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Analog horror games on itch.io

15 analog horror games on itch.io, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Tells its horror through old or found media (VHS, TV broadcasts, tapes, old computers, footage), or the internet horror it grew from (creepypasta, the Backrooms, liminal spaces).

15 games

All analog horror games on itch.io

a man outside illustration: a dark silhouette of a man standing on a grey pavement between two bare, twisted trees

a man outside

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

Browser

Alone. Again. screenshot: looking out of a dark window at a tree-lined street where a man stands still in the road

Alone. Again.

A man stands in the street outside. It's getting closer.

Browser / PC

Andy's Apple Farm art: Andy the Apple, a smiling apple with a leaf, waves in front of a red farmhouse on a grainy screen

Andy's Apple Farm

A cheerful 1980s farm game that starts to glitch.

PC

Anemoiapolis key art: a lone green tree on a grassy field under a blue sky that looks like crumpled paper

Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

Lost in an empty mall and endless pools, with no way out but forward.

PC

Assessment Examination cover: a noisy black-and-white face with huge black eyes and a gaping mouth above the title

Assessment Examination

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

Browser / PC / Mac

FeedVid Live

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

flies in a jar cover: an old-style window reading flies in a jar by Jet Simon with a Play Now button on a teal screen, a timestamp below

flies in a jar

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

Browser / PC

Krypta FM: a roadside shrine on a dark forest road at night, seen through the screen of a chunky handheld digital camera

Krypta FM

Photograph the traces of a cryptid around a dark Polish village in 2006.

PC

last seen online screenshot: a dithered pink photo of a dark-haired girl making a peace sign behind floating hearts, found on the old computer

last seen online

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

Browser / PC

No Players Online key art: an old CRT monitor floating in dark clouds shows a courtyard map with a red flag, a pistol beside it

No Players Online

An old computer, an empty game server, and someone still playing.

PC

Pacman glitched ROM: Pac-Man in a dark blue maze, only the corridor he faces lit with its red dots, level 1, score 1100 and three lives at the left

Pacman (glitched ROM)

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

Browser / PC

POOLS key art: a long rectangular pool of dark water with a metal rail, in a hall of pale tiles stretching into the distance

POOLS

Endless tiled pools, still water and nobody else.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / VR

TELEFORUM key art: the widow sits in shadow in an armchair beside a lamp, a side table and a bookcase, in a dark wallpapered room

TELEFORUM

A widow, an interview, and the tape you really came for.

PC / Mac

The Backrooms 1998 key art: a dark, empty tiled pool room with a pink inflatable ring floating in the gloom

The Backrooms 1998

Found footage from the Backrooms, 1998. Don't scream.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

What happened to the crew? screenshot: a green terminal showing a newly discovered log, the crew discussing a strange coherent signal

What happened to the crew?

A dead station, a command line, and the files they left behind.

Browser

Guides

Backrooms Games: Lost in the Endless Yellow Rooms