Horror puzzle games

Puzzle horror

Blackout

A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Survival

Crow Country

Search an abandoned 1990 theme park for its missing owner.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Cube Escape Collection

Nine strange rooms, one dead woman and the mystery of Rusty Lake.

PC / Mac / iPhone

Psychological

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Puzzle horror

Deep Sleep Trilogy

You cannot run from your dreams, only go deeper.

PC

Psychological

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

Psychological

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Endacopia

A boy with no senses, a cheerful world, and horrors if you go looking.

PC

Puzzle horror

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Puzzle horror

FeedVid Live

A stranger's livestream, a locked bathroom stall, and a chat that tells them what to do.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux / Android

Survival

Flesh Made Fear

Tank controls, fixed cameras and a mad scientist's monsters in a PSX-style survival horror.

PC / PlayStation

Puzzle horror

flies in a jar

First night as a security guard at an agency that keeps flies in a jar.

Browser / PC

Survival

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel

Investigate a Brazilian hotel through a camera that sees other times.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Psychological

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Psychological

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Walk into Viking Hell with the voices in your head.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Puzzle horror

Hello Neighbor

Sneak into your neighbour's house and find out what is in the basement.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Survival

Hollowbody

Crash inside a walled-off British city and search its ruins for the partner who went in first.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Multiple endings

Homicipher

Learn the words of the monsters before they decide what to do with you.

PC / Mac / Switch

Psychological

Ib

Escape an art gallery whose paintings have come alive.

PC / Switch / PlayStation

Puzzle horror

Indigo Park: Chapter 1

Explore a closed theme park with its cartoon guide, and run from what shut it.

PC

Psychological

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Co-op

Inside the Backrooms

Find your way out of the Backrooms with friends, before the entities find you.

PC

Puzzle horror

INVITATIONEM

A breakdown in the rain, and the only light is a house in the woods.

Browser

Multiple endings

Killer Frequency

Talk the callers of a 1987 radio show away from a masked killer.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Psychological

last seen online

Snoop through a stranger's old computer and find out what it hides.

Browser / PC

Multiple endings

Mad Father

A girl explores her father's mansion on the night his experiments get loose.

PC / Switch

Psychological

MADiSON

A cursed instant camera, a possessed house, and a demon's ritual to finish.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Psychological

Mausoleosis

A letter from a mother who has been dead for twenty years.

Browser / PC / Mac

Survival

Midnight Mansion

An agent, a handgun and a mansion where the murders have not stopped.

Browser

Psychological

Moons of Madness

Cosmic horror on a failing research base on Mars.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Psychological

Mundaun

A hand-pencilled folk horror tale high in the Alps.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Paper Lily - Chapter 1

Follow a golden letter into a hidden world where every puzzle has another way out.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Psychological

Pony Island

A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.

PC / Mac / Linux

Puzzle horror

Poppy Playtime

Explore an abandoned toy factory where the toys are still awake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Survival

Resident Evil

Survive the Spencer mansion with scarce ammo, ink ribbons and the dead in the halls.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Survival

Resident Evil 0

The night before the mansion: a zombie train, a rookie medic and a convict.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Survival

Resident Evil 2

Survive Raccoon City's overrun police station with too few bullets and a stalker on your trail.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Psychological

Rusty Lake: Roots

Plant a strange seed and grow a family tree full of dark secrets.

PC / Mac / iPhone

Psychological

Sally Face

A boy with a prosthetic face investigates murders and talks to the dead.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Survival

Scorn

Lost in a living world of flesh and machinery, with no words to explain it.

PC / Xbox / PlayStation

Psychological

Servant of the Lake

Serve the Vanderboom family and help with their alchemy, if you can stomach it.

PC / Mac

Multiple endings

Shipwrecked 64

A lost 1997 cartoon game about a beaver on an island. It was pulled from sale for a reason.

PC

Psychological

SIGNALIS

Classic survival horror in a retro sci-fi nightmare of lost identity.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

SILENT HILL 2

Return to the fog town where the monsters are made of grief.

PC / PlayStation

Psychological

SILENT HILL f

A fog takes a 1960s Japanese mountain town, and something blooms in it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox