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16 surreal horror games in your browser, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Its world follows dream or nightmare logic as a main part of the horror: impossible spaces, places and people that shift or make no sense, abstract or symbolic imagery the player moves through. A game with one dream sequence or hallucination in an otherwise ordinary world does not count.

16 games

All surreal horror games in your browser

Antumbra title art: a glowing orange eye with a slit pupil inside a burning ring, above the word Antumbra in orange

Antumbra

A surreal nightmare in sepia, made from its maker's own fears.

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Bars of Black and White title art: the name hand-lettered in black ink over a barcode on white

Bars of Black and White

A barcode reader arrives, and your room is not what it seemed.

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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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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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Enupishi screenshot: a white cat figure named KAT, a cat god, stands in a neon field of binary code under a glitching purple sky

Enupishi

A forbidden love inside a game. One night they run. How far can they go?

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Funerama screenshot: a pale grinning figure with jagged teeth rests its hands on a desk among candelabra and books by Othilie Wynne, in black-and-white dithering

Funerama

Walk the rotting inner world of a novelist and meet what she wrote.

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I AM NOT WHAT REMAINS cover: a grey street scene smeared and broken into datamoshed blocks, with scrambled coloured text and error messages piled over it

I AM NOT WHAT REMAINS

Connect to the server. Walk what is left.

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Meat Girl screenshot: a pale girl with a halo and a white dress beside a snowy wood, saying yes, we are very close

Meat Girl

Look for your missing roommate in winter mountains full of meat.

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One Room cover: a painted girl with green hair holds a lit match in a dark room while a huge pale fish face with human eyes looms behind her

One Room

A girl, a lit match and a room she has never seen. Something in the dark is looking back.

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PAGER screenshot: a black-and-white 1-bit room whose walls and floor are covered in staring eyes

PAGER

You are wetware. Obey the pager. Climb the corporate ladder.

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sacrament i. art: a rough white line drawing on black of a figure with many grey, blade-like wings spread around it

sacrament i.

In the sanctum they do not allow you to dream. Have you ever seen an angel die?

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Soul Void cover: a green pixel portrait of a woman with closed eyes above the title Soul Void

Soul Void

Lost in a Game Boy purgatory, helping the souls who cannot leave.

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SYNTAXIA screenshot: a small character in a blood-spattered pixel-art operating room with a gurney and broken tiles

SYNTAXIA

Whatever you write becomes real. Use it to get out of the Komplex.

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Teeth of Glass cover: a dark operating table stained with black blood under the title

Teeth of Glass

One cut, and a surgeon falls into a fever dream.

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The Knife Sharpener screenshot: a woman with a red bob and dark round glasses on a rainy street of white blocks, saying 'You look like you've seen a ghost! Hahaha!'

The Knife Sharpener

Sharpen knives for the strangers of an indifferent city, one at a time.

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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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