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Prison horror games on GOG

In these games you are locked up. Some put you in a cell on an island, a dungeon or a maximum-security penitentiary; others make you a convict or test subject sent where nobody else will go. The fear starts with the bars: no weapons, no way out you can see, and guards or worse on the other side of the door. Every step is about getting free and staying alive while you do.

The top 8 of 8 prison horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 8 best on GOG

  1. 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 nameless man is carried in a cage under an airship to a gloomy castle that becomes his prison. 92% on Google Play (4,110 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  2. Iron Lung key art: the title IRON LUNG over a grainy brown and grey image PsychologicalIron LungYou play an unnamed convict sent down in the sub, a mission a note from its last occupant calls a death sentence. 92% on Steam (11,357 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Switch, Android
  3. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: a man's face with a red eye and no mouth, merged into a microchip, beside the chrome title on blue circuitry PsychologicalI Have No Mouth, and I Must ScreamYou play five captives held by AM for 109 years, each kept in a cage of their own on a tall pillar 89% on Steam (4,102 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  4. The Tartarus Key key art: a blue-lit portrait of Alex in a hood with red X marks over her eyes and red horn strokes, framed by red scribbles on black EscapeThe Tartarus KeyAlex frees fellow captives held in the mansion as she goes, and whether they live or die is up to you. 93% on Steam (315 reviews)about 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi key art: the white scrawled title over a red pentagram and red smoke on black Action horrorNosferatu: The Wrath of MalachiThe doors are locked behind your family and they become the count's prisoners, held in sealed rooms 87% on Steam (3,245 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  6. Resident Evil 0 key art: the empty, blood-stained passenger carriage of a luxury train, light spilling through its far door SurvivalResident Evil 0Your partner Billy Coen is a former Navy lieutenant and death row convict escaped from a prisoner transport 91% on the PlayStation Store (24,000 ratings)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Them and Us key art: Alicia holding a pump shotgun in a misty blue graveyard with torches, a gallows and a gothic church tower SurvivalThem and UsAlicia is on death row and the crash comes after an uprising on a prison bus; she wears a numbered orange prison shirt 75% on Steam (1,224 reviews)PaidPC
  8. Prisoner of Ice key art: a terrified man lit from below by a glowing open book, over an old map of the Americas and a cloudy sky Puzzle horrorCall of Cthulhu: Prisoner of IceOne scene puts Ryan in a row of concrete prison cells with other captives. 74% on Steam (149 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Linux

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