The best horror games in the Xbox Game Pass

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You are still totally in Halloween mood and do you want something scary? The Xbox Game Pass has something for you.

Yes, we know it: we are too late. Halloween was yesterday and unlike Christmas or Easter, the grusel festival is officially celebrated only on the night of the 31st on November 1st. But first, yesterday was Sunday and secondly, it s not the case that only on one day Halloween parties take place. And apart from that: horror games you can always play, especially well but in autumn and winter, if the days are short and nights long. Thanks to the time change, it will now even darken even an hour earlier - perfect to spend the closing time with a scary game. The Xbox Game Pass has a lot on offer.

Alan Wake s American Nightmare

Platforms: PC, console

As you would like to recommend you at this point Alan Wake, but unfortunately the game does not exist in the Xbox Game Pass. Maybe Remedy is so friendly to provide the Remaster Microsoft for its service. Until then you have to settle with Alan Wake s American Nightmare. This is not a real successor, but a spin-off with its own action. If Alan Wake players hope that this title will give you answers to the questions that put themselves at the end of the first game, we must disappoint them.

In Alan Wake s American Nightmare, the name-based author opens against Mr. Scratch, the ship s broadcasting, which is also a bush doppelman of Alan. The whole thing plays in Arizona and remains loyal to the gameplay of the formula of the indirect predecessor. To defeat opponents, you must first read them with light to destroy them with conventional firearms. Just like Alan Wake, American Nightmare is a gloomy game in which the light is the best friend. In addition to the story campaign, the title offers an arcade mode in which you will survive one night and collect many points if you want to achieve a good placement in the online ranking.

Alien: isolation

Platforms: PC, console

Creative Assembly is mainly known for strategy games, especially the totally series. However, the British studio has already shown several times that it can also bring something properly in other genres - and especially with alien: isolation, one of the best horror games of recent years. This puts you in the universe of the famous film series, which took its beginning in 1979 with Alien - the eerie beings from a foreign world from Ridley Scott.

You play Amanda, the daughter of Filmheldin Ellen Ripley, who wants to find out 15 years after the events of the first cinema strip, which happened to her mother. Your way leads you to the area station Sevastopol, where Ellen should be supposedly. Instead of a beautiful family reunification, the main character can expect the pure gray in the form of a xenomoorph. You can not defeat you as Amanda, but at most beaten to the flight, so you have your peace for a while. Otherwise, you must always be afraid that the monster could lurk behind every corner. Except for a few moments is not scripted when and where to meet the alien, which moves dynamically through the Sevastopol thanks to a Ki. If no shiver runs down the back, it can probably be shocked by anything.

Back 4 Blood

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

Ok, so creepy back 4 blood is not. But with multiplayer games, it is also difficult to build a proper horror mood, because ideally you always play with activated language chat. And if then the cat of players a in the background is to be heard or to say players B, which happened to him at work, no gruse can pay. Nonetheless, Back 4 Blood belongs to this list because it is a really fun coop zombie shooter - a bloody yet and a high degree of violence can also be a central element of horror works.

Back 4 Blood is certainly not the perfect mental Left 4 Dead successor that we wanted. For example, he lacks a really good PVP mode. The swarm variant with Horde principle quickly loses her charm. But the campaign was well suited and maintains for a few hours thanks to good levels design and gunplay.

Carrion

Platforms: PC, console. Cloud

In so many games, it s about defending you against monsters and that s fun. But why not even be the monster? Carrion offers exactly that. In this 2D game in the Pixel Art Look by Devolver, you play a fearsome, multi-link nature of unknown origin, which eats everything that moves - and this will continue to grow.

Carrion has metroidvania elements, but is not necessarily putting on a level with titles like Hollow Knight or Bloodstained, which concerns the construction and complexity of the game world. It is essentially rectilinear, even if you can take off again and again. In addition, Carrion is quite short: after about five hours you have seen everything in the research complex to see and (to eat).

Dead by Daylight

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

Multiplayer again, this time but different: Dead by Daylight is the king of asymmetric multiplayer resistant. Four people play all normal people who try to survive and work on to leave the level while a fifth will take over the role of a killer who has to draw the others to win. Thanks to numerous DLCs, there is now a lot of horror movie prominence in Dead by Daylight: Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pinhead from Hellraiser, Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street and of course the mother, Pardon, the father of all Hollywood Slasher rogue: Michael Myers from Halloween.

If your Dead by Daylight plays about the Xbox Game Pass, you do not direct access to those characters. You must buy the respective DLCs extra, but that would apply even if you put the game individually. But even without the additional content you can have a lot of fun with Dead by Daylight, especially if you can watch it with friends.

Dead Space 1 and 2

Platforms: PC, console (part 2 only PC)

Thanks to the integration of EA PLAY in the Xbox Game Pass, all subscribers of the PC variant and console players paying for the Ultimate version will enjoy many games of Electronic Arts, including, of course, the Dead Space series. Now not every part of it is recommended. Dead Space 1 and 2 are great, 3 rather not like that. Stupid only that the middle part of the trilogy is not playable on the consoles via Game Pass. This remains reserved for PC-Zockers. After all, the initial is playable both on PC and the Xbox consoles and that is the highlight of the series anyway, especially with regard to the grusel factor.

We are talking about one of the best survival horror games of all time. One could designate this nightmare, which the communications engineer isaac Clarke on the mining capital USG Ishimura can also be described as Resident Evil 4 with Sci-Fi-Setting. The trademarks of the game: the almost non-existent HUD (elements such as the displays for the life energy and ammunition stocks are integrated into the actual game world) and the feature, targeted limbs of enemy Necromorphs to separate them to weaken them.

Doom 3

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

One or the other may now be wondering: Hm? Why are that just explicitly explicit Doom 3? What about the other series parts? Well, we are not arguing that the reboot of 2016 and Doom Eternal are fantastic games, but with horror they really have little to do. The same applies to the very old titles of the series. Doom 3, however, is truly a horror shooter - so in the positive sense.

In 2004, ID software not only wanted to show what was graphically possible, but also that Doom can be really gloomy. There are sections in which you almost see nothing without a flashlight. Stupid only that you can not hold a weapon and light source in the hands at the same time in the original version. The new edition published in 2012, BFG Edition, a new edition, allows you to see something and nevertheless to fight back the beasts from hell at the same time. Nevertheless, Doom 3 also remains a horror game in the Remaster, which is often trying to frighten. While the jump scares lose their effect with time, a good game for the current scary time is Doom 3 anyway.

Limbo

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

Limbo is the game that 2010 has triggered the boom of the indie scene. From Da achieved games independent, small developers also on the consoles, especially the Xbox 360, a large audience and received a lot of media attention. Limbo is also just a damn good game, a true artwork. The black and white look that is inspired by the film Noir and German Expressionimus and also has a little bit of shear cut images is still unique and generates a gloomy mood by all alone.

Pure playfully, Limb is a puzzle platform that is very strong on physics players. That alone sounds little scary, but if we tell you that you play a little child running through a dark forest, in the huge spiders doing their misconception, the thing looks different again, right? The child is looking for his sister and exposes such a few threats. And believe us: There are many different ways as the protagonist can come to death.

Resident Evil 7: BioHazard

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

It would be tragic if we write a special to the best horror games in the Xbox Game Pass and then no Resident Evil could call. Fortunately, the seventh part of the series is found in the library. This is a kind of reboot of the series, at least as regards the gameplay and setting. As Ethan Winters it takes you to the American hinterland, where you hope to find your wife. Just stupid that the Baker s catches that totally mistakes and likes to feed human meat. Capcom has been inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre here.

The biggest change over the predecessor is the ego perspective, which ensures a much more immersive experience. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard does not degenerate to the First-person shooter. Ammunition is rar and the bakers can not be easily shooted. The game gets out of the game, but just in the first few hours, it exudes a very unpleasant atmosphere and is due to the high degree of violence and so much disgust moment nothing for weak nerves.

The Evil Within series

Platforms: PC, Console, Cloud

From Resident Evil we can beat the bridge to the Evil Within. After all, this is the series, the Shinji Mikami, so to speak the father of Resident Evil, has created after he left Capcom. Ok, in between he looked after the wet shooter Vanquish at Platinum Games, but we cling to this point. With The Evil Within Mikami wanted to build on what he has reached in 2004 with Resident Evil 4, and that was also largely succeeded.

Granted, as brilliant as the fourth RESI, The Evil Within 1 and 2 are not. But that does not change the fact that they are still outstanding survival horror games in the same spirit that offer a good mix of grusel, action, puzzles and exploration. Part 2 even has a few open-world-like elements, but does not exaggerate it in terms of game world size or the number of optional content.