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Cult horror games

In these games a group of believers stands between you and getting out. You track down a kidnapped girl through a village of robed followers, hunt a Satanic order across the countryside, or walk the halls of a ship where a church worships a strange relic. The fear comes from crowds who act as one, rituals you do not understand, and people who will not listen to reason.

The top 30 of 89 cult horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. 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 still holds to ancient rites and macabre traditions, and you can draw sigils to appeal to the powers of the gods. 97% on Steam (15,692 reviews)PaidPC
  2. DUSK key art: antlered, long-limbed creatures with glowing eyes stand before a gothic cathedral under a blood-red sky Action horrorDUSKSteam: you face mystical backwater cultists in the first of three episodes 97% on Steam (25,590 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  3. Resident Evil 4 key art: a close-up of Leon Kennedy's face beside a dark foggy forest with a figure standing by wooden crosses SurvivalResident Evil 4The president's daughter, Ashley Graham, has been taken by a mysterious cult that Leon has to track down. 97% on Steam (283,806 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Mac, iPhone, VR
  4. Resident Evil Village art: a bearded man's face in falling snow, half of it turned to dark wolf fur with a glowing yellow eye and a fang SurvivalResident Evil VillageThe villagers worship a figure they call Mother Miranda and the lords who serve her. 96% on Steam (155,822 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, VR
  5. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley key art: a grinning, blood-splattered Andrew with a cleaver and Ashley leaning on him before a coffin with red eyes, surrounded by red flowers and a small crying ghost PsychologicalThe Coffin of Andy and LeyleyA hooded cultist neighbour starts the story, and one scene puts the siblings in a bar full of robed cultists around a pentagram. 96% on Steam (39,970 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  6. Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with glowing eyes and long dark hair before a wooden fence and a field of sunflowers, some with faces PsychologicalDread FieldsFinger Guns describes a nasty secret behind the farm involving cult sacrifices and bloodied animals. 98% on Steam (613 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  7. Nightmare of Decay key art: three bloodied, low-poly zombies with pale eyes and open mouths against a dark red background SurvivalNightmare of DecayGun-toting cultists are among the enemies the store page names, and a robed figure appears in the manor library. 96% on Steam (4,467 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  8. lily's world XD key art: glitchy pastel early-2000s desktop windows with pixel icons around a pixelated photo of a dark-haired girl with a black bar over her eyes Psychologicallily's world XDHer trail leads to the Radiant Path, an online group with a retreat and a commune that preyed on her insecurities. 97% on Steam (1,612 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  9. Feed The Pit key art: black silhouettes of people and a horned yellow-eyed creature falling against a red sky toward a row of black spikes Puzzle horrorFeed The PitYou are invited into the E.C.C., a society that serves The Pit and sends you out to kill for it, For Brotherhood. 97% on Steam (749 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC
  10. The Dark Rites of Arkham key art: a detective in a fedora holds a revolver as huge toothed jaws and tentacles loom out of a blue night behind him 2D horrorThe Dark Rites of ArkhamThe investigation leads to a cult, and the second act is spent with it in the woods. 97% on Steam (706 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  11. 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 TrinityWard travels the countryside to stop a Satanic cult, and fights possessed cultists. 95% on Steam (9,226 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  12. 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 FramesAlan's trail runs through religious cults, among them a group called the Church of Mother Earth. 98% on Steam (443 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  13. 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 FearThe Cult of Fear is behind the disappearance of countless Ordo Realitas agents, and its occult seals and symbols mark the Perimeter. 95% on Steam (3,104 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC
  14. CRUEL key art: a hooded, rotting cultist holding a fizzing soda can behind the dripping red CRUEL logo Action horrorCRUELThe apartment block is run by a cult, and hooded cultists with pistols and shotguns fill every floor 95% on Steam (1,848 reviews)about 40 minPaidPC
  15. Tales of the Black Forest key art: three anime girls, one white-haired in a kimono, one in school uniform, one with fox ears, before a dark pixel-art station 2D horrorTales of the Black ForestThe ghost train chapter features a fictional new religious movement modelled on the group behind the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack. 96% on Steam (1,080 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  16. Dead Space 2 key art: Isaac Clarke's helmet with glowing green light strips in darkness SurvivalDead Space 2The Church of Unitology worships the Markers and drives much of the story's mystery. 94% on Steam (30,265 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Xbox
  17. Resident Evil 4 VR key art: Leon Kennedy's face over a dark village beside the Resident Evil 4 logo, with The Mercenaries characters on the right SurvivalResident Evil 4 (VR)Leon is sent to rural Europe because the US president's daughter has been taken by a cult. 94% on the Meta Quest store (13,138 ratings)16 h or morePaidVR
  18. Sucker for Love: Date to Die For key art: Rhok'zan, a goat-headed woman with curling purple hair and a gold collar, among dark leaves AnimeSucker for Love: Date to Die ForCultists kidnap you, and you avoid them as you explore and use their own spellbook against them. 95% on Steam (1,363 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  19. Who's Lila? key art: a dithered Polaroid of a young woman lies beside a fountain pen and a notebook with the number 3816, in dark red and off-white PsychologicalWho's Lila?Adventure Gamers describes nightmarish landscapes, cults and the supernatural in the story. 94% on Steam (3,887 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  20. Butcher's Creek key art: the white splatter-style title over a sepia-orange mass of writhing, eye-studded flesh Action horrorButcher's CreekThe killers' notes and writings point to cult activity behind the snuff films 94% on Steam (1,709 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  21. No, I'm not a Human key art: four uncanny drawn faces lit in green, a grinning shirtless man, a woman in a scarf, an old man and a woman with a bob, against apartment blocks at night PsychologicalNo, I'm not a HumanSome of the people who come to your door are cultists, and one ending depends on keeping them alive for a ritual. 93% on Steam (31,588 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  22. Cursed 3 art: a pale, run-down two-storey farmhouse with a red brick chimney in a dry field under a grey sky, dark trees and leaning power poles in pixel art SurvivalCursed 3The story follows on from Randall taking down an evil cult that tried to resurrect a demon in Jennifer's hometown. 98% on Steam (261 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC
  23. Cat in the Box key art: a long-haired girl at a lectern in a dark brick hall looks down a red carpet to a silhouetted figure in a bright doorway 2D horrorCat in the BoxThe mansion belonged to a cult whose members disappeared; notes and recordings they left behind explain what they did there. 93% on Steam (1,436 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  24. Sagebrush key art: a lone wooden chapel with a cross on a red hillside above dark trees, under a teal sky PsychologicalSagebrushYou explore the compound of Perfect Heaven, an apocalyptic cult formed in the early 1990s around the prophet Father James 94% on itch.io (415 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  25. Vacant cover: the glitchy word vacant over a pixel-art forest silhouetted against a pink and orange sunset 2D horrorVacantThe maker's content warnings name discussion of a cult and mass suicide tied to the building's past 96% on itch.io (260 ratings)about 35 minFreeBrowser, PC, Mac
  26. 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 RemasteredThe Seraphites, a religious cult, are locked in a battle with an armed militia for control of Seattle. 91% on the PlayStation Store (311,000 ratings)24 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  27. Dead Space key art: Isaac Clarke in his engineering suit, the helmet's slits glowing blue, in a gloomy ship corridor SurvivalDead SpaceIsaac finds the fanatical Church of Unitology and its Marker at the heart of what happened aboard. 91% on Steam (72,011 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  28. Choo-Choo Charles key art: a red spider train with a grinning, toothed face and a lit headlamp coming through a forest at night under a full moon SurvivalChoo-Choo CharlesArmed cultists guard the mines where the eggs needed to summon Charles are kept. 91% on Steam (18,106 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  29. DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain key art: a flooded city under a blood-red sky and a lighthouse, divers drifting among sunken towers toward spiked sea monsters SurvivalDIVE or DIE - Children of RainThe camp sacrifices its own people at an altar to appease the Maker of Rain, a cultish society sliding into barbarism. 92% on Steam (1,471 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC
  30. Shrine II key art: the title in pale pink gothic pixel letters over a dark retro 3D forest path between rocky brown walls Action horrorShrine IIHooded, robed figures close in around a flayed body nailed to a cross in a gothic square 92% on Steam (872 reviews)FreePC, Linux

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  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
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  14. Mystery and detective horror games127
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  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
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