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Asian Horror Games: Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and More

Horror games from across East and Southeast Asia draw on ghost stories, folk religion and school legends that feel very different from Western monsters. These are games set in China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam or built on their folklore; Japan has a guide of its own.

The games

  1. Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her PsychologicalDetentionTaiwan's best-known horror game: two students trapped in a 1960s mountain school haunted by creatures from local folklore, under martial law.
  2. Firework screenshot: two policemen in a dark green-lit alley beside a brick wall painted with Believe in science, not superstition PsychologicalFireworkA rookie policeman reopens a village massacre case in China, solving puzzles in the homes of the dead; Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam.
  3. Devotion key art: a girl in a white dress with a red band over her eyes stands before a many-armed deity drawn on a red background PsychologicalDevotionRed Candle's first-person horror in a 1980s Taipei apartment, where a family's faith turns the home into a nightmare.
  4. White Day screenshot: a student pressed against a wall in a dark corridor as the janitor approaches with a flashlight and a baton SurvivalWhite Day: A Labyrinth Named SchoolThe Korean cult classic remade: a student trapped overnight in his school, hiding from a murderous janitor and its ghosts.
  5. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters key art: Mina Park in her school uniform against a blood-red sky over the city SurvivalThe Coma 2: Vicious SistersKorean 2D survival horror: scavenge and craft through a shadow version of your school and district while a killer stalks the halls.
  6. The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation key art: six students gathered by a stone bridge railing on a dark campus at night SurvivalThe Bridge Curse: Road to SalvationSix Taiwanese students challenge a campus ghost legend on a university bridge, and must avoid her and break the curse.
  7. A pale, long-limbed ghost in a white dress stands in a dark storeroom beside a lit lantern SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationFour people trapped in a haunted Taiwanese university building at night, hiding from ghosts and taking turns as each.
  8. Paper Bride key art: a pale white-haired ghost reaching toward a bride in a red wedding veil Puzzle horrorPaper BrideA groom's bride vanishes at the wedding, her dress turned to paper, in a 2D puzzle mystery built on Chinese folklore.
  9. Paper Bride 2 key art: a figure in red hanging from a wooden frame in a forest under a huge red moon, lit by lanterns Puzzle horrorPaper Bride 2 Zangling VillageBack to a village of childhood nightmares, solving puzzles drawn from Taoist ritual before it makes you its next paper bride.
  10. Home Sweet Home screenshot: the dim interior of an old wooden Thai house, with shuttered windows, framed pictures, a chest of drawers and litter on the plank floor Hide, sneak and Home Sweet HomeThai horror: a man whose wife vanished is hunted by a vengeful female spirit through a strange building, unarmed.
  11. DreadOut key art: a long-haired ghost with white eyes and an open mouth hanging upside down against a stained, scratched wall Puzzle horrorDreadOutIndonesian horror: a schoolgirl lost in a forgotten town fights its ghosts with a smartphone camera.
  12. Pamali: a dusty, dim dining room with a family portrait on a stained wall, a table set with a kettle and covered dish, and moving boxes stacked by the window Multiple endingsPamali: Indonesian Folklore HorrorFirst-person horror built on Indonesian taboos: how you treat an empty family house and what lives in it decides how it ends.
  13. The Scourge key art: a dark corridor lit red, with old television sets hanging on red threads PsychologicalThe Scourge | Tai ƯơngVietnamese urban legends in a Saigon apartment block, as a young man haunted by his family's deaths enters lucid nightmares.
  14. The Coma: Recut key art: a girl in a school uniform holds a bandaged finger to her lips SurvivalThe Coma: RecutThe first Coma: a Korean student falls asleep in an exam and wakes in his school at night, hunted by a killer.
  15. The Coma 3: Bloodlines key art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of strange, organic growths SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesThe last Coma, across a nightmare Seoul: three characters who cannot fight, escaping puppets and shadow monsters.
  16. ARAYA: a hospital walkway with a checkered floor and blood-smeared walls running past a dark atrium HauntedARAYAA Thai hospital at night and the ghost of a murdered young woman, playable with or without VR.
  17. DreadOut 2 key art: dark silhouettes of long-haired ghouls around a tall red glowing mound against a pale sky Action horrorDreadOut 2The Indonesian sequel: Linda hunts the ghosts of her hometown with a smartphone camera and, now, melee weapons.
  18. A path between dark Thai stupas in a misty forest, leading to a gate lit by one lantern Puzzle horrorHome Sweet Home EP2The Thai sequel: a forest of possessed villagers and an invisible dancer on the way to a missing wife.
  19. A first-person hand holds a grey, fetus-like doll while a pale figure waits in a dark doorway behind it PsychologicalHaritiA mother searches a decaying Chinese-style hospital for her missing daughter, among creatures drawn from ancient folklore.
  20. Ground Zero key art: Seo-Yeon in a red beret and goggles holds a pistol before a burning red cloud over a ruined Korean street SurvivalGround ZeroFixed-camera survival horror in Busan two months after a meteor wiped out South Korea, among mutated monsters.

Taiwan's Red Candle Games made two of the most praised. Detention traps two students in a remote mountain high school in the 1960s, under martial law, where creatures from local folklore now roam, and you explore, hide and solve puzzles in 2D as the school's past comes back. Devotion moves to a 1980s Taipei apartment in first person, where a family's religious faith turns their home into a nightmare. Also from Taiwan, The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation and The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication are first-person games of hiding from campus ghosts at night, built on university legends.

From China, Firework is the one to start with: a rookie policeman reopens a closed massacre case in a mountain village after a fire at a funeral, solving puzzles in the homes of the dead, and it is Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam. The Paper Bride series turns Chinese folk customs into hand-painted puzzle mysteries: a bride vanishes at her wedding leaving a dress of paper, and the sequel draws its puzzles from Taoist ritual in a village that wants a new paper bride. Hariti sends a mother into a decaying Chinese-style hospital after her missing daughter, among creatures drawn from old folklore.

Korea's best known is White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, the remake of a 2001 cult classic in which a student trapped overnight in his school hides from a murderous janitor and its ghosts. The Coma series is Korean 2D survival horror in the same school setting: in The Coma: Recut a student wakes in his school at night with a killer in the halls, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters adds scavenging and crafting in a shadow version of the district, and The Coma 3: Bloodlines ends it across a nightmare Seoul. Ground Zero is set in Busan after a meteor has wiped out South Korea, in fixed-camera survival horror.

From Thailand, Home Sweet Home has an unarmed man hunted by a vengeful female spirit while he looks for his missing wife, and ARAYA sends three characters into a Thai hospital at night after the ghost of a murdered young woman. From Indonesia, DreadOut has a schoolgirl fight ghosts with her smartphone camera in a forgotten town, and Pamali builds its horror on folk taboos, where how you treat an empty family house decides what happens. The Scourge takes Vietnamese urban legends into a Saigon apartment block.

If you only try one, play Detention, or Firework if you like puzzles and investigation.

Questions

What is the best Chinese horror game?

Firework is the most praised on Steam, a police investigation of a village massacre told through puzzles. The Paper Bride series is another favourite, built on Chinese wedding customs and folklore.

Are there Korean horror games?

Yes: White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, a remake of the 2001 cult classic, and The Coma series of 2D survival horror games set in a Korean high school.

What horror games come from Taiwan?

Red Candle Games' Detention and Devotion, and Softstar's The Bridge Curse games, built on Taiwanese campus ghost legends.

Are any of these on Switch or phones?

Detention, White Day, The Coma games, The Bridge Curse games, DreadOut 2 and Firework are on Switch, and Detention and the Paper Bride games are on iPhone and Android.

Where are the Japanese horror games?

They have their own guide to Japanese horror games, from Fatal Frame and Silent Hill f to Ib and The Exit 8.

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