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Horror video games ranging from psychological thrillers like Alan Wake 2 to survival horror classics like Resident Evil Village and Silent Hill 2 Remake offer frightening experiences for Halloween 2025 across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC platforms (Alan Walk 2 poster in pic) Halloween offers the perfect opportunity to experience horror through video games, an interactive medium that creates fear and tension in ways movies cannot replicate. From psychological thrillers to survival horror classics, the following 10 titles represent some of the best frightening experiences available across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC platforms. These games range from family-friendly spooks to intense cosmic terror, offering something for every type of horror fan this October. Here’s a list of the top 10 games you should check out this Halloween season.1. Alan Wake 2Developer Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 marks the return of horror author Alan Wake, first seen in 2010. The game takes on an investigatory horror approach as FBI agent Saga Anderson visits the Washington town of Bright Falls to solve a ritualistic murder, eventually crossing paths with Wake. The result is a pulpy mishmash of moody chills and post-modern horror thrills.Also read: Top must-watch horror movies to watch on Halloween 2025 on Amazon Prime VideoAvailable on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC2. Alien: IsolationAt over a decade old, developer Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation remains not only one of the best movie license games ever made, but an all-time horror great. Perfectly capturing the sleek 70s lines and grungy corridor squalor of director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror movie classic, Alien: Isolation tells the story of engineer Amanda Ripley as she attempts to find her missing mother aboard the SS Sevastopol.Live EventsMuch of its success comes down to the Xenomorph's largely unscripted and unpredictable behavior as it mounts its relentless pursuit through air ducts and shadowy hallways, generating real heart-stopping terror even today.Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, PC3. Luigi's Mansion 3Nintendo's spooky adventure series effortlessly blends slapstick ghost-busting thrills with lighthearted chills as the perpetually fearful Luigi visits all manner of peculiar haunts. In Luigi's Mansion 3, that's a towering luxury hotel, where each new floor brings an often surprising new theme and a fresh procession of ghostly guests to thwart players' progress. It's a relentlessly inventive adventure full of chaotic hoover-based battling and puzzling.Available on: Switch4. MouthwashingDeveloper Wrong Organ's Mouthwashing manages to be deeply effective despite its retro PSX-style ambience. Set aboard the stranded space freighter Tulpar, it tells a short but powerful tale of the ship's increasingly desperate crew as they grapple with a severely injured captain, a steadily dwindling power supply and starvation. For all its moments of humor and sci-fi spectacle, Mouthwashing is an often harrowing experience as it puts themes of complicity and declining mental health under a lens.Also read: Surprise $1,450 Social Security bonus lands on Halloween — here’s who gets itAvailable on: PC5. Resident Evil VillageResident Evil Village's five segments are so distinct it's almost the video game equivalent of a classic Amicus anthology movie. There is the werewolves-on-the-loose action of its chaotic wraparound story, the Gothic castle chills of Lady Dimitrescu, the faintly Lovecraftian vibes of its fishing village section and a truly unsettling detour into the basement of a house of dolls.Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC6. Silent Hill 2 RemakeDeveloper Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake modernizes the beloved survival horror classic with intelligent mechanical finessing and a beautifully forlorn makeover while expanding and enriching it in genuinely additive ways. Bloober skillfully explores new spaces within the original's immovable structure, all while keeping masterful control of tone. At times, its bereft malevolence reaches some genuinely terrifying extremes.The original Silent Hill 2 received an 89/100 score from critics when it was released in 2001, praised for its incredible atmosphere, deep storytelling and genuinely impressive scares. The remake scored 87/100.Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC7. SignalisSignalis, from developer rose-engine, successfully carries the torch of survival horror classics like Silent Hill and Resident Evil while bringing something new through fresh world building. A dark sci-fi horror set in a dystopian future weaves a powerful story of queer love into its bleak, retro-inspired vision of cosmic terror as it follows Elster, an android-like Replika, on a violent search for her partner in a nightmarish world.The game has multiple endings that change depending on your playthrough, a rich narrative to dive into and fantastic replay value.Also read: Weekly Horoscope October 27 - November 2: Who will feel spooky this Halloween week & which zodiac signs wiAvailable on: PS4, Xbox One, PC8. SomaSwedish studio Frictional Games' 2015 release Soma is a masterclass in cerebral horror. Trading Amnesia's gothic terror for grungy, suffocating sci-fi, Soma unfolds several thousand years in the future, far beneath the waves. Players control Simon Jarrett, trapped in a near-deserted science facility where something has clearly gone catastrophically wrong. For all its viscerally grotesque moments and tense pursuit sequences, its real horror lies elsewhere as the game hurtles toward its chilling, existentially horrifying conclusion.Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC9. The Mortuary AssistantDarkStone Digital's The Mortuary Assistant centers on the inherent creepiness of working in a morgue and having to prepare cadavers for their final rest. Players wire mouths shut, pin eyelids down and suck out blood to replace it with formaldehyde. Layered on top is a haunting of sorts, as a demon wants to possess one of the corpses in the building.Unusually for horror, The Mortuary Assistant manages to avoid becoming a game about running away or fighting. There's no combat here, just observation, thinking and holding your nerve.Available on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, PCAlso read: How to watch Smiling Friends season 3 episode 4 Halloween special tonight10. World of HorrorDeveloper Paweł Koźmiński's roguelike narrative adventure World of Horror sees players complete a series of randomized investigations in a bid to stave off the Eldritch apocalypse in the seaside town of Shiokawa. Each vignette has a fixed beginning and end, but the path through is full of random events with their own branching outcomes, weird monsters to battle and useful items to acquire. The game is brought to life with a starkly retro 1-bit art style that channels famed horror manga artist Junji Ito.Available on: PS5, PS4, Switch, PCAdd as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now! 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