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Painting horror games on GOG

In these games the art on the walls is part of the threat. You walk galleries and old houses where portraits watch you, canvases drip or change when you look away, and some paintings can be stepped into. The fear is quiet and close: a face that was not there before, a frame that moved, a picture that knows more than you do.

The top 9 of 9 painting horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 9 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 PaletteYou must finish the portrait of a girl in a cursed painting, choosing what to paint and in which colour. 98% on Google Play (277,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, iPhone, Android
  2. The Past Within key art: the game's title beside a hexagon badge with a dark figure with white eyes, over a blurred dim room PsychologicalThe Past WithinFramed portraits hang in the past's rooms: a stern red-haired woman in gold and a man's picture above a coffin 96% on Google Play (49,400 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, Android
  3. Cube Escape Collection key art: a white cube outline and the title on a purple starry background PsychologicalCube Escape CollectionOne chapter, Arles, puts you in a bedroom modelled on Van Gogh's, with The Starry Night in the window. 94% on Google Play (64,100 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  4. 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 SorrowA blind artist in a cathedral asks you to restore his paintings, and dozens of them hang on its walls. 92% on Google Play (4,110 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  5. Look Outside key art: a wide-eyed man grips the curtains of a blazing window while toothed, many-eyed monsters crowd around him SurvivalLook OutsideA painter named Frederic tells Sam he looked outside days before and made a painting of what he saw. 98% on Steam11 h or morePaidPC
  6. The Medium key art: Marianne, white-haired, raises a glowing hand, standing between a grey abandoned building on the left and an orange spirit world of crosses and twisted trees on the right PsychologicalThe MediumThe spirit world is styled after the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński, with bone, flesh and rust-coloured skies. 89% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Dread X Collection 5 art: the painted neon entrance of the Outpost 3000 party venue at night, with a rocket ship statue and red shrubs beside the door PS1Dread X Collection 5Gallerie fills an art gallery with famous paintings, whispering paint and stalking sculptures 81% on Steam (311 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC
  8. Layers of Fear key art: a torn blood-red canvas, with an eye and part of a painted face showing through the rip and an empty picture frame behind PsychologicalLayers of FearYou play a painter searching his house for the pieces of his masterpiece, while paintings drip, melt and stare from the walls. 79% on Steamabout 8.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  9. Call of Cthulhu key art: a lone man in a coat stands before lit iron gates under twisted bare trees at night PsychologicalCall of CthulhuThe only clue to the Hawkins deaths at the start is a strange painting by Sarah Hawkins. 79% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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