Psychological
Ad Infinitum
Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Horror game genres on GOG
Every kind of horror game on GOG, from psychological horror and survival horror to co-op games to play with friends: 90 games in all.
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Bad Dream: Coma
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
Psychological
Bad Dream: Fever
A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.
PC / Mac / Switch
Psychological
Burnhouse Lane
A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.
PC / Switch
Psychological
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.
PC
Psychological
Downfall
A getaway to save a marriage, in a hotel where it all goes wrong.
PC
Survival
Alisa
Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Alone in the Dark 1
The 1992 original: alone in Derceto, and something is in the attic.
PC
Survival
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Take a flashlight into the dark of Shadow Island, where the creatures wait in every shadow.
PC
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Amnesia: The Bunker
Keep the lights on in a WWI bunker while a creature hunts you by sound.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
A detective in 1922 Innsmouth, and a town that does not want him to leave.
PC
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Cronos: The New Dawn
Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Bad Dream: Coma
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
Psychological
Burnhouse Lane
A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
A young priest, a crucifix and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s in 8-bit horror.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Harvester
Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.
PC / Linux
Survival
Lamentum
Seek a cure for your wife in a mansion of nightmares.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Layers of Fear 2
An ocean liner, a film shoot and a director who wants more than a performance.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Look Outside
Whatever you do, do not look outside.
PC
Survival
Metro 2033 Redux
Cross the tunnels of a post-nuclear Moscow metro with a gas mask and few bullets.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Metro: Last Light Redux
Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Ad Infinitum
Caught between your family home and the trenches of the Great War.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Alone in the Dark 1
The 1992 original: alone in Derceto, and something is in the attic.
PC
Psychological
Bad Dream: Coma
A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.
PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox
Psychological
Bad Dream: Fever
A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.
PC / Mac / Switch
Puzzle horror
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle
One night in the Cornish woods, and something waking under the barrow.
PC
Psychological
Burnhouse Lane
A dying nurse takes on five impossible tasks to win her life back.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Children of Silentown
A village in a monster forest, where people keep disappearing.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Downfall
A getaway to save a marriage, in a hotel where it all goes wrong.
PC
Psychological
Fran Bow
A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android
Action horror
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake hunts his evil double through a night in the Arizona desert.
PC / Xbox
Action horror
Clive Barker's Undying
A dying friend, a family curse, and a six-shooter and spells to fight it.
PC
Survival
EMPTY SHELL
Volunteer for a recovery job in a dead facility. Then send the next one.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Metro 2033 Redux
Cross the tunnels of a post-nuclear Moscow metro with a gas mask and few bullets.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Metro: Last Light Redux
Return to the Moscow metro as its stations slide into civil war.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Action horror
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Your family is locked in a vampire's castle, and its rooms change every game.
PC
Survival
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
The lone survivor of a research base where the dead were put back to work.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.
PC
Visual novels
Mothmen 1966
A roadside gas station, a meteor shower and something with wings on the roof.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut
A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The House in Fata Morgana
A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.
PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
Cronos: The New Dawn
Scavenge a ruined future and burn the monsters before they merge.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Duskers
Send your drones into dead ships, and trust a motion sensor that cannot tell you what is out…
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Psychological
SOMA
A station on the sea floor where machines think they are people.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Salvage an abandoned oil rig and find what is buried beneath it.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
The lone survivor of a research base where the dead were put back to work.
PC / Mac / Linux
Sci-fi horror
The Thing: Remastered
Lead a squad through Outpost 31, never sure who is still human.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Short
Midnight Scenes: The Highway
A short road trip at night, and what waits on the deserted highway.
PC / Mac
Visual novels
Mothmen 1966
A roadside gas station, a meteor shower and something with wings on the roof.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
The Park
Search a closed amusement park at dusk for your missing son.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Amnesia: Rebirth
Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Amnesia: The Bunker
Keep the lights on in a WWI bunker while a creature hunts you by sound.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.
PC / Switch
Puzzle horror
Hello Neighbor 2
Sneak into the houses of Raven Brooks to break the Neighbor's case.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Knock-knock
Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
Outlast 2
Search for your wife in a desert cult's town with nothing but a camcorder.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
SOMA
A station on the sea floor where machines think they are people.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Alisa
Escape a Victorian dollhouse of mechanized horrors, 1990s style.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Alone in the Dark 1
The 1992 original: alone in Derceto, and something is in the attic.
PC
Survival
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Take a flashlight into the dark of Shadow Island, where the creatures wait in every shadow.
PC
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Action horror
Clive Barker's Undying
A dying friend, a family curse, and a six-shooter and spells to fight it.
PC
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Dino Crisis
A covert mission on a remote island, and the dinosaurs know where you are.
PC / PlayStation
Multiple endings
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
A young priest, a crucifix and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s in 8-bit horror.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
Forbidden Solitaire
A cursed 1995 CD-ROM, a game of solitaire, and a reason to uninstall it.
PC
Psychological
Harvester
Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.
PC / Linux
Survival
Daymare: 1998
A chemical leak, a small town of mutated citizens, and never enough bullets.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Resident Evil
Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Resident Evil (1996)
The 1996 original: survive the mansion with a few bullets and fixed cameras.
PC
Survival
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
The 1998 original: survive Raccoon City's police station as Leon or Claire.
PC
Survival
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
The 1999 original: escape Raccoon City with Nemesis on your trail.
PC
Survival
You Will Die Here Tonight
A squad split up in a cursed mansion, where every death carries forward.
PC
Survival
Alone in the Dark 1
The 1992 original: alone in Derceto, and something is in the attic.
PC
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.
PC / Switch
Psychological
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.
PC
Psychological
Knock-knock
Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
PS1
Phantasmagoria
A writer's new mansion, a dead magician's past, and a nightmare that starts on night one.
PC
Puzzle horror
Realms of the Haunting
Search a haunted Cornish mansion that opens onto other realms.
PC
Puzzle horror
The 7th Guest Remake
Six guests, one toymaker's mansion, and a puzzle in every room.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Psychological
The Mortuary Assistant
Embalm the dead alone at night, and find the demon before it finds you.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
The Witch's House MV
Find the way out of a witch's house where almost every room can kill you.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
PS1
Corpse Party (2021)
A friendship charm, a cursed school, and the ghosts of murdered children.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Inscryption
A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Puzzle horror
Puppet House
A detective, a ventriloquist's empty mansion, and the puppet he left behind.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
The Tartarus Key
Wake in a locked mansion of puzzles and traps, and get the others out alive.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
The Witch's House MV
Find the way out of a witch's house where almost every room can kill you.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Alone in the Dark
Search Derceto Manor for a missing uncle, as Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Alone in the Dark 1
The 1992 original: alone in Derceto, and something is in the attic.
PC
Survival
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Take a flashlight into the dark of Shadow Island, where the creatures wait in every shadow.
PC
Psychological
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
A detective in 1922 Innsmouth, and a town that does not want him to leave.
PC
Cosmic
Darkest Dungeon II
A roguelike road trip of the damned, four heroes and one stagecoach at a time.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
DREDGE
A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android
Survival
Lamentum
Seek a cure for your wife in a mansion of nightmares.
PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Look Outside
Whatever you do, do not look outside.
PC
Psychological
Static Dread: The Submarine
Keep a submarine crew sane while something vast moves on the sonar.
PC
Survival
Resident Evil
Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Resident Evil (1996)
The 1996 original: survive the mansion with a few bullets and fixed cameras.
PC
Survival
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
The 1998 original: survive Raccoon City's police station as Leon or Claire.
PC
Survival
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999)
The 1999 original: escape Raccoon City with Nemesis on your trail.
PC
Guides to horror games
- Backrooms Games: Lost in the Endless Yellow Rooms
- Games Like Amnesia: Hide in the Dark, Don't Fight
- Games Like Dead by Daylight: Asymmetric Horror Games
- Games Like Dead Space: Sci-Fi Survival Horror
- Games Like Doki Doki Literature Club: Cute Games That Turn
- Games Like Fears to Fathom: Everyday Horror on a Night Shift
- Games Like Granny: Escape the House Before They Find You
- Games Like Ib: Pixel-Art Horror Adventures
- Games Like Iron Lung: Horror Seen Through Instruments
- Games Like Lethal Company: Co-op Horror Jobs With Friends
- Games Like Little Nightmares: Small, Dark and Unsettling
- Games Like Mouthwashing: Short Psychological Horror
- Games Like Outlast: Horror Where You Can Only Hide and Run
- Games Like P.T.: First-Person Haunted Houses and Hallways
- Games Like Phasmophobia: Ghost Hunts and Co-op Horror
- Games Like Poppy Playtime: Mascot and Toy Horror
- Games Like Resident Evil: Survival Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Silent Hill: Fog, Guilt and Psychological Horror
- Games Like Slender: Pages, a Flashlight and Something Behind You
- Games Like The Exit 8: Anomaly Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Until Dawn: Choice-Driven Horror
- Horror Games for Beginners: Where to Start if You Scare Easily
- Japanese Horror Games: Ghosts, Curses and J-Horror
- New Horror Games of 2026: The Releases Worth Playing
- Scary Games to Play With Friends