Do you love scares and all things spooky? Then you’ll want to look ahead to the horror games 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?
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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.
Reanimal
Rebecca Phillips, Executive Editor
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Tarsier Studios
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 look huge compared to the tiny kids you play as, so I can’t wait to get unreasonably scared while playing this one.
Bye Sweet Carole
Matt Arnold, Staff Writer
Bye Sweet Carole
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Little Sewing Machine
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Maximum Entertainment
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’s very optimistic 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 be everyone’s most anticipated horror game.
Bye Sweet Carole
Stacey Henley, Editor-In-Chief
Bye Sweet Carole
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Little Sewing Machine
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Maximum Entertainment
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.
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