The best new horror games in 2025

6 months ago, by Thibaut

Scaring yourself has become a habit thanks to video games. Since the popularization of the genre with Resident Evil in 1996, survival-horror is absolutely everywhere. Every year, studios compete in ideas and innovation to make gamers the world over tremble.

Whether through psychological horror, over-the-top gore, jump scares, stressful situations or horrifying creatures, there will be no shortage of new releases in this genre in 2025. Here are the most promising horror games due to arrive on consoles and PC in the coming months.

Thanks to the remake of Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team has become one of the most important studios when it comes to horror games. That's why we are waiting for Cronos: The New Dawn when it comes to third-person survival-horror. The gameplay sequences revealed so far are reminiscent of the Dead Space license, with its horrific monsters and impressive graphics.

2025 will also see the return of a monument to horror with Silent Hill f. For the first time in the saga's history, this epic will take place in Japan in the 1960s. This survival-horror focuses on the psychological well-being of its characters, but also goes for some action in the face of fearsome creatures.

And since survival-horror is a very broad affair, we're bound to find some extremely interesting experiences within it. There's The Sinking City 2, which offers a terrifying Lovecraftian journey. For its part, Subnautica 2 focuses on stress in a race for survival on a distant planet. All this in a dark ocean both vast and claustrophobic.

Finally, survival-horror is also a popular genre for independent studios. ILL is an extremely realistic action/horror FPS that will terrify seasoned gamers. For its part, Reanimal takes us on a dark and terrifying journey in a universe imagined by the creators of Little Nighmares.