Readers discuss their favourite survival horror games, as well as the ones they’re looking forward to the most in the future.
With Halloween almost here, we wanted to know what you think is the best survival horror of the present day and what you think may be the best in the future, especially given the recent explosion in new titles and remakes.
We got a good mix of classics and future titles, with Dead Space getting more mentions than it has in previous years, thanks to the upcoming remake and spiritual sequel The Callisto Protocol.
Two horrible gamesFor me, the best horror game will always be Silent Hill 2. Sure, it’s scary but that’s barely half the story. There’s a deep sense of unease and wrongness the game generates, that shouldn’t be possible for such an old title, but its atmosphere is so much thicker than the fog of its famous town.
There’s real meaning to everything that happens in the game, even when it seems dreamlike and surreal. The monsters aren’t just random and ugly-looking for the sake of it, they’ve been created, within the story of the game, specifically to torture the main character and everything that happens is specific to him and what he’s done to make himself feel guilty and become drawn to that terrible town.