28 Developers Share Their Picks For Best Horror Games Ever

We ranked the Top 25 Horror Games of All Time for our recent Game Informer issue celebrating everything horror.

celebrating everything horror. But we're not the only ones interested in naming and ranking the best the genre has to offer – 28 developers from the game industry have shared their individual Top 5 Horror Games of All Time lists with us.

The participating developers include the creators of games like Left 4 Dead, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Resident Evil, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Borderlands, and more. Have fun finding your favorite developers, comparing their picks to yours, and looking for the most popular choices. Check out our analysis of these developers' choices at the end of the article to see which game received the most votes, discrepancies between our list and the developers' picks, and more.

Also be sure to check out our other developer choice-driven article where 32 different devs rank their favorite horror films of all time.

Thomas Grip Frictional Games Creative Director Best Known For: Penumbra, Amnesia 1. Silent Hill 2. Silent Hill 2 3. Resident Evil 4. System Shock 2 5. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth	Chris Ashton Turtle Rock Studios Design Director and Co-Founder Best Known For: Left 4 Dead, Evolve 1. System Shock 2 2. Resident Evil 3. The Walking Dead Season 1 4. Slender: The Eight Pages 5. Limbo
Bruce Straley Naughty Dog Game Director Best Known For: Uncharted, The Last of Us 1. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly 2. Resident Evil 4 3. Dead Space 2 4. Condemned: Criminal Origins 5. Outlast	Phil Robb Turtle Rock Studios Creative Director and Co-Founder Best Known For: Left 4 Dead, Evolve 1. State of Decay 2. Left 4 Dead 3. The Walking Dead Season 1 4. Resident Evil 5. Limbo
Neil Druckmann Naughty Dog Creative Director Best Known For: Uncharted, The Last of Us 1. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly 2. Manhunt 3. Silent Hill 2 4. Resident Evil 5. Condemned: Criminal Origins	Steve Papoutsis Visceral Games General Manager Best Known For: Dead Space, Battlefield: Hardline 1. Resident Evil 2. Doom 3. Dead Space 4. System Shock 2 5. The Walking Dead Season 1
Ted Price Insomniac Games President Best Known For: Ratchet & Clank, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive 1. Resident Evil 4 2. Doom 3. Left 4 Dead 4. Dead Rising 3 5. Parasite Eve	Drew Murray Insomniac Games Game Director Best Known For: Resistance, Sunset Overdrive 1. Resident Evil 4 2. Call of Cthulhu (pen-and-paper) 3. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow 4. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly 5. Alan Wake