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Small town horror games on GOG

These horror games take place in a small town: a few streets, a diner, a school, a church and neighbours who all know each other. You walk its roads, question the locals and search houses and shops, while something wrong spreads under the quiet surface. The fear comes from the closeness: the town is too small to hide in, the people may be keeping a secret, and help is a long way off.

The top 30 of 30 small town horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best on GOG

  1. Scarlet Hollow key art: a frightened blonde young woman in front of a decaying mansion as a veiled figure with glowing eyes reaches toward her PsychologicalScarlet HollowSet in Scarlet Hollow, a small coal-mining town in the mountains of North Carolina. 98% on Steam (5,391 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  2. Sally Face store header: Sal with blue pigtails and his white prosthetic face, between a long-haired teen and a figure in bloody bandages PsychologicalSally FaceThe murders and what lies behind them cast shadows over Sal's small town of Nockfell. 97% on Steam (30,172 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  3. 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 has just moved to the small rural community and everyone knows everyone. 96% on Steam (6,917 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC, Mac, Linux
  4. Notch - The Innocent LunA key art: a pink-haired girl against a red glow and a green-haired girl in a black choker against pale light, back to back PsychologicalNotch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerSThe store page sets the story in an isolated town of forgotten memories, shaken by a summer of murders. 95% on Steam (3,295 reviews)about 7.5 hPaidPC
  5. Project Zomboid art: Spiffo, the game's raccoon mascot, holds a weapon in the rain with zombies reaching up behind him SurvivalProject ZomboidYou survive in the small towns of the Knox Event exclusion zone, such as Muldraugh, Rosewood and Riverside. 94% on Steam (489,804 reviews)PaidPC, Mac, Linux
  6. Days Gone key art: Deacon on his motorbike in silhouette, kicking up dirt over still water ZombiesDays GoneYou search small rural towns and abandoned camps for parts, fuel and supplies 93% on the PlayStation Store (180,338 ratings)38 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation
  7. Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey by a campfire in a night forest, masked hooded figures behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver near a red-lit totem Puzzle horrorSlender ThreadsHarvey wanders Villa Ventana, a quiet seaside town of four streets with a town hall, a pizza place, a casino and shops you can enter 94% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone, Android
  8. Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree PsychologicalLittle MisfortuneSet in 1993 on the outskirts of Openfields, a made-up Swedish town. 92% on Steam (14,397 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  9. Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background PsychologicalPathologic 2The whole game takes place in one isolated town on the Gorkhon River, where everyone knows your family and suspects you. 92% on Steam (12,269 reviews)28 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  10. Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place key art: a cracked wind-up snow globe holding a snowy two-storey house and pine trees, on a dark background PsychologicalMidnight Scenes: A Safe PlaceNoelle works at the grocery store of their small town and leaves deliveries of food under his window 95% on Steam (245 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC
  11. Harvester key art: a hooded figure with glowing red eyes raises a gleaming scythe under a purple and red night sky, with a domed building and red-lit minarets to the right PsychologicalHarvesterSet in Harvest, a small Texas farming town whose locals greet every plea for help with canned answers. 91% on Steam (1,759 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Linux
  12. 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 2The story is set around Villa Hess, a remote town in the mountains of southern Chile. 89% on the PlayStation Store (2,833 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. Pathologic Classic HD key art: tattered scarecrows on wooden poles under a pale sky, red leaves falling around the red title on a black ink splatter PsychologicalPathologic Classic HDSet in a small, strange drover settlement on the far steppe that has grown its own odd ways over generations 88% on Steam (4,651 reviews)29 h or morePaidPC
  14. Black Mirror II key art: a shattered-glass collage with a man seen from behind in fog facing a gothic castle, and small game scenes in the broken shards Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIIt starts in Darren's small New England town, a coastal town in Maine with a photo shop, a diner and a town hall. 90% on Steam (725 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC
  15. Puppet House key art: the wooden puppet seen from behind, holding a knife, sitting in a pool of blood at the foot of the mansion's staircase EscapePuppet HouseThe story starts in the peaceful town of Field Town, where locals have begun to vanish. 86% on the PlayStation Store (650 ratings)about 2.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  16. James stands with his back to us in the middle of a fog-filled Silent Hill street, parked cars and shopfronts with awnings fading into grey mist PsychologicalSILENT HILL 2Set in Silent Hill, a fog-covered resort town in Maine whose streets and shops you walk through. 95% on Steam17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  17. Hollowbody key art: Mica holds a red glowing lantern and a pistol as pale, long-haired figures reach for her through grey smoke beside her crashed hover SurvivalHollowbodyHer hover crashes into what is left of a small British town, overgrown and empty. 85% on Steam (1,625 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  18. The Evil Within 2 key art: a pale, monochrome Sebastian Castellanos with eyes closed and a pistol under his chin, ghostly hands on his shoulders and faces in white liquid among black tendrils PsychologicalThe Evil Within 2Set in Union, an idyllic American town inside STEM that has fallen apart and is overrun by the Lost. 92% on Steam14 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  19. Terror At Oakheart key art: the town of Oakheart seen from above in pixel art, cottages and pines on blood-orange ground 2D horrorTerror At OakheartThe community of Oakheart is terrorised by Teddy, and you move through its houses, police station and ranger station. 85% on Steam (284 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC
  20. The Lost Crown key art: a pale, white-eyed girl beside a clawed, bloodied window with a shadowy hatted figure behind it, crows in dead trees, and the title PsychologicalThe Lost CrownNigel hides out in the small harbour town of Saxton, doing jobs for the locals and gathering their stories. 83% on Steam (527 reviews)30 h or morePaidPC
  21. 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 PsychologicalGYLTSet in Bethelwood, a small mining town in Maine, and a twisted night-time version of it 95% on Steamabout 5.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  22. Hello Neighbor 2 key art: the scowling moustached Neighbor in a purple argyle vest and yellow shirt, shovel over his shoulder, in a dark misty forest Puzzle horrorHello Neighbor 2The whole town of Raven Brooks is the playground, with AI-driven residents living in its houses 81% on Steam (6,089 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  23. SILENT HILL f art: Hinako in a sailor school uniform, half her face covered by masses of red flowers PsychologicalSILENT HILL fSet in Ebisugaoka, a small, secluded mountain town in 1960s Japan made for this game. 80% on Steam (29,916 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  24. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3The game is set in a remote steppe town whose people you get to know, question and try to save. 80% on Steam (2,839 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  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 CometSet in Illsmouth, a sleepy New England fishing port in 1910 whose frightened townsfolk hide its past. 74% on GOG (196 ratings)13 h or morePaidPC, Linux
  26. The Last Crown: Midnight Horror key art: ghost-hunters Nigel and Lucy in black and white with green ghostly smoke and photographs of a sheeted ghost Puzzle horrorThe Last Crown: Midnight HorrorSet in Saxton, a small English harbour town whose locals you question through the night 80% on Steam (129 reviews)about 2.5 hPaidPC
  27. Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon PsychologicalSaint KotarSet in Sveti Kotar, an ancient God-devoted town in a cursed valley in rural Croatia, with its lodge, police station and graveyards 70% on Steam (204 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  28. Daymare: 1998 key art: a skinless mutant with a gaping jaw lunges from a dark, blood-spattered lab corridor with biohazard and restricted-area signs SurvivalDaymare: 1998The outbreak spreads to Keen Sight, a small, peaceful town in Idaho surrounded by forest. 69% on Steam (4,315 reviews)10 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  29. 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 EarthSet in Innsmouth, a hostile, half-empty coastal town in 1922 whose people turn on the visiting detective 68% on Steam (3,380 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC
  30. 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 HourSeventy years after the murders the town of Harley has been silent, and the house drags the whole town back in. 41% on Steam (275 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac

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  3. Survival horror games82
  4. Horror games with multiple endings71
  5. 2D horror games58
  6. PS1 horror games45
  7. Stealth horror games45
  8. Cosmic and Lovecraftian horror games42
  9. Mystery and detective horror games38
  10. Surreal horror games31
  11. Short horror games27
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  3. itch.io horror games592
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  5. Mac horror games391
  6. Linux horror games261
  7. PlayStation horror games404
  8. Xbox horror games367
  9. Switch horror games317
  10. Mobile horror games188
  11. VR horror games69
  12. Browser horror games236
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