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What are the best horror games on PC? Horror games tend to turn traditional action concepts on their heads and force you to run and hide from your enemies. Scary games leave you feeling vulnerable rather than empowered, and more than most, they are the gaming experiences that haunt you long after you play.

Of course, there is a lot more to the best horror games than jump scares and gore, too. So while we have included a few obvious picks like Outlast and Amnesia, you can also expect to find games that use different tactics to raise your heartbeat and get your palms sweating. Don't worry about this list getting out of date, either: we hop back into our lists regularly to add new scary games.

Remember, as Roosevelt once said, "we have nothing to fear but that bit in FEAR where you're going up a ladder and Alma suddenly pops out and you are all like argh!" Here are the best horror games on PC you can play right now... if you dare.

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Phasmophobia's mysterious Christmas update will add a Summoning Circle

Slender Man is hiding in Phasmophobia

Phasmophobia Nightmare reveals four new ghosts and the "most intense" difficulty

Earlier this month it was revealed that ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia would be getting a mysterious Christmas update, with multiple new features being added to one of the best horror games on PC. Now a few of those features have been revealed, including the intriguing prospect of a spook Summoning Circle.

At the beginning of November, fans spotted a new addition to Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games' Trello for updates called the "Christmas [REDACTED] update", along with a list of redacted items - only the addition of new Ouija board questions was revealed, as a follow-up to the recent Nightmare update.

Now a few details have been added to the Trello page, so we've got a better idea of what to expect in the Christmas update. The main list seems to be for four new Cursed Possessions, which could be items the ghosts are particularly interested in. The first to be revealed was a cursed variant of the Voodoo Doll, but the most intriguing is the Summoning Circle.

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The best horror games on PC

Slender Man is hiding in Phasmophobia

Phasmophobia Nightmare reveals four new ghosts and the "most intense" difficulty

• Removed the Halloween decorations
  
• Removed the increased chance for the new ghost types
  

• Fixed a bug where the escape the ghost during a hunt objective was not completing
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost writing book was not giving evidence photos
  
• Fixed a bug where the sound would break inside the top floor of the cabin if you walked near the balcony door
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost orbs would not change room with the ghost
  

• Fixed a bug where some Ouija Board sanity questions were taking away too much sanity
  
• Fixed a bug where the Ouija Board sanity questions would give a different answer for each player in multiplayer
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost would not kill you if it saw you while checking your last location
  
• Fixed a bug where the snow weather effects were not working correctly
  
• Potential fix for the escape the ghost mission sometimes not completing
  
• Fixed a bug where player volumes were not always setting to the correct value after loading into a game
  
• Fixed a bug where you would get fingerprints photos on Campsite when there were no fingerprints
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost could sometimes think non hosts were inside closets and kill them from far away
  

• Voice recognition phrases will now default to English if they have not been translated