Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you ask us, it's never not the season for spooks and creep 'em ups, and that's why there's no time like the present to give you our list of the best horror games you can play on PC right now. From old classics to fresh new favourites, we've got everything that the discerning player in search of a scare could possibly be looking for.
Whether you like gore, survival horror, text-based chills, a bit of action, or even a deck builder, this list has something for fans of all kinds of horror - including those who don’t like a jump scare. We take a bit of a broad view, but in general if a game scares us then it counts as horror and could turn up on this list. Best of all, all the games on the list are available to buy and play right now, so you don't have to buy something at inflated-rarity prices from an online bidding platform, or anything like that.
These are the 12 best horror games you can play on PC right now.
Read our full list here - rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-horror-games
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00:00 Intro
01:08 12 - Inscryption
02:12 11 - Resident Evil Village
03:14 10 - The Excavation Of Hob's Barrow
04:38 9 - Condemned: Criminal Origins
05:58 8 - Darkwood
06:52 7 - Stories Untold
07:54 6 - Alien: Isolation
09:29 5 - SOMA
10:41 4 - Anatomy
11:08 3 - Pathologic
12:08 2 - System Shock 2
13:34 1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat
15:18 Outro
If you ask us, it's never not the season for spooks and creep 'em ups, and that's why there's no time like the present to give you our list of the best horror games you can play on PC right now. From old classics to fresh new favourites, we've got everything that the discerning player in search of a scare could possibly be looking for.
Whether you like gore, survival horror, text-based chills, a bit of action, or even a deck builder, this list has something for fans of all kinds of horror - including those who don’t like a jump scare. We take a bit of a broad view, but in general if a game scares us then it counts as horror and could turn up on this list. Best of all, all the games on the list are available to buy and play right now, so you don't have to buy something at inflated-rarity prices from an online bidding platform, or anything like that.
These are the 12 best horror games you can play on PC right now.
Read our full list here - rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-horror-games
🎥: Want more juicy video content? These are the 14 biggest games coming to PC in 2023: youtu.be/rR-BqaTwToE
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#rockpapershotgun #BestHorror #pcgaming
00:00 Intro
01:08 12 - Inscryption
02:12 11 - Resident Evil Village
03:14 10 - The Excavation Of Hob's Barrow
04:38 9 - Condemned: Criminal Origins
05:58 8 - Darkwood
06:52 7 - Stories Untold
07:54 6 - Alien: Isolation
09:29 5 - SOMA
10:41 4 - Anatomy
11:08 3 - Pathologic
12:08 2 - System Shock 2
13:34 1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat
15:18 Outro
