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Hotel horror games

Horror games set in hotels: grand lobbies, long carpeted corridors of numbered doors, guest rooms, attics and basements. You search an empty or condemned building, work a night shift at the front desk, or hide from what walks the halls. The fear is in the repetition of identical doors, the rooms you have not opened yet, and a place built for guests that no longer has any.

The top 30 of 50 hotel horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 30 best, 2026

  1. The Upturned key art: a small figure in a wide hat holds up a lantern on a path to a lit inn at night, with glowing eyes watching from the dark SurrealThe UpturnedSet in the Upturned Inn, which the store calls a grand hotel for the dead where you just want to find your room. 99% on Steam (2,173 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  2. Smile For Me key art: a dark figure in a top hat with glowing eyes and a wide glowing grin looms over silhouettes of the Habitat's residents amid swirling vines and flowers PsychologicalSmile For MeThe Habitat is a resort in the mountains where its lost residents live and stay. 98% on Steam (1,887 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox
  3. Resident Evil Requiem art: Grace Ashcroft, with pale, tousled hair and a brown leather jacket, looks sideways on a grey city street SurvivalResident Evil RequiemGrace goes alone to the condemned Wrenwood Hotel to look into her mother's death; a screenshot shows its dark lobby. 96% on Steam (187,672 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  4. 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 HotelThe whole game takes place in the Rusty Lake Hotel, its lobby, dining room and guest rooms. 96% on Google Play (20,600 ratings)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, iPhone, Android
  5. If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers key art: a pixel-art steam locomotive with a glowing lamp, its smoke trailing four giant eerie masks through the dark PsychologicalIf On A Winter's Night, Four TravelersIn the first act Carlo waits in a luxurious hotel room in Rome to meet his lover in hiding. 95% on Steam (1,898 reviews)about 2 hFreePC, Mac, Linux
  6. Sorry We're Closed key art: a blue-skinned horned demon woman with a long tongue, tooth earrings and a pink Baby choker, under the game's title SurvivalSorry We're ClosedOne of the early areas is the Duchess's own hotel, full of demons. 98% on Steam (1,676 reviews)about 7 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. The Inn-Sanity: a large lit-up hotel at night, wrapped in dark red fog PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityYou arrive at a luxury hotel for one night, and the hotel becomes a prison for its guests. 96% on Steam (1,669 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC
  8. Lakeview Cabin 2 key art: two pixel-art children stand by a stone slab among standing stones in a green forest clearing SurvivalLakeview Cabin 2Episode 2 is set at Hotel Lakeview during a cult film convention, with a murderer hidden among the guests. 96% on Steam (592 reviews)14 h or morePaidPC, Mac
  9. At Dead Of Night key art: a lit Victorian hotel on a stormy clifftop above the sea at night, with lightning striking the water MysteryAt Dead Of NightSet in the Sea View Hotel, an old hotel on a remote headland whose lobby, lifts, corridors and bedrooms you search room by room 94% on Steam (3,620 reviews)about 8 hPaidPC
  10. Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken key art: Amy with a flashlight by a tree trunk set with clock faces, among stone arches and shadow figures with glowing eyes SurvivalDeep Sleep: Labyrinth of the ForsakenOne dream is a run-down hotel, where a guest register opens certain rooms 95% on Steam (653 reviews)14 h or morePaidPC
  11. Downfall key art: the title in an ornate white frame on a dark cracked wall, blood dripping below and a man sitting hunched in the corner PsychologicalDownfallJoe and Ivy check into the Quiet Haven Hotel, and you explore its lobby, corridors and numbered rooms. 94% on Steam (1,710 reviews)about 4.5 hPaidPC
  12. 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 ThreadsThe story opens with Harvey waking from his nightmare while staying overnight in Villa Ventana's only hotel 94% on Google Play (1,710 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, Switch, iPhone, Android
  13. Trash Horror Collection key art: a sketchy skull holding a camera at the edge of a dark banner with a faint grid floor Multiple endingsTrash Horror CollectionThe Elevator puts you on a hotel's night front desk, investigating something wrong with its elevator. 95% on Steam (490 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  14. I'm on Observation Duty 6 key art: the title over a tunnel of small security camera screens PsychologicalI'm on Observation Duty 6One level watches a hotel: its entrance, lobby, elevator, a corridor, a guest room and the bar. 94% on Steam (697 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux
  15. Vacant cover: the glitchy word vacant over a pixel-art forest silhouetted against a pink and orange sunset 2D horrorVacantSet in Masthill Lodge, a hotel abandoned soon after it was built, with guest rooms upstairs and a basement below 96% on itch.io (260 ratings)about 35 minFreeBrowser, PC, Mac
  16. Twisted Tower key art: a man in a bloodied shirt holding a mallet before a dark carnival tower, a ferris wheel and two grinning bear mascots Action horrorTwisted TowerThe hotel is one of the five levels, with red corridors where armed mascots wait. 92% on Steam (2,178 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC
  17. Dreamcore key art: a bright open doorway glowing in a dark, grainy empty room, with a dim round object beside it PsychologicalDreamcoreThe Liminal Hotel is a multi-floor hotel reached by elevators, its style drifting back in time as you descend 93% on the PlayStation Store (2,212 ratings)about 5 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  18. Propagation: Paradise Hotel key art: Emily with a flashlight on the grand staircase of a dark hotel lobby lit blue from above SurvivalPropagation: Paradise HotelSet in the Paradise Hotel, whose kitchen, guest rooms, corridors and grand lobby you search for your sister 93% on the PlayStation Store (1,559 ratings)about 4 hPaidPC, VR, PlayStation
  19. Escape the Backrooms key art: four players in yellow hazmat suits and gas masks stand in an empty library-like room under a sign reading THE END Co-opEscape the BackroomsThe Wrong Door route passes through Level 5, Terror Hotel, and a screenshot shows an ornate empty hotel lobby. 90% on Steam (168,596 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  20. Backrooms 97 entity card: the Smiler's glowing eyes and jagged white grin floating in a dark tiled stairwell hall, captioned SMILER EscapeBackrooms 97 - Retro DescentOne of its four levels is the Liminal Hotel, 'a haunting space of endless halls and eerie silence'. 89% on the App Store (3,458 ratings)Free with adsiPhone
  21. Death Trips cover: a long hotel corridor of white doors and red carpet above the title in glitching letters ShortDeath TripsSet in an infamous hotel: long red-carpeted corridors of white doors, a sitting room and rain on the windows. 90% on itch.io (794 ratings)about 3 minPay what you wantPC, Mac
  22. Dark Deception key art: a frightened man grabbed by a crowd of monsters, including a giant grinning bear, a duck, a clown, a doll-like girl and nurses EscapeDark DeceptionThe first maze is a hotel, with a lobby, wallpapered corridors and monkey bellhops. 88% on Steam (24,494 reviews)about 3 hFreePC
  23. The Complex: Expedition key art: a blue-lit steel corridor of panels and pipes leading to a glowing yellow doorway with torn edges PsychologicalThe Complex: ExpeditionOne area is a deserted, warm-lit hotel lobby with green leather sofas and a pink carpet. 88% on Steam (1,714 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC
  24. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR key art: a bloodied, amber-eyed face above a rollercoaster track leading to a fiery gate, two guns raised in the foreground Action horrorThe Dark Pictures: Switchback VRYou escape a copy of H.H. Holmes' World's Fair Hotel with a serial killer and his traps 86% on the PlayStation Store (2,913 ratings)about 4 hPaidPlayStation, VR
  25. 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 2The Lakeview Hotel by the lake is one of the main locations James explores. 95% on Steam17 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  26. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood key art: a giant fanged, bloody clown face and a cracked doll above a rollercoaster track, with the orange marquee title Action horrorUntil Dawn: Rush of BloodOne level passes through a hidden hotel where you face a ghost 85% on the PlayStation Store (18,000 ratings)about 2 hPaidPlayStation, VR
  27. Dead Island Definitive Edition key art: a snarling tattooed zombie with long blond hair in front of a palm-lined resort pool and sun loungers Co-opDead Island Definitive EditionYour character wakes in the island's resort hotel, guided over its cameras by a stranger, and the infected roam its tiled corridors. 82% on Steam (28,463 reviews)19 h or morePaidPC, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  28. Dread X Collection 3 key art: a castle on a red autumn hillside under a grinning jack-o'-lantern moon PS1Dread X Collection 3Bete Grise is a lonely night shift as manager of a hotel with strange happenings and peculiar guests. 92% on Steamabout 8 hPaidPC
  29. Damned 2 key art: a pale girl holding a doll and a clawed skeletal monster stand in a red-lit, foggy hotel corridor under an EXIT sign Co-opDamned 2The store art shows a red-lit hotel corridor and a foggy motel lobby with a neon sign. 88% on Steam (148 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC
  30. Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel key art: a figure in a dark gas mask with one green lens stands in a red-lit hotel corridor SurvivalFobia - St. Dinfna HotelSet in the St. Dinfna Hotel, a decaying hotel with a history of missing guests, explored floor by floor. 83% on Steam (2,392 reviews)11 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox

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More kinds of horror

  1. Short horror games621
  2. Psychological horror games530
  3. Horror games with multiple endings417
  4. Horror puzzle games341
  5. Survival horror games259
  6. 2D horror games254
  7. PS1 horror games233
  8. Stealth horror games180
  9. Horror escape games164
  10. Surreal horror games145
  11. Horror visual novels137
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  1. Steam horror games1009
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  6. Mac horror games391
  7. Linux horror games261
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  12. VR horror games69
  13. Browser horror games236
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