This study examines, through a corpus of horrific video games developed in France over a period of nearly 25 years, how the renewal of iconographies and the re-reading of narrative codes, as well as the game mechanics usually employed in them, rarely constitute the core of French videogame proposals. Nevertheless, we show how these creations very often have in common to put into perspective the imaging processes they deploy, from the staging to the modeling mode adopted, as well as the question of the flow of images and the gaze. It is thus a question of seeing how horror, which has become a playground with the image, seems to be an ideal pretext for working, exploring, manipulating the medium and, in this way, making it evolve.