I almost feel like this should be higher on the list, maybe in the third spot. Corpse Party is...The best game you probably haven't heard of. I think it went largely unnoticed, which is a shame because it's so different and...Psychologically traumatizing. If you own a PSP, you should go buy the game. Right now. You will not regret it.
Corpse Party begins in a classroom, with a group of friends performing a friendship ritual because one of them will be moving away. Unfortunately, they didn't do it correctly and they get sucked into another school that is occupied by the vengeful spirits of elementary school children. As if that's not scary enough, they didn't all arrive together. They're in the same school, but it's almost like they're in different dimensions, at different times. They have to find their way back to each other, appease the ghosts, and find a way to get back to their own school.
Some people have called Corpse Party a visual novel. When I first read that, I lost all interest in playing it. Someone else assured me that there was more to it than reading and I am so glad they did because I fell in love with this game. There is a lot of text to read (it's voiced over in Japanese, the text is in English), but it's still an adventure game. You control the characters, collect items and files, run from ghosts...Or get killed by them, depending on your actions.
Corpse Party wants you to fail. There are over twenty different endings. Almost all of them are "wrong ends." Unlocking these endings will allow you to play (or watch in most cases) extra chapters.
The ghosts are not the scariest part of the game. At all. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but sometimes it's your allies who you have to watch out for.
This is definitely a psychological horror game. One of the best I've played. If I could only recommend one game to someone, Corpse Party would probably be it. If you decide to play it, make sure your headphones are on and the volume is turned all the way up.
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