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Psychological horror games in your browser

20 psychological horror games in your browser, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The fear comes mainly from the mind: dread, unreliable perception, guilt, isolation or a reality that comes apart, rather than from fighting monsters. A game with one such scene in an action game does not count.

20 games

All psychological horror games in your browser

a man outside illustration: a dark silhouette of a man standing on a grey pavement between two bare, twisted trees

a man outside

A vocabulary quiz, a quiet street, and a man who keeps standing there.

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Assessment Examination cover: a noisy black-and-white face with huge black eyes and a gaping mouth above the title

Assessment Examination

An entrance exam for a department that judges what is real.

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Being Her Darkest Friend: Selina stands on a rock ledge in the dark as a grey figure with red eyes sits above her, with the line 'Tomoko?!'

Being Her Darkest Friend

An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.

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blank_01 cover: the title in thin capitals above a single large cartoon eye on a white background

blank_01

Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

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Ceasing to be Her Demise nightmare art: a skeleton slumped in front of a grey wall of ribs, with tentacle-like shapes and an eye in the dark below

Ceasing to be Her Demise

Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.

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Exhibit of Sorrows screenshot: a circus stage with red curtains, a lit-up WELCOME sign, a blue parrot doll in an oval frame and a yellow instructions board

Exhibit of Sorrows

Explore a circus exhibit of friendly dolls, and do not upset the clown.

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Flesh, Blood, & Concrete cover: the title scrawled in white over a dark red photo of a concrete apartment block with balconies and barred windows

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

Explore a grim concrete apartment block and what its tenants left behind.

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Goodnight Meowmie screenshot: a girl and a white cat in a wood-panelled room above a menu of Talk, Feed, Pet, Play with health, food and happiness bars and the line 'Meowmie, my one true friend.'

Goodnight Meowmie

Care for your cat in a virtual pet game that turns to horror.

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I Can't Sleep screenshot: a dim wood-panelled room with a fire burning in the fireplace between tall bookshelves

I Can't Sleep

A paid sleep study, one control room, and a week without sleep.

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last seen online screenshot: a dithered pink photo of a dark-haired girl making a peace sign behind floating hearts, found on the old computer

last seen online

Snoop through a stranger's old computer and find out what it hides.

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Leaftaker cover: the title in white serif letters on the black screen of an old monitor

Leaftaker

When Stephen Hester died, his grave was already occupied.

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Mausoleosis cover: David and a blonde woman holding a teddy bear between gravestone crosses, under a shadowy clawed figure

Mausoleosis

A letter from a mother who has been dead for twenty years.

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my father's long, long legs cover: worn stone steps lead down into a dark basement under the title in typewriter letters

my father's long, long legs

Your father started digging in the basement, and he never stopped.

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Paper Cages screenshot: a pixel-art bedroom with a figure in bed, a close-up of a tired face between willpower and completion bars, and the prompt Mash Z to wake up

Paper Cages

Wake up, get dressed, go to work. A true horror story.

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Please Answer Carefully cover: the title in plain grey letters on a light grey background, like a web form

Please Answer Carefully

An online survey that knows a little too much about you.

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Sofia? cover: a dark-haired young man glances sideways while a pale masked figure smeared with blood stands behind him, the title written in pink

Sofia?

A sweet night at your boyfriend's place, until a guest arrives.

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The Anchorite screenshot: a pixel-art tower study with bookshelf and desk, a robed boy on a red rug told You have been blessed, child. You are now the Anchorite

The Anchorite

Never leave the tower. Never look upon the sullied.

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The Body Monstrous cover: pixelated photos of bare arms and hands reaching across a dark background, the title written on the skin

The Body Monstrous

Take care of your body. It lives in the basement.

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The Open House cover: a real estate flyer reading Virtual Open House, 15615 Hollow Oak Lane, over a photo of a stone-fronted suburban home

The Open House

A virtual tour of a showcase home that is not what the brochure says.

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Time is Solid Here screenshot: a top-down room where the player figure is a floating severed head, beside a large warped portrait of an old man, with dialogue about word from upstairs or downstairs

Time is Solid Here

Step into surreal paintings and help uneasy figures move on.

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