Halloween is just two days away and the gaming world is frantic with the updates following the worldwide celebration of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. Many game developers are joining the celebration and some of them have created and updated spine-chilling video games.
The Telegraph has collected 22 ‘terrifying video games' for Halloween. These eerie but awesome video games will surely fit the gamers' Halloween mood.
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood presents a spooky and thrilling joyride through a horrifying rollercoaster with pig heads screaming all over the place. Lightgun games with VR plus horror is indeed a winning combination. Another scary theme is found in the game Back in 1995, a clunky and horrible nostalgic throwback game like Silent Hill and Alone in the dark.
Set in Norway, Through the Woods is a third-person horror adventure where a frantic mother faces wolves, trolls, ghouls and all beasts in a journey to help her kidnapped son. A multiplayer game, Dead by Daylight is a slick, polished game of cat and mouse between four survivors and a killer.
A story driven haunted house game, Alone? lets a gamer play as a passive aggressive lad in search for his sister plus there is also a VR version. A fully-fledged story mode, Five Nights at Freddy's is an assortment of mini-games and challenges, and terribly spooky horror-comedy vide.
Lifestream is a creepy story of an illegitimate son looking for his missing father and a priest. It is also an illustrated text adventure with puzzles and a pretty neat navigation system. The task of the horror puzzle game for PSVR, Weeping Doll is to explore a sinister house to discover the destiny of the family who used to live there and the player is haunted by murderous dolls.
A short, sweet crime mystery thriller with a tense and eerie atmosphere, Blameless is a free-to-play game. Camp Sunshine is a blood-soaked 16-bit RPG in which a teen faces off a killer mascot.
A hardcore sci-fi survival game, Syndrome takes place in a doomed spaceship. The Whisperer in Darkness is a spine-chilling visual novel adaptation of the HP Lovecraft story of the same name. From the makers of Clock Tower, NightCry is a survival horror game chased by a scissor-wielding monster with scary walking animations.
Inside is an eerie mystery thriller in which a young bloke runs through a forest chased by mysterious masked men. To complete the list, the games White Noise 2, Stay Close, Archimedes, Near Death, Slayer Shock, Anatomy, Kitchen, and Civilization VI are also one of the terrifying video games this Halloween. Do not play them alone.
