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Asylum horror games

These games put you inside an asylum or mental hospital, or send you through one on the way. You walk locked wards, cell blocks, offices and cellars, sometimes as a patient trying to get out, sometimes as an outsider who came looking for answers. The fear is in the building itself: long corridors, doors that only open one way, records of what was done there, and residents who may still be inside.

The top 30 of 43 asylum horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. Fran Bow key art: Fran, blood running from one eye, holds her black cat before a red-eyed creature, with a skeleton in a top hat and masked figures on the left PsychologicalFran BowFran wakes in Oswald Asylum, a grim institution for children, and has to escape it to find her cat 97% on Steam (23,250 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Android
  2. Outlast library art: a hulking scarred inmate with a stitched grin and glowing eyes stands in a dark asylum corridor, seen in green night vision SurvivalOutlastSet in Mount Massive Asylum, a long-abandoned home for the mentally ill in the mountains of Colorado. 93% on the PlayStation Store (179,484 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. The Last Door: Season 2 screenshot: a man in a dark coat stands by a glowing gas lamp on a night street before an old brick house PsychologicalThe Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's EditionThe first episode has you explore an old insane asylum in Victorian London 94% on Steam (992 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  4. The Other Side key art: pale hands reach around a door left ajar in a dark room, with cold blue light spilling through the gap Co-opThe Other SideSummerhill Psychiatric Institution is one of the larger maps, with wards, tubs and chalkboards about lobotomy. 93% on Steam (1,243 reviews)PaidPC
  5. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 key art: title beside a pale cracked-mask figure holding a finger to its lips, in a dark hole in cracked blue ice PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2Holly follows the clues from her family house to the Dark Falls Asylum, which comes alive at night. 92% on Google Play (42,600 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  6. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 key art: a pale woman behind a cracked oval mirror, a clawed grey hand raised to hush, in a wall of roots and gold frames PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3The search leads back to the ruined insane asylum of Dark Falls, where the second part left Holly. 93% on Steam (661 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android, Xbox
  7. DEVOUR art: a possessed woman with matted dark hair, black eyes and a wide grin, with other demonic faces in red behind her Co-opDEVOURThe Asylum map, added in April 2021, uses rats as its ritual items. 90% on Steam (88,464 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, VR
  8. Forgotten Memories key art: a screaming blonde Rose holds up a flashlight as shadowy figures loom on the left, above the antlered game logo PsychologicalForgotten MemoriesRose looks for a missing girl at an asylum in Maine in 1991. 90% on Google Play (3,580 ratings)about 2 hPaidiPhone, Android, Switch
  9. Imaginary Friend Asylum key art: stitched doll-like creatures led by a red jester in a dark ruff, with a yellow button-eyed doll and a grinning clown, in a stairwell PsychologicalImaginary Friend AsylumSet in 1949 at Hathmoore Children's Asylum, where you arrive as a new patient among cruel staff. 100% on Steam (73 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  10. Paranormal Entities cover: the title over a dark corridor of barred cells, framed by a camera viewfinder Night shiftParanormal EntitiesSet in the St. Augustine Asylum for the Mentally Ill, through barred cell blocks and tiled corridors. 92% on itch.io (290 ratings)Pay what you wantPC
  11. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 Enhanced Edition key art: a pale woman with long black hair over her face holding a finger to her lips, beside the scratched title PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1Letters from Dark Falls Asylum draw Holly there, and the store lists a visit to the abandoned asylum. 88% on Google Play (130,000 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox, Android
  12. Sanitarium key art: a single bloodshot green eye staring out between strips of rough bandage PsychologicalSanitariumAfter a car accident you wake up in a gloomy asylum with your head wrapped in bandages 84% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android
  13. Paranoia Place key art: a tall creature with a tentacle-like head in a dark forest, seen past hands holding a camera, beside the title SurvivalParanoia Place: Escape TogetherOne map is a mental hospital, where players restore power and burn a wooden house to open the doors. 88% on Steam (1,863 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  14. Black Mirror II key art: a shattered-glass collage with a man seen from behind in fog facing a gothic castle, and small game scenes in the broken shards Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIThe store lists a mental hospital among its more than 100 locations. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  15. DOCTOR VISCERA key art: the grinning doctor in green goggles and a lab coat reaches out, holding a bloody heart, against black SurvivalDOCTOR VISCERAYou are trapped inside the abandoned GrimmHaus Asylum and have five nights to find a way out. 94% on Steam (129 reviews)PaidPC
  16. Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness key art: a balding clown in white gloves and a loose tie clutches his face and screams upward, lit teal above and red below in dark smoke PsychologicalVlad Circus: Descend Into MadnessOliver comes to the reunion straight from Pennhurst Asylum, and his diary notes his release and his doctor there. 89% on Steam (205 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. EVERYBODY MUST DIE key art: the title in white and red with its Korean name over a blood-spattered pixel-art room, where the old patient stands on a rug beside an orderly holding a club 2D horrorEVERYBODY MUST DIESet in the Goldsworthy Mental Health Rehabilitation Center in 1906, through its wards, offices and cellars. 92% on itch.io (192 ratings)about 45 minFreeBrowser, PC
  18. Slendrina: Asylum title screen: a dim brick corridor with a pale figure at the far end, the red title and Play, Help and Quit options EscapeSlendrina: AsylumYou search an abandoned asylum for eight pages of an old medical book, through brick corridors and a long dining hall. 86% on Google Play (77,170 ratings)about 10 minFree with adsAndroid, iPhone
  19. Get Out key art: a hooded figure in a straitjacket sits cross-legged in a blue-lit prison cell, a silhouette at the barred window behind SurvivalGet Out ! A "Very Bad Dreams" StoryYou are Dean, a patient locked in a decaying, prison-like mental asylum, and the goal is to get out of it. 83% on the PlayStation Store (176 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, VR
  20. Demonologist key art: a pale girl with dark eyes and grimy cheeks stares out of the dark beside two lit candles Co-opDemonologistBedlam, an asylum, is one of the haunted locations you can unlock as you level up. 85% on Steam (24,415 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  21. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood key art: a giant fanged, bloody clown face and a cracked doll above a rollercoaster track, with the orange marquee title Action horrorUntil Dawn: Rush of BloodA later ride runs through an old sanatorium where you confront the Psycho 85% on the PlayStation Store (18,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPlayStation, VR
  22. Spectator key art: a faceless figure in a suit and a grinning animatronic bear in a top hat stand in a dark forest, drawn in orange and teal PsychologicalSpectatorPlayers on the prologue page mention an Asylum level, and one screenshot shows a grimy operating room with a nurse. 90% on Steam (166 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  23. Julia Was Alone Chapter 1 title screen: a grinning, wide-eyed man drawn in cyan on blue under the title 2D horrorJulia Was AloneA deranged maniac has escaped from the local asylum and is heading for Julia's neighbourhood. 92% on itch.io (119 ratings)about 24 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC, Mac
  24. CULTIC key art: a man opens the door of a muscle car outside a barbed-wire compound at dusk, framed by hooded cultists with an axe in red light Action horrorCULTICOne level opens with sniper duels in the grounds of an abandoned asylum. 97% on Steamabout 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  25. The Black Mirror key art: a gothic castle silhouette with a lit round window and an orange occult seal against a blood-red stormy sky Puzzle horrorThe Black MirrorA mental hospital is one of the places the investigation takes Samuel 84% on Steam (1,509 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  26. Horrorfield key art: the Cultist with a hooked staff under a full moon on one side, three survivors running with flashlights on the other Co-opHorrorfield Multiplayer HorrorThe store says the engineer fixes generators around the asylum, and the Cultist escaped from the mental hospital. 82% on Google Play (716,000 ratings)about 10 minFree to playiPhone, Android
  27. White Noise 2 key art: a screaming, clawed monster with glowing eyes lunges out of dark green fog above the game's title Co-opWhite Noise 2CyberPowerPC's review describes a map in an abandoned mental ward with bloody gurneys and body bags 80% on Steam (2,857 reviews)about 10 minPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation
  28. A Chair in a Room: Greenwater key art: the title over a dark, misty teal forest of hanging vines, marked Remastered PsychologicalA Chair in a Room: GreenwaterYou wake as patient no. 6079 in the Greenwater Institute, a cell with a hatch where the doctor's medication is handed in 83% on Steam (615 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  29. The Town of Light key art: painted profile of a young woman with closed eyes, face tilted up, beside a glowing orange asylum building fading into green mist PsychologicalThe Town of LightSet in the Volterra psychiatric hospital in Tuscany, a real asylum rebuilt in detail, whose empty wards you walk 79% on Steam (2,839 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  30. ASYLUM key art: a worn restraint chair with trailing straps in a dim, grimy room, the title in jagged red letters PsychologicalASYLUMSet entirely in the Hanwell Mental Institute, a vast, decaying asylum you return to as a former patient. 83% on Steam (432 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux

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