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Church horror games

Horror games that take you into a church: a cathedral with a pipe organ, a village chapel, an abbey, a cult's place of worship. You walk the nave and the side chapels, read what is written on the walls and listen for what moves behind the pews. The fear is in a quiet, sacred space that no longer protects anyone who comes in.

The top 30 of 52 church horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. Don't Escape Trilogy art: a grey pixel-art corridor with metal doors and a round porthole showing a log cabin in a green field Puzzle horrorDon't Escape TrilogyIn Don't Escape 2 you scavenge the countryside, including a small stone chapel, for supplies 99% on Steam (770 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Browser
  2. DUSK key art: antlered, long-limbed creatures with glowing eyes stand before a gothic cathedral under a blood-red sky Action horrorDUSKKey art and a screenshot show a gothic cathedral and a wooden country church under a red sky 97% on Steam (25,590 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  3. HROT key art: a horse in a gas mask stands in a dim industrial room beside the rusty HROT logo plate Action horrorHROTTwin-spired churches under a brown, stormy sky are among the real places you fight through 96% on Steam (6,573 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC
  4. Sorry We're Closed key art: a blue-skinned horned demon woman with a long tongue, tooth earrings and a pink Baby choker, under the game's title SurvivalSorry We're ClosedAn abandoned church guarded by an angel is one of the places Michelle explores. 98% on Steam (1,676 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Funeralopolis: Last Days key art: the title over a man in round glasses pressing a bloody hand to his chest, with night-time apartment blocks and tram wires behind him PsychologicalFuneralopolis: Last DaysThe Church runs its own radio channel, rounds residents up in the street at night and comes to search every room. 98% on itch.io (543 ratings)about 1 hFreePC
  6. Bloodborne key art: a hunter in a long coat and tricorn hat, seen from behind with a bloody saw cleaver and a pistol, on a foggy cobbled gothic street under the title Body horrorBloodborneThe Healing Church spread the blood ministration behind the plague, and its grand cathedral is one of your first goals 95% on the PlayStation Store (292,931 ratings)34 h or morePaidPlayStation
  7. FAITH: The Unholy Trinity key art: a caped man seen from behind faces a huge red demon with many clawed arms in a dark painted scene SurvivalFAITH: The Unholy TrinityThe store page lists abandoned churches among the places the priest explores. 95% on Steam (9,226 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Angels of Death key art: blonde Ray in a white jacket and striped top beside bandaged Zack in a bloodstained hooded coat, grinning and waving in a dark corridor PsychologicalAngels of DeathFloor B2 is a huge cathedral with a pipe organ, where writing on the walls tells Ray to repent 95% on Steam (5,441 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. D3V0UR key art: the yellow pixel title with an eyeball for the O, over a purple-tinted figure in a zipped hoodie holding a hammer on black PsychologicalD3V0URIn the Sun Head dream you collect an eyeball and head back to a church while it chases you. 98% on itch.io (426 ratings)FreePC, Mac
  10. Enigma of Fear key art: Mia with a flashlight and pistol, her dog Lupi and the Ordo Realitas agents before a dark house under a huge ghostly face with green eyes Multiple endingsEnigma of FearOne of the store's screenshots shows Mia and Lupi before a lit Gothic church under a full moon. 95% on Steam (3,104 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC
  11. Little Goody Two Shoes: key art of Elise in a red dress and bow, holding a lantern and a finger to her lips in a dark blue forest full of fireflies PsychologicalLittle Goody Two ShoesThe village square of Kieferberg has its church beside the fountain, and the town is pious enough to burn a witch. 95% on Steam (2,574 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  12. Dead Space 2 key art: Isaac Clarke's helmet with glowing green light strips in darkness SurvivalDead Space 2One level takes Isaac through a Unitologist church on the Sprawl, with stained glass. 94% on Steam (30,265 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Xbox
  13. Water Womb World key art: a pale grinning hooded figure with hollow eyes on a black panel over red swirling flesh, with the title on a blue bar ShortWater Womb WorldA grainy memory of a church nave and its gilded altar comes with narration about science and God's plan. 94% on itch.io (493 ratings)about 15 minFreePC, Mac
  14. Exmortis 2 key art: a grey stone church with a cross on its tower under a blood-red sky, the title in dripping letters Puzzle horrorExmortis 2The game opens at a stone church, where you go through the front door and into the confessional booths. 94% on Newgrounds (2,503 ratings)about 1 hFreeBrowser
  15. Comatose key art: a figure and a small dog on a path face a foggy village with a church steeple and bare trees, under the white title PsychologicalComatoseA small white chapel stands at the end of the fog-bound town square. 96% on Steam (414 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  16. Tormentum key art: a pale skeletal figure with outstretched arms bound by cords before a huge skull in a wall of dark biomechanical flesh PsychologicalTormentum - Dark SorrowLater in the game you reach a cathedral where a mad painter lives among his canvases. 92% on Google Play (4,110 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  17. Into the Dead 2 key art: a survivor with a flashlight approaches the glowing door of a military bunker at night, with a Humvee and a watchtower behind Action horrorInto the Dead 2: Zombie KillerThe opening store image shows zombies walking through a field toward a church. 92% on Google Play (719,000 ratings)about 6 hFree to playiPhone, Android, Switch
  18. Eloquent Countenance title screen: a pale-haired nun with round glasses slumped in a blue-lit church inside an ornate frame, beside the menu Mourn, Continue, Leave PsychologicalEloquent CountenanceThe whole game takes place on one map, a church drawn with tall pillars, a checkered floor and stained glass. 94% on itch.io (710 ratings)about 35 minPay what you wantPC, Mac
  19. Flicker of Hope key art: the little candle Jean Wick, with a face and a bright flame, on a cracked stone slab by a dark stone wall ShortFlicker of HopeSet in a ruined gothic cathedral whose lights have gone out, which you cross hall by hall and down into its crypts. 93% on Steam (1,068 reviews)about 35 minFreePC, Mac
  20. Post Memory key art: two pixel-art postmen, one blond in a navy jacket and one in a cap and glasses, on either side of a blue Royal Postal Service post box with the title 2D horrorPost MemoryA screenshot shows the town's pixel-art church with its pews, candelabras and a statue, where the priest greets you. 96% on itch.io (240 ratings)about 45 minFreeBrowser, PC
  21. Shrine key art: the pixel-art title, its I drawn as a cross, over a dark pine forest and fence at night, with a double-barrelled shotgun at the bottom Action horrorShrineA chapel with stained glass windows hung with bloody crucified shapes 92% on Steam (969 reviews)about 1.5 hFreePC, Linux
  22. Cursed 2 key art: a pixel-art woman with black hair and green eyes, a shotgun at her side, and railway tracks running through dark grass toward a red-lit tunnel under the purple title Multiple endingsCursed 2The town's church, with its pews, altar and pipe organ, is one of the places you search. 95% on Steam (273 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC
  23. Eclipsium key art: a pixel-art hooded figure with one huge black eye in a dark red cave, a distant robed figure holding up a glowing orb PsychologicalEclipsiumThe Wanderer's path runs through cathedrals of flesh; one screenshot climbs the steps of a vast blood-red cathedral to an altar 91% on Steam (3,822 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  24. Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. key art: the lit porch of a clapboard house with a red door and green shutters at night, dark woods and stars around it MysteryConrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.One location is a church with its surrounding cemetery and woods 92% on Steam (992 reviews)50 h or morePaidPC
  25. Daemonologie key art: pale sheep grazing and resting on a dark, grainy black-and-white hillside at night PsychologicalDaemonologieOne of the places you visit is the village church, where a priest sits in the gloomy, empty nave. 92% on Steam (581 reviews)about 30 minPaidPC
  26. Chordosis Founders Edition key art: a pale, hollow-eyed alien looms out of the dark behind the glitched title SurvivalChordosisA church with an onion-domed bell tower rises over the bare trees and the misty lots of Dunahont. 94% on itch.io (289 ratings)about 1 hPaidPC
  27. soundless Final Verse key art: an anime-style girl with long silver hair, blue eyes and a green school jacket and red tie looks back with a faint smile beside the title and a white inverted cross Psychologicalsoundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -The Group lives in the church on the hill, where Mercy was taken in after her parents died and where she is scolded and punished. 96% on itch.io (108 ratings)about 7 hFreePC, Mac, Linux, Android
  28. Bad Faith title screen: a dark-haired girl clutching a book under a giant tree as four other girls walk past, with the gothic title above and the menu below PsychologicalBad FaithThe Apologia Assemblies take place in a candlelit hall with wooden pews, where Magda claps quietly so as not to draw suspicion. 96% on itch.io (143 ratings)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  29. Meat Girl key art: a white-haired girl with a golden halo and hollow eyes beside a dark-haired girl in black, on a red streaked background under the pixel title PsychologicalMeat GirlA pale purple chapel with a clock tower stands in the snowy woods, its door locked. 94% on itch.io (242 ratings)about 40 minPaidPC, Browser, Mac, Linux
  30. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days key art: a zombie woman in a torn nightgown leans against a wood-panelled wall beside cracked family photographs SurvivalInto the Dead: Our Darkest DaysA church is among the buildings survivors can search on their runs. 89% on Steam (10,074 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac

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  7. PS1 horror games233
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
  8. PlayStation horror games404
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  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
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