Ready for a fun night of horrors?
Friends who scream together, stay together. Isn't that how the old saying goes? Take your sleepovers to the next level with some horror games to keep you and your friends up all night
10. GoatZ
Zombie goat powers activate!
If you ever thought that you didn't want to be a goat taking on an army of undead you were wrong. So very wrong.
GoatZ is the DLC for Goat Simulator where players can live the goat survival dream. The zombie DLC is still as ridiculous as the original game but with 100% more zombie humans and goats. Players can unlock tons of different goats with unique powers and craft weapons such as a shotgun that fires gumballs. Don't forget to eat or you'll starve to death, zombie goats love to munch on lit campfires.
Just like in Goat Simulator, the game's physics are pretty broken, but that's just part of the game's charm. Zombies can get stuck running in place and bumping your goat into them may send them flying away. Choose if you want to wreak as much havoc as possible or try to save the world against the army of the undead.
9. Typing of the Dead: Overkill
The best typist to rule them all
Did you and your friends think that you were done with educational games? They're not just for kids anymore. Typing of the Dead: Overkill is an M rated typing game that plays as an on the rails shooter.
Players take control of an agent who is shooting their way through hordes of mutants in the Bayou. Damage is done through typing out the words the appear on screen. Critical phrases like "swamp donkey," "Big Bertha," and "sexual tyrannosaur" will be the key to destroying legions of the undead.
The game's dialogue sounds like it came straight from a low-budget horror movie, but in a good way. There's even a Shakespeare DLC to combine the classical and destructive. Players can pick the DLC that's right for them and enjoy the painfully hilarious ensuing dialogue.
8. Among the Sleep
Teddy bears add 5+ courage
Bond over reliving childhood nightmares with your friends in Among the Sleep.
Players take control of a two-year-old boy on the night of his birthday. Strange sounds disturb him throughout the night and he wakes up to a mysterious creature flipping over his crib. Players quickly need to search for his mother before unknown horrors get to him in the darkness.
There are various monster encounters in the game, but since players are in control of an actual two-year-old child, the only solution is to hide and escape from these beasts. Players can walk, crawl, and run for a short time until the toddler falls down. You wont be alone as your walking and talking teddy bear will be beside you and freaking out just as much as you will. Adapting to the nighttime world of a child again will be a nightmarish experience for players as they will remember former hopelessness and vulnerability from the terrors in the dark.
This game takes about two hours to beat and is a great choice for people who want a quick thrill.
7. Slender: The Arrival
A lovely addition for any home
How could any one not have played or known of this game yet, where were you in 2013? Find the weakest horror gamer of your group and set them through horror game initiation with Slender: The Arrival.
This game is the official video game adaption of Slender Man. Where Slender: The Eight Pages was a short and experimental game, Slender: The Arrival is a re-imagined expansion of the first game. The visuals are extremely improved compared to its predecessor and feel even creeper.
The game follows Lauren who is visiting the house of her missing friend Kate. She doesn't find Kate, but drawings of Slender Man all over the house. This is where things take a turn for the freaky. Lauren is equipped with just a flashlight and video camera, left vulnerable to whatever creatures are out to get her. Everything in the game is viewed though the video camera, giving off a Blair Witch Project vibe, especially since the player will be exploring the woods and abandoned buildings. When the player looks at Slender Man, the camera gets distorted with static, blurring, and strange sounds.
This is another short game that takes about three hours to beat, a great addition for those who want to complete as many games as possible in one terrifying night.
6. Lone Survivor
The store for all of your end of the world needs
Ever daydream about surviving through an end of the world scenario with your friends? Now's the time to live that dream and soon reconsider who you want with you when the apocalypse rolls around for real.
In Lone Survivor the player controls "You," the masked protagonist trapped in a city ravaged by a disease and monsters. As the player explores the city they'll encounter monsters who they can either kill or hide from as well as other bizarre humans who they can help or ignore. Every monster killed, human helped, and amount of care for the character, will result in different endings for players.
Pass around the controller and let each person make a choice in the game. Sure, there'll be disputes over what to do with the last piece of rotting meat and whether to give the remains of your water to the plant Chuck. But don't the greatest of friends fight over trivial things? The out come of this game will be everyone's hard earned Franken love child of an ending.
5. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Appetizing
How about instead of watching YouTubers scream like crazy while playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent, you and your friends dive into the madness?
This survival horror game plays like a living nightmare. Players take control of Daniel, who wakes in a deserted castle, suffering from amnesia. This game is guaranteed to terrify players out of their minds. Amnesia: The Dark Descent doesn't rely on simple jump scares to freak out players like other survival horror games. Players' fear tinged imaginations might be their worst enemy in the game, apart from the creepy monster out for slaughter. Players will be left unsure and paranoid if the screams in the distance are an indicator of incoming terrors or just Daniel's mind deceiving him.
As there are no in game cut-scenes, players will always be in control. The controls are smooth as players can push and pull items around in an extremely interactive environment. The game makes an effective use of darkness, it will hide the player from terrors, but who knows what else might be hiding in it. Players are left helpless and must defend themselves by running and hiding from the dangers out to get them. Scavenging plays a big role in the game as well, as players will need to search for items such as oil to light their lamp and tinder to ignite torches. The game offers multiple endings, but if players want to get a grasp as to what's going on, they'll need to collect notes and journal entries scattered throughout the game.
If things get too scary, take a crack at a more lighthearted and fun mod of the game where you can get serenaded by the "Trololo" song and other delights.
4. Dead Space
Beautiful and utterly destructive
Dead Space is a great game for passing around the controller between you and your friends when someone dies in game, and there's going to be lots of death.
The game plays as a disturbing and gore coated survival shooter where players face off against fearsome necromorphs and try to survive amidst a blood bath. Players take control of Isaac Clarke, an engineer on a repair mission for a mining ship that goes missing after finding a mysterious artifact on a distant planet. This mission goes off the rails as the crew of the ship who Isaac was sent to repair was terribly slaughtered.
Dead Space makes good use of its creepy atmosphere to build up suspense in players and release that pent up fear at the best moments. There are no cut-scenes that remove the player's control of the character, giving an extra level of immersion. Players will have a variety of weapons to choose from and tons of things to upgrade.
Players can at least bask in the comfort of knowing that they are safe while upgrading, but that's just a temporary relief.
3. Silent Hill 2
Who wouldn't trust that face
Can you take on one of the best psychological survival horror games out there? Find strength in numbers as you and your friends huddle around the game in a transfixed state of fear and curiosity.
Silent Hill 2 holds up even a decade after its release for good reason and is considered one of the greats in survival horror. Players take control of James Sunderland after he receives a letter from his dead wife, Mary, telling him to come back to Silent Hill. Despite what an obviously terrible decision this is, he goes in search of Mary. James meets Maria, a more provocative seeming Mary look alike, who accompanies James throughout the town.
The game makes players feel constantly anxious and afraid. The designs for the monsters are utterly disturbing in how they wriggle and struggle with each movement. Don't forget the iconic Pyramid Head and all of the too close encounters players share with him. The game's fighting system is deliberately vexing in order to frustrate players and the game's fixed frame setting will only add to the tension. Players have plenty of weapons to choose from such as steel rods, rifles, and dependable wooden planks. There are also multiple endings depending on certain things that the player does in the game. Don't worry, all endings will be disturbing.
If you get lost in the fog it's okay to be scared, after all, you know what's out there.
2. Alien: Isolation
If you scream in space the Alien will hear you and rip you apart
Unsure if you and your friends want a scary movie to watch or horror game to play, how about both? Check out Alien: Isolation and discover what fear really feels like. The game takes place fifteen years after the first Alien film and feels like a cinematic installment in the series. The game perfectly recreates the original film's universe with early 1980's technology with large, clunky computer monitors and use of VHS gain.
Players take control of Amanda, the daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she searches for the truth of her mother's disappearance. Alien: Isolation will be the scariest game of hide and seek that you'll ever play. This game is more stealth oriented than action as Amanda needs to avoid the more violent members of Sevastopol who can turn on her and the ruthless Alien who is stalking her. Players need to scavenge for resources if they want to survive. Since ammunition is scarce players need to find safe areas and avoid any actions that could draw attention to them.
The Alien will adapt to gamers' play style so the key to survival might be passing (or tossing) the controller to a friend when the motion tracker picks up something moving in the player's vicinity.
1. Outlast
Worst doctor's visit ever
Are you ready for the scariest game of them all? Convince yourself you are as you take on Outlast.
Outlast is a survival horror game like you've never seen before. Play as journalist Miles Upshur who breaks into Mount Massive Asylum, an abandoned center for the mentally ill that was recently re-opened and had been operating in secrecy. Miles gets a message regarding the dangers of the facility and the company, Murkoff, that runs the place from an anonymous source from within the facility.
Stealth is key as players explore the asylum trying to uncover it's secrets, but this journalistic endeavor quickly turns terrifying as Miles gets hunted down by crazed human looking creatures and needs to escape the facility. Player's have no way to fight these creatures as Miles is equipped with just a camcorder that enables him see in the dark and will constantly need to flee from disturbing creatures and hide wherever is possible.
These unpredictable enemies can appear at any time and players need to be ready to run and try to shake them off at any instant. Player's never have a moment to mentally recover as horrors are literally everywhere in the game. Even more terrifying is that the game's setting and characters are inspired by actual asylums and instances of criminal insanity.
Do not play this game if you or anyone around you has a weak heart, also use a weak heart as an excuse to turn off the game and spend the rest of the night looking at cute animal pictures to cleanse your mind.
Think you're prepared for a terrifying night with friends? Or maybe all of these games feel like child's play to you.
Let us know in the comments what games you think are the best for a horror marathon with friends.
