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Enter a dark world of terrifying, haunted mazes and creatures straight out of your darkest nightmares. Find yourself surrounded by spooky ghosts and monstrous clowns as you try to escape. Dodge the creepy grasp of zombies and make it out alive in our free new multiplayer games, if you can. Playing our best scary games can be a lot of fun, even if Halloween is still a few days away.

Not all our games here are for kids. Some will definitely give you nightmares. Spooky games have long been a popular genre in gaming. Horror games are both fascinating and revolting. They evoke very strong emotions in players. Playing a top scary game is tense and stressful. But the cathartic resolution at the end makes it fun. Feeling helpless and alone reminds us of the the fears we have had as a kid. Back when it was getting dark outside and you were sure that there was a monster hiding under your bed.

Or even a vicious evil clown wanting to eat you alive. Luckily these are all just harmless online multiplayer games, that let you go on a Halloween adventure, sure to terrify and horrify you as you play. Free multiplayer horror games are fun, even if they are very scary. I had my misgivings as well. However, they were quickly forgotten the moment I entered the first village. Anybody that has played this game has a similar story. As I was battling hordes of insane villagers, I could hear the sound of a chainsaw in the background.

Eventually, I saw a man with a bag over his head, chainsaw in hand running straight for me. I thought to myself without too much concern, this is going to hurt, definitely going to take some damage from this. I was in no way prepared for what came next. Then the sickening sound it made as it contacted his body made my jaw fall to the floor. I literally dropped the controller. That is the second I knew this game was legit, and the scares continued throughout.

Even playing the game now, when I hear the sound of a faint chainsaw in the background, I damn near have a panic attack. I will never forget the first time I played this game. He was the envy of all, because he had acquired an Xbox at launch. He had gotten his hands on the majority of games available making him a veritable rock star in our dorm at UW—Madison.

However, there was a particular game that we had heard nothing about called Condemned: Criminal Origins. We popped it in and were forever changed. In this title, you play as Ethan Thomas. This game is from a first-person perspective, but surprisingly features little in terms of gun play. The combat is predominantly melee.

You pick up improvised weapons from the dark and dingy environments such as a stick of rebar or a wooden plank. This adds a visceral and personal edge to the violence of the game. On top of the generally unsettling feeling this game instills, there are very effective jump scares liberally peppered throughout.

There are parts to this game that are so effectively scary that I had to pass the controller to a friend. This is a game that wears its influences on its sleeve. After receiving a distress call from a spaceship orbiting a far-flung planet, you are tasked with exploring the seemingly empty vessel. It quickly becomes clear this is not at all the case. The grotesque creature design in this game is as fantastic as it is horrifying.

It subverts your usual expectations of a shooter game. In order to kill these creatures, you have to remove their limbs as opposed to shooting them in the head like every other game. As with most of the entries on this list, this game is well-balanced. It finds a commendable balance between jump scares and an all encompassing sense of dread. Resident Evil 4 notwithstanding, this game is the most pure fun game to play on this list.

This is the most recent edition to this list, and it definitely deserves its place. Armed with only a night vision equipped camera, you play a journalist attempting to get a scoop on a closed down mental hospital. That premise alone is terrifying enough, but it only gets worse from there. The reason this game is so well regarded is that it has an almost uncanny ability to instill helplessness in the player. It is of a handful of games that eschew combat like the next entry on this list.

When you encounter an enemy, you have two choices, run or hide. A beautifully implemented mechanic in the game can serve as a catch While hiding in the dark, you want to see what is chasing you to make sure that the threat is no longer there.

But if you use the night vision you become much easier to spot. I oftentimes found myself hiding in a closet in pitch blackness hyperventilating just as much as the character on the screen. This game is truly scary. This game definitely served as the inspiration for Outlast , and I feel it is more effective.

It is often regarded as the scariest game of all time by many. However, it will have to settle with second best on this list. This is another game where fighting back is not an option. Your only choice is to escape the Lovecraftian horrors this game throws at you and just pray that they eventually go away.

This game has a very interesting and clever mechanic called the sanity meter. Like in Outlast , you want to keep your eyes on the demonic horrors that are chasing you. But if you stare too long you begin to lose your sanity.

This causes the screen to shake and phantom noises to appear making the experience that much more chilling. Unlike my pick for number 7…. It is nowhere near as scary as The Dark Descent , but it is well worth checking out for its top-notch story. I could fill a book with my praise for this game.

No hyperbole, I think it is easily the greatest story ever told in gaming. However, I will attempt to be succinct in my praise for it. You play as James Sunderland. Mary was stricken down in her young age by an unspecified illness. James travels to Silent Hill to get to the bottom of this and hopefully reunite with Mary.

Along the way, he stumbles into various characters battling their own personal demons. He also meets a woman named Maria. She resembles Mary, but is more overtly sexual than his wife ever was. As the story unfolds, it becomes abundantly clear that this is something special. Outside its superb narrative laden with sophisticated symbolism usually reserved for literature, this game is just so goddamn scary. This game was the introduction of Pyramid Head a now iconic antagonist that definitely has earned his spine-chilling reputation.

Every encounter with this invincible monster is a downright harrowing experience. This is a criticism levied against Silent Hill 2 that I would argue works in its benefit. The combat is stiff and imprecise, but this only reflects that James is an everyday man thrust into extraordinary circumstances. You are equipped with a radio that blasts static whenever a monster draws near. This leads to a Pavlovian response in the player.

Every time I hear that noise, my pulse quickens. There are sequences in this game that are just unparalleled in their terrifying nature.

Even after multiple playthroughs there are sections that I would rather just avoid altogether, but I am compelled to push forward. With most of the games on this list, the threat is external. You might shoot the fiend in the head or just narrowly dodge it to survive another day. Either way, there is a relative comfort and distance from our psyche to the horror surrounding us. In Silent Hill 2, the most terrifying specter is the monster that emanates from within.

Fancy Pants 3. Scary Maze Game 2. How to play? This addicting game requires a lot of concentration and patience. You have to guide the dot all throughout the blue scary maze by steadily long-pressing the left button of the mouse where the pointer will be the dot itself.

Make sure that you will not hit the walls of the maze until you have reached the red square. Otherwise you have to start the whole Maze Game again. Level 1 is like a giveaway because it is very easy to play through it and get to the red box. Level 2 is where you will need a little concentration as the scary maze becomes narrower before you reach the red box and move on to level 3.

Level 3 is the much awaited level, since the surprise will be revealed after this stage. You really need to concentrate on your dot as the scary maze gets very narrow before reaching the red box that you might not pass through it on the first shot. Level 4 is the hardest one. Can you? Scary Maze games are loaded with so much pleasure and excitement regardless of whoever is playing it or whoever is sharing the fun with you.