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Survival horror is a prominent video game genre in which the player has to survive an onslaught of opponents, often undead or otherwise supernatural, typically in claustrophobic environments in a third-person perspective. Horror movie elements are used liberally. The player is typically armed, but not nearly as well-armed as the player in a shooter game. The player's goal is generally to escape from an isolated house or town that is inhabited mostly by zombies and monsters through shooting and puzzle solving. Isolation is generally one of the most recurrent themes within this genre.

Survival horror is possibly the only video game genre that is defined primarily by theme rather than gameplay style. Though most commonly associated with the Resident Evil mechanics described above, the genre is also home 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). Other games such as the Doom and Castlevania
series include horror elements, but such games are not typically considered survival horror because horror is not the defining game play characteristic. However, the subjective nature of such discrepancies can make survival horror a difficult genre to classify.

Some popular survival horror games include:

Alone in the Dark
series by Infogrames
BioShock by Irrational Games
The Blair Witch Project by Take 2 Interactive
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Clive Barker's Undying
Condemned: Criminal Origins by Monolith Productions
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 by Sony Computer Entertainment America
Splatterhouse series by Namco
The Suffering by Midway Games
Sweet Home by Capcom
System Shock by Looking Glass Studios
System Shock 2 by Irrational Games

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