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Layers of Fear (2023) review

By Lewis Parker published 15 June 23

IF IT PAINT BROKE The first two games receive a deft remake into one package, with new story to tie them elegantly together.

IF IT PAINT BROKE

Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober Team says it's finished with 'psychological horror' games, it's 'mass-market horror' from here on out

By Joshua Wolens published 29 June 23

News The Layers of Fear remake was the studio's last psychological horror outing.

News

The ultra-violent time-bending horror FPS that always leaves my palms sweaty and heart racing is now less than a buck

By Robert Jones published 29 November 24

News Feel the fear for 99 cents.

News

My new greatest fear is meeting the two-faced monster from this survival horror game that combines retro pixel art with FMV

By Robin Valentine published 18 September 23

NEWS Tenebris Somnia is uniquely creepy, and you can play the demo now.

NEWS

Deepest Fear is underwater 'immersive sim horror' where enemies hide in every drop of water

By Justin Wagner published 5 December 24

News It’s already reminiscent of Bioshock and System Shock, with more deliciously overt horror.

News

Great! Macabre has given us *another* thing to fear in the Australian outback

By Imogen Donovan published 11 June 23

PCGS The studio behind the multiplayer stealth horror gives us their tick list for developing a distinctly Australian creature feature.

PCGS

This Hunt: Showdown-inspired sci-fi extraction shooter is already giving me the F.E.A.R.

By Jake Tucker published 10 April 24

Visual Artefact It’s early days for the extraction shooter, but it already looks pretty polished.

Visual Artefact

Amnesia: The Bunker's Halloween update plans to make this year's scariest game even more terrifying

By Rick Lane published 15 September 23

News Nowhere to hide.

News

A seemingly innocent puzzle game is hiding what might be the most subversive, fourth-wall-breaking adventure since Undertale

By Dominic Tarason published 9 September 23

Stranger days Void Stranger is a boundless puzzle-box in Game Boy disguise.

Stranger days

Fear the Spotlight's demo is a great way to kick off the spooky season even if it did make me face one of my irrational fears

By Elie Gould published 3 October 24

Red flag No ouija boards, a rule I live by.

Red flag

I died more than 1,200 times in this panicky first-person riff on Celeste's platforming and it's now one of my favorite games of the year

By Dominic Tarason published 20 September 24

The Descent Lorn’s Lure is a surprisingly scary and brutally tough cyber-dungeon mountaineering trip.

The Descent

Here's a little psych-horror game set on a running subway train that never ends

By Jonathan Bolding published 1 June 24

News Platform 8 is a sequel to The Exit 8, another subway-horror game from last year

News

The original Alone in the Dark did more than invent survival horror—it pioneered new ways to play and new ways to fear

By Alexander Chatziioannou published 14 March 24

Nyctophobia The game that inspired Resident Evil deserves to be ed on its own merits.

Nyctophobia

Sam Lake answers the biggest Alan Wake 2 question: What happened to his layers?

By Wes Fenlon published 10 June 23

news Getting to the bottom of the fashion mystery at the heart of Alan Wake 2.

news

This sidescrolling horror RPG about being trapped in a nightmare is like Amnesia crossed with Deathloop

By Shaun Prescott published 10 April 24

grindhouse Withering Rooms launched out of early access last week, and it's well worth a look.

grindhouse

Amnesia: The Bunker is the scariest game I've ever played, and also practically a videogame adaptation of Tom and Jerry

By Ted Litchfield published 21 December 23

Smack that unholy Stalker on the head with a mallet and show it what fer.

After a disappointing sequel and a cancelled remake, the original Fear Effect is coming to PC 'for the first time ever'

By Rick Lane published 19 April 25

News The cel-shaded action game's rerelease comes courtesy of Limited Run.

News

This intense, bullet time-filled FPS is a glorious tribute to FEAR and the spirit of 2000s-era gaming

By Jon Bailes published 13 June 23

FEAR EFFECT Trepang2 isn’t subtle about its influences, but when it comes to the action it does them proud.

FEAR EFFECT

Amnesia: The Bunker review

By Ted Litchfield published 5 June 23

scary good The Bunker takes Amnesia to terrifying new depths with a simmy complexity rivaling Alien: Isolation.

scary good

Still Wakes the Deep launch trailer sets the scene for a grizzly ship-bound cosmic horror

By Shaun Prescott published 9 June 24

PCGS A new glimpse via the PC Gaming Show, ahead of its release this month.

PCGS

We had another look at Still Wakes the Deep—and there's more than just slimy, stretched-out skin in the Beira D oil rig

By Elie Gould published 2 April 24

News Tales of old.

News

One of the best parts of Amnesia: The Bunker doesn't even involve its gruesome new monster

By Ted Litchfield published 24 June 23

beastless There are older things buried under than The Bunker's bunker.

beastless

Following Monolith's shock closure, GOG is offering 90% off its 2005 shooter FEAR and accelerating the game's preservation to recognise its doomed developer's 'contribution to gaming'

By Rick Lane published 26 February 25

News Grab this classic gunfest for less than a quid.

News

Blumhouse Games reveals its first release: A PS1-style horror adventure that promises no jump scares

By Andy Chalk published 7 June 24

news Fear the Spotlight is all about story and atmosphere.

news

Point-and-click horror Tales from Candleforth is the escape room equivalent of your childhood nightmares

By Kara Phillips published 3 May 24

Fright night Tales from Candleforth may begin as an enchanting fairytale but quickly unravels into every nightmare you had as a child.

Fright night

Elden Ring Nightreign gets a new trailer showing that, finally, you get to be the nightmare archer of Anor Londo

By Rich Stanton published 3 April 25

News Quiver in fear.

News

One of the best shooters around finally has a mondo creepy first look at its final act

By Ted Litchfield published 17 June 23

news Ultrakill Act Three: Godfist Suicide, Layer 7: Violence, Level 1: The Garden of Forking Paths.

news

After making the scariest game I've ever played, Amnesia's developer is considering moving on from horror

By Ted Litchfield published 22 July 23

news Just as long as I can still pick up everything in the environment and move my mouse in a circle to turn a crank.

news

After nearly 10 years of waiting, the sequel to one of the weirdest games I've ever played is finally almost here

By Andy Chalk published 20 September 24

news Alice's Lullaby, the sequel to the infamously bizarre horror game Albino Lullaby, is coming in October.

news

2023's most slept-on horror game is getting an absolutely sadistic new mode where nearly everything's randomized and you have to spend precious fuel just to save

By Ted Litchfield published 25 October 23

news Just in time for Halloween.

news
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