survival horror
noun
A genre of video game in which a protagonist must escape or survive a horrific, eerie, and violent environment, and which typically aims to create an atmosphere similar to that of a horror film; a video game of this genre.
- Apparently originally used in a line of text in the game Resident Evil (1996), and regarded as irregular: compare quot 1996..
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in Usenet (newsgroups).