While it may have fallen under the radar due to all of the Elden Ring hype, Ghostwire: Tokyo is a title worthy of your attention. Especially if you like your open-world first-person shooters to have a tinge of survival horror in them. It's spooky yet not so scary that you'll be too afraid to look at the screen for fear of being jump-scared, and you get an arsenal of supernatural powers that you fire out of your fingers at headless school girls and umbrella-wielding slender-men. What more could you ask for?
The only problem is that after you've saved Tokyo from the various ghostly wires that are plaguing it, you may find yourself looking for something that can scratch a similar gameplay itch. Lucky for you, there are plenty of games that can fill that Ghostwire-sized hole in your heart.
7 Control
Control is a very weird game. You play as a red-haired woman who stumbles across a secret government agency that deals with supernatural events caused by objects that are tainted with otherworldly power. Somehow, through a rather confusing turn of events, she becomes the new director of this agency and is given a magic gun that can seemingly transform into different kinds of weapons. She then gains various superpowers and is tasked with taking down some sort of ethereal menace called The Hiss that possesses people and turns them into mindless soldiers. Oh, and she also can communicate telepathically with an interdimensional being that she met when she and her brother - who was taken away from her by this very agency - played around with a cursed film projector.
Told you it was weird.
While the kind of spookiness that Control deals with is quite different from Ghostwire, it can be surprisingly unnerving at times. At times it almost feels like an action game that was developed by David Lynch. However, the gameplay is tons of fun and the powers that you gain feel fantastic to smash enemies with. So if you want something that's full of oddball horror and makes you feel like a superhero, Control is a safe bet.
6 Dishonored
People don't talk enough about the Dishonored series these days. Both of the games are first-person shooters about a man - or potentially a woman in the sequel - trying to rescue someone with their new magical powers that a strange entity granted them (seems to be a common theme with most of the games on this list, huh?) You can either go in guns blazing with your superpowers or use stealth to quietly deal with the enemies who are standing in your way.
There's an eerie feel to each world, although Dishonored has more of a steampunk body horror vibe rather than Ghostwire's ghosts and ghouls. In terms of gameplay and world-feel, Dishonored is a great choice of game to tackle after you've finished clearing out all of the various headless spirits roaming around Tokyo.
5 Deathloop
And hey, after you're done with Dishonored, why not play the newest game from its developer, Arkane Studios? The fine people who work there seem to have a knack for building worlds that are utterly bizarre and unique. Deathloop isn't exactly scary, but it is another title where the protagonist is dropped into a bad situation that requires them to quickly learn how to use strange new powers to survive against groups of masked weirdos. It's safe to assume that if you like Ghostwire: Tokyo and Dishonored, then you'll likely have a great time with Deathloop too.
Plus it's got swearing and time travel. Both of those things are great!
4 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard/Resident Evil: Village
Let's throw both of the Ethan Winters-centric Resident Evils on this list. These games were a dramatic departure for the Resident Evil series. They switched your camera from a third-person perspective to a first-person view, which dialed up the horror aspect substantially. Having a character you're controlling from afar be attacked by zombies is one thing, but having that zombie - or giant bug, or werewolf, or whatever - get up close and in your face is always going to be more terrifying.
Most of the games in the Resident Evil franchise would be worth making this list - especially the Resident Evil 2 remake which is fantastic - but these two feel the closest to Ghostwire when it comes to gameplay. They also fit this list thematically as both Biohazard and Village tell stories about someone close to you being kidnapped by strange monster people. Biohazard is definitely the scarier game, while Village turns into more of an action-horror experience as it goes on (with the exception of one notable horrifying section around the halfway point.)
3 Yakuza
To be fair, the Yakuza games don't really have much horror or spookiness to them (unless you've played the zombie spin-off Yakuza: Dead Souls, which you probably haven't.) But, if you just want to walk around Japan without fear of being hassled by evil spirits, then this is the series for you.
The Yakuza series typically takes place in the fictional city of Kamurochō. While it's not a real city, it'll certainly make you feel like you're strolling around an authentic Japanese location. There are lots of things to do like visit arcades, karaoke bars, etc. Or you could manage a cabaret club. Or do some voice acting. Or go kart-racing. And that's all in addition to being a member of the infamous Yakuza, which is a job that involves a whole lot of fistfights. There's several games in this franchise, so you'll be entertained for quite some time.
2 Bioshock
If you want to talk about games that drop you into an awful scenario and then imbue you with weird superpowers, you have to talk about the Bioshock series. While these titles were seemingly inspired by System Shock, it feels like without them, we wouldn't have gotten games like Ghostwire: Tokyo.
At this point, you've presumably heard about Bioshock and its sequels and know what they're all about. You get sent to an underwater city - or a city in the sky in Bioshock: Infinite - that has become a complete hellhole full of messed-up people armed with old-timey guns and strange abilities that have warped their bodies and minds. By consuming various tonics, you too gain special abilities like shooting fire or swarms of bees from your hands. Needless to say, if you liked acquiring new things to shoot out of your hands in Ghostwire and you haven't touched any of the Bioshock games, you need to correct that mistake as they're all excellent (yes, that even includes Bioshock 2, which undeservingly gets a bad rap.)
1 The Evil Within 2
Tango Gameworks obviously has a knack for creating action-horror games with absurd premises as before they developed Ghostwire: Tokyo, they made both The Evil Within titles. The series revolves around a police officer named Sebastian Castellanos - which is a damn fine name - who somehow keeps getting strapped into a device that sends his consciousness into a simulated world.
The first Evil Within game is a decent survival horror adventure that feels a bit like Resident Evil with a pinch of the Saw movies. However, The Evil Within 2 is a much better game that features a more open environment filled with more side activities for you to discover. It's not as linear as its predecessor and the gameplay feels dramatically improved. It almost feels like the prototype for what Ghostwire: Tokyo would become. It's still got a terrifying atmosphere, but it's more action-packed and fun. If you like shooting twisted ghoulies in the face, you should head back to Tango's previous game and see where many of the pieces for Ghostwire fell into place.