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Curse horror games on GOG

In these games a curse sets the story moving: a camera, a music box or a chair that should never have been touched, a mark that kills whoever carries it, or a hex laid on a whole town or island. You investigate where it came from, follow the rules it sets and try to break it or pass it on before it runs its course, and the fear is in knowing the deadline is real.

The top 20 of 20 curse horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 20 best on GOG

  1. Matsuro Palette key art: the winking white-haired girl from the painting, with one red eye and a blue flower, raising a hand to a pale paint stroke on dark blue PsychologicalMatsuro PaletteThe store calls her a cursed painting; everyone who tried to complete her before you was killed. 98% on Google Play (277,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, iPhone, Android
  2. Rena calls out a good morning to Keiichi on a tree-lined village road, with the English text over the scene PsychologicalHigurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 OnikakushiThe store page asks whether the yearly deaths are a conspiracy, a coincidence or a curse. 96% on Steam (6,917 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC, Mac, Linux
  3. Sorry We're Closed key art: a blue-skinned horned demon woman with a long tongue, tooth earrings and a pink Baby choker, under the game's title SurvivalSorry We're ClosedThe Duchess curses Michelle: she must return the archdemon's love within three days or die. 98% on Steam (1,676 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  4. Forbidden Solitaire key art: a screaming bearded man and a tower with glowing windows in purple light, with a red gem in an eye shape under the title Multiple endingsForbidden SolitaireThe disc was pulled from sale amid rumours that it cursed the people who played it, and the store says to uninstall it before it is too late 96% on Steam (2,258 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  5. The House in Fata Morgana key art: the black-haired Maid in purple leans close to a white-haired, red-eyed girl while a ghostly red hand hovers above them PsychologicalThe House in Fata MorganaA gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion, where the same tragedies seem to repeat across nearly a thousand years. 95% on Steam (2,165 reviews)30 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android
  6. A Plague Tale: Requiem key art: Amicia with blood on her face and her little brother Hugo resting his head on her shoulder StealthA Plague Tale: RequiemHugo's curse reawakens, bringing death and destruction in a flood of rats 91% on the PlayStation Store (29,000 ratings)17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Blood West key art: a cowboy with a rifle hides by a wooden shack as a fanged undead creature with an open ribcage stalks a night-time frontier town Action horrorBlood WestA curse has fallen on the Barren Lands and binds the Undead Gunslinger's soul until it is purged. 90% on Steam (6,789 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  8. Alone in the Dark title art: the name in gold art-deco capitals with blue and red outlines on black SurvivalAlone in the Dark 1The store sets it up with a suspicious suicide, a chilling curse and a malevolent power 92% on Steam (378 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, Mac
  9. Killing Time: Resurrected key art: a fanged zombie in a bloodied apron swinging a spine, a zombie chef with cleavers and a red-eyed clown holding a pie, before orange and red rings Action horrorKilling Time: ResurrectedA curse from an ancient Egyptian Water-Clock hangs over the estate, and you must destroy the clock to undo it. 92% on Steam (386 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. Necrophosis key art: a white skull emblem above the orange title, between a tentacled creature and a skeletal ribbed figure in the dark Body horrorNecrophosisNecrophosis is the curse of this world, inflicting decay on everything and everyone it touches 89% on Steam (953 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  11. Clive Barker's Undying key art: a man in glasses sits in an ornate carved chair, flanked by four pale, grim figures in old-fashioned dress against a murky green wall Action horrorClive Barker's UndyingJeremiah Covenant's dying life is all that holds back the curse his family unleashed, and you are sent to break it 90% on GOG (425 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC
  12. 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 story keeps circling back to the truth behind the Gordon family curse from the first game. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  13. 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 IIIThe two heroes have to break the old curse that hangs over the Gordon family line. 90% on Steam (556 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  14. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers key art: the title over a pixelated red and orange collage of a man holding a flame and a pale beaked mask 2D horrorGabriel Knight: Sins of the FathersThe store page calls Gabriel the last of the Shadow Hunters, haunted by a curse that is centuries old 88% on Steam (197 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC
  15. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesThe story turns on the curse around Sehwa High School and bosses from a cursed history 86% on Steam (369 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  16. 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 tragedy has struck the Gordons since the Middle Ages, a fate that will not stop until it has claimed every member of the family 84% on Steam (1,509 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC
  17. Corpse Party: Book of Shadows key art: two schoolgirls in blue sailor uniforms, one staring out worried, the other with her head tilted back and eyes closed, before dark red bars PsychologicalCorpse Party: Book of ShadowsWalls of the cursed school are scrawled with green curses such as Die and Spill your blood 85% on Steam (485 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  18. 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 EditionA cursed music box drives the plot, and its entity kills anyone who listens to its song. 78% on Steam (3,106 reviews)15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  19. Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami key art: a frightened girl in a pink cardigan clutches her phone while a mascot with a bloody blade stands in the dark corridor behind her 2D horrorLivestream: Escape from Hotel IzanamiThe store asks whether the hotel's traps are a curse, such as long black hair that coils around a girl on a bathroom floor. 79% on Steam (762 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Switch
  20. Waxworks key art: a melting wax head in profile with a staring eye and anguished faces in its drips, before a dark red door with iron hinges Puzzle horrorWaxworksThe witch Ixona cursed your family centuries ago, so that one of every pair of twins grows up to serve evil. 76% on GOG (257 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac

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