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City horror games

Horror games set in a city: quarantined Los Angeles, a walled Villedor, Raccoon City in an outbreak, a half-drowned New Orleans and Oakmont. You cross streets, rooftops, sewers and districts that were full of people not long ago. The fear is in the scale of it: every alley and stalled car can hide something, help is not coming, and the way out runs through blocks you do not know.

The top 30 of 78 city horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood PsychologicalAnthology Of The KillerBB lives in XX City, the centre of serial killer culture, and each chapter visits a different part of it. 99% on Steam (810 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  2. Resident Evil 2 key art: Leon in his police uniform and Claire in a red jacket aim pistols at zombies in the rain, the police station lit up behind them SurvivalResident Evil 2Set in Raccoon City, a mountain city in the American Midwest, during a zombie outbreak 97% on Steam (226,665 reviews)about 8.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  3. Fear & Hunger 2: Termina key art: a bandaged girl with a knife, and a dark grinning moon glowing yellow above a tower at the end of a street SurvivalFear & Hunger 2: TerminaPrehevil, a city based mostly on Prague, is open to explore in any direction, with streets, bars, a church and sewers. 97% on Steam (15,692 reviews)PaidPC
  4. Left 4 Dead key art: a pale infected hand raised against a scratched green background Co-opLeft 4 DeadNo Mercy and Dead Air cross a city overrun by the infected, from its streets to its rooftops. 96% on Steam (68,570 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC
  5. HROT key art: a horse in a gas mask stands in a dim industrial room beside the rusty HROT logo plate Action horrorHROTLevels are drawn from real places in and around Prague: tenement blocks, squares and metro stations 96% on Steam (6,573 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC
  6. 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 DaysSet in Huta-Grobno, a grey city-state where miners have found a strange substance oozing from deep underground. 98% on itch.io (543 ratings)about 1 hFreePC
  7. Gloomwood key art: a cloaked figure in a top hat, seen from behind, walks a foggy Victorian street toward a glowing archway with a red lantern and a blade SurvivalGloomwoodThe whole game is one hand-built city of docks, markets, rooftops and tunnels that you cross on foot 95% on Steam (8,511 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  8. Nightmare Frames key art: a sheriff with a revolver, a bearded man holding a film reel and an older woman in a purple dress under bright beams of light 2D horrorNightmare FramesThe first two thirds of the game move around 1985 Los Angeles, from studios to pawn shops, by taxi. 98% on Steam (443 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  9. DEAD LETTER DEPT. key art: the white title over a red background with a barcode strip and a torn, burnt letter postmarked San Francisco PsychologicalDEAD LETTER DEPT.The story starts after you move to the big city, with a letter that sets why you came. 95% on Steam (1,885 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, Linux
  10. Athanasy key art: a giant mass of fused human bodies and arms with a screaming mouth, bone spikes and green runes, beside the game's title Body horrorAthanasySet in the City, a nameless underground maze of cramped streets that is humanity's last refuge. 97% on Steam (491 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  11. Wicked Seed key art: Ella raises a handgun and looks over her shoulder in a dark forest framed by red flowers and thorny red branches SurvivalWicked SeedElla explores the alleys of an evacuated city where giant spiders wait under the street lamps 95% on Steam (1,487 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  12. BioShock key art: a rusty Big Daddy with a drill arm and a Little Sister holding a syringe in a dim, flooded art deco hall Multiple endingsBioShockYou fight your way through Rapture, a whole failed city of shops, clinics and stairwells under the Atlantic. 94% on Steam (32,277 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, Xbox
  13. The Last Door Collector's Edition key art: a man in a coat holds a lantern before a dark manor at sunset, a crow beside the gold title PsychologicalThe Last DoorAmong the places you visit are a run-down London street and its decaying tenements. 95% on Steam (2,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  14. F.E.A.R. key art: the F.E.A.R. logo beside Alma, a pale dark-haired girl, on an orange background Action horrorF.E.A.R.In Extraction Point the team battles Alma and her paranormal minions across a destroyed city. 94% on Steam (19,718 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  15. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) key art: the red and silver game logo beside Nemesis's stitched, grimacing face on black SurvivalResident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)The whole game is an escape through Raccoon City's streets, alleys and buildings as the outbreak overruns it. 95% on the PlayStation Store (11,720 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation
  16. Resident Evil 2 (1998) key art: the red Resident Evil 2 logo on black beside a pale zombie with one bulging eye and clawed fingers peering round a dark door SurvivalResident Evil 2 (1998)Set in Raccoon City as it falls, with burning streets of wrecked cars and zombie police officers 96% on GOG (2,714 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC
  17. Parasocial key art: a streamer in headphones and a hoodie sits at her glowing monitor by a window over a night city Psychological[Chilla's Art] ParasocialNina walks night streets between apartment towers, a convenience store and a cafe. 94% on Steam (1,728 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  18. CHAOS;CHILD key art: a boy in glasses and school uniform among seven schoolgirls, their figures eaten away by rust-red splatter on white PsychologicalCHAOS;CHILDShibuya, rebuilt six years after an earthquake nearly levelled it, is where every murder of the case takes place 93% on Steam (4,166 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  19. Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken key art: Amy with a flashlight by a tree trunk set with clock faces, among stone arches and shadow figures with glowing eyes SurvivalDeep Sleep: Labyrinth of the ForsakenAmy crosses a foggy abandoned city in her dreams and lives in her brother's city between them 95% on Steam (653 reviews)14 h or morePaidPC
  20. An English Haunting key art: a medium with white eyes breathing out smoke beside a glowing blue ghost, a dark manor and a red-eyed hooded figure behind 2D horrorAn English HauntingMuch of the case is played in Edwardian London: its streets, a theatre entrance at night, a club and a shabby factory district. 96% on Steam (462 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Switch
  21. Death Park 2 key art: an abandoned police car with its door open on a foggy suburban street, a white house and fence behind it Multiple endingsDeath Park 2: Scary Clown GameSteam calls it a haunted city full of nightmares, and its eight locations include the city streets 92% on Google Play (297,000 ratings)about 1.5 hFree to playiPhone, Android, PC, Xbox, Switch
  22. You Will (Not) Remain art: a figure in a long coat and a dog on a white rooftop, in 1-bit pixel art, with huge violet tentacle-like shapes looming over a dark city skyline PsychologicalYou Will (Not) RemainFrom the rooftop you watch the city's towers under a violet glow as it succumbs to a nameless terror. 92% on Steam (2,552 reviews)about 45 minFreePC
  23. Bloodwash key art: a screaming man and woman trapped behind the door of a bloody washing machine, beside the dripping red title on a pink wall PS1BloodwashThe Womb Ripper is terrorizing the city, and the laundromat sits on its outskirts 92% on Steam (1,408 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  24. The Last of Us Part II Remastered key art: Ellie crouches before a flooded, ruined Seattle with a Ferris wheel, while Abby walks with a gun among embers inside Ellie's silhouette SurvivalThe Last of Us Part II RemasteredMost of the game is spent in the rain-drenched streets of a flooded, overgrown Seattle, seen from rooftops and ruined shops. 91% on the PlayStation Store (311,000 ratings)24 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  25. Metro: Last Light Redux key art: a gas-masked soldier with a rifle and a round shield crouching in the rain before ruined Moscow towers and a domed church Multiple endingsMetro: Last Light ReduxThe surface missions cross a ruined Moscow of broken skyscrapers, a columned theatre and streets full of wrecked cars 91% on Steam (82,615 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  26. No More Room in Hell: key art of a crowd of rotting zombies pressing forward, a man with a ruined face and a woman with a torn jaw in front SurvivalNo More Room in HellSurvivors fight through rainy city streets at night, under an elevated railway and past an abandoned tank. 90% on Steam (76,858 reviews)FreePC, Linux
  27. Terminal 81 store art: a red supermarket with a glowing shopping-cart sign and parked cars on a dark, foggy street at night PsychologicalTerminal 81Lorena moves to the big city of São Paulo for work and roams a free map of its streets, shops and parks. 96% on Steam (277 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  28. M.Stain key art: the title in dripping red letters over a dark green room scattered with dollar bills, beside a grimacing low-poly face, with the line He wants to make you an offer PsychologicalM.StainThe maker's pitch: you have always wanted that great job in the big city, and M. Stain has a position with your name on it. 94% on itch.io (291 ratings)about 20 minPay what you wantPC
  29. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners key art: a survivor with a backpack faces a fog-filled New Orleans street full of walkers SurvivalThe Walking Dead: Saints & SinnersYou scavenge districts of a half-drowned New Orleans, from clapboard streets to creole mansions. 92% on the Meta Quest store (22,678 ratings)15 h or morePaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  30. HR: Human Remains key art: a giant red tentacled demon with a fanged maw looms over stacks of paper in a dark office, with the title in red below Multiple endingsHR: Human RemainsBetween jobs you cross a ruined city overtaken by demonic influence, with checkpoints, guards and desperate survivors. 99% on Steam (124 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC

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More kinds of horror

  1. Short horror games621
  2. Psychological horror games530
  3. Horror games with multiple endings417
  4. Horror puzzle games341
  5. Survival horror games259
  6. 2D horror games254
  7. PS1 horror games233
  8. Stealth horror games180
  9. Horror escape games164
  10. Surreal horror games145
  11. Horror visual novels137
  12. Anime horror games132
  13. Haunted house games131
  14. Mystery and detective horror games127
Every genre

Where you play

  1. Steam horror games1009
  2. Epic horror games97
  3. GOG horror games270
  4. itch.io horror games592
  5. PC horror games1337
  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
  8. PlayStation horror games404
  9. Xbox horror games367
  10. Switch horror games317
  11. Mobile horror games188
  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
  1. Scary games1456
  2. Free horror games561
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