18 Best Survival Horror Video Games Of All Time

9. SOMA

Possibly one of the most conceptually brilliant horror setups in gaming, SOMA mimics the same "Your mind is a prison" setup from something like Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, making the primary focus of gameplay being to investigate just what the f**k is going on.

Developers Frictional Games have always had a knack for presenting reactionary responses and representations of how our minds deal with negative phenomena in interesting ways, in this case meaning that SOMA doesn't have a whole lot of enemies, the real horror coming from dealing with various other characters' trapped mental states. To say more would give away precisely what is going on, and being SOMA remains one of the most underrated horrors of them all, I implore you to do so yourself.

Let's just say there are few games as intelligently written as this, and by the time the credits roll, the game's way of making you question your own perception on reality is what'll stick with you most.