Top 10 Upcoming Horror Games of 2025
Waiting for the 2025's scariest games? Here’s a sneak peek at the top 10 upcoming horror titles.
Opinion by Sabi on Mar 12, 2025
Horror fans start getting prepared, because 2025 is certainly going to be a very good year in terrifying games that will surely keep you up all night. You will find something for sure, whether you like mind games that turn psychological, ugly survival horror, or fast-paced action terror. Yes, even those dog-criers are lurking in the shadows.
And with the big guys banging on the gates of fear and little independent guys creating their own disturbing nightmares, it seems that the next leg of horror gaming is bound for thrilling chases, atmospheric chills down your spine with even more troubling tales that will haunt you long after screen credits have rolled.
So grab your flashlight, double-check the corners, and let's get started with the top 10 most anticipated horror games of 2025.
#1 Tormented Souls 2
Tormented Souls 2, by Dual Effect and Abstract Digital, comes out in 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. The sequel series draws much inspiration from the earlier games in the survival horror genre, riding high on the waves of success of its predecessor. The angst of fixed cameras, complicated puzzles, and monstrous enemies lurking in the shade awaits you.
The atmosphere seeks to recreate the horror genre's glory days, with inspiration from Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Tormented Souls 2 promises to have players at the edge of their seats with a thrilling experience courtesy of improved graphics and an even more engrossing storyline.
#2 Directive 8020
Supermassive Games' Directive 8020, renowned for its cinematic storytelling, will be released on October 2, 2025, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. The sci-fi survival horror game takes players to the far ends of space aboard the colony vessel Cassiopeia. The team, which is required to venture to the potential new homeworld of Tau Ceti f, discovers a nasty alien beast that can clone its victims.
The game intertwines brutal survival action with decisive choices. It offers both single-player and up to five-player cooperative online play. Hollywood actor Lashana Lynch's casting as astronaut Young adds texture to the film, with every decision critical to keeping the crew and humanity alive.
#3 Cronos: The New Dawn
Cronos: The New Dawn, developed by Bloober Team, will be released on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5 in 2025. This survival horror game is set in post-apocalyptic Poland in the 1980s, and players take on the role of an agent of the Collective organization.
You need to save the apocalypse survivors and try to make sense of a devastated world from The Change. The game offers horror creatures and a desolate landscape, which push you to face your greatest fears as you struggle to solve the mysteries of the world.
#4 The Sinking City 2
Frogwares returns with The Sinking City 2, which will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC in 2025. The sequel takes further journeys into Lovecraftian horror, where players have plunged into an eldritch horror-shafting city with supernatural happenings. The players' role is that of a detective solving complex mysteries while trying to retain sanity amidst terror.
The game's open-world element allows players to explore a beautifully constructed world with terrifying creatures and mind-boggling puzzles. With improved mechanics and an even more intricate story, The Sinking City 2 will be a compelling journey into madness.
#5 Eternity's Echo: Patient Zero
Coming in 2025, Obsidian Entertainment’s Eternity's Echo: Patient Zero for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC promises to be a rumored psychological horror with rogue-like features that will take players deep into a desolate medical complex where time continues to loop itself.
Each play-through will reveal more horrors and the shards of a dark truth that players have to piece together while avoiding constant threats. The infinitely changing environments and random enemies ensure that no two events will ever be the same and keep players on the edge of discovering the secret behind this facility.
#6 Echoes of the Living
Echoes of the Living, developed by MoonGlint, will be released in 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. It pays homage, in particular, to the best titles in the survival horror genre, with tank controls, fixed camera angles, and a surplus of creep factor.
Players must traverse a city filled with monsters from another world, overcome puzzles, and ration scarce resources. Set against an old-school backdrop with cutting-edge graphics and ingenious sound design, this will surely enchant veterans and newcomers alike.
#7 Post Trauma
Post Trauma by Red Soul Games will be available on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC in 2025. This psychological horror game chronicles the story of a train conductor waking in a dream world after a catastrophic accident.
To understand the protagonist's backstory, players must visit strange places, solve challenging puzzles, and fight dangerous beasts. The game's unique art style and creepy atmosphere are meant to produce an immersive and terrible experience.
#8 PSYCHO DEAD
Developed by MOON CATalysts CO., LTD., PSYCHO Dead is a third-person survival horror game. Right now, Steam treats it as "To be announced". Gamers take over Elixia, a psychically gifted adolescent trying to flee a secret lab full of strange and horrible beasts.
Using powers like telekinesis and strong blasts, players must overcome challenges and find the truth about the lethal experiments at the institution. Stealth options to help negotiate the hazardous lab.
#9 Liminal Point
Phantom Reality's Liminal Point will be released in 2025 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. This game is about liminal space, transitional areas where one feels disoriented or uncomfortable.
Players find themselves trapped in a connecting series of strange worlds, each worse than the last.
#10 Stygian: Outer Gods
Stygian: Outer Gods is an upcoming survival horror RPG created by Misterial Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing. Set in the world of Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, this game acts as a prequel, allowing players to watch and affect the events leading up to the disastrous "Black Day".
This game will be released on Early Access for PC by the end of this year and on a full scale in 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Stygian: Outer Gods would bring players into a Lovecraftian horror world in which they solve ancient mysteries and battle demonic cosmic horrors.
This survival horror is infused with RPG structures and offers a complex narrative experience where the margins of the unknown are explored.
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