Most Underrated PSX Horror Game?

[John Cruelty]

Id argue its Galerians
Even tho its not that unpopular, the popularity/quality ratio is absurd, its one of the best games on the system

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

I've played the big ones, the Resident Evil PS1 games, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis the first Parasite Eve (didnt finish the final boss out of frustration but liked most of it). I remember trying a sci-fi horror One but dont remember its name. Clock tower 1 and 2 this games are good Horror games too.

 

[Vexicrypt]

I'd say Echo Night and Echo Night 2: Nemuri no Shihaisha are a bit more forgotten, which is funny because everyone seem to love FromSoftware these days. There is also Hellnight (aka Dark Messiah in Japan) and while there are couple big videos about it on YT, I don't see it being mentioned pretty much anywhere.

 

[qw90700]

In the era that Clock Tower and Twilight Syndrome games were popular despite I dislike horror games (except few examples like Silent Hill games) I really liked this game: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/psx-iso/yuuyami-doori-tankentai-japan/

Because it's not just a "horror" game I like the way the game is but only relatively recently people started to appreciated it. Too bad it doesn't still have an English patch.

 

[RustySK]

I see your vaguely obscure horror titles and I raise you another: Soul of the Samurai, kind of a proto-Onimusha title.
Is it great? No. Does it have a devoted cult following? No. Is it worth a bored weekend when you have nothing better to do? Sure, I guess. Whatever.

 

[Sorion]

I would say it's Hell Night, it's setting it's quite Unique and the monster it's truly terrifying, Hell Night is one of those games that really makes you feel week against impossible odds but unfortunately it can be a bit frustrating at times.

 

[Vexicrypt]

I see your vaguely obscure horror titles and I raise you another: Soul of the Samurai, kind of a proto-Onimusha title.
Is it great? No. Does it have a devoted cult following? No. Is it worth a bored weekend when you have nothing better to do? Sure, I guess. Whatever.

Oh damn, I've never met another person who played Soul of the Samurai before. I find that game very charming but that might be my nostalgia speaking, since I played as a kid. I even started speedrunning it for that reason few years back, wasted so many hours looking for that perfect random and gave up at some point