5) Alien: Isolation

No movie is as frightening as playing Alien: Isolation with headphones on. You play as the daughter of superfemme Ellen Ripley, gone to the faraway Sevastapol space station to retrieve the flight recorder from the famed Nostromo. An interstellar mishap sends Ripley and her tiny crew onto the trading post’s loading dock without any way to get back or contact their escape ship.

Then it gets worse.

If you’ve seen the movie, you know what else was on the Nostromo, and you can bet something like it found its way onto the Sevastapol spaceport. Too bad it already decimated the crew and made the automated maintenance bots turn on everyone.

Isolation is not fun. At all. You have no way to hurt the alien that’s hunting you, and it never, never stops. You can’t run. You can’t even hide for very long. All you can do it try to keep track of the creature, and keep moving.

You have a motion tracker to help, but if you’re looking at it, distant objects get blurry, so you have to focus. The best way to monitor the monster is by listening to it. That’s where the headphones come in handy. If you have your back to a wall and you hear it 2 feet behind you, breathe easy. At least you know where it is.