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Top 6 best horror games on iPhone and iPad 2015

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Top 6 best horror games on iPhone and iPad 2015
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"There's a bit of a horror game thing going on at the moment," said PG editor Mark Brown, before sending me to investigate, like the archetypal grizzled hack in a B-grade horror movie.

As anyone who's ever watched such a movie before will know, this will probably result in my grizzly murder. The things I do for this website...

If you've caught the current iOS horror game fever that's going round, here are the spooky games you should be playing.

Preferably in the dark. Alone.

Forgotten Memories 
By Psychoz Interactive - buy on iOS
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The newest addition to the iOS horror stable is also the most faithful to classic horror games of yesteryear. Think Silent Hill and Forbidden Siren.

It's certainly the best looking game on this list, with spooky shadow-casting light effects straight out of a console game, and it ratchets up the too-quiet tension before releasing via some good old fashioned shocks splendidly.

There's a certain stilted point-and-click adventure feel to Forgotten Memories, but it's undeniably scary. And isn't that what we're all here for?

Lost Within 
By Amazon Game Studios - buy on iOS
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Lost Within is taken from the schlockier end of the classic horror game spectrum - more Resident Evil hamminess than Silent Hill grimness.

It has fun with it, though. Played from a first person perspective, you must stalk around an abandoned - or is it?!- asylum, jumping back in time to explore the place as it was, and shocking deranged monsters with your stun gun.

More jumpy than scary, then, but there's nowt wrong with that.

Year Walk 
By Simogo - buy on iOS
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And now for something completely different. Year Walk is an inscrutable point-and-click adventure game all about mysterious goings on in a stylised Swedish wood.

Developer Simogo eschews cheap scares in favour of an all-pervading sense of unease, and frantic combat for brain-tickling logic puzzles.

You won't leave Year Walk trembling, but you might have trouble getting its unsettling tale out of your head.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2
By Scott Games - buy on iOS
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Back to heart-pounding jump-scares, yay! Or rather, eek! The first Five Nights at Freddy's set the tone with its fresh take on the horror game, which this quick-fire sequel expanded upon splendidly.

It's all about watching over a run-down pizza parlour overnight, in particular keeping an eye fixed on the security screens for a rampaging animatronic monster. Yikes.

FNaF capitalises on its severely limited control system and fixed perspective to leave you feeling almost powerless.

Indigo Lake 
3 Cubes Research - buy on iOS
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Indigo Lake is a good old spooky ghost story, but told in the fashion of a first person shooter.

Don't worry - it's not the fast-paced, poorly controlling mess that this might suggest. The developer has wisely turned down the speed dial, and there's more adventuring and puzzle solving than action.

Indeed, the trail of clues that you'll find yourself warily following really helps immerse you in this supernatural mystery - making the resulting scares all the more potent.

The Walking Dead 
By Telltale Games - buy on iOS
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The Walking Dead is a unique game on this list because, like the comic book and TV series it's spun off from, its tale is one of simple human drama rather than of histrionic horror.

It's just that it's told in a world where there's a rampaging zombie threat ready to rob the story of a major character.

The result is that the game's scares come from the fear of making tough decisions that might result in someone you actually care about becoming zombie food - or even a zombie. Now that is horrific.

Jon Mundy
Jon Mundy
Jon is a consummate expert in adventure, action, and sports games. Which is just as well, as in real life he's timid, lazy, and unfit. It's amazing how these things even themselves out.