


But before it was The Mandalorian versus the Plant People, it was an exclusive Sony video game on the PlayStation 3. If you’re not familiar with The Last of Us then you haven’t been paying attention to the hottest new TV show in town. Instead, we’ve gone for a spread of East and West that will keep you up at night, no matter where your survival horror allegiances lie. We could have stuck to just Japanese games ( Resi, Fatal Frame, Silent Hill) and pumped out an excellent list. Resident Evil could have populated the whole thing. So much so that the trickiest bit about coming up with this list was to stop adding to it. Since then, the genre involving impossible odds, monstrous foes, and limited resources to overcome both has proved immensely popular. Resident Evil‘s 1996 release on the PlayStation One is credited with being the first to use the title but older games, like Infogrames’ Alone in the Dark, offered similar gameplay mechanics as far back as 1992. But even before the originator was a thing, the survival horror genre had been around for a very long time indeed. The reboot of the space-based survival horror series is due to land tomorrow, 27 January.

The original Dead Space launched in 2008.
