Survival horror game

Survival horror is a prominent video game genre in which the player has to survive an onslaught of opponents, often undead or otherwise supernatural, typically in claustrophobic environments in a third-person perspective. Horror movie elements are used liberally. The player is typically armed, but not nearly as well-armed as the player in a shooter game. The player's goal is generally to escape from an isolated house or town that is inhabited mostly by zombies and monsters through shooting and puzzle solving. Isolation is generally one of the most recurrent themes within this genre.

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Video game - Undead - Horror movie - Shooter game - Zombie - Monster

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Survival horror is possibly the only video game genre that is defined primarily by theme rather than gameplay style. Though most commonly associated with the Resident Evil mechanics described above, the genre is also home to beat 'em ups (Nightmare Creatures, Splatterhouse), role playing games (Sweet Home), first-person shooters (', Hungry Ghosts), and text adventure games (Kamaitachi No Yoru). Other games such as the Doom and Castlevania series include horror elements, but such games are not typically considered survival horror because horror is not the defining game play characteristic. However, the subjective nature of such discrepancies can make survival horror a difficult genre to classify.

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Theme - Gameplay - Resident Evil - Beat 'em ups - Nightmare Creatures - Splatterhouse - Role playing games - Sweet Home - First-person shooter - Hungry Ghosts - Text adventure game - Kamaitachi No Yoru - Doom - Castlevania

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Some popular survival horror games include:

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• Alone in the Dark series by Infogrames
• The Blair Witch Project by Take 2 Interactive
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• Clive Barker's Undying
• Clock Tower series by Human Entertainment
• Dino Crisis series by Capcom
• ' by Silicon Knights
• Fatal Frame series by Tecmo
• Haunting Ground by Capcom
• Hungry Ghosts by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan
• Kamaitachi No Yoru
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• Nightmare Creatures series
• Nocturne by Take 2 Interactive
• Onimusha series by Capcom
• Parasite Eve series by Squaresoft
• Resident Evil series by Capcom
• Silent Hill series by Konami
• Siren
• Splatterhouse series by Namco
• Sweet Home by Capcom
• System Shock series by Looking Glass Studios
 
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