Amnesia was awesome. Probably one of the best "horror" games I've played in a while. If you're looking for a game that's mainly scary, unsettling and has a great story then this should be at the top of your list. The Penumbra games are also very good, although Anmesia is the best title from that developer in terms of both story and gameplay IMHO.
Alan Wake (the core game) was also pretty decent. Not strictly speaking the scariest game ever (it was a little too action-heavy to be scary), it excelled in many other categories such as rich, lucious environments that felt like real places, good voice acting and an excellent overall story. The game had amazing atmosphere and was very well polished. The two DLCs are also decent and continue the story where it left off and American Nightmare is alright and doesn't detract from the overall experience.
Dead Space 1 and 2 are fun and well put together games but are debatably not horror games, but rather action games with a horror setting. They are still pretty good games, but with all the running and gunning it's hard to call them horror. They fall under a similar category to games like Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 (4 being the best, 6 being decent and 5 being the worst) or the later FEAR titles.
Home and Loan Survivor are both 8-bit throwback indy sidescrolling horror games, but they are decent if you don't mind that category.
Older titles that fall under this category are the original Alone in the Dark series and System Shock 1 and 2.
Outlast I hadn't heard of but I'm very curious.
-Byshop
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