10 Survival Horror Video Games You Must Play Before Halloween

10. Outlast

Although its sequel has a more impressive sense of visual presentation and a more ambitious story, the original Outlast boasts a much tighter horror experience. Trapping players in the terrifying walls of the Mount Massive asylum and tasking them with uncovering its shady secrets, Outlast was brimming with classic horror tropes and cliches, but boy did it know how to use them.

While run-and-hide horror games were getting old even at the time of its release back in 2013, the title had one thing those other games didn't have: a killer gimmick. Casting you as a journalist, your only line of defence was a video camcorder, which could record key moments and allow you to see in the dark thanks to its night vision capabilities.

Consequently Outlast played like an amazing found-footage movie, brilliantly riffing on elements of a sub-genre that had tragically never made its way over to the gaming world before.

Make sure to pick up the game's one DLC expansion, Whistleblower, too. It's short, but it packs in some grotesque moments and ridiculously memorable horror scenarios that give anything from the main game a run for its money.