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Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Adventure 15 August 2017
Paranormal Activity: Lost Souls is a first-person horror adventure game. It was developed by VRWerx and based on the Paranormal Activity horror movies. We play as a person who got stuck in a haunted house, just like the characters in the movies. To survive, we will have to discover the house's secret and find out what creatures want to kill us. Gameplay in Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul is based on the standard formula used in many other horror adventure games.
Nightmare Creatures II
Action 23 May 2000
Continuation of the survival horror movie from 1997, in which the player once again faces Adam Crowley and his army of monsters. The protagonist visits dark levels, where he fights hordes of enemies with white and firearms. Compared to the first page of the saga, the system of creating a combination of attacks has been simplified. The adrenaline bar has also been removed, giving the main character the opportunity to carry out spectacular attacks on his opponents.
The Count Lucanor
Adventure 03 March 2016
An adventure game with elements of survival horror, in which we play Hans - a young man wandering through a gloomy castle. Apart from exploring gloomy chambers and solving puzzles, during the game we talk to the characters we meet and hide from our opponents who make us shivers. Decision making also plays an important role, because it depends on them which of the five ways our adventure will end.
Those Who Remain
Adventure 28 May 2020
Those Who Remain is a psychological thriller taking place in a small town in the USA, where the action is observed from a first person perspective. The game puts a lot of emphasis on the heavy, disturbing atmosphere and can evoke associations with titles such as Alan Wake, as well as Polish The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Kholat.
Apparition
Adventure canceled
A first-person survival horror, in which we play the role of a researcher of supernatural phenomena. Our task is to document the activity of ghosts in Devil's Tramping Ground, North Carolina, USA, which is commonly regarded as a haunted forest.
Chaos Break
Action 27 January 2000
Survival-horror, in which the action is presented from the perspective of a third person. The game tells the story of two heroes sent to a research laboratory off the coast of South America to investigate the situation.
Fear Effect
Adventure 24 February 2000
An unusual combination of adventure game and survival horror. The production is maintained in the style of science fiction and is distinguished by its original visual setting, combining rendered backgrounds and target-shade character models.
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
Adventure 21 February 2001
An extraordinary mix of many different species, which is a prequel to the 2000 release of the Fear Effect. The production combines elements of survival horror and action games, successfully weaving into them the mechanics known from RPGs and logical games.
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard - Not a Hero
Action 12 December 2017
A free expansion to a well-received survival horror game - Resident Evil VII: Biohazard developed by Capcom. The game allows the player to assume the role of a new, yet perfectly known to the series’ fans character – a mercenary by the name of Chris Redfield, working for Umbrella Co., which deals with gathering data from the abandoned Umbrella facilities. Together with his companions, Chris comes to the Bakers’ residence to investigate its ruins and the underground tunnels.
Fear Effect Reinvented
Action canceled
Fear Effect Reinvented is a refreshed version of Fear Effect, developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment studio and released for the first PlayStation in 2000. The author of the remake is Sushee - the same people behind the continuation of the brand under the title Fear Effect Sedna. The discussed production is a hybrid of survival horror and adventure game.
Vaccine
Adventure 21 February 2017
Survival horror inspired by the classic scenes of the Resident Evil cycle. The player takes on the role of one of the members of a bio-hazard department, in whose skin he traverses a ghastly residence, looking for a vaccine for a companion infected with a deadly virus. He has only thirty minutes to complete his task - if he does not manage to return to the sick person with medicine and discover the mystery of his home, the struggle will start anew.
Stifled
Adventure 31 October 2017
A first-person action thriller from an indie developer, offering support for VR headsets. Stifled bases the exploration mechanics on the original concept of use of echolocation – as they spread, sound waves reveal the layout of rooms and shapes of objects around you. Sounds can be made not only by the protagonist and some environmental objects, but also by the player themselves, using a microphone.
Parasite Eve
Action 29 March 1998
The first production by Squaresoft studio, which was addressed to adult audiences. Parasite Eve combines elements of horror with mechanics known from action games and RPGs in an innovative way.
Parasite Eve II
Action 16 December 1999
Continuation of an unusual combination of horror and action game with elements associated so far with RPG productions. The title tells the story of Ayi Brei, an officer who traces monsters that threaten people.
The Coma: Recut
Adventure 22 September 2017
A refreshed version of a successful survival horror that came out in 2015. The Coma: Recut is set in the Sehwa high-school in South Korea. Youngho, the main protagonist, having spent the entire night studying, falls asleep during an exam. Once awake, Youngho realizes that he is alone in the classroom and it is already dark outside. However, the true nightmare begins when it turns out that the school is overrun by monsters and an insane killer is walking its hallways.
Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher
Action 16 April 2019
A first-person shooter/survival horror developed by Chinese studio VIVA Games. The player assumes the role of an adventurer attempting to discover the secret behind human experiments undertaken by a powerful organization whose sole objective is to hold the key to immortality, disregarding collateral damage in the form of bloodthirsty beings that inhabit the isolated areas of the lone island which serves as a background to the game.
White Day 2: Swan Song
Adventure canceled
Second part of White Day series initiated in 2001 with survival horror of the same name. After several years, the title received a remake entitled White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, and just before its debut on PC and PlayStation 4, White Day 2: Swan Song was revealed. The game is not a direct continuation, but a prequel, the action of which takes place six years before the events shown in the original. Players learn the fate of students trapped in a haunted school at night.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
Adventure 27 July 2023
A first-person survival horror, in which we try to solve the mystery of the brutal murder of the main character's family. Lunacy: Saint Rhodes features an artificial intelligence that watches over the course of the game. It adapts to our actions, making sure we never feel safe.
Monstrum
Adventure 20 May 2015
A survival horror game from an independent studio, Team Junkfish. Player takes control of a man trying to escape from a giant, decaying ship, with a titular monster pursuing him all the time. The beast cannot be confronted directly, meaning the hero can only hide or distract the creature with various items. The world is observed from third-person perspective, and all but crucial rooms are randomly generated.
Bitter Tides
Adventure canceled
Hybrid adventure game hybrid and sneaky in the horror survival convention. At Bitter Tides we get to a place like a nightmare, not knowing where we are and what is going on around us. We travel through shivering locations and solve environmental riddles by learning more about the world presented, while avoiding traps and confrontation with adversaries at all costs.
Yomawari: The Long Night Collection
Adventure 26 October 2018
A compilation of two stealth games with survival horror features – Yomawari: Night Alone and Yomawari: Midnight Shadows.
DARQ
Adventure 15 August 2019
An adventure game, realized in the convention of survival horror, in which we play the role of a boy trapped in a nightmare. While playing at DARQ, we travel through a gloomy home and solve environmental riddles, avoiding direct confrontation with enemies.
Detention
Adventure 12 January 2017
A side-scrolling horror/adventure game. Detention is a debut project of Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games. The action of the game takes place in Taiwan during the 1960s, in the middle of martial law that lasted 37 years. We are taken to Greenwood, a high-school placed in a mountainous area. The players assume the role of two students who discover that the school became inhabited by wicked monsters known from local legends.
OverBlood
Action 02 August 1996
A survival horror in which we play Lars Karcy, one of the victims of horrific experiments carried out at the secret research facility of Lystra Laboratories. While playing in OverBlood we travel through claustrophobic locations, fight with encountered opponents and solve puzzles pushing the story forward.