Anime fans are not always easy in the world of video games. Sometimes a really good license game like Dragon Ball Z: Fighters or the Naruto Ultimate Ninja series pops up here and there, but many titles often sink to mediocrity.
Fortunately, anime fans do not always have to limit themselves to licensed games based on existing brands. After all, there are also a variety of games that are inspired by the anime style or that capture certain anime feeling well.
Among them also apply eerily beautiful horror games in anime look, which may look harmless at first glance, but certainly give you one or the other nightmare while playing.
As part ofLet's put youSeven of the best horror games in anime stylebefore that will surely please the horror lover and anime fans among you.
Corpse Party
- Release:2021
- Genre:Survival-Horror, Adventure
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
- Developer:MAGES
- Trigger warnings:Violence, vulgar language, blood, suggestive content and frightening scenes
That's what it's about:A group of high school students tells horror stories one night at a school party. Due to an urban legend, the class spokeswoman Ayumi Shinozaki comes up with the idea of performing the so-called “Sachiko Ever After” ritual so that the friendship of the troops remains forever. All those present, including the main character Satoshi Mochida, consent to one and they carry out the ritual.
As soon as the ritual is over, the group feels a strange earthquake and is separated from each other shortly afterwards. The separate teenagers wake up in a kind of parallel universe and suddenly find themselves in an abandoned primary school.
The primary school is the “Heavenly Host”, on which mysterious and grotesque murders have taken place.
The primary school is hit by insidious ghosts to the great evil of the troops who tread the protagonists for life and are revenge. Separated from each other, the group around Satoshi and Ayumi must find a way back to their own dimension, save others and escape the nightmare of the Heavenly Host primary school.
Mad Father
- Release:2012
- Genre:Survival horror, role play
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch
- Developer:Sen
- Trigger warnings:Violence, blood and frightening scenes
That's what it's about:Aya Drevis is an eleven -year -old girl who lives in a large house in southern Germany with her father Alfred and her housekeeper Maria. Aya's mother died of an illness before the game's events.
Aya is aware that her father uses other people to carry out experiments in the basement and even kill them. The young girl also knows about the affair between her father and Mary while her mother was still alive, but she loves him and does not condemn him for his deeds.
On the day of her mother's death, however, Aya finds another terrible secret about her father: he wanted to kill her and turn her into one of his dolls, as he has done with many other children in the past. He wants to seal her “beauty” forever. Her mother knew about her before her death and wanted to flee Aya before she was killed by Alfred.
Now eleven -year -old Aya has to find a way to escape her father and flee out of the house. In doing so, she meets a large number of victims that Alfred has on his conscience and who are also hostile to her.
World of Horror
- Release:2023
- Genre:Role play, roguelite
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, PS4 und PS5
- Developer:Paweł Koźmiński
- Trigger warnings:Submitted content
That's what it's about:World of Horror is a Roguelite-RPG that creates great inspiration from the legendary horror-Mangaka Junji Ito (Uzumaki). As a player, you have to ventilate five mysteries within a game run and defeat one of the “old gods” in a light house.
The “Doom” display may not reach 100%, since then one of these gods is immediately conjured up and the player has to adjust to certain restrictions when playing. Every "old God" brings unique skills that can strongly influence the game flow.
There are many creatures from Japanese legends and horror stories in the game, such as the Kuchisake-Lonna. The urban legend to the Kuchisake-Lonna says that it shows itself potential victims and asks them the question of whether it is beautiful. In the wrong answer, the victim is killed with sharp scissors or the tongue is cut out.
MiSide
- Release:2024
- Genre:Psychological horror, adventure, simulation
- Platforms:PC (Steam)
- Developer:Aihasto
- Trigger warnings:Blood, violence and frightening scenes
That's what it's about:Every day you take care of the female protagonist Mita in the eponymous Life SIM app. It is cooked with her, played, spoken, made the household and even gifts are cheerfully exchanged. Her affection is increasing more and more towards you and Mita wants to be “forever” with the user.
Suddenly as a user, you will be drawn into the game and into the world of Mita. After all, she wants to be with the avatar forever. While everything seems "normal" and peaceful at the beginning, more and more strange and eerie things about Mita happen over time. Mita also behaves more and more strange and more obsessed with the user over time.
Dok horse Header Literature Club
- Release:2017
- Genre:Psychological horror, visual novel, dating SIM
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Playstation 4/5
- Developer:Saved team
- Trigger warnings:Self-harm, suicide, blood, violence, flicking images, abuse, accessible and sexual content
That's what it's about:You slip into the role of a nameless senior student who joins the school's book club - but not out of interest in literature or poems, but out of loneliness. The protagonist is looking for his great love and one of the female members of the club is his crush.
With every new day on which he gets to know the four girls from the club better, the main character reveals further dark secrets and even unforeseen and extremely disturbing situations. Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri and especially Monika seem to hide a little behind their innocent appearance.
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
- Release:2023
- Genre:Visual Novel
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, iOS und Android
- Developer:Square Enix
- Trigger warnings:Suicide, abuse, violence, frightening scenes
That's what it's about:Paranormasight leads you to Tokyo (Sumida) of the 1980s. Shogo Okiie is an ordinary office worker who meets in the middle of the night with his girlfriend Yoko Fukunaga on a playground.
Yoko loves the occult and wants to go on the city with Shogo one of the city's urban ghost legends. Although he does not believe in supernatural such as ghosts or curses, he consented to Yoko's request and helps her with her investigations. However, his opinion changes rapidly when Yoko happens to something horrible and he witnesses a rush of ghost.
He is not the only person in Honjo who experiences strange and supernatural phenomena. Away from Shogo, a large number of other figures are affected. This includes a detective duo that gets to the bottom of a series of mysterious deaths, an senior student who wants to find out the truth behind her friend's suicide and a grieving mother who has lost her son.
Signaled
- Release:2022
- Genre:Survival-Horror, Sci-Fi, Top-Down Shooter
- Platforms:PC (Steam), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4
- Developer:rose-engine
- Trigger warnings:Violence and frightening scenes
That's what it's about:In an alternative future, the nation Eusan, which has detached itself from the Eusan Empire and has been in war for a long time. The nation developed so -called replicas, biosynthetic clones that are used as workers and soldiers.
Ester is one of these replicas and the main character of the game. One day she wakes up on board a crashed ship and starts looking for the human pilot. In doing so, she meets strange creatures, experiences supernatural situations and quickly finds that she is in an emergency.
Other noteworthy horror games in anime style
- The Witch’s House MV
- Ib
- Kill
- Slay The Princess
- Code Vein
- Danganronpa
- The Coma
- Death Mark
If our top selection has not yet given you enough goosebumps, we have other noteworthy horror games for anime lovers who are definitely worth a look.
Which horror game in anime look from the list have you already played? Which horror game is your favorite in general and which newcomer do you look forward to the most?
