There are a lot of horror games on the way, and we have new games being announced all the time. Just last week we exclusively revealed a sequel to Outlast, which happens to be one of the scariest games I’ve ever played. As bright and wonderful as things look now, video games is a fickle industry, one that shows little mercy even to the most promising horror games.

While a lengthy silence can mean the quiet end of a promising horror game, it’s not always a bad thing. Both Dead Island and Until Dawn went without any real updates for a year, or longer. It’s relatively safe to say that most of the games on this list will see a release, it’s just a matter of when.

Call of Cthulhu

We’re rapidly approaching a full year since developer Frogwares announced their plans to bring us a new Call of Cthulhu game. It’s rarely a good thing when a game goes silent, but the wait to hear more about this game has been particularly brutal seeing as the Lovecraft Curse has already claimed both sequels to Dark Corners of the Earth and Guillermo Del Toro’s InSane.

Poor InSane. It was to be the first in a planned trilogy of action horror games based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and it had the potential to be an amazing new horror franchise. Del Toro has said he’s still pursuing it, but I’m not holding my breath.