12 Games Like Silent Hill

Games Like Silent Hill This collection of horror games like Silent Hill features other scary experiences where you'll find battle against the unknown with limited suppliers through a psychological horror adventure.

The Silent Hill franchise offers a unique take on the survival horror genre by focusing on the struggles of generally ordinary people that find themselves in unique and horrifying experiences. Starting in 1999 the series is primarily set around the fictional rural town known as Silent Hill which is often shrouded in mist and home to a malevolent force that brings horrific recurring enemies into your adventure. This adventure with your ordinary character often ends in one of several endings based on your success or lack of to achieve key objectives.

As an ordinary citizen Silent Hill revolves heavily around stealth and use of the environment although some direct conflict with melee weapons and firearms is necessary. In addition to weapons players are generally armed with some utility item to help them explore such as a flashlight or something to alert them to nearby enemies like a walkie-talkie. This third person camera based gameplay also utilises various environmental and item based puzzles that help to progress players through the story and other objectives.

The games like Silent Hill selected below offer more adventures where you’ll survive in psychological situations as mostly ordinary people where you'll solve puzzles and carefully plan your progress to avoid direct combat where possible.
system-shock-2

System Shock 2

System Shock 2 is a role playing action and horror game released in 1999 as a sequel to the popular 1994 original. Wit hacking and psionic abilities serving as core elements alongside first person shooting the System Shock franchise is often cited as influencing various classic and modern day FPS/RPG hybrid video game adventures. The setting for System Shock 2 pushes players far into the future (2114) with a dystopian style theme that centres on the player soldier as they attempt to fight off a ...[Read Review]

LinuxMacPC
9.6 User Avg (8 votes)
outlast

Outlast

Outlast offers a terrifying experience that draws inspiration from other first person survival horror adventures such as Amnesia. First released in 2013 for Windows the game later expanded to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and Linux and the Nintendo Switch over the following years along with an eventual game sequel (Outlast 2). Outlast follows your journey as Miles Upshur, a freelance journalist who receives a tip about events going on at the psychiatric hospital known as Mount Massive Asylum. Onc...[Read Review]

LinuxMacPCPS4SwitchXbox One
9 User Avg (9 votes)
the-evil-within

The Evil Within

The Evil Within (known asPyscho Break in Japan) takes the survival horror genre into a whole new gruesome level with a third person adventure requiring you to scavenge for suppliers and pick your fights carefully if you wish to have any hope to survive. Released in 2014 (with a 2017 sequel) the game challenges the main protagonist with a world of dark distortions, nightmares and mutated creatures that is explored in third person. Requiring you to overcome these enemies and even boss variants you...[Read Review]

PCPS3PS4Xbox 360Xbox One
8.9 User Avg (8 votes)
doom-3

Doom 3

Doom 3 adds to the Doom franchise with a similarly scary experience that finds itself planted firmly in the survival horror genre. Like the other titles in the franchise players will find themselves on Mars with first person shooter mechanics as they slowly progress through a truly terrifying atmosphere of blood, gore and demons with a devastating arsenal of marine weapons. Released in 2003 with an improved edition (BFG Edition) in 2012 along with a 2019 release for modern platforms (Switch, PS4...[Read Review]

MacPCPS3XboxXbox 360Xbox One
8.2 User Avg (6 votes)
cry-of-fear

Cry of Fear

Cry of Fear is a free to play horror focused adventure with single player and multiplayer game modes that originally started as a mod for Half-Life 1. With the success of the mod a full standalone version was released on the Steam platform in 2013 which was similarly well received for maintaining and improving the atmosphere offered by the original mod. Cry of Fear is focused on offering a psychological adventure  that will take you through a town that has been overrun by all types of horrible a...[Read Review]

FreePC
8.1 User Avg (7 votes)
condemned-crimal-origins

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Condemned: Criminal Origins is a horror video game for your Xbox 360 and PC that also blends in some detective game mechanics into the experience. Delivering a strong horror atmosphere Condemned: Criminal Origins has received strong praise from genre fans for bringing fresh perspective and ideas into what was a stale genre at the time of release. Condemned: Criminal Origins takes place in a fictional city and puts you in the shoes of Ethan Thomas, a crime scene expert working for the FBI who get...[Read Review]

PCXbox 360
7.8 User Avg (11 votes)
alan-wake

Alan Wake

Alan Wake promises an interesting adventure filled with horror for players to combat across popular game platforms. With a small rural town setting as the backdrop for this adventure players will be fighting against a dark presence that stalks in the shadows while also fighting their own sanity to save their wife from the other worldly threat. Alan Wake follows the story of well known thriller novelist Alan Wake as he goes on a vacation to the quiet town of Bright Falls in a hope to cure his wri...[Read Review]

PCPS4PS5SwitchXbox 360Xbox OneXbox X/S
7.7 User Avg (19 votes)
anna

Anna

Anna offers an adventure experience with horror themes exploring an abandoned sawmill deep in the Italian mountainside. Following it’s an initial release in 2012 a 2013 Extended Edition added a vast number of changes to the core experience intended to provide greater variety of puzzles and environments while addressing some user feedback on the user interface and certain graphical elements. Borrowing ideas from similar psychological horror experiences Anna is played in first person and exp...[Read Review]

LinuxMacPCXbox 360
7.6 User Avg (8 votes)
phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria is a game with an interesting mix of point and click adventure, horror and interactive movie that released back in 1995 during the early era of the video game industry. After achieving success on the market a controversial game sequel was released that was so horrifying it was banned in many countries and thus never saw the same light of day as the original Phantasmagoria. Phantasmagoria is also well known amongst interactive movie games and was at the forefront of technology at t...[Read Review]

PC
7.1 User Avg (13 votes)
deadly-premonition

Deadly Premonition

Deadly Premonition rolls open world gameplay, horror and even comedy into a single ball of interesting to create an adventure that is borderline insane. The game originally released on Xbox 360 in 2010 and saw a Director’s Cut for the PlayStation 3 and Windows released in 2013 after the game attracted a cult following online creating demand for the game to be delivered on alternative platforms. This same following was likely the reason behind the games port to Nintendo Switch in 2019. Part of th...[Read Review]

PCPS3SwitchXbox 360
7 User Avg (20 votes)
dark-fall-lost-souls

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Dark Fall: Lost Souls aims to give fans of puzzle adventure titles a journey that incorporates horror themes and is the third addition in the Dark Fall series that was released in 2009. This blend of puzzle, horror and adventure takes place in a familiar location while also honing in on the horror and puzzle elements although this does come at some cost to the depth of story compared to the first two games. Players of previous Dark Fall games will instantly recognise the familiar setting of the ...[Read Review]

PC
6.3 User Avg (9 votes)
dementium-the-ward

Dementium: The Ward

Originally intended to be a Nintendo DS addition to the Silent Hill game franchise Dementium: The Ward brings a bone chilling survival horror experience to the portable Nintendo platforms (DS and 3DS). The 3DS version is an enhanced version titled Dementium: Remastered which features similar gameplay although several quality of life enhancements and alterations to improve the core formula. With the Silent Hill design as a template Dementium: The Ward offers similar hand trembling plot twist mome...[Read Review]

3DSDS
6.2 User Avg (6 votes)