26 Best NEW Survival Horror Games of 2024

Do you like survival horror titles? If so, you’ll want to check these ones out!

Update: We will continue to update this list periodically throughout the year, so you will likely see some games removed or added. These games are not ranked in any particular order, as the focus here is to showcase titles we are excited to see hit the marketplace.

#26 The Thing Remastered

A recreation and sequel to the cult classic horror film, The Thing Remastered features you as a member of a special forces unit. You were sent to the infamous Outpost 31 to try and figure out what happened to all the people who were there. However, monsters soon attack you, and some of your team have been infected by the very being that took out the scientists from the film.

Now, it’s a fight for not only survival but to figure out which of your teammates have been infected so that you don’t get betrayed by them!

Fight for your life, but always watch your back!

#25 The Outlast Trials

Given what this series is, is it really that shocking that there’s another horrifying entry for you to endure? This time, you’ll be part of a human testing experiment where all sorts of things are put against you, and you have to try to survive all of it! However, there’s a twist, you can bring in your friends so that you can attempt to survive together! Surely, strength in numbers will win the day, right?

Except, your co-op friends don’t have to help you, and they can use you to try and get out themselves! So, who can you trust? That is, if you can trust anyone at all…

#24 Macabre

How about a survival horror title that isn’t about shooting everything you come up against? In Macabre, you’ll be part of a team that goes into a time rift to get resources that lurk inside it.

The catch here is that this rift is one that connects to numerous timelines, which means that each one will be different from the other when you dive back in. Just as important, there are monsters of frightening nature within, and you can’t kill them, no matter what you attempt.

As such, you’ll need to work together as a team to get in and out alive with your loot and outthink the monsters that hunt you! Or, you can always betray the team and see how much stuff you can leave with on your own…

#23 Content Warning

Not all survival titles will feature top-of-the-line graphics and scary plots. Some of them just have you doing things that will be scary if you don’t make it out alive. In Content Warning, you’re part of a group of friends who decide to get rich by making scary videos and posting them online for views and cash! Obviously, the scarier the videos are, the more likely they are to become big hits!

But how do you make such videos? Simple, you go out to the world below you that has loads of scary things, record them, and try not to get killed! What could possibly go wrong?

#22 A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

If you’re a fan of the movie franchise, you’ll want to check out A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. This game is a spinoff of the original movie and will feature you as a brand-new character in this world who is trying to survive. However, surviving isn’t easy when you have monsters everywhere who hunt by sound.

No matter where you go, no matter what you do, you must do it quietly. If you don’t, they will come for you, and they will kill you. Can you overcome your fears and issues to survive in this post-apocalyptic world? There’s only one way to find out!

#21 Outbreak Island

Not to be confused with another series with a familiar word, Outbreak Island puts you on a mysterious island that has a source of “infinite energy” that powers all around it. During the day, you’ll witness the constructive and life-fueling power that this energy source has and use it to build up a home, fortress, or whatever else you desire if you think it’ll help you live there.

Then, at night, the energy source infects the land with monsters, forcing you to fight back in whatever way you can so that you can keep what you’ve collected while also fighting to make it to the next day.

What will you do when you find this source of power?

#20 Crow Country

What can be so bad about an abandoned amusement park? Uh, have you watched horror movies? Everything can go wrong in such a place. In Crow Country, you’ll investigate the strange goings on within an amusement park and attempt to learn the truth. The problem is that the truth can be very unappetizing.

The key mystery involves the man named Edward, and what led to the shut down of his park. As you solve puzzles and learn from things you find, your reach within the park will grow.

What happened in this place? Can it, and its owner, be saved? Or will you be yet another victim of the monsters that lie within?

#19 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 

Here we have a game that was meant to be released already but, due to real-world events, had to be pushed back. Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl takes you back to the infamous exclusion zone, where things have only gotten wilder and weirder since you were last there.

That’s partially because, in 2006, another nuclear device went off in the zone, leading to new mutations and monsters being born there.

The joy of this sequel comes from the branching paths you can take. With numerous factions to help or fight and many things you can do in the zone, you won’t be wanting for options.

#18 ROUTINE

There will be nothing ROUTINE about this trip to a lunar base. See what we did there? Yeah, we’re really clever.

Anyway, the game focuses on you, who is sent to a base on the moon because they haven’t sent out signals for a while. But when you get there, there’s no one around. What happened here? That’s what you’ll need to find out.

Unfortunately, there is something within the base, and it doesn’t like you. In fact, it thinks you’re a threat and is sending things after you to try and take you out!

Flee these attempts and learn what you can from the base so you can shut everything down.

#17 The Retrieval

One could argue that a VR experience is one of the best ways to experience horror for the simple reason that things in the VR space will give you a more “immersive experience” than simply playing the game with a control. In this case, The Retrieval puts you far into the future, where a spaceship long since lost has suddenly returned. But from the moment it arrives, you know something is wrong.

What happened to it? Where is the crew? Why did it reappear now?

These are the questions you must answer, and then you’ll have to survive what lies aboard this craft if you wish to survive long enough to tell the tale!

#16 4 Minutes to the Apocalypse 

4 Minutes to the Apocalypse takes players into a new horror experience. Rather than zombies or other horrific monsters flooding our world, we’re dealing with the horrors of nuclear war. Players take the role of an individual who charts out to secure a submarine. After the war broke out, causing cities to crumble and governments to no longer exist, a submarine still holds strong. Onboard, the sub is a powerful weapon that could end all life on the planet. Fight to take control of the submarine while learning what happened within it during the final moments of the nuclear war. 

#15 No More Room in Hell 2 

It’s always nice to see hard work pay off. In this game’s case, the team behind it made the first title as a mod that became very successful. But with No More Room in Hell 2, it’s its own entity, and that’s to be praised.

The game’s nature is to be praised too. In it, you’ll team up with up to seven friends to fight a zombie-filled world. But this isn’t a simple run-and-gun situation. Instead, you’ll need to work with everyone in your group to wade through areas full of the undead so you can survive.

Search the maps, find resources to help arm yourselves better, and be prepared for whatever may be around the next corner! 

#14 Negative Atmosphere 

If you’re still looking for another space survival horror game after the Dead Space remake and The Callisto Protocol, check out Negative Atmosphere. It’s clear there was some inspiration from the iconic Dead Space game in the title, too. This third-person shooter puts players into the role of Samuel Edwards, who is trapped in a ship with his crew turning into horrific monsters. Being a chief medical officer, you are forced into battle as you seek precious resources to fend off the beasts and reach a means of escape. With that said, make your choices carefully. As you attempt to overcome the dread, developers note that each choice you make in this game will affect Samuel.

#13 Wronged Us

Wronged Us looks to be a decent excursion for fans of janky, low-budget horror games. This story-driven third-person survival horror takes place in a completely explorable abandoned town. According to the developers, its open world and quest design takes inspiration from Dark Souls. Delusional Studio Limited also cites Silent Hill and Resident Evil as major inspirations with regard to its story, atmosphere, and gameplay mechanics. As a nod to older games, Wronged Us is developed with a 4:3 aspect ratio in mind. With that said, there will also be a 16:9 option.

#12 Cryospace

Cryospace is an isometric survival horror title where you play as a regular maintenance worker on an isolated space shuttle. While the other passengers are locked in a deep cryo-sleep, your job is to ensure that the shuttle is kept in good quality so that everyone can make it to the set destination safely. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned as a mysterious alien species begins to take over your vessel. Your new #1 priority is to survive, and help whatever frozen colonists that you can.

#11 Narin: The Orange Room

In Narin: The Orange Room is a 3rd person survival horror game where you play as a young 7th grade girl who’s sister mysteriously disappears. In an attempt to locate her, Narin found herself transported to a terrifying supernatural dimension. While you fight for your survival against the many beasts who lurk within, you begin to find clues that can unravel what happened to your sister.

#10 Dark Moonlight 

Dark Moonlight is a survival horror game about a man in the near future who suffers from daily problems from his many phobias. In an attempt to ease the issue, he underwent an experimental procedure that was supposed to be the needed remedy for his ailments. Instead it transported him to a dream world full of his worst nightmares. The gameplay features everything players want from a survival horror game. Limited resources and weaponry, medical supplies are scarce, puzzles regularly slow your progression, and of course the many haunting monsters you must overcome by any means necessary.

#9 Derelicts

Most people agree that, eventually, we’ll have to leave Earth. But in Derelicts, part of humanity did leave Earth, and then you crash landed back upon it. So alongside your friends, you’ll need to work together to build what’s required to survive in this twisted version of the world.

Why is it twisted? Because the planet was warped by radiation, that means there are plenty of mutated animals that will see you as prey. Build a shelter to house yourselves in, and then find things to fight off the wildlife, among other things.

As you improve your shelter, you’ll get access to more things. So use whatever energy source to power your base and ensure your survival! 

#8 Slitterhead

Slitterhead turned heads with eerie creatures that reminded people of games like Silent Hill and Siren. This is no accident, considering Bokeh Game Studio is headed by Keiichiro Toyama, who served as director and writer on the original Silent Hill. Toyama also filled the same roles on Siren, Forbidden Siren 2, and Siren: Blood Curse. Despite this lineage, Bokeh Game Studio is broadening its horizons with Slitterhead. It isn’t a pure horror game, seeing as the team wants to pull in players that don’t typically engage with the genre. Regardless, Slitterhead‘s reveal had enough style to excite horror fans.

#7 Zoochosis

So, you wanted to be a zookeeper and thought that this would be an “easy job,” huh? Well, Zoochosis is here to tell you that something is wrong with the animals!!! Specifically, something has infected them to the point that some of the zoo critters are turning into mutant monsters! However, you don’t know which ones are the infected beasts and which ones are fine!

You’ll need to go out into the zoo, interact with the animals, find out what’s causing the infection, and do all you can to cure it! With numerous ways to end the game, you might find survival is as simple or complex as you want to make it.

#6 Post Trauma 

Post Trauma might appeal to those who loved the classic survival horror games from years ago. This game focuses on cinematics, and with it comes fixed camera angles. So if you loved the classic Silent Hill and even Resident Evil games, you might fall in love with this new upcoming IP. Details about Post Trauma are a bit light right now. However, we know that the game puts players into a middle-aged train conductor named Roman. Roman somehow finds himself stuck in an unusual world and is fighting for a means to escape. Move around the environment, solve puzzles, and face this world’s terrifying creatures. 

#5 Carnival Hunt 

When you picture the carnival, you think of a place of fun and whimsy that people love to go to and have fun in. But the tables have turned in Carnival Hunt, and darkness lies within.

The game is an asymmetrical multiplayer title where a group of you will control wind-up toys known as Bunnies. Your goal is to get out of the carnival. Why? Because the other player is playing a monster that seeks you out and wants to take you out.

Getting out won’t be easy. As toys, you need to be wound up to move and do actions. But doing so can draw the monster to you if you’re not careful.

Can you survive this twisted Funland?

#4 Alone in the Dark 

Alone in the Dark is a cult classic horror series that’s been dormant since 2015 at the despair of many of its fans, Those fans are finally in for a treat however since at the most recent THQ Nordic showcase a reimagining of the original game was announced. It’s taking the overall plot, characters, and gameplay concepts as the original 1992 release but reconstructed in a modern way. It looks very similar to the Resident Evil 2 remake, but instead of trying to survive a horrific virus outbreak, you’ll be investigating haunted houses full of supernatural terrors.

#3 The Last of Us Part II Remastered

Platfrom: PS5
Release Date: January 19, 2024

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Whether this is your first time playing the game or not, The Last of Us Part II Remastered will test your survival skills in multiple ways as you attempt to make it through this horrifying world.

Yes, there are all sorts of infected out there that you’ll need to be both mindful of and brutal in killing. But the people are just as bad as they’re loaded with weapons, and they won’t hesitate to kill you.

Plus, there’s the “No Return” mode that was made specifically for the newly released remaster. In it, you’ll take on the world from the roguelike perspective. If you die? You have to start over. Do you think you can survive long with the odds stacked against you?

#2 Silent Hill 2 Remake 

Silent Hill fans eagerly await Konami’s team to bring the franchise back to life. It’s been years since we received a game, but in October of 2022, Konami finally unveiled their plans for the IP. One of the projects in the works is a remake of Silent Hill 2, one of the more highly praised installments of the entire franchise. Bloober Team, the folks behind The Medium, Layers of Fear, and Blair Witch, are working on this remake. The development team also noted that they are trying to keep the original story intact but providing new means to immerse players into this horrifying game world further. One of the ways they are doing that is with an over-the-shoulder camera. Veteran players and newcomers will get a chance to step into the role of James Sunderland, who ventures into the town of Silent Hill with hopes that his believed deceased wife is still alive.

#1 Deathground

Deathground is most noteworthy for its inclusion of dinosaurs, which are pure nightmare fuel. Despite how terrifying these extinct creatures can be, they’re often used as fodder for traditional shooters. Even the venerable Dino Crisis franchise pivoted toward action by its second installment. Deathground includes solo and co-operative modes, along with some procedural systems for replayability. Unpredictable elements such as weather, spawn points, and dynamic objectives are meant to keep players revisiting the game.

Disclaimer:

Holstin, Instinction, Paranormal Tales and Tormented Souls 2 were removed due to now being moved to a 2025 release.