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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.

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  1. Firework key art: orange silhouetted figures, one with an umbrella, stand on a dark ember-lit ridge under a grey misty sky, above the title FIREWORK PsychologicalFireworkA rookie policeman reopens a village massacre case in China, solving puzzles in the homes of the dead; Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam.
  2. 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.
  3. Key art of a flooded basement corridor in green and red light, with a lift on floor B2 glowing red and a girl's silhouette in its doorway SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationFour people trapped in a haunted Taiwanese university building at night, hiding from ghosts and taking turns as each.
  4. The Coma: Recut key art: close-up of a girl with long dark hair pressing 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.
  5. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesThe last Coma, across a nightmare Seoul: three characters who cannot fight, escaping puppets and shadow 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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