10. Five Nights at Freddy’s
The first four installments of horror sensation Five Nights at Freddy’s are on Game Pass. If you give them a try, get steady yourself for jump scares and an unshakeable fear of animatronics.
Darkest Dungeon’s turn-based gameplay means there are no jump scares or frantic inventory fumbling. Instead, you’ll feel the terror of your party’s health and sanity slipping away in the face of cosmic horror.
Outlast 2’s treatment of sexual abuse will turn some players off, but it offers a tense, challenging horror experience if you can stomach its disturbing content and buckets of blood and guts.
If you’re sick of running for your life, Carrion lets you play a horror game from the killer’s perspective. Sneak through a top-secret government lab as a grotesque meat monster and gobble up the scientists trying to keep you from freedom.
Developed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, the psychological horror adventure The Evil Within combines unimaginable scares with so-so combat. Both the original and its sequel have a wonderfully tense atmosphere, even with lackluster stories.
All three sci-fi survival horror Dead Space games are on Game Pass, chronicling Isaac Clarke’s encounters with the mind-warping, mutated monsters known as Necromorphs.
Alien: Isolation acts as a sequel of sorts to the classic sci-fi horror movie Alien. You play as Ripley’s daughter, who ends up on a Xenomorph-infested space station while searching for her mom.
If you can’t get enough Walking Dead, you’re in luck. The first two seasons of the game plus the Michonne spin-off are all on Game Pass. The narrative adventure offers plenty of scares and great characters.
The original Resident Evil is a pillar of the survival horror genre, but the series moved toward straight-up action after. Resident Evil 7 brings the horror back in the franchise’s scariest game yet.