13 Best Wii Horror Games

This Alone in the Dark takes Edward Carnby into Central Park, which hides an underground temple and a portal to the afterlife. The game is split into episodes, and if you skip ahead, a "Previously on Alone in the Dark" scene catches you up like a TV show. You can switch between first and third person, and you build weapons by combining the objects you pick up.

The tech demos before launch showed tape holding a glow stick to a wall, and that kind of tinkering is the fun part. Olivier Deriviere wrote the score, with the female choir The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices. It got mixed reviews and still sold well. It is the pick here for players who like puzzles more than scares.

Hudson Soft made Calling for the Wii alone. It came out in Japan in November 2009 and in North America the following March. Four strangers visit a website called The Black Page, said to count the people who died after visiting it, and end up in the Mnemonic Abyss, a void between life and death. You explore haunted places in first person with a cell phone. It takes photos of evidence and records ghostly voices, and you also use it to travel between locations.

GameSpot criticized its sluggish pace and needless backtracking. Players still pass it along to anyone who liked the other Wii horror games, and even its fans admit it is clumsy in places. It is a creepy ghost story with rough edges.

The Aftermath is the sequel to ObsCure, a 2004 game about students fighting monsters on their campus. In that first game the monsters could be weakened with flashlights and killed by direct sunlight, so light was the thing you cared about most. A third game was announced in 2011, and the following year Hydravision Entertainment closed.

Players who played it call it fun, which is the right word for it. It plays like a teen horror movie, with the voice acting to match, and that is part of the charm. If the slow, lonely games on this list are too much, this is the one to bring a friend to.

The game was directed by Takashi Shimizu, who also helmed the films. Feelplus developed it, and Xseed Games brought it to North America in October 2009. A housewife in Nerima, Japan, was murdered, and the curse that came from it now goes after one family. Each family member must face his or her individual challenge alone.

You cannot fight back, and that is the point. In most horror games a skilled player can defeat the creatures, and here you only run and hope. Players are split on it. Some loved it, and others gave up on the very slow walking speed and the backtracking.

Project Zero 2 is a remake of the game North America knows as Fatal Frame 2, and it was released in Japan and PAL regions, but not in North America. Original director Makoto Shibata came back, and the game was reworked based on Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. Mio fights ghosts with the Camera Obscura. When one appears, the view switches to first person, and photos are what hurt it. A ghost hand may randomly appear and attack while you hold the button to pick something up.

There are six endings, two of them new, plus a Haunted House mode that plays as an on-rails ride. Players who found it put it with the best horror on the console, and they describe it as Fatal Frame 2 rebuilt for the Wii.

Rockstar Toronto made the Wii version of Manhunt 2, the sequel to 2003's Manhunt. It was released in North America on 29 October 2007. Daniel Lamb, a mental patient with amnesia, escapes an asylum with Leo Kasper, a sociopathic assassin who guides him. Leo lives in Daniel's head. A brain implant called the Pickman Bridge put him there, and it malfunctioned.

Before release it caught the attention of British parliament member Keith Vaz and several US senators, and the British Board of Film Classification refused to rate it. The game that came out blurs the executions, and during one the screen turns red and flashes black and white. It is the grimmest game on this list and was built to be.

Eric Simmons goes into the Himalayas to find his brother Frank, and the village at the foot of the mountain is deserted, with bodies rotting in the streets. You fight the ghosts by exorcising them with gestures of the Wii Remote. The story of one brother searching for another came from Reinhold Messner, who lost his brother on an expedition. It was the only game Deep Silver Vienna made before the studio closed in February 2010.

Critics praised the story and the atmosphere, and many disliked the motion controls. Players who played it rate it among the best horror games made only for the Wii. The climb is cold and lonely, and the mountain gets stranger the higher you go.

The Darkside Chronicles is an on-rails shooter and the second Resident Evil made only for the Wii. You aim and shoot while the game moves you through each level, and a second player can join with a reticle of their own. Its new scenario, Operation Javier, follows Leon Kennedy on his first mission as a government agent. It is a prequel to Resident Evil 4, set two years before it.

In Europe it came bundled with the Wii Zapper. Reviews were generally positive, with compliments for the graphics and the music, though the camera was said to be mildly distracting. There is only one First Aid spray per chapter, and it is used automatically when your health runs out. Make that one count.

This is Capcom's GameCube remake of the 1996 PlayStation game Resident Evil, ported to the Wii in 2008 with a new control system. Shinji Mikami, who designed and directed the original, directed it too. Bravo Team has gone silent, and Chris and Jill flee vicious dogs into a mansion in the forest. The remake adds explorable areas and a subplot that was cut from the original game.

At the time it sold worse than expected, and Capcom moved the series toward action. Today critics and fans regard it as one of the greatest game remakes ever made. Players call the Wii version very well done, and it is the most traditional survival horror on the console.

Shattered Memories is a reimagining of the first Silent Hill by Climax Studios. Harry Mason is again looking for his missing daughter Cheryl, but the plot and the characters are new. Between scenes you sit with a therapist, Dr. Michael Kaufmann, in first person, and your answers change characters and lines of dialog. There are no weapons. When the town turns to ice and the monsters come, Harry has to run.

It came out on the Wii in December 2009, and the PS2 and PSP versions followed in January 2010. Akira Yamaoka wrote the music, the first in the series to lean on dynamic music. Some reviewers found the chases frustrating and the game too short. Players often name it in their top three for the console.

Extraction is a prequel to the first Dead Space, made by Eurocom as a first-person rail shooter. Survivors from the Aegis VII mining colony try to reach the USG Ishimura while Necromorphs overrun it, and the only way to kill one is to cut off its limbs. You can find up to ten weapons, each with two firing modes. As the survivors' allies fall victim to dementia, a young girl with a bizarre immunity may be their only hope.

It sold poorly but got good reviews. Composer Jason Graves came back, and it was one of the earliest Wii games to use multi-track interactive music. One player called it "the only game here that I find actually scary", and players rank it with the very best horror on the Wii.

Overkill is a non-canonical prequel to the first House of the Dead, and the first in the series made only for a home console. In 1991, Agent G is sent to Louisiana to hunt down crime boss Papa Caesar. You point the Wii Remote at the screen to shoot, and aiming near the edge moves the camera a little, which the game calls the Danger Cam. A second player can join, and once it is unlocked you can fire two guns at once.

The whole thing is dressed up as an old grindhouse movie, right down to a fake missing reel before the last fight. Players count it among the Wii's horror essentials. After it, the series had no new game for nearly a decade.

The Wii Edition has the bonus content from the PlayStation 2 version and new controls built for the Wii Remote. A larger reticle replaces the laser sight and turns from green to red on a target. A quick knife command attacks the nearest enemy, and some quick-time events use motion. It looks about the same as the GameCube version, and the classic controller brings back the old laser sight.

Development began for the PlayStation 2 in 1999, and one early version became Devil May Cry instead. The finished game won multiple Game of the Year awards and sold 15.2 million copies by March 2025 across its many versions. Players love it with the Wii Remote and recommend it more than any other Wii horror game.