10 Best Horror Games for Streamers (May 2025)

For those who fancy the adrenaline rush that comes from horror video games, there’s a never-ending list to fill your passion. Just like with action-adventure, horror video games have a cult-like fan base that derives ultimate satisfaction from the dread. For streamers, we’ve prepared a list of the 10 best horror games you can try this season.  

10. Dead by Daylight

Behaviour Interactive created this asymmetric multiplayer horror title, tossing players into a sinister world. Death is not an escape in Dead by Daylight. You pick a side between the killer and the four survivors. The killer plays in first-person perspective and is focused on understanding the Killing Ground and enjoying the feast. Survivors, on the other hand, can work together or face the terror alone. Whichever way you choose, you must survive. But that’s easier said than done with the randomly generated levels. You face an unknown danger in each run. 

9. Darkwood

Enter the Soviet Bloc and explore the dark forest all day long, and fight to survive the night. You have numerous activities and tasks to perform during the day, as well as items to craft. From repairing doors to cooking, discovering secrets, scavenging resources, and crafting weapons. It’s a rich and pretty dynamic world that you explore before retreating to your hideout and praying to see the morning light. Barricade your shelter, build traps to slow intruders, and defend yourself from the horrors that lurk in the dark.  

8. Cry of Fear

Embark on your quest for answers and brave the cold Scandinavian before descending into madness. Navigate through the city filled with monsters and bizarre occurrences in the survival horror game. Fight the monsters, solve puzzles, and play through the shifting levels. Move from the normal city and its environs to the nightmarish delusions. Your gameplay endings depend on your choices, and you have more than 20 unlockables. Run through the terrifying and unforgettable moments alone in single-player campaign or team up with up to 4 players. 

7. The Evil Within

Follow through the intricate story as Sebastian and live through the horrific anxieties in The Evil Within. It’s an epic survival horror game experience, featuring expertly crafted surroundings and an immersive yet dangerous world. Sebastian is a detective who awakens in a perilous world after being ambushed. He witnessed the onslaught of his fellow detectives and now awakens to fight the disfigured creatures wandering among the dead. Face the terrific horrors, fight the enemies and bosses with melee weapons and guns, and evade their traps. You can even pit the evil against itself with the diabolical instruments. 

6. Dead Space

Toss yourself into the realms of Dead Space horror game as Isaac Clarke, the ship engineer. While on his mission to repair the large mining ship, Isaac discovers everything is horribly wrong on the vessel. The entire crew is slaughtered, and Isaac’s partner is nowhere in sight. Armed only with your work tools, embark on a quest to find Nicole. And while on your new mission, the mystery of the murders begins to unfold. You’re trapped in the vessel with ghostly characters, the Necromorphs. Fight the creatures to survive while struggling to maintain your sanity. 

5. Silent Hill 2

Brave through the psychological horror experience with Silent Hill 2. Playing as James, you receive a letter from your late wife. The letter awakens memories, prompting you to visit the place where you made most of your memories with her. At Silent Hill, James encounters a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his deceased wife. Explore the locations and buildings amid the dark, encountering monster enemies. The gameplay focuses more on solving puzzles to progress, with occasional encounters with foes. James is armed with a radio that alerts him about nearby enemies. 

4. Until Dawn

Experience the dread of a survival horror game with Until Dawn. The game perfectly captures the fear that many titles in the genre struggle to achieve. The story follows Clover and her team of friends as they explore Blackwood Mountain. A year after Clover’s sister disappears, they decide to journey to the valley where Melanie vanished. But they soon find themselves escaping a horrific masked killer. The killer is out to eliminate them one by one. Once a character gets killed, they awaken again at the beginning for another run. However, there is a limit to the number of times one can reawaken.

3. Outlast

Live through the horrors of Outlast, where your only chance at survival is to run or hide. You’re an independent journalist out to explore the Mount Massive Asylum and discover its secrets. It’s a long-lost home for the mentally challenged that just reopened and now operates in deep secret. Inspired by a tip-off from an anonymous person, Miles decides to break into the Asylum, only to be met by terror. Your only hope for survival lies in the sinister truth at the heart of the massive facility. 

2. Five Nights At Freddy’s

Five Nights At Freddy’s is among the survival horror games with a relatively simple gameplay, but with the dread you would expect from the series. You take the role of a night guard at a pizza restaurant linked to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. It’s a fictional children’s restaurant that runs some animatronic characters for entertainment. However, these animatronic creatures leave the stage at night and wander around the facility. Your role as the night guard is to guard them and ensure they do not attack. You watch the creatures closely, monitor them through the cameras, and dodge the terrifying dolls.

1. Alan Wake 2

After the first entry, an action-adventure game with some horror elements, Remedy Entertainment fully embraced the horror genre in its sequel, Alan Wake 2. It’s a complete survival horror game that lets players experience the horror as either Alan or Anderson. Anderson is an accomplished detective who arrives at Bright Falls to uncover the ritualistic murders. However, her quest quickly turns into horrors that manifest around her. Alan, on the other hand, finds himself trapped in a nightmare beyond the world. A dark ghost haunts him, fighting for his sanity and seeking to defeat the devil.