Whether you are streaming to your friends in a private call, or a larger audience of viewers, nothing is as engaging as watching someone play a horror game. These games give the player and viewers a feeling of terror that can rarely be replicated, causing you to hang onto every story beat, chase scene, or boss fight as closely as possible.
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Thankfully, as horror games have grown more popular over recent years, there has been a large increase in the number of bone-chilling games you may play or stream for your friends. If you are curious about which horror games make the best stream material, check out the list below.
10Parasocial
A great entry-level horror game to stream to an audience would be Parasocial, as the entire premise of the game centers around a Japanese v-tuber who streams video games from her computer. Therefore, playing this game on stream essentially creates a creepy meta situation, as you’ll streaming a character that is live streaming to her very own viewers.
Specifically, this game’s inciting incident occurs when the main character accidentally gets her face revealed online, leading to some seriously creepy psychological manipulation, stalking, and gaslighting. Overall, this game is perfect for those who are fans of suspense and human horror, as there are no supernatural elements in this title.
9Welcome To The Game
While Parasocial delves into the intricacies of stalking and internet fandom, Welcome to the Game focuses on an even darker side of the internet. This horror game allows you to play as someone exploring the dark web, in search of eight specific keys that will take them to a website called The Red Room.
To unlock these keys, you must navigate through multiple web pages all while getting hacked by a mysterious figure known as the Kidnapper. This NPC will track your locations, forcing you to complete minigames to ward off their tracking or hide in your house if they break in.
8Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Although this entry may be a bit older,Amnesia: The Dark Descentis one of the first horror games that was streamed or uploaded by YouTubers onto their channels. This title has you playing during the year 1839, when a man named Daniel has mysteriously woken up in a dank and dreary castle.
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Furthermore, Daniel has absolutely no recollection of his memories. All he knows is that he is being hunted by a ‘shadow’, a strange mutated beast that can easily kill you if you are not careful. Just because a horror game may be older does not mean that it is any less scary, so you should definitely stream this game if you or your viewers love tense chase scenes and horrifying monsters.
7Phasmophobia
As horror hasevolved in the gaming world,many different multiplayer games have been released that focus on bringing a party of players together to hunt down or survive dangerous and creepy situations. A great example of this isPhasmophobia,in which up to four players become ghost hunters and attempt to document a variety of different demons, ghosts, and spirits.
Play with caution, as the spirits you investigate are not exactly happy that your group of investigators have entered their territory, so they might just kill you before you may complete the investigation. While it may be difficult to get enough friends together to play the game, streaming this horror game is always a blast for everyone, as it has the perfect blend of hilarity and horror that makes the experience entertaining.
6The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
One of the newest entries to the horror landscape isThe Texas Chainsaw Massacrevideo game, which is inspired by the classic horror film. In this game, you’ll either play a victim attempting to escape from the clutches of perverse killers, or a member of a cannibalistic family that will stop at nothing to claim their kills.
As this game is relatively fresh, many different viewers will want to tune in to see how you fare, no matter which side you are playing. Furthermore, while this game features an immense amount of gore, there are not really any jump scares, meaning all of your friends and viewers can watch without getting too scared.
Dead By Daylightis another multiplayer horror game that centers around a team of four survivors who need to repair generators to escape from a brutal killer. While these generators are being repaired, another player controlling a killer travels around the map attempting to stop the survivor’s progress by sacrificing the humans on large hooks.
This game has also collaborated with many famous horror properties such as Scream, Resident Evil, Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street, and more. If you are a fan of classic horror movies and want to experience the thrill of getting chased with your friends or an audience, then this is definitely the perfect game for you.
4Resident Evil
With well over ten different games for you to sink your teeth into, theResident Evilseries has a plethora of different horror titles that center around an evil corporation that infects the world with mutagenic viruses. This sickness, also called the T-virus, changes people into zombies or other horrific mutations, which the heroes either flee from or hunt down
Each entry takes place at a specific point in time, but you’ll generally play as the same characters as they attempt to live through the apocalypse. Since most of the games are focused on delivering a third-person shooter experience, they are not exactly filled with suspense and scary moments, which some viewers will greatly appreciate.
3Outlast
In the gameOutlast,you play as a freelance investigative journalist who travels to a remote psychiatric hospital to investigate allegations of inhumane experiments. Unfortunately, this freelance journalist is quickly trapped within the asylum, while mutant ‘variants’ of patients have ransacked the entire building, dispatched the security team, and are roaming free through the halls.
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To survive this ordeal, you’ll have to utilize your camera to navigate the dark hallways of the hospital, all while getting hunted by various patients and variants that are attempting to end your life. Upheld as one of the scariest horror games ever made, Outlast is ahorror fan’s dream game,while also providing a great opportunity to stream for your friends or viewers.
2Until Dawn
Unlike most of the other games on this list,Until Dawnis a horror game that bases the story around the core gameplay mechanic of player choice. Essentially, you control different teenagers as they go on a trip into the mountains, and your choices determine what happens in the game andwho will survivethis vacation.
The game also features some famous Hollywood actors, such as Hayden Panettiere and Rami Malek, who both play key roles in the game’s narrative. Overall, this is a fantastic game to stream to almost anyone, as the twists and turns in the story will keep everyone on the edge of their seat.
1Five Nights At Freddy’s
There is no doubt in anyone’s mind thatFive Nights At Freddy’sis a smash hit in the world of video game horror. This game takes place during the night of your first shift as a security guard for a pizza restaurant that features animatronics.
As you continue to play through the night, you’ll spend most of your time checking security cameras, only to discover that the animatronics themselves have come to life and are moving closer and closer to your location. This is definitely the most popular horror game that is streamed on websites like Twitch, since the premise is both easy to understand and filled with some truly haunting jump scares that will cause you and your entire audience to scream.
