Resident Evil (Series) Alternatives

Games similar to Resident Evil include Outlast. Other options are Left 4 Dead, Dying Light, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and The Suicide of Rachel Foster. There's no shortage of Horror Games like Resident Evil, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Silent Hill icon
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    Silent Hill is a survival horror video game series consisting of eight installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team...

    31 Silent Hill alternatives

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  2. Slender: The Eight Pages is a free indie-developed psychological horror/survival horror video game for Microsoft Windows and OS X. The game is based on the Something Awful forums' creation, Slender Man.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. Dead Meets Lead is every bit and piece of what a challenging zombie-slaying action game should be. Enter the role of the 18th century commander who’s on a mission to obliterate evil, by fighting your way through the island of El Mirando.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  4. Penumbra icon
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    Penumbra: Overture is the first in a series of episodic survival horror games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. It was originally intended as the first episode of a trilogy. With the announcement of the second episode, Penumbra: Black Plague, it was stated that...

    29 Penumbra alternatives

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  5. The Last of Us is a critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic survival game following the emotional journey of Joel and Ellie in a world overrun by a deadly infection.

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    • Playstation
    • Steam
    • Windows
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  6. SCP: Containment Breach is an indie survival horror video game based on the stories of the SCP Foundation website.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  7. Layers of Fear is an foray into madness, a first-person horror game that sets a tone of fear and dread through provocative story telling as you explore a Victorian setting complete with mood-setting art pieces.

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    • Linux
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  8. After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the new Director struggling to regain Control in this supernatural 3rd person action-adventure from Remedy Entertainment.

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    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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  9. The Evil Within is a third-person survival horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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    • Windows
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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  10. You're on your own. No one to come for you. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Slender: The Arrival is the official videogame adaption of Slender Man, developed in collaboration with Eric "Victor Surge" Knudson, creator of the paranormal phenomenon that...

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  11. Nightmare Creatures is a survival horror video game released for the PlayStation and PC in 1997, and Nintendo 64 in 1998 as a North America exclusive. It was developed by Kalisto Entertainment and published by Activision.

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    • Windows
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  12. Sanitarium icon
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    Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.

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    • Windows
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