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Village horror games on GOG

Horror games set in villages: remote mountain hamlets, snowbound farms and island settlements where the locals keep to themselves or turn on you. You walk lanes between closed houses, search barns and cottages, and learn what the people here are hiding. The fear comes from being the outsider in a small place that already knows you are there.

The top 17 of 17 village horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 17 best on GOG

  1. Firework key art: orange silhouetted figures, one with an umbrella, stand on a dark ember-lit ridge under a grey misty sky, above the title FIREWORK PsychologicalFireworkSet in a remote mountain village where a closed massacre case is reopened 98% on Steam (44,554 reviews)about 3.5 hPaidPC, Switch
  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 OnikakushiSet in Hinamizawa, a country village of fewer than two thousand people. 96% on Steam (6,917 reviews)10 h or moreFreePC, Mac, Linux
  3. Darkwood art: a pale, emaciated figure crowned with twisted branches screams in the grey dark, a cabin under tall trees behind it SurvivalDarkwoodThe store page says you may choose to doom an entire village for a creature's reward. 95% on Steam (25,221 reviews)19 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  4. Three figures in a small rowing boat on a pale, misty river among bare branches: one poles at the stern while a girl holds a small child SurvivalA Plague Tale: InnocenceThe road runs through villages emptied by the disease, with soldiers patrolling their streets. 93% on Steam (73,516 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Darkest Dungeon key art: a masked swordsman, a plague doctor and a highwayman with pistol and dagger stand before walls of skulls in a red-lit crypt 2D horrorDarkest DungeonBetween expeditions you return to the hamlet, with its tavern, abbey, blacksmith and church under a red sky. 92% on Steam (163,343 reviews)56 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone
  6. 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 BarrowMost of the story takes place in and around the small village of Bewlay and among its suspicious locals. 92% on Steam (3,459 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch
  7. Labyrinth Of The Demon King key art: a hulking grey painted demon against a red-brown cloudy sky, under the Japanese and English title in red and white SurvivalLabyrinth Of The Demon KingOutdoor sections pass through misty, rain-soaked villages of old wooden houses and stone lanterns 92% on Steam (1,557 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  8. Black Mirror III key art: a smirking young man in a jacket above a burning gothic manor, a church, a graveyard and a heap of skulls Puzzle horrorBlack Mirror IIIMost of the game is spent around the lonely village square, shops, pub and church of Willow Creek. 90% on Steam (556 reviews)13 h or morePaidPC
  9. Children of Silentown key art: a girl and child silhouettes with glowing white eyes before a pale moon, between red foliage and teal village houses 2D horrorChildren of SilentownThe first several hours are spent in Lucy's small village: errands for her mother, a cranky farmer and children playing behind the old barn. 87% on Steam (1,597 reviews)about 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  10. Saturnalia key art: a glowing magenta horned mask hovering before a dark staircase and tangled branches, under the white hand-lettered title SurvivalSaturnaliaSet in Gravoi, an ancient village in Sardinia whose streets form an elaborate maze 89% on Steam (139 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  11. Kona key art: the yellow KONA title on white snow, with the dark silhouette of a man's legs and his long shadow PsychologicalKonaYou search the eerie, deserted village and its houses, finding no living inhabitant. 83% on the PlayStation Store (1,943 ratings)about 5.5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  12. DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with two glowing lamps on a rough green sea beside a red and white lighthouse under a brown stormy sky, with tentacles and a spiny fish under the water PsychologicalDREDGEVillages of stilt huts and docks sit on the islands, as the Steam screenshots show. 96% on Steamabout 9.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  13. Stygian: Outer Gods art: a snowy village of wooden houses beneath a glowing green vortex with dark tentacles, a spired mansion on the hill beyond SurvivalStygian: Outer GodsThe Early Access build opens in Kingsport village, a ruined settlement of wooden houses in the snow. 81% on Steam (696 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  14. 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 2Temple Gate, the cult's town of shacks, chapels and a windmill, is where most of the game takes place. 91% on Steamabout 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  15. Mundaun key art in pencil greys: a man holding a pitchfork and a lantern stands on a rock with a goat, looking over an Alpine valley with a chalet, a horned figure and a woman watching PsychologicalMundaunCurdin returns to the remote alpine village of Mundaun, where his grandfather lived, for the funeral. 93% on Steamabout 6.5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  16. The Evil Within key art: a man's bloodied face wrapped in barbed wire SurvivalThe Evil WithinPart of the game takes place in a village overrun by the Haunted. 85% on Steam15 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  17. 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 UsA screenshot shows zombies, among them a policeman and a butcher with a chainsaw, on a foggy village path before a chapel 75% on Steam (1,224 reviews)PaidPC

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