The 25 English-language YouTube channels with the most views on horror game videos in the 12 months to October 20, 2026, from Streamforge’s creator data.
The list
Horror game videos are built on reactions: the jump scare, the scream, the slow walk down a dark hallway. Five Nights at Freddy’s, Poppy Playtime, Resident Evil and a steady run of indie releases keep the genre busy, and its creators turn each new release into a playthrough series.
These are the English-language YouTube channels that put the most horror game videos in front of people in the last 12 months. At least half of each channel’s videos in that time were horror games.
@Neax
Poppy Playtime Chapter 6 videos, mostly secret boss fights and what-if scenes like Verity versus other characters, plus full gameplay runs and trailers.
Russia
@notOtzdarva
Dead by Daylight killer tier lists, build tests and perk talk, plus weekly highlight compilations, community news and side games like Fear & Hunger.
Spain
@SpookyLoopz
Dead by Daylight gameplay with perk and build tests, a running series on odd achievements, monthly clip compilations and a try of Halloween: The Game.
United States
@DxtrWhite
Reviews of Five Nights at Freddy's fan games, each video built around a single game, from remakes and banned releases to little-known and very hard ones.
United States
@shotlypoppy
Poppy Playtime gameplay uploads, including full chapter runs, boss and chase scene compilations and trailers, plus a no-commentary Escape from Playtime walkthrough.
United States
@Sheeprampage
Poppy Playtime lore and news, covering Chapter 6 reveals and trailers, the series' online puzzle hunts, secrets hidden in game files and challenge tests across every chapter.
United States
@TheJRM
Dead by Daylight gameplay and commentary on events, perk changes and odd game modes, plus themed builds like a basement deathtrap and highlight compilations.
United Kingdom
@Snaspey
Playthroughs of random, strange and scary Five Nights at Freddy's fan games, many of which are free roam versions explored on foot.
United States
@Ayrun
Dead by Daylight survivor builds and perk changes, new killer and map first looks, and the Hardcore Survivor Challenge series.
United Kingdom
@SupahsYT
Five Nights at Freddy's fan games with odd twists, like punching or playing peekaboo with the animatronics, plus other mascot horror games and Fears to Fathom.
United States
@moreseine
Dead by Daylight killer build guides and perk tests, from reviewing buffs and reworks to challenge builds that make escaping the basement or unhooking survivors impossible.
United Kingdom
@Dawko
Five Nights at Freddy's fan game playthroughs and news, plus FNAF meme reviews, Poppy Playtime leaks and horror games like Terrible Lizards.
Vatican City
@vanoguy
Five Nights at Freddy's challenge runs like collecting every jumpscare or beating Security Breach without saving, plus Poppy Playtime and Bendy challenges.
United States
@AZHYMOVS
Dead by Daylight lore and commentary, telling the stories behind each killer and realm, ranking weapons and unwritten rules, and looking at lost licenses and design problems.
United Kingdom
@QuietKills
Dead by Daylight news and opinion videos about the state of the game, new killers like Art the Clown, toxic players and streamer drama.
United States
@Twoknee
Dead by Daylight killer gameplay using themed and viewer-sent builds, first tries of new killers and skins, and long killer sessions to fall asleep to.
United States
@RyeToast
Five Nights at Freddy's lore in alternating FNAF Theory videos and episodes of the Freddy Fazbear Pizza Podcast, covering timelines, characters and new teasers.
United States
@hens333
Dead by Daylight high-level killer matches and build compilations, series like Hardcore Survivor and Group Copycat, and history pieces like Chucky's rise and fall.
Germany
@ScottJund
Dead by Daylight analysis of balance changes, patch notes, dev streams and killer design, with perk reviews, first impressions of new killers and responses to hot takes.
United States
@joshplays2yt
Five Nights at Freddy's fan games and Hello Neighbor mods that swap in characters like CatNap or Cat in the Hat, plus Roblox horror and Granny mods.
Australia
@Razzbowski
Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach 2 and Poppy Playtime Chapter 6 videos on new characters, endings and rumors, plus FNAF Fortnite challenges and Garten of Banban.
United Kingdom
@notHens
Dead by Daylight killer builds and perk finds, weekly clip compilations, takes on updates like the matchmaking reset and history pieces on Freddy and Jason.
Germany
@SlateTwitch
Dead by Daylight Weekly Highlights and challenge videos, like escaping with a bad build or letting chat viewers decide, plus full playthroughs of games like Tenebris Somnia.
United States
@MurzilGames
FNAF fan games built on a twist, such as boxing the animatronics or being watched in real life, plus found footage, William Afton lore and Teletubbies horror.
United States
@EpidemyYT
Dead by Daylight killer gameplay, heavy on Bubba, with win streak runs, almost perk-free matches, matchmaking rants and videos about fake viewer counts on Twitch.
United StatesEnglish-language YouTube channels run by a person, not by a brand, a group or a fan page. Channels YouTube marks as made for kids are left out. Each one uploaded at least eight long-form videos in the 12 months to October 20, 2026, and at least one in the 60 days before that date.
At least 50% of each channel’s long-form videos in those 12 months were horror game videos, and at least 8 of them. That keeps the list to channels built on the topic, not variety channels that tried it once.
Every channel was then checked against its 15 most recent video titles. Channels that mostly post something else now, or that read as a brand, news, fan or compilation channel, were left out.
Each creator gets one place. Where a creator runs more than one qualifying channel, the list ranks the channel with the most views on horror game videos and links the others under Channels.
By views on horror game videos in the 12 months from October 20, 2025 to October 20, 2026: the views on the long-form videos each channel posted in that time, counting only horror game videos. Shorts and live streams are not counted.
We rank by views, not subscribers, because subscribers count everyone who ever followed a channel. Views show who is being watched now. Subscribers are still shown for every channel.
A video counts when Streamforge matches it to one of these games:
Five Nights at Freddy’s, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator, Poppy Playtime, Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2, Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3, Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5, Resident Evil Requiem, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil Village, Silent Hill f, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill: Townfall, Outlast, Outlast II, The Outlast Trials, Dead by Daylight, Phasmophobia, Lethal Company, R.E.P.O., Content Warning, Alien: Isolation, Amnesia: The Bunker, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Little Nightmares III, Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares II, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Bendy and the Dark Revival, Choo-Choo Charles, Indigo Park, Dead Space, Until Dawn, The Quarry, Visage, Mouthwashing, Fears to Fathom: Home Alone, Fears to Fathom: Woodbury Getaway, Fears to Fathom: Ironbark Lookout, Fears to Fathom: Scratch Creek, Iron Lung, Buckshot Roulette, Dark Deception, The Casting of Frank Stone, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Escape the Backrooms, Inside the Backrooms, SCP: Secret Laboratory, SCP – Containment Breach, Pacify, The Evil Within, The Evil Within 2, Signalis, Murky Divers, Lockdown Protocol, Tormented Souls II, Tormented Souls, Still Wakes the Deep, Cronos: The New Dawn, Zoochosis, The Mortuary Assistant, Labyrinthine, Demonologist, Devour, The Exit 8, Platform 8, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Madison and Layers of Fear.
Subscribers is the count YouTube showed at our last check. Horror game views are the views the list ranks by, over the 12 months. Plays most names the games the channel made the most long-form videos about in that time.
Audience is Streamforge’s AI estimate of who watches: the larger side of the split between women and men, and the largest age group. It does not need the creator to connect an account, and Streamforge has benchmarked the technique against the platforms’ own audience data. It is an estimate, not the channel’s YouTube analytics.
Channels links the creator’s other YouTube channels and profiles on other platforms, as Streamforge links them. The one-line notes are written from each channel’s recent video titles.
Neax, with 36.7M views on horror game videos in the 12 months to October 20, 2026, ahead of not Otzdarva and SpookyLoopz. The full ranking is above, and “How we ranked” explains what counts.
Horror games for teens and adults, from Five Nights at Freddy’s, Poppy Playtime and Resident Evil to co-op games like Lethal Company and Phasmophobia: the full list of games is under “How we ranked”. Mobile horror games aimed at young children, such as Granny, are left out.
It depends on the channel. Some horror creators skew teenage, others mostly adult. Each entry shows the channel’s estimated audience, and Streamforge has the full age and country breakdown for every channel.
Horror creators often take sponsored segments at the start of a video or sponsored playthroughs of new releases. Most list a business email on their About page. Check recent views and audience before you book.
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The 25 English-language YouTube channels with the most views on horror game videos in the last 12 months: what each one makes, its subscribers and views, and who watches.
