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Upcoming horror games - A zombie jumping at a player during the upcoming game, Dying Light: The Beast.

Upcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond

By Louise Blain last updated

Upcoming Reader, beware – these upcoming horror games are coming for you in the new year

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Murphy Pendleton stands in an alley with a pipe in Silent Hill: Downpour

Silent Hill: Downpour devs reflect 12 years on: "Stop trying to be Japanese scary, and just be Czech scary"

By James Winspear published

Feature Feature | An attempt to refresh things, this very different take was the last mainline Silent Hill

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First Until Dawn trailer features gruesome kills and a time-twisting mystery inspired by the horror game

By Amy West published

News The first Until Dawn trailer is here

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A frozen child sits on a swing in the key art for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later

By James Winspear published

Feature Feature | This return to the very first game broke apart everything you knew and rebuilt it in a truly chilling fashion

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Friday the 13th: The Game

2025 kicks off with another live service death as Friday the 13th: The Game fans sadly twerk on its grave

By Ashley Bardhan published

News Don't cry because it's over, smile because Jason has an ax

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A crop of the key art for Silent Hill: Homecoming used on the box, showing a family portrait scuffed and rusted

"At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming

By James Winspear published

Feature | Go big or go home? The developers of this series entry decided to do both when Silent Hill landed on PS3 and Xbox 360

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Mara Forest walks in front of the Crow Country ticket booth in a piece of key art that retains the game's rounded low-poly visual style, but smashes together other elements of the theme park - such as a crow statue, gore puddles, dead trees, and explosive barrels - together in a way that isn't true of the actual space in-game, but conveys what to expect therein

Indie devs discuss why low-poly works so well for horror: "I actually think those limitations encourage weird, unique compromises"

By Alan Wen published

Feature Feature | The indie developers of Back In 1995, Fear The Spotlight, and Crow Country on channelling PS1-era aesthetics in horror games to create the perfect combination of nostalgia and dread

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Alan Wake 2 screenshot showing a live-action Alan standing in front of a stage curtain

The Remedy Connected Universe that ties Alan Wake 2 and Control is "just getting started" with no endgame in sight, says Sam Lake

By Kaan Serin published

News "I love making it deeper and expanding on the lore"

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A crop of the Silent Hill Origins key art used on the box, showing Alessa Gilespie from behind facing a burnt down ruined house

17 years on, Sam Barlow reflects on Silent Hill: Origins: "To pull it out of the bag with a seven-out-of-ten game was incredibly rewarding"

By James Winspear published

Feature Feature | The development of this handheld-first trip to the Hill was as convoluted as the prequel story it tells

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Dead Space

"We're not interested right now": Original Dead Space creators say their pitch for a fourth game was turned down by EA

By Issy van der Velde published

News Oh what could have been

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