Spooky season: every horror video game being released in October 2024

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There’s a bumper harvest of scary video games retired this Halloween, from the fantabulous Silent Hill 2 to retro frightener Fear The Spotlight.

Horror mightiness beryllium the lone genre which is indisputably astatine its astir effectual successful video games, whether it’s terrifying endurance fearfulness titles similar Amnesia: The Dark Descent oregon communicative adventures which effort to emulate accepted fearfulness films.

The occupation for fearfulness video games is that, dissimilar movies, they’re not usually immoderate cheaper to marque than regular games and someway publishers look to merchandise them astatine immoderate portion of the twelvemonth different than Halloween – but not this time.

So if you’re looking for a caller crippled to freak retired yourself (or your loved ones) crossed the spooky play and beyond, here’s a rundown of each the fearfulness games retired this period and beyond.

Until Dawn remake

October 4 (PS5, PC)

Designed arsenic the video crippled equivalent of a slasher film, Until Dawn sees you power 8 young adults who person to past the nighttime connected Blackwood Mountain.

It’s fundamentally an interactive fearfulness film, with each the choices you marque contributing to a butterfly effect that dictates whether immoderate (or all) characters unrecorded oregon die. The archetypal game came retired successful 2015 connected PlayStation 4, but this remake adds overhauled visuals, caller camera controls, and immoderate reworked sections – including a clear tease astir a sequel.

The archetypal creators, Supermassive Games, person gone connected to marque respective games successful the aforesaid vein, including The Dark Pictures anthology, The Quarry, and precocious The Casting Of Frank Stone. If you’re looking for a bully spot to commencement though, Until Dawn is the champion option.

Silent Hill 2 remake

October 8 (PS5, PC)

A PlayStation 2 endurance fearfulness classical is fixed caller beingness successful this remake, which sees you controlling James Sutherland arsenic helium journeys to the mysterious, foggy municipality of Silent Hill, aft receiving a missive from his dormant wife.

While determination were concerns implicit whether it would unrecorded up to Konami’s 2001 original, arsenic our review made clear, developer Bloober Team has managed to construe the chills into a modern over-the-shoulder fearfulness experience, portion maintaining the haunting atmosphere.

If you’re aft what volition apt go the astir talked astir fearfulness crippled of the year, a stroll done Silent Hill is your champion bet.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

October 17 (PS5, XSX, PC)

Set wrong the film’s existing canon, this spin-off follows asthmatic assemblage pupil Alex Taylor, who has to navigate the post-apocalyptic satellite with her fellow Martin. The game’s developer, Stormind Games, antecedently created the beauteous large Remothered fearfulness series, truthful this mightiness beryllium amended than galore radical expect.

It surely looks the part, with immoderate awesome visuals and stealth mechanics involving a handheld instrumentality to measurement dependable levels, arsenic you effort to debar the dreaded sound delicate monsters.

RetroRealms Arcade Halloween & Ash Vs. Evil Dead

October 18 (XO, PS4, NS, XSX, PS5, PC)

If you similar slapstick fearfulness with a throwback flavour, these 2 2D side-scrolling slashers get connected the aforesaid day. After developer Boss Team Games tackled Sam Raimi’s classical with multiplayer rubric Evil Dead: The Game, the squad is backmost with a caller retro-inspired treble diagnostic of Ash Vs. Evil Dead and Halloween.

It looks much polished and pleasingly squishy than you mightiness expect, with Michael Myers and Ash besides capable to swap betwixt games if you acquisition some titles. A peculiar collector’s variation connected Limited Run Games adjacent comes with a Michael Myers plushie, if you’re down with hugging serial killers astatine night.

Fear The Spotlight

October 22 (PS4, NS, XSX, PS5, PC)

With its chunky 3D graphics, this 3rd idiosyncratic fearfulness escapade is 1 of galore games successful caller years capitalising connected 90s PlayStation nostalgia (hello, Crow Country and Signalis). Here, you travel Vivian and Amy arsenic you sneak into schoolhouse aft hours, solving puzzles and uncovering the enigma down a calamity from decades before.

Crucially, this is the archetypal rubric from the caller gaming part astatine Blumhouse, which is known for films similar M3GAN and Insidious. As such, this volition beryllium a bully indicator of whether the statement is worthy paying attraction to, but it looks precise promising truthful far.

No More Room In Hell 2

October 22 (PC)

Developed by Torn Banner Studios, who are champion known for the Chivalry series, this 8 subordinate co-op crippled channels the tone of Left 4 Dead, with zombie sidesplitting connected what’s promised to beryllium a massive, dynamic map. The archetypal game, released mode backmost successful 2013, was primitively created arsenic a Half-Life 2 mod by developer Lever Games, who were aboriginal acquired by Torn Banner Studios.

The kicker is this is lone launching successful aboriginal entree this month, truthful portion it volition beryllium playable successful immoderate capacity, it mightiness beryllium a portion yet earlier the afloat crippled is released. There’s ever the archetypal though.

Forest Hills: The Last Year

October 22 (PC)

If you’re not exhausted by asymmetrical fearfulness games similar Dead By Daylight, there’s a caller enactment successful this multiplayer slasher. Like those games, you tin either play arsenic 1 of 5 ‘Displaced’ survivors oregon arsenic the Fiend, a supernatural killer.

The past down this crippled is rocky, with its archetypal incarnation, Last Year: The Nightmare being taken disconnected Steam aft the archetypal developer Elastic Games went bankrupt. It was aboriginal acquired by Undaunted Games, who re-released that mentation past year.

Forest Hills: The Last Year fundamentally serves arsenic different revamp, with other contented to effort and marque it stick, truthful it mightiness beryllium worthy waiting until it comes retired to spot whether it’s worthy giving a try.

Clock Tower: Rewind

October 29 (XO, PS4, NS, XSX, PS5, PC)

Originally released exclusively successful Japan connected the SNES, this updated merchandise yet brings the classical 16-bit endurance fearfulness to the West, implicit with further contented from 1997’s Clock Tower: The First Fear connected PS1.

Although small known by most, this constituent ‘n’ click fearfulness has been hugely influential connected the genre, peculiarly successful Japan. It revolves astir you solving puzzles portion being pursued by antagonist Scissorman, who you request to fell and flight from.

Purists tin bask the archetypal crippled successful each its glory, but the revamped rewind mode promises an adjacent much assertive Scissorman, bug fixes, and different prime of beingness improvements, arsenic overseen by 2D specializer WayForward.

Alan Wake 2: The Lake House

October (XSX, PS5, PC)

The sequel to Alan Wake mightiness not person pleased america arsenic overmuch arsenic it did immoderate critics but there’s nary doubting it was a slickly made adventure. The Lake House is the 2nd and last portion of DLC, pursuing Night Springs, which looks acceptable to person stronger ties with Remedy’s different crippled Control (a importantly amended crippled too, successful our opinion).

Whereas Night Springs played up Alan Wake 2’s silly side, a trailer suggests this is going afloat connected horror, to lucifer the Halloween season. You’ll play arsenic Kiran Estevez, an cause nether the Federal Bureau of Control, arsenic she investigates the Lake House successful a communicative which runs parallel to events of the main game.

Slitterhead

November 8 (XO, PS4, XSX, PS5, PC)

It mightiness autumn conscionable the incorrect broadside of Halloween, but this endurance fearfulness rubric is, present that we’ve played Silent Hill 2, our astir anticipated of the year. Directed by Keiichiro Toyama – who is champion known arsenic the creator of Silent Hill, Forbidden Siren, and Gravity Rush – Slitterhead looks similar different unsocial proposition, wherever you power a spiritual entity that tin person humans and leap betwixt bodies mid-combat.

While it doesn’t look to thin connected scares, the carnal designs look suitably nasty based connected trailers – with the gameplay appearing to autumn determination betwixt Devil May Cry and err… Geist connected the Nintendo GameCube.