Skip to content
Filters9 gamesChange
Where you play
Kind of horror
19 more
Price
Players
Time to finish
Released
Content

Clear all

Your choice stays on as you move around the site, until you clear it. One place to play opens that part of the site; within a group any option will do, except Content, where every one you pick holds. Content goes by each game's content notes.

Clear
PlayStation

Your filters hide some games on this page.

Clear filters

Games Like Corpse Party: Cursed Schools and Ghost Stories

Corpse Party strands high school students in a cursed school from another dimension, among the ghosts of murdered children. These games share its haunted schools, its ghost stories or its RPG Maker roots, from its own sequels to Misao, White Day and Spirit Hunter.

The games

9 of the 18 games in this guide are outside your choice (PlayStation) and are left out. Show them all.

  1. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters key art: Mina Park in her school uniform against a blood-red sky over the city SurvivalThe Coma 2: Vicious SistersA Korean 2D survival horror game in a shadow version of a high school at night, hiding from a relentless killer.
  2. White Day key art: a frightened schoolgirl with twin ribbons crouching on a wooden floor marked with chalk circles SurvivalWhite Day: A Labyrinth Named SchoolTrapped overnight in a Korean high school with a murderous janitor and vengeful ghosts, in first person.
  3. Spirit Hunter: Death Mark key art: a man in a trench coat and glasses beside a doll-like blonde girl in a black dress, under the Death Mark logo PsychologicalSpirit Hunter: Death MarkA mark that kills within days, and the vengeful spirits of urban legends you must hunt to survive, as a Japanese horror adventure.
  4. Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II key art: a man in glasses and a loose tie between two uniformed schoolgirls before a dark school gate and brick building at night PsychologicalSpirit Hunter: Death Mark IIInvestigate deaths and rumours at a cursed Tokyo academy, facing the spirits behind them.
  5. Aooni key art: the pale purple face of the Ao Oni, grinning with big dark eyes, looming out of total darkness 2D horrorAooniClassmates trapped in a mansion with a monster, in the official remake of the 2004 RPG Maker classic.
  6. The Witch's House MV key art: blonde Viola on the left, the purple-haired witch with glowing mismatched eyes looming in the sky, and a stone house with a black cat in its window 2D horrorThe Witch's House MVTrapped in a witch's house, with traps and sudden deaths at almost every step.
  7. Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white shirt and necklace holds a picture frame as stools, a chalkboard, papers and a paper plane fly around her PsychologicalDetentionTwo students trapped in their haunted high school in 1960s Taiwan, hiding from creatures of local folklore in 2D.
  8. Spirit Hunter: NG key art: Akira, a young man in a dark jacket and choker, beside a girl in a black dress and bow on a deserted night street by Kissouji station PsychologicalSpirit Hunter: NGThe companion to Death Mark: a cursed spirit's deadly game, urban legends investigated by flashlight and choices that decide who lives.
  9. Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames Puzzle horrorFear the SpotlightA séance in a school after dark, a missing friend and a spotlight-headed monster to sneak past, in 1990s style.

Corpse Party traps a group of high school students in Heavenly Host Elementary, a school from another dimension where children were murdered, and lets them die there in grim, detailed ways. The games here share its cursed schools, its Japanese and Korean ghost stories, or its pixel-art RPG Maker roots.

If you want more Heavenly Host, Book of Shadows revisits the school in chapters set before, during and after the first game, and Blood Drive concludes the arc. Both are by the same team.

For other cursed schools, Misao is the closest in spirit: a school pulled into an otherworld of spirits and deathtraps after a bullied girl vanished, drawn in 2D pixel art. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean 2D survival horror game in a shadow version of a high school, where you hide from a killer, and White Day is the Korean first-person classic about being locked in a school at night with a janitor and ghosts. Banned Memories: Yamanashi is free and takes you back to a closed Japanese academy with fixed camera angles. Detention traps two students in a haunted high school in 1960s Taiwan, among creatures of local folklore, and Chilla's Art's Hanako turns the old toilet-ghost legend on the children who used it to curse a classmate. Fear the Spotlight is gentler: a séance in a school after dark and a spotlight-headed monster to sneak past.

For the ghost stories, the Spirit Hunter games turn Japanese urban legends into investigations where the wrong choice kills you; Death Mark II is set at a cursed academy. Spirit Hunter: NG is the companion story, a deadly game with a cursed spirit across the same city. PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, from Square Enix, turns old Tokyo ghost stories into curses held by strangers who hunt one another, and Yomawari: Night Alone sends a little girl with a flashlight through a town of Japanese spirits. Higurashi When They Cry is a free, long horror mystery about a village where someone dies every June.

For the RPG Maker side, Aooni, Mad Father and The Witch's House are RPG Maker classics of the same tradition, each a small house or mansion of puzzles, chases and deaths.

Start with Misao for the same school and spirits, or with Spirit Hunter: Death Mark if you liked Corpse Party's story more than its exploring.

Questions

What games are like Corpse Party?

Misao, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters and White Day share its cursed schools; the Spirit Hunter games and Higurashi share its Japanese ghost stories and grim deaths.

Are there more Corpse Party games?

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows and Corpse Party: Blood Drive continue the Heavenly Host story.

Are there free games like Corpse Party?

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 and Banned Memories: Yamanashi are free.

Which games like Corpse Party are on Switch?

Corpse Party: Blood Drive, The Coma 2, White Day, the Spirit Hunter games, Detention, PARANORMASIGHT, Yomawari: Night Alone, Fear the Spotlight, Aooni, Mad Father and The Witch's House MV are on Nintendo Switch.

More horror games by kind

Other guides