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>Bioshock
Even if I shared your opinion on the horror themed vs outright horror I would still consider Bioshock a horror game. It's a spiritual successor to System Shock and it also took inspiration from Resident Evil and Ken Levine was trashing any horror movies that wasn't Alien, The Shining or The Thing (so basically the few that made it into the IMDb Top 250) in interviews back then essentially claiming he could do it better because he thought what was scariest was the fear of losing everything and not enough movies or games tapped into that according to him. That's why the Big Daddies, the Little Sisters and the Splicers and the lore behind them and the collapse of the city of Rapture are the way they are.

But you only really need to look at the first trailer to know this was intended to be a spooky horror game. Even the launch trailer with its Beyond the Sea music blaring is contrasted by all the violence and the scary Big Daddy and the creepy little girl with glowing red eyes and the Splicer lady crawling on the ceiling. I know the telekinetic powers makes you seem powerful at first but it’s not like you can just use your super powers constantly and the way it’s presented makes it seem more like body horror than X-Men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqfPG4ZcAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoYorK3E4aM