Silent Hill f was released on September 25, officially ushering in the fall season of horror games and spooky titles. Horror game fans are in luck, as the launch of the new Silent Hill game is just the beginning of an epic season of horror game releases.
It’s a great time to be a horror fan, as 2025 is packed full of horror hits. With three months still left in the year, there are even more fantastic horror games slated for release before the year ends. Enjoy some of the biggest 2025 horror hits still scheduled to hit storefronts this year (listed roughly in order of their actual and projected release dates).
10. Little Nightmares 3 (October 9, 2025)
Cooperative Existential Horror In An Unsettling World
Continue the saga of the Little Nightmares franchise by Supermassive Games with the third installment. The third game takes players through the same kind of atmospheric and disturbing environments as the previous two games, past the grotesque denizens of Nowhere.
This time, you can share the horror with someone else thanks to integrated co-op. Play with a friend (or an AI companion) as you try to survive in a dark and terrifying world not meant for little children.
9. Bye Sweet Carole (October 9, 2025)
Classic Animation Style Horror In Game Form
Bye Sweet Carole is a stunningly beautiful debut from Little Sewing Machine that looks like a dark take on a classic animated Disney film. Uncover the dark secrets of the Bunny Hall Orphanage as you follow in the footsteps of the missing Carole Simmons.
The animation style may seem sweet and innocent, but things quickly take a turn for the dark and supernatural. It looks like a unique take on a horror fantasy adventure game with a style you won’t soon forget, complete with musical numbers, and it’s set to launch on October 9.
8. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (October 21, 2025)
A Vampire’s Gory Adventures Through Modern-Day Seattle
Though it falls more firmly in the Action RPG genre, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is dark and gory enough to qualify for the horror title. The game is being developed by The Chinese Room (Amnesia, Still Wakes the Deep), so it’s set up to be a narrative-rich experience with some dark themes.
The urban horror tale is set in the Vampire: The Masquerade TTRPG universe, and follows an older vampire known as The Nomad through 21st-century Seattle. With nothing but a stranger’s voice to guide you, players will have to navigate the gritty paranormal underbelly of the modern-day city’s streets in this sequel to a 2004 classic.
7. Tormented Souls 2 (October 23)
Nefarious Cults And Horrific Monsters
Tormented Souls 2 is the sequel to a 2021 title heavily inspired by Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark, and it shows. From the atmospheric setting to the horrors lurking in the dark, the original is a love letter to classic horror.
The sequel, set to release on October 23, looks to bring more of the same tense terror. This time, protagonist Caroline Walker ventures into a villa in the middle of nowhere to rescue her sister from a horrifying cult.
6. Ire: A Prologue (October 28)
A Deadly Game Of Hide And Stalk
This debut title from ProbablyMonsters looks like a great time for fans of abandoned, liminal spaces and stalker-type monsters.
Assume the role of Emily, who searches for her vanished father in an abandoned ship lost in the middle of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. But she’s not entirely alone on this desolate ship: a monstrous being stalks her every move, watching her from the shadows
5. Routine (2025)
Retro Futuristic Horror In Space
After several years in the making and a hiatus from Lunar Software, Routine received a re-release trailer at Gamescom 2025. The retro-futuristic space Sci-Fi horror is scheduled to release in late 2025, finally letting players experience the uniquely nostalgic and atmospheric setting.
Armed with nothing but a Cosmonaut Assistance Tool (C.A.T), explore the derelict hallways of an abandoned space station. Discover what happened to the station’s previous residents while avoiding the enemy that now roams the hall, convinced that you are the biggest threat to the space station.
4. CARIMARA: Beneath The Forlorn Limbs (2025)
A Solo Dev Project Based On Obscure Folklore
CARIMARA: Beneath The Forlorn Limbs has a dark kind of horror that doesn’t come from jump scares and hyperrealistic monsters. Created by solo developer Bastinus Rex and published by Critical Reflex (of Buckshot Roulette and Mouthwashing), Carimara is a strange and unsettling game inspired by, using the dev’s own words, “obscure Normandy folklore.”
Play as the titular Carimara, a mute entity capable of drawing questions out of the world around you in the form of cards:
“You speak through cards with glyphs long lost, in halls where kindness hides its cost.
Some smile, some sneer, some simply stare, but all who watch know you are there.”
The game’s striking style was hand-crafted from photos and recordings from the dev’s home in the French countryside, making this a horror title to look forward to when it launches on October 6.
3. Ritual Tides (Fall 2025)
Debut Game By Industry Veterans
Ritual Tides is the first game from the studio Vertpaint, but it has some strong talent leading it. The team is made up of former Rockstar Games developers, and it shows in the stunningly realistic and disturbing first glimpses revealed earlier this year.
The upcoming horror game is slated to release in the fall and tells the dark story of a desolate British island haunted by Lovecraftian dread. The game has been described as both a Lovecraftian Jurassic Park and a British Silent Hill, giving a sense of what to expect what it arrives this autumn.
2. Tenebris Somnia (Late 2025)
Half Live-Action, Half Pixel Horror
FMVs are no longer a thing of the past, with live-action sequences slowly but surely making a comeback. Tenebris Somnia by developers
Andrés Borghi and Saibot Studios is a homage to the classics, combining the terror of live acting with the nostalgic style of a 90s-style horror game.
Tenebris Somnia switches between a retro pixel horror style game and live-action cinematics, performed and recorded by professional actors and film crew. The title describes itself as “a survival horror adventure in the same vein as classics like Silent Hill or Resident Evil, but adapted to a retro 2D environment more typical of the N.E.S. or Famicom.”
Although no official release date has been revealed yet, a 2025 launch seems likely based on progress reports by the developers.
1. Crisol: Theater of Idols (2025)
A Creepy Carnival Island Reminiscent Of BioShock Infinite
Crisol: Theater of Idols takes a unique spin on combat, requiring you to use your own blood as a weapon at the cost of your own health.