Horror games on itch.io

Indie horror from itch.io: free and pay-what-you-want games, game jam scares, PS1-style horror and short games, many of them played in the browser. Each has a page on what frightens and links to its itch.io page.

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Yuki Onna key art: the pale hand of a woman in a white kimono reaching out in the dark

Tonight's pick · Survival

[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.

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Short

Halloween (fan-made game)

Babysitting on Halloween night, 1978-style, until someone tries the door.

Survival

Night At the Gates of Hell

Headshots only: escape a seaside city overrun by Italian-style zombies.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Petra, a girl with green and black hair in an orange hoodie, stands at a dark doorway telling her grandma she is staying up late

Visual novels

Don't Die Alone

Halloween night, 2006: a spam message, a friend count and a monster for whoever is alone.

Survival

Power Drill Massacre

Locked in an abandoned building, with a power drill echoing in the dark.

PC / Mac

Psychological

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Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

Browser / PC

Psychological

HIKEBACK

A mountain road at night, a hitchhiker, and a ride that keeps repeating.

Browser

Action horror

Dead Estate

A gory roguelike shooter up the floors of a monster-filled mansion.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

PS1

Pacman (glitched ROM)

Pac-Man in the dark, from an arcade board that was locked away.

Browser / PC

Psychological horror games

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Inunaki Tunnel key art: the arched tunnel mouth blocked with graffiti-covered concrete blocks, seen through VHS noise

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル

Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.

Missing Children key art: an empty red playground swing hanging over dark wet ground at night

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明

A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.

Night Delivery key art: a dark apartment doorway beside a staircase, washed in purple VHS light

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.

The Convenience Store key art: a Japanese convenience store glowing under its white sign on a dark night street

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

The night shift at a convenience store pays well. Now you know why.

PC / Switch

The Ghost Train key art: the inside of a Japanese commuter train with pink seats and a few passengers in dim light

Psychological

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.

Psychological

a man outside

A vocabulary quiz, a quiet street, and a man who keeps standing there.

Browser

Psychological

Anthology Of The Killer

A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Assessment Examination

An entrance exam for a department that judges what is real.

Browser / PC / Mac

Psychological

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

The bedtime figure who rewards good children has come to Ron's apartment.

Psychological

Be Honest

An old personality quiz that does not stay friendly.

Browser / PC

Survival horror games

All 11

Hanako key art: a drawing of a pale girl with a black bob and a red pinafore peering round a toilet stall door, with blood on the walls

Survival

[Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん

A schoolyard curse goes wrong and Hanako comes for the kids who cast it.

Survival

[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女

Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.

Survival

COBB CAN MOVE

Flee a grinning creature through dark rooms where the rules change each run.

Browser / PC

Survival

Human Construction Site

Wake with no memory in a facility that treats people as specimens.

Browser / PC / Mac

Survival

Midnight Mansion

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

Browser

Survival