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Asylum horror games on GOG

These games put you inside an asylum or mental hospital, or send you through one on the way. You walk locked wards, cell blocks, offices and cellars, sometimes as a patient trying to get out, sometimes as an outsider who came looking for answers. The fear is in the building itself: long corridors, doors that only open one way, records of what was done there, and residents who may still be inside.

The top 18 of 18 asylum horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 18 best on GOG

  1. Fran Bow key art: Fran, blood running from one eye, holds her black cat before a red-eyed creature, with a skeleton in a top hat and masked figures on the left PsychologicalFran BowFran wakes in Oswald Asylum, a grim institution for children, and has to escape it to find her cat 97% on Steam (23,250 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Android
  2. Outlast library art: a hulking scarred inmate with a stitched grin and glowing eyes stands in a dark asylum corridor, seen in green night vision SurvivalOutlastSet in Mount Massive Asylum, a long-abandoned home for the mentally ill in the mountains of Colorado. 93% on the PlayStation Store (179,484 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. The Last Door: Season 2 screenshot: a man in a dark coat stands by a glowing gas lamp on a night street before an old brick house PsychologicalThe Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's EditionThe first episode has you explore an old insane asylum in Victorian London 94% on Steam (992 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  4. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 key art: title beside a pale cracked-mask figure holding a finger to its lips, in a dark hole in cracked blue ice PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2Holly follows the clues from her family house to the Dark Falls Asylum, which comes alive at night. 92% on Google Play (42,600 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  5. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 key art: a pale woman behind a cracked oval mirror, a clawed grey hand raised to hush, in a wall of roots and gold frames PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3The search leads back to the ruined insane asylum of Dark Falls, where the second part left Holly. 93% on Steam (661 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android, Xbox
  6. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 Enhanced Edition key art: a pale woman with long black hair over her face holding a finger to her lips, beside the scratched title PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1Letters from Dark Falls Asylum draw Holly there, and the store lists a visit to the abandoned asylum. 88% on Google Play (130,000 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox, Android
  7. Sanitarium key art: a single bloodshot green eye staring out between strips of rough bandage PsychologicalSanitariumAfter a car accident you wake up in a gloomy asylum with your head wrapped in bandages 84% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android
  8. Black Mirror II key art: a shattered-glass collage with a man seen from behind in fog facing a gothic castle, and small game scenes in the broken shards Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIThe store lists a mental hospital among its more than 100 locations. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  9. Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness key art: a balding clown in white gloves and a loose tie clutches his face and screams upward, lit teal above and red below in dark smoke PsychologicalVlad Circus: Descend Into MadnessOliver comes to the reunion straight from Pennhurst Asylum, and his diary notes his release and his doctor there. 89% on Steam (205 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. The Black Mirror key art: a gothic castle silhouette with a lit round window and an orange occult seal against a blood-red stormy sky Puzzle horrorThe Black MirrorA mental hospital is one of the places the investigation takes Samuel 84% on Steam (1,509 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  11. The Town of Light key art: painted profile of a young woman with closed eyes, face tilted up, beside a glowing orange asylum building fading into green mist PsychologicalThe Town of LightSet in the Volterra psychiatric hospital in Tuscany, a real asylum rebuilt in detail, whose empty wards you walk 79% on Steam (2,839 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  12. ASYLUM key art: a worn restraint chair with trailing straps in a dim, grimy room, the title in jagged red letters PsychologicalASYLUMSet entirely in the Hanwell Mental Institute, a vast, decaying asylum you return to as a former patient. 83% on Steam (432 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  13. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain MysterySherlock Holmes The AwakenedOne of the places the clues lead is a haunting psych ward in Switzerland. 81% on Steam (1,156 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. Song of Horror key art: a dark robed figure with roots spreading below and two huge ink-smeared eyes above it on a pale wall SurvivalSong of Horror Complete EditionSteam lists an abandoned mental hospital among the locations you explore. 78% on Steam (3,106 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  15. The Evil Within key art: a man's bloodied face wrapped in barbed wire SurvivalThe Evil WithinThe story begins at Beacon Mental Hospital, and the safe haven between chapters is a mental hospital reached through mirrors. 85% on Steam15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  16. Alone in the Dark key art: Emily Hartwood with a tool over her shoulder and Edward Carnby at his holster, a masked, hatted figure behind them in a swampy wood PsychologicalAlone in the DarkDerceto is an asylum for the troubled in interbellum Louisiana, home to secrets and disturbed residents. 76% on the PlayStation Store (11,278 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  17. Neverending Nightmares key art: a frightened man holds a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him, in black and white ink PsychologicalNeverending NightmaresOne of the nightmares is a tiled asylum corridor of riveted cell doors, where a bleeding-eyed patient in a straitjacket stoops by the wall. 76% on Steam (3,051 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone
  18. Call of Cthulhu key art: a lone man in a coat stands before lit iron gates under twisted bare trees at night PsychologicalCall of CthulhuPart of the investigation takes Pierce inside a mental hospital, where his grip on reality is tested. 79% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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