10 Most Terrifying Horror Video Games You've Never Played

It's that time of the year again: the pumpkin spice lattes are out, we have a new Halloween movie in theatres, and everyone is trying to find amazing horror games that they haven't yet played.

And while we could always go through the Resident Evil 2 remake for the hundredth time or start a new game on Outlast, the thing about horror is that it stops being scary the more familiar with it you get.

As such, fans are eager to experience something new and unexpected, but separating the wheat from the chaff isn't always easy. That's because this genre is one of the most over-saturated in the gaming world, with so much shovelware clogging up the storefronts on console and PC.

Fortunately, that's where this article comes in, as we count down the obscure horror games that are actually worthy of your time. From recent cult favourites to old-school gems, each one of these underrated terrors is worth picking up this Halloween and beyond.

A release from earlier this year, MADiSON centres its horror around a polaroid camera. Like the best games in this genre, it knows that dread and tension is wrought from the player having an active participation in what's going on. Thus, forcing them to take pictures to solve puzzles, transform the environment, or simply illuminate a darkened corridor makes progressing through each level that much scarier.

Each push of the button could result in revealing something you don't want to see lurking in the background, and that fear of whether you're going to trigger something terrible, or disturb a creature minding its own business, is palpable. Combine this frightful main mechanic with a haunting narrative all about demons, possession and family secrets, and MADiSON becomes a twisted mystery you just can't help but want to get to the bottom of - even if you know you're probably not going to like any of the answers.

With some genuinely inspired puzzle designs (one section in a church that's explorable in three different time periods acts as an early standout), fantastically eerie audio and a mind-bending plot, MADiSON is a cut above the many P.T. clones that have released over the last decade.