Thank You + Minor Suggestion

[Hunter of Shadows]

You shouldn't play Dead Space with the desire to be scared, you should play it with the desire to enjoy a sci-fi action/horror game

Dead Space does qualify as a 'real' horror game, horror does not mean that they are trying to scare you, it means they are trying to horrify you.

It's like how Stephen King puts it

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”