

In the end, Among the Sleep is less a horror game and more a rumination on the challenges of life, but that doesn’t make it any less scary. Things aren’t always as they seem though, with each environment feeling more and more detached from reality. Accompanied only by a stuffed bear named Teddy (which emits light into the murky environment when you hug it), you play a toddler that is navigating his house in search of his mother. In Krillbite Studio’s Among the Sleep, the focus is firmly on the latter, presenting a world that’s at once familiar and hauntingly nightmarish. When you’re a child, the world feels like it’s constantly in one of two states: either everything is amazing or everything is terrifying.

Whether you prefer the tense and atmospheric original, the more bombastic Dead Space 2, or the expansive Dead Space 3, all are available on Xbox One via Backwards Compatibility and included in the EA Access vault.
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Thought that hallway was clear? Not anymore! But Dead Space’s intriguing, slowly unfurling a backstory keeps driving you forward through a series of unfortunate and horrifying, even grotesque events. While Dead Space takes its sci-fi cred seriously – the hero is named Isaac Clark – tension and jump scares rule the day as you slowly explore the abandoned mining spacecraft USG Ishimura. But each page collected only ratchets up the difficulty, eventually making Slender Man nearly impossible to escape. Like the original game, Slender: The Arrival starts with one simple mission: Collect all the missing pages without getting caught. With a new storyline and improved visuals, the official video game adaptation of Slender Man takes survival horror to a new level. If being stalked by a creepy monster in the middle of the woods with nothing but a flashlight and camcorder wasn’t terrifying enough in Slender: The Eight Pages, just wait until you try Slender: The Arrival.

This creepy venture through creaky crawl spaces proves once more that the best horror comes from a simple premise, like: “What if cruises were even worse and there were cannibals?” – Ludwig Kietzmann As a child captured on a massive ship and doomed to become cuisine for its grotesque clientele, you run – usually from left to right, but more often from upsetting monsters that leapt out of Tim Burton’s nightmares after he fell asleep watching Swedish marionette theater (again). If you scare yourself with how much you love Limbo-likes, Little Nightmares is the stuff of screams.

As Ethan Winters, you’ll enter the creepy estate seeking answers to the disappearance of your wife, only to come face-to-face with the most vile and ruthless family molded after those found in horror film classics like “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Their antics and behavior will all make sense in the end, as well as the overarching connections to the RE franchise itself once the credits start to roll after this hellish ride. The newest entry in the Resident Evil franchise delivers not only one of the most realistic-looking chapters, but levels up from its jump scares and campiness to downright horrific and terrifying encounters with the residents of the Baker mansion. Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Xbox One X Enhanced) Now shut off the lights, turn up the volume, and set out on a spooky adventure… if you dare! Quickly, before the next round of tricksters arrive on your doorstep. So, you drew the short straw and got placed on candy duty, leaving you at home waiting for trick-or-treaters to arrive looking for a sweet treat - what a perfect time for you to visit some of our favorite and scariest games to play on Xbox One! From survival horror to post-apocalyptic wastelands, there’s a little something for every horror fan to be found below, many of which are available on Xbox Game Pass and support Backward Compatibility.
