18 Best Survival Horror Video Games Of All Time

7. Silent Hill

There are two strands of horror in video games: The "big, crazy bloated monster" flavour and the cerebral, "haunts your nightmares no matter what" kind. Silent Hill helped proliferate the latter, creating one of the best setups for any horror property in history: A ghostly town inhabited and powered by your own worst fears.

Whilst the sequels would take the franchise in some spectacular directions, you just can't beat exploring the fog-caked streets of the original - an effect that came about thanks to the hardware capabilities of the time. As the PS1 couldn't render an entire town at once, said 'fog' was used to cover this up, creating an iconic aspect of the series that was annoyingly removed when the franchise went HD and Konami 'cleaned up' what they saw as a technical flaw.

At some point, if you're going to play a survival horror and pay homage to the greats, make it the original Silent Hill. Your primitive movement options and general "What the F**K is happening?!" is only part of the fun - as is one of the best 'thing through window' scares in video game history.