled with bloody violence and it's done so damn beautiful. Despite the simple plot, the game is filled with great imaginations of his creators. Starting from the beautiful and disgusting locations ending with bizarre monsters. Make this game great successor of Resident Evil series.

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3 - Condemned: Criminal Origins

Genre: Survival horror

Release date:

• Xbox 360
  NA November 16, 2005
  EU December 2, 2005
  JP August 31, 2006
• Microsoft Windows
  NA April 11, 2006
  EU April 13, 2006
  AUS October 16, 2014
  JP October 23, 2014

Our top 3 opened by very strange case. This is no ordinary classic horror. The game is very realistic in terms of story(almost). In the game you will not find grotesque scene of violence covered by a blanket of metaphors. This time your enemies are people. Scary, evil, dirty, but still people. People who came to the bottom of the abyss, and found there the absolute evil. And along with the main hero you will walk the same way. In the end you will find only sadness and dirt left by this game. Are you ready to enter the building, which I mentioned in the beginning? Only now you know that in this building are addicts and murderers.

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2 - Dead space

Genre: Third-person shooter, survival horror

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows
  NA October 20, 2008
  AUS October 23, 2008
  EU October 24, 2008
• PlayStation 3
  NA October 20, 2008
  AUS October 23, 2008
  EU October 24, 2008
• Xbox 360
  NA October 20, 2008
  AUS October 23, 2008
  EU October 24, 2008

Why 2nd place? First, to understand this, we need to understand a few things. We need to forget about Dead space 2,3. No, they are not bad, but it's a different games. We must look only on first game of the series. The uniqueness of the game is that it is horror in space. So few stories have been told in this genre and now we have this game. I think Dead Space is the story of loneliness. Among all the monsters and murders we have man who deny reality. Together with him we get to the end of story and find out what in space you are alone. in the deep dark the bloody valley of loneliness and search for unity with someone. This is the story of Dead Space, the monsters that scare and give hope for end your loneliness.

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1 - Silent Hill 3

Genre: survival horror

Release date:

• Microsoft Windows
  May 23, 2003
• PlayStation 3
  May 23, 2003
• Xbox 360
  May 23, 2003

First place goes to Silent Hill. It was too obvious. But we still consider the simple truth that 3 part of SH is the best part of the series. Many will disagree but I will try to explain why. The SH-2 was about the madness of a sick mind trapped in his own world. But what if the player could not associate themselves with the main character? All metaphors immediately disappeared. The story becomes distant from the player. SH-3 has a different approach to the mind of the player. Third part goes much deeper into to human perception. The game creates the theme of terror. Grotesque and explicit violence. You don't need to associate themselves with someone, the whole story carries a deep fears of the perception of human figures wrapped in human skin. The abomination that leads to nausea. It cuts much deeper into your consciousness. It's not quite a personal story as it was in SH 2. This is the descent to hell is very subtle, not like the classic description and much more terrible. This is why SH 3 got first place.

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