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Alien Isolation and Amnesia screenshots.
Vote now: 8 games remain in our scariest games bracket

By Tyler Wilde Published

Horror week Help us determine which game is the scariest game on PC in round 2 of our Halloween tournament.

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A collage of screenshots from Alien: Isolation, Outlast, and Subnautica.
Vote for the scariest game of all time: Round 1

By Tyler Wilde Published

Horror week Help whittle down a 16-game bracket to crown 'the scariest game on PC.'

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Demonic inscription and candles on the floor of a trash-strewn room
A free 'micro' horror game from the maker of The Mortuary Assistant is basically if PT was an episode of Law and Order

By Andy Chalk Published

news Playable Archive is free, and it's very good.

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No More Room in Hell 2 screenshot
What to play this Halloween, plus last-minute costume ideas and spooky movie recommendations

By Tyler Wilde Published

🎃 Welcome to PC Gamer's hub of Halloween horror.

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Penguin Colony key art showing three figures in stylized fashion on purple background
Penguin Colony review: A daringly weird horror game whose atmosphere and surprises overcome its rough edges

By Ted Litchfield Published

chilly Something ancient and horrible stirs in the farthest south: Are you bad enough penguin to… not really do much about it?

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Alan Wake
The best feature in the original Alan Wake is an absence: the man has no reticle

By Jeremy Peel Published

Aim not Remedy forgot the rules of third-person shooting to build its inaugural horror game.

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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival screenshots
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival review–Rough around the edges

By Elie Gould Published

All in vein Hellraiser: Revival may not be great action horror but it does win the prize for most unique fetch quest.

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Alien: Isolation key art
What's the scariest PC horror game of all time? Nominate your favs and we'll pit them against each other

By Tyler Wilde Published

👻 Bracket coming the week of Halloween. For now, tell us which games should face off for the honor of scariest horror game ever.

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Outlast enemy attacking
Amnesia: The Dark Descent's co-founder explained the 'the dynamic of Steam' to Red Barrels after Outlast's sales slowed down

By Elie Gould Published

News "Basically, your sales curve becomes like a roller coaster."

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Olive drab filter person wearing goggles reaching upwards and screaming
No publishers wanted Outlast because they'd 'rather invest $50,000 in 10 mobile games' so Red Barrels relied on public investment programs and their own savings instead

By Elie Gould Published

News "Everything was on the line" during Outlast's development.

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