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Vote now: 8 games remain in our scariest games bracket
Readers have voted eight games through to the next round of a bracket to find the scariest PC game. A new vote will cut the remaining competitors to four, with the final two chosen on Thursday and the winner due to be announced on Saturday morning.
The 16-game field came from reader nominations and was randomly seeded, with some editorial discretion. Alien: Isolation had the largest first-round win, beating SOMA with 85% of the vote; Dead Space (the 2008 original) beat Fatal Frame 2 Remake with 78%, while Amnesia: The Dark Descent beat S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with 79%. Votes for Silent Hill 2 may refer to either the 2002 original or the 2022 remake.
In short
- Eight games remain in the scariest PC game bracket.
- Alien: Isolation won its first-round match with 85%.
- The winner will be announced on Saturday.
Explained simply
A game bracket is a series of head-to-head votes: players are paired off, and the game with more votes moves on. This one began with 16 PC horror games nominated by readers, arranged into pairs at random, with some editorial input.
The games left in the bracket range across different kinds of horror, from science-fiction scares to psychological and survival horror. Some entries have more than one version, so a vote for Silent Hill 2 could mean either its 2002 original or its 2022 remake.
The bracket gives readers a way to compare which games they find most frightening. Its results reflect the votes cast by this audience, rather than a formal measure of how scary a game is.