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Dream horror games

In these games you walk through dreams and nightmares: a toddler's memories turned into strange places, a lucid dream that will not end, worlds built inside someone's head. The rules of waking life slip, rooms lead where they should not, and the fear comes from not knowing what is real or how to wake up.

The top 30 of 99 dream 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 KillerDestructoid writes that it comes closer to resembling a real dream than anything the reviewer had seen. 99% on Steam (810 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  2. OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face on white paper PsychologicalOMORIMost of the game is spent in HEADSPACE, a pastel dream world OMORI enters through a door in his white room 97% on Steam (89,115 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation
  3. Sally Face store header: Sal with blue pigtails and his white prosthetic face, between a long-haired teen and a figure in bloody bandages PsychologicalSally FaceDream sequences of Sal's nightmares fill in his past between the episodes' investigations. 97% on Steam (30,172 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  4. Five Nights at Candy's 3 key art: the stitched face of the Monster Rat with glowing red eyes and metal teeth in the dark, the red title across it FNAFFive Nights at Candy's 3Between the nights the game moves into the Dreamscape and Deepscape segments of Mary's nightmares. 97% on Game Jolt (8,953 ratings)about 2 hFreePC
  5. Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk key art: pixel-art girl with teal hair and glowing pink eyes beside the warped neon title on black PsychologicalMilk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milkWikipedia describes text-driven scenes of the girl's dreams, and each of the five endings is shown as a dream 97% on Steam (8,180 reviews)about 50 minPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  6. Baby's Nightmare Circus key art: a dark, cracked animatronic face with glowing red eyes and sharp teeth, with the title at lower right FNAFBaby's Nightmare CircusYou are lost in your own mind, trapped in your sleep and unable to wake, and must find a way out of the dream 97% on Game Jolt (2,229 ratings)about 1.5 hFreePC
  7. Final Nights 3 key art: five decayed animatronics, a white fox, a rotted rabbit, a balloon boy, a puppet and a brown bear, lunge from the dark around a glowing green 3 FNAFFinal Nights 3: Nightmares AwakenThe patient seems to be living out nightmares in his sleep, and you must sleep to make each night pass 96% on Game Jolt (2,323 ratings)FreePC
  8. Deep Sleep Trilogy key art: a skeleton lies on a rotting bed in a ruined, moss-covered room under a night sky, in grainy pixel art EscapeDeep Sleep TrilogyAn attempt at lucid dreaming traps you inside a nightmare world you must escape. 97% on Steam (897 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC
  9. The Inn-Sanity: a large lit-up hotel at night, wrapped in dark red fog PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityThe store page says the hotel's black corridors are filled with bodies and dark dreams that became reality. 96% on Steam (1,669 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  10. 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 horrorBloodborneLamps carry you to the Hunter's Dream, a strange realm where you level up and upgrade weapons 95% on the PlayStation Store (292,931 ratings)34 h or morePaidPlayStation
  11. SYNTAXIA title card: a cozy horror game about bending reality, with a small orange-haired character among pixel furniture over a text box where words are typed 2D horrorSYNTAXIAIts makers call it a dream-dark adventure, and the SyntaxOS setup asks for your blood type and your recent nightmares. 95% (10,007 ratings)about 27 minPay what you wantBrowser, PC, Mac, Linux
  12. Notch - The Innocent LunA key art: a pink-haired girl against a red glow and a green-haired girl in a black choker against pale light, back to back PsychologicalNotch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerSThe store asks whether the narrator's memories are reality or a dream, and the townsfolk escape into dreams of ruin and rebirth. 95% on Steam (3,295 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  13. Dagon key art: an engraved medallion of an island under the moon, ringed by tentacles, sea creatures and a great eye, on a starry black field PsychologicalDagon: by H. P. LovecraftThe free extra story What the Moon Brings adapts a Lovecraft tale based on his nightmare, set in a surreal dreamscape. 95% on Steam (12,410 reviews)about 30 minFreePC, VR, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. 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 PsychologicalD3V0URYou keep having weird dreams, and one dream section is a minigame where Sun Head chases you. 98% on itch.io (426 ratings)FreePC, Mac
  15. Baby Blues Nightmares key art: the crayon-style title over black ink splatter in a dim child's bedroom with blue cloud-painted walls and a wooden wardrobe SurvivalBaby Blues NightmaresThe whole game is a toddler's nightmare, where it is hard to tell what is real and what is not. 98% on itch.io (584 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC
  16. Yume Nikki Steam library art: pixel-art Madotsuki standing with eyes closed in her dim bedroom by a desk lamp, with a CRT television, bookshelf and door PsychologicalYume NikkiEvery world you explore is one of Madotsuki's dreams, entered by lying down in her bed and left by waking up. 94% on Steam (10,726 reviews)FreePC
  17. DARQ key art: Lloyd's pale face hangs upside down, eyes closed, inside a ring of gears and machinery PsychologicalDARQ: Complete EditionLloyd knows he is dreaming, and the lucid dream he cannot wake from turns into a nightmare 94% on Steam (4,202 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  18. False Dream key art: the white title beside a large wooden-rimmed wall clock on a grey patterned wall PsychologicalFalse DreamYou fall asleep and are trapped in a dream where time does not progress until you capture its anomalies. 96% on Steam (468 reviews)about 45 minPaidPC, Switch
  19. Mama's Sleeping Angels art: four players in Y2K outfits pose in a dark graffiti alley, with red fleshy monsters behind a fence Co-opMama's Sleeping AngelsYou are trapped in the dreams of the goddess Mama and explore six kinds of procedurally generated dreamworld. 94% on Steam (1,323 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  20. 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 uses a dream apparatus to enter lucid dreams, looking for the brother who was obsessed with a dreamworld 95% on Steam (653 reviews)14 h or morePaidPC
  21. It's Not Me, It's My Basement key art: the pale-haired child in a bloodstained apron and bunny slippers hugs themselves before a closed lavender door, beside the title PsychologicalIt's Not Me, It's My BasementAfter feeding the basement each night, Embry has a dream, and each of the three ends on a small fright. 94% on itch.io (834 ratings)about 45 minPay what you wantPC, Mac, Linux
  22. Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey by a campfire in a night forest, masked hooded figures behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver near a red-lit totem Puzzle horrorSlender ThreadsEvery night Harvey has the same dream of his own head mounted on a wall, and the town's deaths seem to follow it 94% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone, Android
  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 BoxAt times she falls into nightmares and you have to find a way to wake her up to survive. 93% on Steam (1,436 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  24. Isolomus key art: a green three-fingered plasticine hand and a large pale human hand almost touching fingertips against black PsychologicalIsolomusThe Elite Institute reads it as tormenting a figure found in a cube through horrific nightmares inside his dreams. 95% on Steam (418 reviews)about 15 minPaidPC, Linux, Switch
  25. 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 GameYou cross between the real world and the world of sleep, a red copy of the same rooms, to solve puzzles 92% on Google Play (297,000 ratings)about 1.5 hFree to playiPhone, Android, PC, Xbox, Switch
  26. Fausts Alptraum key art: an orange-haired girl in a green dress holds a candle against black crayon scribbles, beside a red-coated figure with long lilac hair standing in water PsychologicalFausts AlptraumElisabeth has to find how her dreams relate to reality and cannot tell memory from imagination. 93% on Steam (1,268 reviews)about 5 hFreePC
  27. The Scourge key art: a red-lit kitchen strung with red thread and hanging photographs, a dark figure on the left and a glowing glass-block window PsychologicalThe Scourge | Tai ƯơngNhat Huy keeps falling into lucid dreams where the line between reality and illusion blurs. 93% on Steam (1,216 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC
  28. Fears to Fathom - Carson House key art: the title over a dark office desk with computer monitors PsychologicalFears to Fathom - Carson HouseGameGrin describes the episode opening with a dream of a creepy corridor full of washing machines. 92% on Steam (2,993 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC
  29. Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background PsychologicalPathologic 2Dreams and visions break into the story, starting with the train prologue, blurring what is fiction and what is real. 92% on Steam (12,269 reviews)28 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  30. Painted art of Thomasina Bateman at a rain-streaked window, her reflection in the glass, looking out at a moor where cracks of pink light spread from a stone barrow PsychologicalThe Excavation of Hob's BarrowThomasina's strange dreams are a central part of the horror. 92% on Steam (3,459 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch

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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
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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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