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Parasite horror games on GOG

In these games something lives inside the people around you: a worm, a fungus, a virus or a creature that wears its host. Villagers who still talk and walk come at you with the thing inside them, growths split heads open, and in some you cannot tell who is still human. The fear is of being taken over yourself, and of what crawls out when a body falls.

The top 6 of 6 parasite horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 6 best on GOG

PsychologicalPenumbra: Black PlagueWhat the researchers dug up under the ice turns out to be a semi-parasitic virus that infects the staff and then Philip. 94% on Steam (3,007 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
Body horrorThe Thing: RemasteredThe creature absorbs and imitates the people it kills, so it can hide inside your team. 90% on Steam (1,446 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
SurvivalThe Sinking City 2The Slither, parasitic worms, puppeteer the corpses of Arkham's dead against you 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,506 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
SurvivalResident Evil 0Leeches carrying the T-virus swarm the train and its passengers at the start 91% on the PlayStation Store (24,000 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
SurvivalCold FearThe crew are hosts to a parasite that raises them again unless the brain is destroyed, and it can crawl into another corpse. 84% on GOG (237 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC
SurvivalScornA bloody parasite-like arm plugs into a bony device clamped on your wrist, and your own body is changed as you go. 77% on Steam (20,129 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Xbox, PlayStation

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Scores are those players and critics give on the stores and sites named; each game's page says where.