2025 has been a weirdly brilliant year for horror. Not just in the usual "there's a guy with too many teeth chasing me" way, but in the sense that developers keep finding new ways to ruin our sleep schedules. Some games are existential, some are grotesque, some are just about being trapped in a corridor while the news tells you everything's fine (it's not). And somehow, one of the best horror games of the last 12 months stars a gang of stumbling bean-people who can't walk in a straight line.
That's not to say 2025 was all about the sillies. Many of the titles selected below are potential spot-holders on our list of the best survival horror games ever, while others are right up there as the most inventive indie terrors of this generation. True, they're not all super polished – that'd be disappointingly sanitized – but all of them are unforgettable. Here are the best horror games of 2025 that messed with our collective sleep schedules the most, and hopefully at least one will require you to turn on every light in a mile radius
