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Horror games about madness on GOG

In these games the mind gives way. A sanity or stress meter climbs as you face the dark, and when it breaks your sight and hearing distort, your crew or heroes turn on you, and you can no longer trust what is in front of you. Others follow a character who hears voices or sees things, so the fear comes from not knowing which parts of the world are real.

The top 28 of 28 horror games about madness on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 28 best on GOG

  1. Downfall key art: the title in an ornate white frame on a dark cracked wall, blood dripping below and a man sitting hunched in the corner PsychologicalDownfallThe store calls it a tale of love, madness and murder, as the getaway slides from bad to worse to insanity. 94% on Steam (1,710 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC
  2. DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among a couple with teacups, an old woman in a wheelchair with a rabbit and three bald men, under a looming red elephant PsychologicalDISTRAINT: Deluxe EditionCritics describe the story as the main character's spiral descent into insanity as his guilt turns his surroundings into nightmares. 93% on Steam (12,970 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, 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 EditionYou uncover forbidden knowledge that may be driving you mad, closer to the heart of madness than ever before 94% on Steam (992 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  4. Darkest Dungeon key art: a masked swordsman, a plague doctor and a highwayman with pistol and dagger stand before walls of skulls in a red-lit crypt 2D horrorDarkest DungeonStress builds in every hero, and at the breaking point they can turn paranoid, masochistic, fearful or irrational. 92% on Steam (163,343 reviews)56 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  5. 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 2The story turns on the question of whether Holly's mother was crazy, told through notes and photographs in an asylum. 92% on Google Play (42,600 ratings)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  6. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice key art: Senua in silhouette stands among wildflowers before a great tree lit by golden sunlight and falling leaves PsychologicalHellblade: Senua's SacrificeSenua lives with psychosis, and the game was made with neuroscientists and people who experience psychosis. 90% on Steam (76,810 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. The Song of Saya key art: Saya, a girl with long dark green hair in a white dress, with pale glowing wings against a starry sky PsychologicalThe Song of SayaThe Steam page says that after Fuminori meets Saya, his madness begins to infect the world. 89% on Steam (10,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  8. Dreams in the Witch House key art: old gabled houses and bare trees under a green night sky, one attic window glowing purple 2D horrorDreams in the Witch HouseWalter's sanity is a stat you must keep up as the dreams and otherworldly threats grow. 91% on Steam (399 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  9. Sanitarium key art: a single bloodshot green eye staring out between strips of rough bandage PsychologicalSanitariumThe store describes a dark world where a very thin line separates senses from madness 84% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android
  10. 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 MadnessA stress meter replaces health, and as it fills Oliver hears whispers and blacks out, waking somewhere else in the house. 89% on Steam (205 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  11. CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl with a large winged blade, and Takumi with a sheathed sword, seen from above on cracked grey concrete PsychologicalCHAOS;HEAD NOAHTakumi slips into positive and negative delusions until he cannot tell what he imagined from what he saw 88% on Steam (1,211 reviews)29 h or morePaidPC, Switch
  12. Knock-knock key art: the red-haired Lodger in a scarf holds up a glowing candle while a huge shadowy skull-faced figure looms among dark branches PsychologicalKnock-knockThe goal of each night is to reach dawn with the Lodger's threadbare sanity intact 87% on Steam (2,087 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  13. Lovecraft's Untold Stories key art: pixel-art Earth in a starry sky ringed by purple tentacles, a horned goddess, a pale ghoul and a winged, tentacle-faced Cthulhu 2D horrorLovecraft's Untold StoriesWrong choices in events drain your sanity, and an investigator who goes mad takes their own life 86% on Google Play (2,230 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  14. Sunless Sea key art: a lone lit buoy with a bell leans out of a flat dark sea under a green-black sky 2D horrorSunless SeaSpend too long in the dark and your crew's terror climbs until they see things, lose their sanity and mutiny 83% on Steam (9,582 reviews)22 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  15. Dark Fracture key art: a hooded figure seen from behind faces a fleshy, ribbed cave lit in sickly green, beside the jagged title PsychologicalDark Fracture: PrologueA sanity meter drains as disturbing events hit, and the store asks whether it is all in Edward's mind. 83% on Steam (1,382 reviews)about 45 minFreePC
  16. Forgive Me Father 2 key art: two helmeted soldiers in gas masks with tentacles spilling from their faces, one holding a rifle, on cracked green stripes Action horrorForgive Me Father 2Madness builds as you fight and fuels the strange abilities you turn on your enemies 82% on Steam (2,540 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  17. The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker key art: a black tentacled skull silhouette on a glowing green mosaic, with the title in pale serif letters PsychologicalThe Infectious Madness of Doctor DekkerThe title's infectious madness: patients with bizarre afflictions and a shadow reality of horrors that go bump in your head. 82% on Steam (551 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  18. Static Dread: The Submarine key art: a captain with glowing white glasses, a submarine and red tentacles coiled around him in dark green water PsychologicalStatic Dread: The SubmarineThe store asks you to keep the crew, and your own mind, from being overcome by madness. 82% on Steam (386 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC
  19. 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 LightHer own medical files question what she remembers, and you cannot be sure which of her memories to trust 79% on Steam (2,839 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. ASYLUM key art: a worn restraint chair with trailing straps in a dim, grimy room, the title in jagged red letters PsychologicalASYLUMYou play an ex-patient suffering bizarre visions in a hallucinatory madhouse, in a story the makers call a journey into the darkest depths of your mind. 83% on Steam (432 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  21. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain MysterySherlock Holmes The AwakenedHolmes fights encroaching insanity, and the pursuit of the truth pushes him to the verge of madness. 81% on Steam (1,156 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  22. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3A meter swings between apathy and mania; too far either way changes what Dankovsky sees and can kill him. 80% on Steam (2,839 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  23. Moons of Madness key art: an astronaut in a blue and white suit falls through dark mist toward huge red-ridged tentacles PsychologicalMoons of MadnessThe Steam page describes visions, hallucinations, isolation and paranoia that make you question what is real. 77% on Steam (2,951 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  24. Darkest Dungeon II key art: four heroes, including a plague doctor and a masked man with a flintlock pistol, stand before burning houses under a flame emblem CosmicDarkest Dungeon IIA scientist's experiment with the Iron Crown sends most of humanity into madness and lets eldritch beings in 75% on Steam (12,147 reviews)30 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  25. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet key art: a man's wide, frightened eyes beside a bright comet in a dark blue sky, with the title in white letters 2D horrorCall of Cthulhu: Shadow of the CometLord Boleskine watched the comet from Illsmouth in 1834 and spent the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum. 74% on GOG (196 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, Linux
  26. Call of Cthulhu key art: a lone man in a coat stands before lit iron gates under twisted bare trees at night PsychologicalCall of CthulhuPierce's sanity slips as he uncovers the truth, and his senses are disrupted until he questions what is real. 79% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  27. Dark Corners of the Earth key art: a bald, warty Innsmouth face in the foreground and a hooded figure by a lit window in the fog SurvivalCall of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the EarthA sanity system warps the screen, distorts sound and can end in insanity or suicide when you see too much 68% on Steam (3,380 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC
  28. The 11th Hour key art: a tarnished antique clock face and gears beside the cracked porcelain face of a staring doll, in dark sepia tones Puzzle horrorThe 11th HourThe store text speaks of a deadly legacy of madness that the mansion spreads through the town. 41% on Steam (275 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac

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