Are you one of the horror game lovers? If you are, WOWKIA has summarized the list of the best upcoming horror games. We guaranteed that these games will be scary, creepy, and make you goosebumps! You can download it on Steam, XBOX, or play it on Playstation!
A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player. Unlike most other video game genres, horror games are nearly always based on narrative or visual presentation. It also uses a variety of gameplay types.
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Here is The List of The Best Upcoming Games
Disclaimer: The Best Upcoming Horror Games List below is based on the author’s personal opinion, and you may not think the same way about this. So if you have another game to put in here, please tell us in the comment section.
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1. The Outlast Trials
Release Date: 2021
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows
This horror game is an upcoming first-person psychological horror survival video play game. It is the third installment in the Outlast series developed by Red Barrels. Also, it features test subjects in a mysterious Cold War experiment. It has two game modes; Single-player video game and multiplayer video game. This Outlast series will be so sick. As we know, The Outlast series never let us down.
2. Resident Evil Village
Release date: 2021
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows
Like Resident Evil 7, the game was developed on the RE Engine and played from a first-person perspective. The game is set during the reveal Capcom’s Kellen Haney who said about the story: “Ethan’s world suddenly comes crashing down once again when Chris Redfield, setting off a chain of events that sees a distraught Ethan seeking answers to Chris’s shocking actions and ultimately finding him in a mysterious village.” Events will take place in Europe.
3. Ghostwire: Tokyo
Release date: 2021
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows
This is an action-adventure video game played from a first-person perspective. The player can use various psychic and paranormal abilities to defeat the ghosts and spirits haunting Tokyo. Combat director Shinichiro Hara described the combat as “karate meets magic.” The player character utilizes hand movements inspired by Kuji-Kiri hand gestures to cast spells.
4. Little nightmares II
Release date: February 11th, 2021
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows.
This game is an upcoming puzzle-platformer horror adventure game with much of fans from the first series. The game was announced at Gamescom 2019 as the sequel to Little Nightmares and will feature a new player character, Mono, with the protagonist from the previous game, Six, as a computer-controlled character. The fans are so curious about the next story of Six, also about the new character coming along.
5. One Upon a Time in Roswel
Release date: 2020
Platform(s): Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
One Upon a Time in Roswel is a first-person psychological horror game. Delve deep into the strange world of Roswel, New Mexico. You start on an investigation to find a family that has been missing for more than a week. Realize the terrible truth that has consumed the Peterson Family while you walk through their ever-changing home and memories, battling your own identity and purpose.
6. The Medium
Release date: December, 2020
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, Microsoft Windows.
The Medium is a psychological horror game played in third-person as Marianne, a medium who can travel into the spirit realm. She was able to inhabit both worlds aids puzzle solving. Her psychic abilities may be used against hostile forces. It is recharged by interacting with energy spots called spirit wells.
7. Scorn
Release date: 2021
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X
The player Controls one skinless humanoid, lost in a nightmarish world filled with weird creatures and macabre tapestry. The humanoid is resembling a living techno-organic structure. The player will explore different interconnected regions searching for answers that will explain more about the game’s world. The trailer gives a mysterious sense that makes the game looks more interesting.
8. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
Release date: November 2020 – March 2021
Platform(s): Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows
This game was surprisingly announced at the Game Awards 2019 with a heart-pumping reveal trailer. Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, the follow-up to 2017’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, back in late 2019. It’ll be among the first to support the Xbox’s Smart Delivery technology that gives you access to the best version of the game. That means you can expect to see it on Xbox One, too.
9. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Release date: 2021
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
This game is mainly played in a first-person perspective, alternating to third-person for contextual activities. Part of the World of Darkness series, the game is the sequel to the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. The story follows a human in 21st-century Seattle, who is killed and revived as a thin blood vampire with relatively weak vampiric abilities. What makes the game interesting is there is a massive and mature relationship process in the game that will play a big part in the story.
10. Quantum Error
Release date: 2020
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
The last of the best upcoming horror games is Quantum Error. An unknown entity attacks the Monad Quantum Research Facility (30 miles off the shore of CA). That mysterious thing is engulfing the complex in flames and putting it into a full containment lock-down. A distress call is sent for mutual aid to the Garbo Fire Dept in San Francisco, CA.
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