Interesting Horror Games You Can Play On PS5, PS4 Right Now

Horror is an odd genre, really. There’s a substantial number of folks that go out of their way to create, play, and delve deep into the idea that they’re actively intending and hoping to terrify themselves. Be it through more individualized stories that explore topics that often aren’t handled well in what’re considered less esoteric media, those more directed towards being major releases that behave more like action thrillers, despite fairly consistent attempts to put them on lists of “scariest games” just because they happen to genuinely be extremely good, enjoyable titles.

This list is mostly going to look towards the upper side of that gradient. This is, obviously, not to say that the bigger names can’t be interesting. There is no qualifier there, I’m just getting that out of the way to attempt to head off that otherwise inevitable counter-statement off at the pass. I doubt it’ll help, mind you, however, the attempt has in been made, so, let’s have a look at the more niche side of a genuinely fascinating genre, all of which you can currently find on PSN or the PS4/5 in some manner. This list will be as spoiler free as I possibly can, with, at most, a brief introduction to the game in question.

Detention

Detention is a creation of Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games, who later went on to make Devotion, another horror title, and the relatively better known Nine Sols, released originally back in 2017. In it, you start the game controlling a young man by the name of Wei Chung Ting, a student at Greenwood High, in the midst of the White Terror of 1960s Taiwan, as the period of martial law that it went through during that time was called. Wei falls asleep during a lecture, and later wakes up to an empty classroom with the words ‘typhoon warning’ scribbled on the blackboard. Shortly thereafter, Wei meets a fellow student by the name of Fang Ray Shin, and the two’s story goes from there. It’s a 2D point and click title, narrative-focused, with everything that entails.

Darkwood

Darkwood is a top down, 2D survival horror title developed by Acid Wizard Studio, a Polish dev team that unfortunately went on an indefinite hiatus back in 2023. In it, after a brief tutorial through the eyes of another character, you control the Stranger, an odd, mute gentleman that has to survive a plague-ridden forest in 1987 Poland. Go figure, right? It’s almost entirely a environmentally focused horror title, no jump scares, only sounds and the fears of what could be, and is, out there. During the day, you meet and interact with an interesting cast of individuals, and prepare, at night… well, you hope your daily preparations hold. Genuinely phenomenal game, and nothing but respect for the developers, from what I know of them.

The Last Door

The Last Door is an episodic point and click adventure title by Spanish dev team The Game Kitchen, developer of the Blasphemous duology, a RTS stealth title I’m otherwise unfamiliar with by the name of The Stone of Madness, and, most recently, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, a hack & slash platformer that has, incidentally, been reviewed by PSX Extreme’s very own Sam DeLong. Go read that review, it’s great, and for an apparently excellent title in it’s own right. Anyhow, the game actually in question for this feature initially places a man by the name of Jeremiah Devitt under the player’s control, going to visit an old boarding school friend of his, Anthony Beechwood. It’s an eerie title, and the 2D pixel style only adds to the atmosphere.

In Sound Mind

In Sound Mind is one of those first person psychological horror titles, developed by We Create Stuff, developers of a fairly well known horror mod of Half-Life 2 by the name of Nightmare House. This interesting title thrusts the players into the shoes of Dr. Desmond Wales, a therapist, where the characters involved, other than a gentleman that goes by ‘Agent Orange’, who the good Doctor has worked with before the game starts, are genuinely treated sympathetically, and their issues treated with respect. Orange is another matter, but he’s also- well. That’s a story for if you wish to give it a look.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

White Day, which I will not use the full name for from this point forward, is a Korean title by Sonnori Co, Ltd, which is mostly known for White Day itself, although they’re also partly credited for Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. It’s mostly a stalker horror title, ala Clock Tower and Haunting Ground, games of that ilk, albeit with a first person perspective.

Originally releasing in 2001, it has an interesting history in its own right, that there’s not enough time to discuss on what’s intended to be a brief list, it made its way to PS4 in 2017, and got a PS5 version later on. You control a young man by the name Lee Hui-min, and he returns to his school late at night, with the intent of delivering some White Day candy to his crush, Han So-yeong. Things rapidly go downhill upon his arrival, as they do.

Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, and Fatal Frame 5: Maiden of Dark Water

This is, admittedly, cheating, but also I did not feel fully comfortable giving one series, even one I adore as much as I do like Fatal Frame, two entries on this list. Both are developed by Tecmo, currently known as Koei-Tecmo, and the former is co-developed by SUDA51’s Grasshopper Studios. They each feature multiple protagonists, generally a few gals, and one guy, as they uncover a ritual that went wrong, while meeting the ghosts of victims, and the ghosts of the people that directly caused a ritual’s inevitable failure. Genuinely consider the Fatal Frame series my favorite horror series of all time, so I cannot reasonably comment further without allowing extreme bias to take over.

WORLD OF HORROR

WORLD OF HORROR (yes, in all-caps) is a roguelite horror RPG inspired by Junji Ito and the works of H.P. Lovecraft, developed largely by one Polish dentist by the pseudonym Panstasz. If that by itself doesn’t pique your interest, you control one of many potential protagonists, from your prototypical high school student, to a 21 year old heiress of a cursed family that is doomed if she doesn’t solve a number of mysteries in time (and whom mechanically functions as a speedrun character as gameplay integration of said curse catching up with her otherwise.) A near impossibly replayable title, and genuinely both terrifying and a lot of fun.

Signalis

Signalis is a retro-futuristic (it makes sense when you see it, trust me) title in the airs of the classics, such as the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill, developed by the German duo of Yuri Stern and Barbara Whittman, known as rose_engine. In it, you control LSTR-512, or just Elster, a Replika technician of a scouting starship that crashes on a remote snow-enveloped planet at game’s start, and I will just cut to the chase and just say it’s one of my favorite titles of all time. Not just horror, not just video games, fiction in general. As such, to limit the amount of gushing I would otherwise be doing, I will simply ask you to look into this glorious title on your own time, should you wish to.

Death Come True

Death Come True is a Japanese live action FMV murder mystery written by Dangan Ronpa writer and director Kazutaka Kodaka. That singular sentence is all of the information you’re going to get, and for most people that see and recognize that name, is likely enough reason to look into or completely avoid this title on it’s own. So, if that applies to you, we will move on, if it doesn’t, the fact that it’s a live action FMV game will, by itself, determine even a passing interest in it, and such we will still move on.

Sorry, We’re Closed

The last and most recent title on today’s list, Sorry, We’re Closed is a dual third person FPS title, which is the debut of “a la mode games,” an UK-based developer made of two people, a former web developer named Tom, and an artist that worked for Tequila Works, the extremely unfortunately recently dissolved studio that made Rime, Gylt, and Deadlight, and Kaizen Game Works, developers of Paradise Killer and this year’s Promise Mascot Agency, of which I reviewed, and not coincidentally is still a front-runner for making my top 10 games of 2025.

Sorry, We’re Closed itself is a fascinating game, where you control a convenience store worker by the name of Michelle, who’s still recovering from a bad break-up as the game’s events unfold, and she helps… or… doesn’t help… a number of characters that’re going through their own, also generally relationship-based struggles. You do this, in part, by going into dungeons and shooting various demons in various parts of the body like it’s a classic arcade gun shooter, and eventually fight a few bosses while extremely fitting hip-hop music plays. This is the simplified explanation, as always.

This is nowhere near even the tip of the iceberg for the genre, niche or otherwise, and I know full well I’ve not included a lot of good and interesting horror games. I’ve completely skipped other at least one ‘big’-name indie dev in the horror scene entirely, not because of any fault of their own, I just do not have time to cover everything that Puppet Combo as developed and released. There’s a lot out there, and there is the potential that I’ll be informed of something I missed entirely soon.

So, as such, did I miss anything you think deserved to be mentioned? Have you played any of the titles I mentioned, and if so, what did you think of them? Please, let us known below!

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