10 Scariest Games to Play on PS5 This Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner, and for those who enjoy getting scared, nothing can put horror fans in a spooky mood. PlayStation 5 directory. From zombie apocalypse to deep space necromorphs and biophages, supernatural summer camps and everything in between, there's no shortage of gory and gruesome PS5 games to check out this October.

Players can immerse themselves in these spooky and spooky stories and experience the scares, monsters, killers, blood, guts and ghosts that will get them in the Halloween spirit. Whether you're looking for fresh scares or want to relive old scares, PS5 has a huge collection of great horror content. Here are the 10 scariest games to play on PS5 this Halloween season.

10 Quarry

Supermassive Games

Quarry is a dramatic survival horror game developed by Supermassive Games throws players into a slasher movie Script at Hackett's Quarry. With an all-star cast including David Arquette, this should be a Halloween romp that follows a group of camp counselors who are stuck there for an extra day at the end of the season due to one member's cheating.

Try to survive the night against stray mountain hunters, ravenous monsters and psychotic killers.

Although the goal of this game is for everyone to survive until the end, it is quite a difficult task without the help of guides. For optimal scares, allow the decisions to be fulfilled and surprised – and perhaps horrified by the consequences of those choices. There are over 180 possible endings, and everything players do will affect who survives and who faces a bloody death.

9 Callisto Protocol

Interesting Distance Studios

Callisto Protocol from Striking Distance Studios is a sci-fi survival horror game set in the year 2032 on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. Just when protagonist Jacob Lee thinks he's going to quit his long-distance space freighter career, his ship is hijacked by bio-terrorists, crashes on Callisto, and he's thrown into prison. Jacob passes a series of terrifying quests to survive and not become a biophage mutant.

Some of the same developers behind it Dead Space, Callisto Protocol the mutant delivers equally terrifying and gory gameplay in its limb-splitting form – single headshots won't destroy a biophage. If that's not scary enough for you, the story eventually takes players to an extreme religious cult, where they learn the origins of the biophage outbreak and begin to understand just how dark things are on Callisto.

8 A Tale of the Plague: Requiem

Asobo Studio

Asobo Studio for fans of more terrifying experiences A Tale of the Plague: Requiemcontinuation A Plague Tale: Innocenceoffers a different kind A horror story centered in medieval France during the bubonic plague epidemic. While it doesn't give the same jump-scare adventure as the others on the list, it's thrilling, disturbing, and will be give players creeps as they fend off disease-ridden humans and hordes of nasty rats.

While this is not a classic horror experience,
A Tale of the Plague: Requiem
A terrifying adventure with the black plague will make everyone's skin crawl.

In continuation, A Tale of the Plague: Requiem it brings all the great features from the original and has a great story that is full of it angry survivor beekeepers, human sacrifices, cultist slave owners and many, many rats. While this is not a classic horror experience, A Tale of the Plague: Requiem A terrifying adventure with the black plague will make everyone's skin crawl.

7 Silent Hill 2 (2024)

The Bloober Team

The Bloober Team Silent Hill 2 the remake is a complete modern overhaul of the classic, and it's being released as a PS5 console exclusive just in time for Halloween, so horror fans might want it after its recent release. Whether you have experience playing the original, or have never visited the haunted town of Silent Hill and are wondering what lurks in the shadows, modern innovations will make this already scary adventure even more terrifying.

Silent Hill 2 It follows James Sunderland as he deals with the tragic loss of his wife in the town of Silent Hill. This game excels at throwing players into a spooky and dark atmosphere strange things start happening around town. Six possible endings and updated graphics and gameplay will keep fans excited to play Silent Hill 2 many times to reveal its many secrets.

6 Cast by Frank Stone

Supermassive Games

Another interactive horror drama installment from Supermassive, Casting Frank Stone does A branching story that follows four amateur filmmakers making a horror film called Murder Mill About Frank Stone, a famous murderer in the 1980s. There's just one problem: Frank Stone's spirit doesn't want them.

The intense gameplay involves jumping back and forth between timelines to modern versions of each character and uncover what's going on in the abandoned Crime Mill after all. Get ready for a gory time filled with snarky characters, alternate realities, time travel, cultists who worship the ominous “Body” and more.

5 Our Last Part 1 and Part 2

Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog's Our end, part 1 and The end of us 2 parts there is two of the scariest post-apocalyptic shooters out thereand with the second season of the TV show, horror fans will want to watch them again. The deadly Cordyceps fungus has infected the general population, and Joel and Ellie have a secret that could save all of humanity. Unfortunately, their journey across the country is filled with cannibals, raiders, cultists, and of course the infected.

Our end, part 1
and its follow-up
Part 2
redefine what a zombie game can do.

The gameplay here is as nail-biting as the plot and players have to be sneaky if they don't want to get bitten – either shot, eaten or stabbed. With a truly compelling story and beautifully crafted environment, Our end, part 1 and its follow-up Part 2 redefine what a zombie game can do.

4 Return

Housemark

Housemarque's roguelike PS5 original Return A very challenging and disturbing game that follows ASTRA Corporation pilot and explorer Selene after she crash lands on a strange planet. He begins to experience vivid, disturbing visions and finds himself stuck in a loop of death. a sequence that returns him to his ship every time he is killed.

The mysterious planet is full of deadly aliens known as xenomorphsand Selene begins to realize that these ominous visions reveal more about her than she was prepared to realize. With a new Ascension update that offers more backstory for Selene, as well as a brand new area called the Tower of Sisyphus, Return a solid choice for horror fans looking to revisit the game or want an exciting new challenge.

3 Dead Space (2023)

Motive Studio

PS Plus members will be pleased to know that Motive Studio is available Dead Space remake is free and available as PlayStation Plus game of the month in October a must-have addition to anyone's Halloween playlist. Full of jump scares, Dead Space They'll have players standing tight around every turn in fear of a random Necromorph appearing out of nowhere to tear them apart before they get a chance to tear it apart.

Dead Space A starship engineer assigned to investigate the USG follows Isaac Ishimura only to discover that the ship is overrun by mutant humanoids called Necromorphs. The game has been completely modernized and overhauled, now with better physics, graphics, game mechanics and even more blood than the original. Don't worry if the graphic nature is too much, the remake also has a bleed feature in the accessibility menu.

2 Alan Wake Remastered & Alan Wake 2

Remedy Entertainment

Both of them Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2 Remedy Entertainment offers its own unique and complex psychological horror experiences, and both can be enjoyed from the PS5 catalog. The protagonist, best-selling crime fiction author Alan Wake, enters a creepy and dark world full of dangerous shadow creatures those who want to kill him – or are these just hallucinations? Avoid ominous silhouetted figures crawling around corners and claustrophobic passages that will make players feel like they're about to be crushed.

Alan Wake Remastered It updated many of the game mechanics and graphics for the PS5, and it's also structured differently from the second game. However, both of them Alan Wake games are an awesome and often disturbing rideworth it for fans of psychological scares and mind-bending plot twists.

1 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Capcom

It might be the scariest VR experience in Capcom gaming Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will seriously scare players from walking around their house. Players will find themselves wanting to rip out their PS VR headsets as they encounter Ethan's first-person POV as he explores the Baker family's abandoned rural Louisiana estate in search of his missing wife.

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It's completely playable without a PlayStation VR headset, and even without the added immersion, it's among the scariest installments in the franchise.

Resident Evil 7 Filled with monsters known as Moldedand Ethan is an inept fighter who must scavenge weapons and consumables from around the estate to fight against them. It's one of the more unique installments of the franchise, as it uses a first-person camera and is built to optimize the horror-focused VR experience. It doesn't get any scarier than that Resident Evil 7therefore it is perfect PlayStation 5 game for fun during a scary Halloween season.