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Castle horror games on GOG

In these games the castle is the place you cannot leave: cold stone halls, candlelit corridors, locked towers and cellars that go deeper than they should. You search rooms for keys and notes, solve the puzzles the owners left behind and listen for whatever walks the floor above. The fear comes from the size of the place and from knowing it belongs to someone else.

The top 15 of 15 castle horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 15 best on GOG

  1. HROT key art: a horse in a gas mask stands in a dim industrial room beside the rusty HROT logo plate Action horrorHROTThe second episode takes you to Kašperk Castle and its flooded cellars 96% on Steam (6,573 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC
  2. Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre PsychologicalAmnesia: The Dark DescentSet inside Brennenburg Castle in Prussia, which Daniel explores from its halls down to the Inner Sanctum 95% on Steam (35,840 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. Tormentum key art: a pale skeletal figure with outstretched arms bound by cords before a huge skull in a wall of dark biomechanical flesh PsychologicalTormentum - Dark SorrowThe airship lowers towards a huge, gloomy castle, the prison where the journey begins. 92% on Google Play (4,110 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  4. The Count Lucanor key art: Hans holding a candle beside a fanged blue jester-like kobold, with a castle silhouette against a purple night sky PsychologicalThe Count LucanorHans is trapped in Tenebre Castle and must explore its rooms, halls and throne room to learn the kobold's name. 93% on Steam (3,012 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. LOVE ETERNAL key art: a giant red woman with raised arms looms over blue suburban houses and pine trees at night PsychologicalLOVE ETERNALMaya wanders a castle built of bitter memories, the god's realm called Shelter. 95% on Steam (480 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within key art: the title over a blurred, snarling wolf-like head with bared teeth Puzzle horrorGabriel Knight 2: The Beast WithinGabriel lives in his family's castle at Rittersberg, and Grace's trail leads to King Ludwig II's castles of Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee. 92% on Steam (317 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  7. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: a man's face with a red eye and no mouth, merged into a microchip, beside the chrome title on blue circuitry PsychologicalI Have No Mouth, and I Must ScreamOne of the psychodramas AM builds is a medieval castle occupied by witches 89% on Steam (4,102 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, 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 IIDarren's search takes him to the reigning evil of Black Mirror Castle in Willow Creek, England. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  9. Black Mirror III key art: a smirking young man in a jacket above a burning gothic manor, a church, a graveyard and a heap of skulls Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIIYou return to face the dark forces that haunt Black Mirror Castle and what waits in its crypt. 90% on Steam (556 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  10. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi key art: the white scrawled title over a red pentagram and red smoke on black Action horrorNosferatu: The Wrath of MalachiSet in castle Malachi, a massive gothic castle with a courtyard hub and three wings of rooms 87% on Steam (3,245 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  11. Dread X Collection 3 key art: a castle on a red autumn hillside under a grinning jack-o'-lantern moon PS1Dread X Collection 3The hub is a lone castle perched above the clouds, where Leo and Prometheus are locked in. 92% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC
  12. 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 MirrorSamuel returns to Black Mirror Castle, the family seat whose grim mysteries the whole game circles 84% on Steam (1,509 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  13. D: The Game key art: a large ragged red letter D frames a pale face with long black hair, between dark staircases Multiple endingsD: The GameOnce inside the hospital, Laura finds it has become a gothic castle she has to search room by room. 89% on Steam (159 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  14. Realms of the Haunting key art: the jagged yellow title over faded, red-toned faces of three characters, one in round glasses, on a grungy backdrop of occult marks Puzzle horrorRealms of the HauntingBeyond the house lie medieval realms of stone halls and corridors hung with shields and swords 78% on Steam (534 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux
  15. Scorn key art: a rust-red face of cracked, veined flesh with one empty eye socket, framed by tube-like growths SurvivalScornA vast grey bone-like palace with spires and statues rises out of purple-grey fog under a pink sky. 77% on Steam (20,129 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Xbox, PlayStation

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