Gore Games

Viscerality—that is, actual 'viscerality' and not just game journalists using the word to describe anything fluidly violent—has been a part of videogames for as long as videogames have been capable of putting out detailed graphics.

Once upon a time, artists had to render each sprite frame by frame to depict violence and gore, but these days, games engines are more than capable of depicting it with the use of ragdoll physics and detachable skeletal models, along with a host of shaders and texture effects.

I've taken the liberty of not including many of the really older games which simply haven't aged well, but I've included a few surprises on that front.

Without further ado, here are the top 25 most violent, and goriest games of all time.