Horror Video Games Bucket List

Complete the Exit 8 game, a horror walking simulator where you must escape an infinite loop by spotting anomalies in a repeating hallway.

Complete the survival horror game Resident Evil Village, the eighth main installment in the Resident Evil series.

A boy walks through his own nightmare; the studio's only horror game, bright colours over something wrong.

Stress, torches and the Ancestor's voice; the roguelike about dread.

Scrap the moons for a company quota and die to a coilhead; the co-op horror comedy of 2023.

A boy in a basement shoots tears at monsters; the roguelike with a thousand items.

James Sunderland receives a letter from his dead wife; the psychological horror game.

The prequel: a lorry driver stops at a burning house seven years before the first game.

An apartment you cannot leave, chained from the inside, with a hole in the bathroom wall.

A soldier comes home to Shepherd’s Glen looking for his brother; the first made outside Japan.

The 2025 entry: 1960s Japan, a town swallowed by fog and flowers, written by Ryukishi07.

Isaac on the ice planet Tau Volantis with a co-op partner and a bench that builds any gun you can imagine.

A retelling with no combat at all - you run, and the game quietly psychoanalyses you and rewrites itself.

A prisoner loose in the town after a crash, in rain that makes the monsters worse; the last one Konami published before the reboot.

Claire on a prison island and then in Antarctica, in the first Resident Evil with fully 3D rooms instead of painted ones.

Four campaigns that cross each other at set points; the furthest the series ever went towards action.

Two characters swapped at will and no item boxes at all, starting on a train in the woods below the mansion.

FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy in the Wrenwood Hotel and the ruins of Raccoon City; the ninth main entry, February 2026.

Garrett takes a third job, and walks into the Shalebridge Cradle, the most frightening level ever built.

Heather in the mall and the amusement park; the direct sequel to the first.

Harry Mason looks for his daughter in a town that changes; the fog was a draw-distance trick.

Four survivors, a Tank and the AI Director that decides how bad tonight is.

Jill escapes Raccoon City with something following her between rooms.

Caleb, a pitchfork and a can of aerosol; the meanest of the Build-engine shooters.

A New Orleans bookseller investigates voodoo murders; Jane Jensen's gothic adventure.

A boy in a dream world and a truth in the real one; the RPG Maker horror that became a cult.

A card game in a cabin with a man you cannot see, and then the game changes; Daniel Mullins.