16 Horror Video Games You Must Play Before Halloween

13. The Walking Dead - Season 1

Sometimes you don't need buckets of gore or jump-scares aplenty to put the willies up your audience. Instead Telltale's Walking Dead series managed to create an atmosphere of sheer desperation and palpable tension out of character-building alone. Those who have seen the earlier TV show seasons know that the best episodes are those where real horror comes from what humanity is forced to do in a world devoid of society and culture. And so here putting you in the shoes of one Lee Everett, you're forced to make a string of increasingly awful and morally grey decisions just for the sake of keeping the group alive or benefitting any number of different people. With an episodic nature you can get through it in the run up to Halloween itself - which to be honest is probably for the best when each one's relentlessly bleak nature will leave you curled up in a little ball.