30 Horror Masterpieces To Play Before You Die

The writer's editorial order from the original article. We index, we don't re-rank.

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Shadowgate

1987 ·2 writers · 2 pieces

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Doom

2016 ·86 writers · 107 pieces

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Clock Tower

1997 ·4 writers · 5 pieces

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

2007 ·21 writers · 21 pieces

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

2002 ·18 writers · 22 pieces

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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

2013 ·17 writers · 16 pieces

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Resident Evil 4

2005 ·64 writers · 135 pieces

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Condemned: Criminal Origins

2006 ·12 writers · 17 pieces

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F.E.A.R. Extraction Point

2006 ·1 writers · 1 pieces

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Siren: Blood Curse

2008 ·6 writers · 4 pieces

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Dead Space

2008 ·40 writers · 26 pieces

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent

2010 ·18 writers · 20 pieces

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The Evil Within

2014 ·15 writers · 30 pieces

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Alien: Isolation

2014 ·59 writers · 51 pieces

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Five Nights at Freddy's

2014 ·4 writers · 7 pieces

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Bloodborne

2015 ·128 writers · 315 pieces

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Soma

2015 ·56 writers · 59 pieces

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Until Dawn

2015 ·36 writers · 42 pieces

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Inside

2016 ·74 writers · 96 pieces

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Dead by Daylight

2016 ·22 writers · 23 pieces

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Little Nightmares

2017 ·20 writers · 15 pieces

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Visage

2020 ·6 writers · 7 pieces

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Resident Evil 2

1998 ·73 writers · 112 pieces

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Phasmophobia

2026 ·49 writers · 111 pieces

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Alan Wake II

2023 ·109 writers · 161 pieces

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Mouthwashing

2024 ·32 writers · 20 pieces

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Resident Evil Requiem

2026 ·185 writers · 912 pieces

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