Top Open-World Horror Games for a Terrifying Sandbox Experience

Dying Light 2: Stay Human

Dying Light 2 is a first-person open-world action game in which we explore a city overrun by zombies.

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The extremely contagious disease leads to a global pandemic, anarchy, and the collapse of civilization. Within two years, almost the entire population of Earth is infected.

In the game, you explore a vast city filled with undead and hostile people, collect various raw materials that you can use for useful items, such as first aid kits or Molotov cocktails. You can also modify our weapons with them, increasing their strength or giving them additional properties.

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The Forest

The Forest is a first-person horror with strong survival elements in which you play as a man who survived a passenger plane crash.

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The protagonist wakes up next to the wreck and, like Robinson Crusoe, tries to survive by building a shelter and looking for food. However, it quickly turns out that the castaway is not alone on the island, there is also a tribe of mutants hiding in the jungle.

An extensive crafting system allows you to construct your own weapons and traps, and the game also offers stealth elements and often the best way to survive is to avoid contact with cannibals.

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Scum

SCUM on PC is a survival action game designed for multiplayer fun. The action takes place in a fictional reality, where people are hungry for strong sensations and unusual entertainment.

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To satisfy the needs of its viewers, the TEC1 television station prepared a brutal show entitled SCUM, in which prisoners fight for their lives and the favor of sponsors and fans.

Your task is to survive, and to do this, we must use our skills and knowledge. You have to take care of basic things like getting food, as well as training in using weapons, improving your skills in martial arts or learning hacking.

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Dead Island 2

Dead Island 2 is the second main part of the action game series started in 2011, in which you find yourself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

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The virus that turns people into zombies has reached California. The army, which was supposed to control the situation, was unable to complete the task, so it finally withdrew from Los Angeles.

The metropolis was quarantined and its inhabitants were left to their fate. As you progress, you improve your protagonist with special cards collected during the game. The crafting system built into the game allows you to enrich your weapons with various additional effects.

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State of Decay 2

State of Decay 2, just like the first part, is a survival production with RPG elements, set in an open world.

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Your main task is to survive in the realities of a zombie apocalypse, which requires collecting resources, expanding the group of survivors, expanding the hideout and defending against the attacks of the undead.

The action of the game is set in provincial towns in the United States: previously bustling places are now swarming with eternally hungry living dead. Your protagonist can use various types of melee weapons (mostly improvised) and firearms, with open combat being the last resort, as it attracts the attention of nearby zombies.

State of Decay 2

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