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School horror games on GOG

Horror games set in a school: classrooms, locker-lined corridors, libraries and offices after the lessons are over. You search empty rooms for notebooks, keys or a way out while something walks the halls. The fear comes from a place everyone knows turned strange, where the bell has rung and you are still inside.

The top 20 of 20 school horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 20 best on GOG

  1. Underground Blossom key art: a gold pocket watch with white petals drifting around it in front of a dim brown train carriage PsychologicalUnderground BlossomOne stop is School Street, where a group of scowling schoolchildren in blazers stand in your way 98% on Google Play (13,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  2. Rena calls out a good morning to Keiichi on a tree-lined village road, with the English text over the scene PsychologicalHigurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 OnikakushiKeiichi and his friends Mion, Rena, Satoko and Rika share the village's one school for all grades. 96% on Steam (6,917 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC, Mac, Linux
  3. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters key art: Mina Park in her school uniform against a blood-red sky over the city SurvivalThe Coma 2: Vicious SistersMina wakes at night inside a warped version of her own school, Sehwa High. 95% on Steam (3,554 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  4. The Last Door Collector's Edition key art: a man in a coat holds a lantern before a dark manor at sunset, a crow beside the gold title PsychologicalThe Last DoorRepressed memories of the two men's schooldays return, and a buried secret from that school is at the heart of it. 95% on Steam (2,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  5. Key art of a flooded basement corridor in green and red light, with a lift on floor B2 glowing red and a girl's silhouette in its doorway SurvivalThe Bridge Curse 2: The ExtricationSet at Wen Hua University, where students and a reporter are trapped in the haunted Da Ren building. 94% on Steam (3,375 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. CHAOS;CHILD key art: a boy in glasses and school uniform among seven schoolgirls, their figures eaten away by rust-red splatter on white PsychologicalCHAOS;CHILDYou play Takuru, a senior and president of his high school's newspaper club, who works the case with his clubmates 93% on Steam (4,166 reviews)20 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Switch
  7. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 key art: a pale woman behind a cracked oval mirror, a clawed grey hand raised to hush, in a wall of roots and gold frames PsychologicalTrue Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3Holly explores the high school the sisters attended, down to a rubble-filled hallway outside the cafeteria. 93% on Steam (661 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, iPhone, Android, Xbox
  8. Christmas Massacre key art: a huge Santa Claus mask with empty black eye holes and a white beard against a starry night sky PS1Christmas MassacreThe game opens in Larry's boarding school days, sneaking through it to take a knife from the kitchen. 91% on Steam (1,123 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  9. Corpse Party (2021) key art: a crying, bruised student in front of a broken window, with a bloodied blade in the foreground 2D horrorCorpse Party (2021)Set in Heavenly Host Elementary, a decaying school in another dimension. 90% on Steam (1,554 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. Tormented Souls 2 key art: Caroline, in an eye patch and leather jacket, holds a yellow nail gun and a lit lighter between a church at night and a candlelit room hung with chains SurvivalTormented Souls 2Steam names an abandoned school as one of the areas, alongside the convent and the mall. 89% on the PlayStation Store (2,833 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, 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 and every heroine are students at Suimei Academy, and scenes play out in its classrooms and grounds 88% on Steam (1,211 reviews)29 h or morePaidPC, Switch
  12. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin box art: Alma's pale face above the logo and a soldier with a rifle in a burning city, under an Xbox 360 banner Action horrorF.E.A.R. 2: Project OriginOne section crosses an elementary school, where a mutant pounds a piano in a dark music classroom. 85% on Steam (9,559 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Xbox
  13. The Coma 3: Bloodlines art: a wide-eyed girl in close-up beside a wall of organic growths, with black spiky shapes between them, in dark blue SurvivalThe Coma 3: BloodlinesConcludes the story of Sehwa Private High School and the foundation hidden behind it 86% on Steam (369 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  14. The Coma: Recut key art: close-up of a girl with long dark hair pressing a bandaged finger to her lips SurvivalThe Coma: RecutSet in Sehwa High, whose three connected buildings you roam at night looking for a way out 84% on Steam (3,117 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  15. Little Nightmares II key art: Mono with a paper bag on his head and Six in her yellow raincoat stand among leaning houses while a huge shadowy man in a long coat looms before the glowing Signal Tower PsychologicalLittle Nightmares IIOne area is a school of porcelain-headed bully children watched over by the Teacher. 93% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  16. Corpse Party: Book of Shadows key art: two schoolgirls in blue sailor uniforms, one staring out worried, the other with her head tilted back and eyes closed, before dark red bars PsychologicalCorpse Party: Book of ShadowsEvery chapter takes place in Heavenly Host Elementary, a cursed school you search room by room on a map of its floors 85% on Steam (485 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  17. Bad Dream: Fever key art: the hand-drawn title on stained paper beside a skull-labelled bottle of pills and a syringe, edged with dark blue ink blots PsychologicalBad Dream: FeverAdventure Gamers lists a school among the places you travel between, with a park and a construction site 82% on Steam (1,349 reviews)about 3 hFreePC, Mac, Switch
  18. GYLT key art: Sally, a girl in a red coat with a backpack, holds a younger child as a huge dark toothed monster reaches for them with clawed hands PsychologicalGYLTMuch of the game takes place in Sally's school, Bachman, its halls, cafeteria and grounds 95% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  19. Outlast 2 key art: a cultist in the foreground holds a chained, spiked pickaxe while a man in a hat sits on the lit porch of a shack in green haze PsychologicalOutlast 2The story keeps returning to Blake's childhood Catholic school, shown in screenshots of a dim hallway of blue lockers. 91% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. Corpse Party: Blood Drive key art: a frightened schoolgirl in a sailor uniform held by red flesh creatures in front of the decaying wooden Heavenly Host school PsychologicalCorpse Party: Blood DriveAyumi returns to Heavenly Host Elementary, a hellish school from another world, and searches its classrooms and corridors 73% on Steam (365 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, Switch

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