Halloween, video game-style. (Flickr/Rob Boudon)

While everyone is busy putting on their costumes and getting ready to party, video games fanatics are nerding out with their consoles and play games on All Hallow's Eve.

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Much like the holiday associated with things that go bump in the night, the horror genre has been fertile ground for the video game indudstry for several decades. 

So for all the guys and ghouls, here is our list of the Top 7 Halloween Video Games of All-Time:

BioShock Infinite (2013)

Developer: Irrational Games

BioShock turned out to be a seminal advance in horror gaming back when it released in 2007. In the 6 years since, that game has spawned two sequels, with this year’s BioShock Infinite taking the scares up a few notches, all while revamping the plot, and shifting the setting of the game from the iconic Rapture located underwater to midair.  With terrific combat mechanics and a riveting plot, BioShock Infinite is a must-have for this Halloween.

SEE ALSO: BioShock Infinite Review

Slender (2012)

Developer: Parsec Productions

As the best horror flicks have proved through the ages, it doesn’t take elaborate set pieces and bombastic music for chills to run up and down your spine. Slender has proved to be the very definition of scaring more with less with sparse design and few sources of light. A chillingly atmospheric score compliments the gameplay, but the title excels primarily by focusing on the mysteriously terrifying villain based on the Slender Man urban legend.

Silent Hill (1999)

Developer: Konami

Silent Hill has proved to be an absolute classic in the survival horror genre of games across all platforms, spawning a number of sequels and a couple of movies to boot. Silent Hill’s most recent installment for consoles was entitled Downpour and was released in 2010 to mixed reviews.

If you really want to revisit the titles that made this series legendary, you should pick up the Silent Hill: HD Collection, which features both Silent Hill 2 and 3 with improved visuals for the PS3 and Xbox 360, but with the same old chills and genre defining sound design.

It's better than watching this train wreck:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (2007)

Developer: GSC Game World

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a hugely popular trilogy of a survival horror first-person shooters made by a Ukrainian developer called GSC Game World. The most recent sequel, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, is now four years old and has one of the most active modding communities you’ll see across all games - making it a huge community gaming hit as well.

With the eerie setting of a post-disaster Chernobyl being the core focus of the game, the general emptiness of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. leaves a lasting impression in the mind of anyone looking for a fright night.

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Developer: Valve

Left 4 Dead is a rare game that is insanely fun to play, even when it scares the living daylights out of you. With a cooperative mode of gameplay that’s rarely seen in the genre, you'll fight off hordes of zombies across zombie-infected settings along with three other survivors. Its sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, shifted the settings to the Southern United States. Left 4 Dead 2 maintains the same core gameplay as its predecessor, but with some improvements in the combat mechanism.

Dead Space 3 (2013)

Developer: Visceral Games

Dead Space 3 was one of the most highly anticipated games of 2013 simply because of the genre-defining brilliance of its predecessors. With the possibility of every situation explicitly based on individual choice, this sci-fi survival horror classic adds in a level of granularity that is incredible. The new co-op mode is surprisingly intuitive, while the horror is far from being as outlandish as most horror games on PCs and consoles tend to be.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010)

Developer: Frictional Games

Amnesia has a strangely profound effect on gamers, as the various reaction videos to it on YouTube will testify to you. Few horror games manage to be as immersive and terrifying as Amnesia: The Dark Descent, as it perfectly paces the increasing dread of being approached by evil forces that you (as the lead character) have no hope to counter. Despite the relative sparseness of the game, Amnesia is a spectacularly unnerving game.

So, have you tried all of them yet? If not, what are you waiting for? Spend your Halloween night with your favorite scary video game and you are in for a treat.

You can reach reporter Shruti Sharma here.