Resident Evil 7 (2017)
You can’t have a list of scary games without including at least one Resident Evil entry. Capcom’s long-running survival horror franchise has produced some truly scary classics (and some stinkers, too) so picking just one was hard. But, I think Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the scariest entry in the franchise.
The switch to first-person not only shook up the series, which had long been third-person, but also made it feel like you were truly stuck in the horrible situation Ethan Winters finds himself in during RE7. With that switch to first-person, RE7 also returned to a slower pace and a bigger focus on creepy moments and scares over action and gunplay. The end result is a nail-bitingly tense survival horror game that reinvigorated the series and provided us with one of the best VR horror games around. (RE7 is still great on a flatscreen, too, though!) — ZZ
