All articles tagged with #survival horror
A new Gamescom 2026 trailer for Metro 2039 offers another chilling peek at its post-apocalyptic gameplay, with The Stranger navigating irradiated surfaces and metro tunnels in a blend of FPS, survival, and horror; the fourth mainline Metro game is slated for February 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, though a precise date hasn’t been announced.
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival for PS5 centers on mind-bending Genesis Configuration puzzles and reality-warping environments that fuse narrative with survival horror. With Barker and Pinhead involved, the game blends looping rooms, environmental puzzles, classic lock-pick mechanics, and inventory management into a 12+ hour campaign, plus PS5 Pro enhancements, launching on October 8.
The Sinking City 2 shifts from deductive, open-world investigation to a lean survival-horror approach in Arkham with a new lead, Calvin Rafferty. Combat feels more solid, but scarcity of ammo and supplies—and tighter, more linear pacing—drive the tension, even as puzzles play a lighter role. Visually evocative 1920s Arkham and quirky cosmic moments help sell the transition, marking a bold but imperfect evolution for Frogwares.
This Week in Gaming (Week 34) highlights Mortal Shell II as the major release, a standalone ARPG with expanded combat and open-world exploration. It also profiles The Lantern of the Laughless Saint (Morrowind‑inspired RPG in early access), The Sinking City 2 (1920s Arkham‑style survival horror), Hearth and Hamlet (cozy medieval city-builder), Gallipoli (WW1 frontline), and Vholume (movement‑centric adventure), plus additional launches Stars Reach, Twisted Tower, Vapor World: Over The Mind and Brigador Killers, with brief descriptions of each title’s setting and genre.
Rock Paper Shotgun previews a packed week of PC games, led by Frogwares' The Sinking City 2 with survival-horror set in a waterlogged city, Beastlink delivering kaiju chaos in a fully destructible city, and Brigador Killers offering old-school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency sim, along with a slate of indie titles and early-access releases through August 21.
Creative Assembly is developing Alien: Isolation 2, set months after the first game at a Weyland-Yutani outpost called Kurosaki Station with a new lead, Blake. The sequel aims to preserve the claustrophobic survival vibe while the xenomorph expands its hunting to exterior environments, and it may introduce hostile humans as well. It’s coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2.
Zach Cregger and Austin Abrams discuss Sony’s upcoming Resident Evil, emphasizing a lean, dread-filled survival-horror tone set in Raccoon City on the eve of the outbreak. They avoided casting game characters as fan-service cameos, focusing instead on mirroring the games’ rhythm and atmosphere with practical effects and set pieces (like a Jump Street–style chase) that reflect the franchise’s flow. The 95-minute film aims to honor the source material without cannibalizing it and is targeted for a Sept. 18 release.
Early hands-on previews of Alien: Isolation 2 for Switch 2 suggest a faithful, tense continuation of the original, with outlets like IGN, Kotaku, Polygon and others praising the familiar stealth-horror feel, a clever new setting and characters, and promises of more details as the Switch 2 launch approaches.
Preview of Alien: Isolation 2 shows a new protagonist on the planet Kurosaki Station, with claustrophobic interiors and hostile exteriors, weather-driven tension and a strong audio design, offering more player agency, tools to distract and escape, and an evolving Xenomorph that learns—expanding the Survival Horror formula of the original.
Alien: Isolation 2 was revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026 with a smarter Xenomorph AI and tougher survival on a storm-battered Weyland-Yutani outpost called Kurosaki Station; it introduces a new setting, story, and protagonist, runs on Unreal Engine 5, and is available to wishlist on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (Switch 2 wishlist coming); no release window yet.
Marathon Season 2 introduces Nightfall, a nighttime twist on the Dire Marsh map that ups the suspense with darker visuals and smarter sound design, while trailers suggest a new horror-inspired enemy and PvPvE potential. The update launches June 2 and could redefine how players navigate Tau Ceti IV.
FuRyu and Winning Entertainment Group announced Anomalith, a Japanese survival horror action game, for Nintendo Switch 2, with a October 29, 2026 release. Players pilot investigator Reona Minazuki through Otherworlds using third-person gunplay and melee, aided by a Demi-Humanization System and extensive customization of weapons and outfits. The game features a roster of designers and composer Yuka Kitamura, and will cost $49.99 for the standard edition and $69.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition.
To mark 30 years of Resident Evil, the piece suggests several beginner-friendly entry points rather than a strict order: the 2002 RE remake as the clearest modern starting point, with the original 1996 PS1 game as another option; the GameCube remake and RE0 as a prequel for timeline context; Resident Evil 4 (and its remake) as a self-contained modern entry; The Umbrella Chronicles as a quick recap of key story beats; and Resident Evil 7 as a modern, first-person entry. Readers are invited to vote in a poll on the best starting game, reflecting a variety of paths depending on preferred gameplay and familiarity with the series.
Celebrating three decades of Resident Evil, the piece explains how Capcom's survival-horror saga endured by grounding tense experiences in limited resources, strategic camera work, and genre-bending storytelling, drawing on Sweet Home's roots and inspirations from Alien and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre while staying fresh through reinventions and broad accessibility.
Capcom announced that Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 6 million copies across all platforms, marking it the fastest-selling game in the survival horror series. The milestone comes as Capcom notes ongoing content support and upcoming 30th-anniversary activities for the series.