18 Best Survival Horror Video Games Of All Time

18. Alone In The Dark (1992)

Although its graphics have aged and the colour palette doesn't really match up to what we think of as survival horror, you have to hand it to Alone in the Dark for bringing the genre into full 3D following 1989's Sweet Home.

Combining environmental clues and the same isometric perspective we'd come to associate with Resident Evil and its ilk - alongside some campy dialogue and plenty of awkward gunplay - yes, every single aspect of Alone in the Dark has been exponentially improved upon, but there were a few thrills and scares to be had, simply because way back in 1992, nothing quite like this had ever existed.

Four years later, Capcom would open Resident Evil by welcoming you to "a world of survival horror" - thereby making history in the process - but you simply can't have survival horror without Alone in the Dark.