10 Utterly Terrifying Video Games You Really Can't Handle

Experiencing a horror game on your television from the comfort of your couch is already an immersive and scary experience as it is, so why not make it even more terrifying by placing yourself in virtual reality to face your fears up close?

Making game like Alien: Isolation and Resident Evil VII even more effective than playing them normally, the potential for VR horror games is still be explored by developers with the likes of The Kitchen and Wilson's Heart being notable examples. For this list, though, nothing can compare to the sheer dread of Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul.

Taking place in a photorealistic suburban home, this horror outing will see you explore said home with your trusty flashlight whilst collecting batteries and picking up items as you search for a way out. Being an incredibly scary horror game, though, the house's not-so-friendly inhabitants will occasionally make themselves known, making you wish you never entered the obviously haunted house in the first place.

Like the film series of its namesake, the game is full of horror tropes we've seen countless times before. But when it's us in the middle of the carnage, it suddenly becomes a lot more real.