Survival horror is even a sole videos game genre that is defined primarily by theme rather than gameplay style. Though virtually all normally associated by owning a Resident Evil mechanics described above, the genre is too page to beat 'em ups (Nightmare Creatures, Splatterhouse), role playing games (Sweet Home), first-person shooters (Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Hungry Ghosts), and text adventure games (Kamaitachi No Yoru). More games like a Doom and Castlevania series include horror elements, but such games are non generally considered survival horror because horror is non a shaping stake play characteristic. Nevertheless, the subjective nature and severity of such discrepancies could produce survival horror a hard genre to classify.

A select few popular survival horror games include:

Alone in the Dark series by Infogrames The Blair Witch Project by Take 2 Interactive Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth ''Clive Barker's Undying Clock Tower series by Human Entertainment Dino Crisis series by Capcom Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem by Silicon Knights Fatal Frame series by Tecmo Haunting Ground by Capcom Hungry Ghosts by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Kamaitachi No Yoru Martian Gothic: Unification Nightmare Creatures series Nocturne by Take 2 Interactive Onimusha series by Capcom Parasite Eve series by Squaresoft Resident Evil series by Capcom Silent Hill series by Konami Siren Splatterhouse series by Namco Sweet Home by Capcom System Shock series by Looking Glass Studios They Hunger mod series by Black Widow Games

History
A term Survival horror was number one coined by Resident Evil (1996). A Japanese version (Biohazard) was marketed under the antecedently non-wanting Survival horror'' genre on the gage's handle. a line of text too displayed the sentence "Enter the world of survival horror..." when a game was loading.

Despite this, Alone in the Dark (1993) is considered to be a number one survival horror title, though occasionally sense that Halloween (1983) on the Atari 2600, Friday the Thirteenth (1985) and Ghost Hunters (1986) on the C64, Transylvania (1986), on the Apple II, and Sweet Home (1989) on the NES are the fathers of the genre.

A survival horror genre was popularized by Resident Evil (1996) on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn video game consoles. Resident Evil was heavy influenced by each Alone in the Dark & Sweet At home. Clock Tower: The First Fear (1995) predates Resident Evil, but it was simply freed within Japan and is not easily known. D (1996) is perhaps the better known of a class action of point-and-click horror games produced in Japan in the mid 1990s.

Clock Tower (1997) and Silent Hill (1999) created a class actiin of survival horror games that focus on psychological terror like than violence & gore. This category deemphasizes combat sequentially to increase a vulnerability of the protagonist & consequently build tension. Similar titles include Fatal Frame and Siren.