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Victorian horror games on GOG

These games are set in the Victorian era or in worlds built from it: gaslit streets, cobbled lanes, brick factories and old mansions full of candles, damask wallpaper and gramophones. You walk dark houses, hotels and moors, read letters left behind and follow a mystery. The fear sits behind the polite surface, in locked rooms, old family secrets and what the period would not talk about.

The top 11 of 11 Victorian horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 11 best on GOG

  1. Rusty Lake Hotel key art: the grey gothic hotel on a small island in a still green lake, with mountains and a cloudy sky behind PsychologicalRusty Lake HotelGuests and staff wear Victorian suits among chandeliers, damask wallpaper and brass scales. 96% on Google Play (20,600 ratings)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  2. 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 DoorSet in late 19th-century Britain, as Jeremiah Devitt crosses the country to learn why his schoolmate died. 95% on Steam (2,476 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  3. The Last Door: Season 2 screenshot: a man in a dark coat stands by a glowing gas lamp on a night street before an old brick house PsychologicalThe Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's EditionThe store sends you back to Victorian England, through mental asylums, abandoned manors and opium dens 94% on Steam (992 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, iPhone
  4. Painted art of Thomasina Bateman at a rain-streaked window, her reflection in the glass, looking out at a moor where cracks of pink light spread from a stone barrow PsychologicalThe Excavation of Hob's BarrowIt is set in rural Victorian England. 92% on Steam (3,459 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  5. Alisa key art: Alisa in a blue dress and striped stockings reclines on a floral chaise with a tommy gun, one hand on a doll's head, brass gears around her, against dark red wallpaper SurvivalAlisaSet in an old Victorian mansion in a fantasy world inspired by the 1920s 89% on Steam (1,607 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  6. Sunless Sea key art: a lone lit buoy with a bell leans out of a flat dark sea under a green-black sky 2D horrorSunless SeaSet in Fallen London, a Victorian London carried underground, and sailed in a Victorian steamship 83% on Steam (9,582 reviews)22 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  7. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened key art: a giant tentacled creature with glowing red eyes looms out of green fog and rain MysterySherlock Holmes The AwakenedSet in 1882, from Baker Street and gaslit London streets to a gloomy manor reached by horse-drawn carriage. 81% on Steam (1,156 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  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 FearThe Painter's house is a decaying Victorian mansion full of period furniture, candles and gramophones. 79% on Steamabout 8.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  9. Maid of Sker key art: a frightened woman covers her mouth while a man runs through ivy-covered iron gates beside the hotel wall SurvivalMaid of SkerIt is set in 1898, with Victorian dress, gramophones and gaslit rooms. 79% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  10. Waxworks key art: a melting wax head in profile with a staring eye and anguished faces in its drips, before a dark red door with iron hinges Puzzle horrorWaxworksA whole exhibit is 19th-century London, with gaslit alleys, constables and a killer at large. 76% on GOG (257 ratings)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac
  11. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs key art: a painted Victorian engine room of brass pipes, gauges and a ladder beside a red armchair, with a round hatch smeared with blood PsychologicalAmnesia: A Machine for PigsSet in London on New Year's Eve 1899, among cobbled streets, brick factories and a wealthy industrialist's house. 70% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch

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