The horror game genre continues to thrive in 2025, and if the upcoming lineup is any indication, we’re in for a banner year of dread, decay, and tightly clenched nerves.
Whether it’s psychological slow-burns, grotesque body horror, or oppressive sci-fi tension, these seven upcoming horror games are shaping up to be some of the year’s most anticipated releases.
1. Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Requiem returns players to Raccoon City, but this isn’t the city you remember. Requiem follows Grace Ashcroft, a young FBI technical analyst, who awakens bound and terrified in the derelict Wrenwood Hotel, the same site where her mother was murdered years prior.
The game leans into the claustrophobic tension of Resident Evil 8’s dollhouse chapter, with a grotesque stalker creature slinking through walls and ceilings, always one step behind. Played in either first or third-person (finally an at-launch option), Requiem hopes to Capcom’s survival horror formula at its most refined and terrifying.
2. Silent Hill f
Silent Hill f transports players to 1960s Japan, with a haunting narrative penned by Ryukishi07 (Higurashi) and scored by series legend Akira Yamaoka. You play as Hinako Shimizu, a sickly student trapped in the town of Ebisugaoka, where reality twists with each passing moment. Body horror blooms through flowers, memories decay like fog, and the psychological unease lingers long after the screen goes dark.
3. Silent Hill 1 Remake
Silent Hill 1 Remake is also now excitingly in development by Bloober Team, though still shrouded in mystery. What’s confirmed is a complete overhaul of the original PlayStation classic, likely following in the successful footsteps of the Silent Hill 2 Remake. Expect modernized visuals, reworked environments, and all the unsettling ambiguity that made the original a genre-defining experience.
4. Cronos: The New Dawn
Cronos: The New Dawn marks a pivot for Bloober Team, blending action-oriented survival mechanics with their signature psychological storytelling. You play as The Traveler, navigating a plague-ridden future while rescuing digitalized souls from the 1980s via time travel. Enemies merge with corpses to become stronger if left unattended, making every decision — burn a body, save a resource — deeply strategic.
Set in Krakow’s Nowa Huta district, the game also includes lighter touches, like rescuing cats that offer tangible in-game benefits. It’s a fascinating mix of sci-fi, horror, and survival sim, all with narrative consequences based on who you save.
5. ILL
ILL, a horror game from Team Clout and backed by Mundfish Powerhouse (Atomic Heart), is a grotesque dive into first-person body horror. Set in a decaying research fort, the game features an advanced dismemberment system, highly reactive physics, and binaural audio that makes every noise feel uncomfortably close.
Created by a team with horror film credits like IT: Welcome to Derry and Longlegs, ILL pushes players into a nightmarish landscape of mutilated foes and inescapable dread.
6. Alien Isolation 2
Alien Isolation 2 has yet to reveal much, but its confirmed development is enough to stir excitement. The original Alien Isolation was a masterclass in stealth horror and AI unpredictability, and if Creative Assembly sticks to what worked, as in intelligent alien stalking, tense environments, and limited resources, fans can expect another nerve-wracking return to deep space terror.
7. Out Fishing
And for a surprise entry, indie horror game Out Fishing may look like a chill job sim at first glance, but beneath its fog-covered lake and quiet routine lies something far more sinister. Developed by solo studio Mūn Mūn Games and published by UNIKAT Label, the game blends psychological horror with light survival mechanics.
By day, you fish, upgrade your tools, and profit. By night, the woods whisper, your surroundings shift, and the fish start talking back. Every part of the lake holds memories, buried truths, and something unknowable that you’re slowly reeling toward.
From franchise giants to atmospheric indies, these seven titles cover a vast spectrum of horror, including psychological, action-driven, narrative, and experimental genres. Each is terrifying in its own distinct way, proving that the genre isn’t just alive, it’s evolving.
Whether you’re dodging stalkers in creaky hotels, unraveling ancestral curses in flower-strewn villages, or casting your line into something better left undisturbed, the months ahead have a nightmare with your name on it.
