5 Best PS4 Survival Games You Should Play atleast Once

Survival and horror genre is the most classic genre when it comes to video games.

For me personally, Survival horror games have been my favourite ever since the days I started playing video games. The likes of the Silent Hill and Resident Evil games and even the modern Dead Space games have allured and immersed me into their worlds like no other genre has.

The PS4 has some great survival games as well and trust me when I say, "don't play them alone and at night" (which you probably are going to ignore but still).

Here are the Top 5 survival games on the PS4 which you definitely should not miss if you are a die-hard fan of the genre.

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#5 The Forest

The Forest

2014's The Forest is a survival horror game developed by Endnight Games Ltd.

The Forest casts you as a father looking for his missing son after you both survive a passenger plane crash. You’ll have to find food and water, and as night approaches build a fire and shelter to keep warm. Although tranquil at first, you soon find there is something sinister lurking in the trees.

The forest gives you all the tools you need to survive in an actual forest. whether it be cutting down woods to light fire, catching fish to eat, craft spears to hunt other animals and what's lurking outside.

It's your complete Survival emulator with an ongoing story. Pretty cool right?

When it's night, it's unsafe to go out as there are sinister looking creatures roaming, and the caves are terrifying and dark as well to explore.

The Forest also comes up with a Multiplayer Co-op experience where you can hunt, craft and build together with your friends, which is always a good experience to be had.

The Forest currently has a Metacritic score of 83/100.

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#4 Outlast 2

Outlast

Outlast 2 is first person survival horror psychological game developed by Red Barrels studio.

You play as a journalist called Blake Langermann who's searching for his wife in the middle a village in Arizona desert with whom he got separated during solving the mystery of a pregnant woman who got murdered.

The game's biggest flaw is how little of tools it provides you with during its campaign.

It actually breaks immersion at times as is indicated by the frequent cheap deaths your character experience. But if you love such horrific, tense encounters where you feel helpless then Outlast 2 is perfect for you.

The game has a Metacritic score of 68/100.

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#3 Dying Light

Techland

Dying Light is a first-person open world survival horror game developed by Techland, the studio responsible for the likes of Dead Island Games.

Published by Warner Bros, Dying Light puts you in the shoes of Kyle Crane, a GRE agent who gets tasked with recovering data from the overrun city of Harran that could cure the virus rampaging throughout the city.

Dying Light emphasis on free running and melee combat though you do get ranged weapons.

Crafting is a vital part of the game as well as managing your skill tree for the playstyle you prefer.

The game's major focus is the night time, where the game gets incredibly hard with different and more difficult zombies roam its huge wasteland to take you out.

Dying Light has a Metacritic score of 74/100.

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#2 The Evil Within 2

Bethesda

The Evil Within 2, is a third-person survival horror game from the mind of the man who is considered the Father of Survival Horror - Shinji Mikami (Creator of the Resident Evil series).

Developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks, The Evil Within 2 puts you yet again in the shoes of former Detective Sebastian Castellanos who sets out this time on a more personal quest - To find his missing daughter who he assumed was dead.

The Evil Within 2 lets you explore a semi-open world where you can indulge in multiple side encounters, craft different tools for your arsenal, and explore creepy locations.

It's probably the first survival horror games to feature big open spaces to explore and still make you feel scared almost all the time.

The Evil Within 2 has a Metacritic score of 76/100.

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#1 Resident Evil 7

Capcom

Resident Evil 7 is everything a survival horror game should be.

I was scared and worried and panicked and tensed at every step I took in the Baker family's mysterious mansion full of secrets and creepy locations to discover and jump scares to deal with.

Resident Evil 7 surprised me at every corner, from its calm beginning to every encounter I had with the three of the different members of the Baker Family and the disgusting moulders.

The fact that I felt vulnerable throughout the game wasn't just because the game was so scary but because Ethan Winters - the protagonist of the game - felt so vulnerable.

He was just another random guy trying to find his lost wife in an unknown house with absolutely no clue what to expect.

He wasn't a rookie cop or an agent just like other Resident Evil characters.

He was an ordinary guy and so I connected with him a lot because I felt it wasn't him there, but me.

Resident Evil 7 is a masterpiece, a game with probably the best pacing I have played in a long long time, a breath of fresh air among all the big huge open world games, most importantly its Capcom's return to form, the glory they once lost.

The game has a Metacritic score of 86/100.

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