Grasping the controller and making life and death decisions in scary or simply gore games provides its own unique rush to gamers!

Horror games are no longer a thing for Halloween, and you can witness some amazing ones all year round. They continue to bring about unique scare factors into the gaming landscape. Here are some of the top picks in this genre for you to give a whirl at;

1. Little Nightmares

This game revolves around a young girl named Six, who is trapped in a frightful world of giant nightmare creatures. You simply have to escape different scares and not confront these creatures or ward them off. The very helplessness of this game is bound to test your toll.

The very comfortable and familiar places of Six’s home are turned into fearful nightmares, and you can expect to turn your head a couple of times in your abode too.

2. Slender: The Eight Pages

This game involves long pauses with totally unexpected jumps when the Slender Man appears. All you have to do is run around with a flashlight in the dark collecting eight pages while feeling the lurking of an eerily tall man in a pinstriped suit.

Don’t judge this game on how simple it may sound, as it is guaranteed to leave you scared senseless.

3. Left 4 Dead 2

This is a sequel of the popular creation by Turtle Rock Studios. Similar to the first, this version has you and 3 other characters set in a world overrun by zombies. The very cooperative strategy of the game makes it ranked among the top FPS (first person shooter) games of all time.

This game was actually banned in Australia because of the graphic content it features – all the more reason for you to try it.

4. Amnesia: The Dark Descent

As the name suggests, this game will actually simulate what it feels like to have Amnesia. In this game you will have to portray an older person waking up in a torturous dungeon, and figuring out situations which can lead to gruesome deaths.

This game is a walk into the darkest spaces of your psyche and hence making it a very different type of horror game.

5. Outlast

By playing this game, you will explore a place no-one in their right mind willingly should – an old asylum in the mountains and in the middle of the night. Your first person trek through this asylum will feature following shadowy shapes in the distant dark all the way to asylum doctors that wish to capture and experiment on you.

With many situations in this game that seem like the end but aren’t really, you will find yourself screaming at some point or another.

6. P.T.

Apparently this game was made by the world’s most idiosyncratic game developer and the world’s greatest creator of film monsters. In this game you will find yourself walking along an infinite loop of a hallway, with a thousand or more things planned to scare you.

It is rumored that a team from GamesRadar+ couldn’t play this game with the light off. This is so because the game’s nightmarish elements leave your imagination and surroundings to fill in the gaps.

Try one of these 6 games out today!