Our Most Anticipated Horror Games Of 2022

You have to see Atomic Heart in action to understand what makes this surreal open-world action/RPG so exciting. It looks like a moving art piece full of breathtaking scenery and grotesque mutants. Set in an alternate reality, during the “high noon of the Soviet Union,” you must mop up a mess created from a catastrophic event originating from a secret government facility. In other words, you need to kill some monsters.

The Callisto Protocol is being developed by Striking Distance Studios, which was founded by Glen Schofield and is staffed by several ex-members of Visceral Games which worked on EA’s Dead Space. This makes The Callisto Protocol a spiritual successor to the beloved sci-fi horror franchise. Interestingly, the title is also set in a far-flung version of the PUBG universe and revolves around an alien invasion at a prison colony on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. Sadly, we don’t know much more about the project at this point, but you had us at “spiritual successor to Dead Sp” – you didn’t even have to finish the sentence.

If a spider and Thomas the Train had Rosemary’s baby, it might look something like Choo-Choo Charles. In this open-world action game, you navigate a fog-covered island in an old train. As you complete missions and find scrap, you upgrade your train’s speed, armor, and the damage of its mounted machine gun. Why does the train have a mounted machine gun? That’s because an arachnid-like train monster is hunting you the entire time, and you don’t have a boot big enough to squash it.

Since the release of Dead Space 3 in 2013, EA’s iconic sci-fi horror series seemed like a … ehem … dead franchise. Thankfully that all changed last year when EA announced Motive Studio is working on a remake of the 2008 original. The new game retains the same basic concept: 26th-century engineer Isaac Clarke travels to a derelict mining vessel to look for its missing crew, only to discover that their bodies have become twisted into grotesque monstrosities. Motive says it’s willing to take some liberties with this remake. For example, Isaac won’t be a silent protagonist as in the original release, and we hope his screams drown out our own. 

Grab your boomstick and some friends and get ready to battle hordes of undead monsters – excuse us – evil dead monsters. Featuring a mix of co-op and PVP multiplayer action, teams of survivors must work together to explore and loot supplies as they work to seal a breach between our world and one full of hideous monsters. You can take to the battlefield as familiar characters such as Ash, Scotty, Lord Arthur, Kelly Maxwell, and Pablo Simon Bolivar. Better still, many of the original actors are reprising their roles, including Bruce Campbell. Hail to the king!