18 Best Survival Horror Video Games Of All Time

6. Dead Space

Truly great EA games are few and far between (007: Everything or Nothing, anyone?), but Dead Space took every last one of Resident Evil 4's influences and made one of the best followups of all time. Built around in the immortally effective context of being lost in space, the ferocious Necromorphs were fantastically engaging enemies; ones that made the most of the limb-severing "strategic dismemberment" mechanic as you slowly took them down piece by piece.

It's a toss-up as to whether you prefer the action-focussed sequel, but as for creating an environment that feeds perfectly into an overall sense of unease and survivability, attempting to make it out of the derelict Ishimura ship was a Herculean effort indeed.

Sadly EA would, well, be EA when it came to making a third instalment - turning in a Gears-lite shooter so bad it damn-near killed the franchise - but with any luck we'll get a Dead Space 4 on current-gen hardware at some point. Because, well, Dead Space in VR?

Hell yes.