Do you love scares and all things spooky? Then you’ll want to look ahead to thehorrorgames coming in 2025. 2024 was a great year for horror, with games like the Silent Hill 2 remake and Still Wakes the Deep taking the spotlight. But will 2025 be even scarier?
Little Nightmares 3 was pushed to 2025, so we’re hoping to see that next year, but there are plenty of other horror titles to look forward to as well. Here are all the horror games that TG’s staff are most excited to play in 2025.
Updated on June 18, 2025 by Rebecca Phillips:Ready for some scares in 2025? We’ve updated this article with our self-publishing writers' most anticipated horror games for 2025.
I don’t do well with horror games. I played tiny bits of Silent Hill 2, panicked when more than one enemy came at me, then passed the controller over to my girlfriend to watch her play the rest of the game instead. Little Nightmares and Little Nightmares 2 were just the right number of scares for me, so I’m looking forward to Tarsier Studios’ next project, Reanimal.
Reanimal is co-op (which would have been a perfect addition to Little Nightmares 2, so it’s great that it’s here this time) and is set in an equally eerie world as the studio’s previous games. The creatures out to get you lookhugecompared to the tiny kids you play as, so I can’t wait to get unreasonably scared while playing this one.
I grew up on hand-animated Sierra adventures like Torin’s Passage and King’s Quest 7. Bye Sweet Carole isn’t exactly that, but the aesthetic is more than enough to call me back to that lost era of gaming.
Bye Sweet Carole will either be a masterpiece or an exceptionally well-presented nothing, and I’m rooting for it to be the former. The entertainment industry as a whole needs more projects to prove that good things happen when you take the time to do it right.
Anything Published By Critical Reflex
Ben Sledge, Features Editor
I’m a bit of a scaredy cat, so horror games aren’t generally my vibe. It’s the whole ‘being scared’ thing that I just don’t like. But Critical Reflex had the best 2024 of any publisher, and nearly converted me to a genre I previously hated.
Buckshot Roulette, Arctic Eggs, Mouthwashing, Threshold. Four excellent horror games in the space of just eight months. Arctic Eggs is my personal favourite (and probably the least scary, verging mostly on unsettling), but Mouthwashing is a must-play and all surprised me with brilliant mechanics,engaging narratives, and clever twists on our expectations of what games can do and should be. I don’t know what Critical Reflex is cooking up next, but I’ll be there on day one.
Alien: Isolation 2
Amanda Hurych, Editor
I adore horror games. I love getting scared, randomly screaming in the apartment when something lurches at me in my game, and feeling the sweat of my palms quite literally coat my controller.Perfect horror game experience, in my opinion. And if we’re talking about a horror game that stresses me out more than any other, Alien: Isolation is the prime example. So even though it’sveryoptimistic to consider its sequel will come out next year, I’m still going to call Alien: Isolation 2 my most anticipated horror game every year until it finally launches.
The Xenomorph in the original was a force to be reckoned with. It was a masterpiece in enemy AI design that stalked your every step, ramped up the tension at the most perfect moments, and truly captured the high-stakes terror that being followed by this ultimate movie monster would feel like. Technology has gotten even better, so I’m salivating more than a murderous Xenomorph to get my hands on what should beeveryone’smost anticipated horror game.
This dark take on Golden Age Disney aesthetics was among my most anticipated games for 2024, but time marches forward, and the title is now set to arrive in 2025. A 2D,hand-drawn Metroidvania, it sees you exploring a haunted orphanage after a mysterious disappearance, facing down red-eyed shapeshifting demons.
The twisted fairytale trope is a classic because it has endless potential, and while the art style initially drew me to Bye Sweet Carole, it has been the gameplay that has intrigued me ever since. We probably won’t all live happily ever after when this drops next year.
Solving complex puzzles and navigating tense platforming sections, all while being hunted by horrific monsters is what makes the Little Nightmares series so special, so when it was announced that Little Nightmares 3 would have online co-op, it instantly shot it to the top of the list as my most anticipated horror game.
I cannot wait to play through this game with a friend as we both scream with terror while trying to overcome the various obstacles in our way. It’s going to be great!
Resident Evil 9
Kyle Chamaillard, Self-Publishing Writer
Though nothing has been confirmed, I feel good about a new Resident Evil game in 2025. There are many rumors about it, including which characters might return and an emphasis on open-world exploration, which has me excited to see what this series does next.
The recent Resident Evil games thrived on suspense, fascinating villains, and a splash of humor to great success. I expect Resident Evil 9 to take these elements to the next level with unpredictable twists and memorable action sequences. The scariest thing about Resident Evil 9 is that it might not launch until next fall, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it.
