Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.
PC
Horror game genres on itch.io
Every kind of horror game on itch.io, from psychological horror and survival horror to co-op games to play with friends: 156 games in all.
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明
A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達
One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.
PC
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
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車
A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.
PC
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.
PC
Psychological
Be Honest
An old personality quiz that does not stay friendly.
Browser / PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん
A schoolyard curse goes wrong and Hanako comes for the kids who cast it.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Cannibal Abduction
Escape a cannibal family's farmhouse before you become dinner.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
COBB CAN MOVE
Flee a grinning creature through dark rooms where the rules change each run.
Browser / PC
Survival
Endoparasitic 2
Crawl through an infested arcship with one arm, hand-loaded guns and a parasite in your head.
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Human Construction Site
Wake with no memory in a facility that treats people as specimens.
Browser / PC / Mac
Survival
Late Homework
Fetch your homework from the school at night, before something fetches you.
PC
Survival
Midnight Mansion
An agent, a handgun and a mansion where the murders have not stopped.
Browser
Survival
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2
Three donated toys, two missing friends, and an orphanage with a dark past.
PC / iPhone / Android
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Psychological
a man outside
A vocabulary quiz, a quiet street, and a man who keeps standing there.
Browser
Multiple endings
Beary the Hatchet
A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.
PC
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Cannibal Abduction
Escape a cannibal family's farmhouse before you become dinner.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Carnivore!
You are a sheep, you work in a restaurant, and you are on the menu.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Crowscare
A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.
PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Dead Plate
Wait tables for a week at a 1960s bistro and learn what the chef is hiding.
PC / Mac
Multiple endings
Diner in the Storm
Shelter in a roadside diner while something waits in the storm.
Browser
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Diner in the Storm
Shelter in a roadside diner while something waits in the storm.
Browser
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
Puzzle horror
flies in a jar
First night as a security guard at an agency that keeps flies in a jar.
Browser / PC
Psychological
Gray Dawn
A priest blamed for a lost altar boy walks through visions of blood and faith.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
Steer your puppet through the House, the School and a Trial nobody escapes.
PC
Puzzle horror
INVITATIONEM
A breakdown in the rain, and the only light is a house in the woods.
Browser
Psychological
last seen online
Snoop through a stranger's old computer and find out what it hides.
Browser / PC
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
Action horror
Dead Estate
A gory roguelike shooter up the floors of a monster-filled mansion.
PC / PlayStation / Switch
Action horror
Shrine
A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.
PC / Linux
Action horror
Shrine II
Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.
PC / Linux
Action horror
Vomitoreum
Shoot your way through a fog-blighted hellscape painted after Beksiński.
PC / Linux
Multiple endings
Beary the Hatchet
A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.
PC
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Visual novels
Don't Die Alone
Halloween night, 2006: a spam message, a friend count and a monster for whoever is alone.
PC
Multiple endings
Help! I Took My Little Brother to a Halloween Party and the Popular Kids Want to Sacrifice Him to a Demon!
Halloween 2004, a party full of theatre kids, and a demon that wants your little brother.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
HIKEBACK
A mountain road at night, a hitchhiker, and a ride that keeps repeating.
Browser
Psychological
It gets so lonely here
Run through the forest. She will never let you go.
PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
It Paints Me
A painter, a lost muse, and a brush that hurts to lift.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.
PC / Mac / Linux / Switch
Psychological
missed messages.
A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?
PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Classic
Collect seven notebooks and get out of Baldi's school before he catches you.
iPhone / Android / PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
Hide from the toy rabbit you were always afraid of.
PC / iPhone / Android
Survival
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2
Three donated toys, two missing friends, and an orphanage with a dark past.
PC / iPhone / Android
FNAF
One Night In 2D
Survive the night against Fred and his crew, in 2D.
Browser / PC
Multiple endings
Beary the Hatchet
A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.
PC
Multiple endings
Crowscare
A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.
PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
Dead Plate
Wait tables for a week at a 1960s bistro and learn what the chef is hiding.
PC / Mac
Psychological
Doppelpartment
Some of your tenants are not your tenants anymore.
Browser / PC / Mac
Psychological
Flesh, Blood, & Concrete
Explore a grim concrete apartment block and what its tenants left behind.
Browser / PC
Psychological
Good Job!
The same workday again, and a coworker you could kill.
Browser / PC / Mac
Psychological
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
Steer your puppet through the House, the School and a Trial nobody escapes.
PC
Survival
Human Construction Site
Wake with no memory in a facility that treats people as specimens.
Browser / PC / Mac
Multiple endings
Jake's Halloween Night
October 31: get Jake ready for a killer Halloween party.
Browser / PC
Multiple endings
Lily's Well
Someone is calling from the bottom of the well.
PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103
A containment breach, a dark facility and one voice on the radio.
Browser / PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103: NULL KELVIN
Alone on an Arctic island with whatever escaped the module.
Browser
Sci-fi horror
Descent
An abandoned research ship, a missing crew, and what they found.
Browser
Survival
Endoparasitic 2
Crawl through an infested arcship with one arm, hand-loaded guns and a parasite in your head.
PC / Mac / Linux
Puzzle horror
Stowaway
The last pilot of the Starcross, a dead crew and something aboard.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Psychological
Voices of the Void
Listen to space alone from a mountain lab, and see what answers.
PC
Sci-fi horror
What happened to the crew?
A dead station, a command line, and the files they left behind.
Browser
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明
A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達
One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.
PC
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
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車
A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
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Short
[HERROR] Gas Station Case
Work the night shift at a gas station while people vanish in the woods.
PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103
A containment breach, a dark facility and one voice on the radio.
Browser / PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103: NULL KELVIN
Alone on an Arctic island with whatever escaped the module.
Browser
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
Slasher
Babysitter Bloodbath
Your first night babysitting, and the madman is out after 22 years.
PC
Slasher
Bloody Hallowfest
A 90s B-movie slasher at a summer camp on Halloween eve.
PC
Survival
Cannibal Abduction
Escape a cannibal family's farmhouse before you become dinner.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Short
Halloween (fan-made game)
Babysitting on Halloween night, 1978-style, until someone tries the door.
PC
Slasher
Halloween 2 - Asylum
The night cook at Haddonfield's asylum, the night Myers gets out.
PC
Slasher
Laser Tag Massacre
A Halloween party in an abandoned arcade, a game of laser tag, and a killer.
PC
Multiple endings
Nun Massacre
A stormy night, a boarding school and a killer nun.
PC / iPhone / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
Power Drill Massacre
Locked in an abandoned building, with a power drill echoing in the dark.
PC / Mac
Multiple endings
Rewind Or Die
Work the late shift at the video store while a killer works his own.
PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
CANINE
Get your dog back from the pet-experiment lab. You have only a ball.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Survival
Cannibal Abduction
Escape a cannibal family's farmhouse before you become dinner.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Short
Goodtown Halloween Run
Trick-or-treat a suburb where the old folks set deadly traps for you.
PC
Multiple endings
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
Hide from the toy rabbit you were always afraid of.
PC / iPhone / Android
Survival
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2
Three donated toys, two missing friends, and an orphanage with a dark past.
PC / iPhone / Android
Multiple endings
Nun Massacre
A stormy night, a boarding school and a killer nun.
PC / iPhone / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Short
The Backrooms 1998
Found footage from the Backrooms, 1998. Don't scream.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Survival
The Night of the Scissors
A scrap run, an abandoned post office, and a man with scissors.
PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Walk to Japan's most notorious sealed tunnel on a VHS camcorder.
PC
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達
One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.
PC
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
Psychological
[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車
A salaryman's ride home on a train that goes somewhere wrong.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Yuki Onna | 雪女
Rescue three children from an abandoned mountain inn, on one life.
PC
Short
[HERROR] Gas Station Case
Work the night shift at a gas station while people vanish in the woods.
PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103
A containment breach, a dark facility and one voice on the radio.
Browser / PC
Sci-fi horror
10-103: NULL KELVIN
Alone on an Arctic island with whatever escaped the module.
Browser
Short
Andy's Apple Farm
A cheerful 1980s farm game that starts to glitch.
PC
Slasher
Babysitter Bloodbath
Your first night babysitting, and the madman is out after 22 years.
PC
Survival
[Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん
A schoolyard curse goes wrong and Hanako comes for the kids who cast it.
PC
Puzzle horror
INVITATIONEM
A breakdown in the rain, and the only light is a house in the woods.
Browser
Survival
Late Homework
Fetch your homework from the school at night, before something fetches you.
PC
Multiple endings
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
Hide from the toy rabbit you were always afraid of.
PC / iPhone / Android
Psychological
Summer of '58
Film the abandoned Soviet camp where the children died in 1958.
PC
Multiple endings
The Horror Of Salazar House
A reporter, a vanished author and a mansion that keeps its guests.
PC / Linux
Psychological
The Windows Are Gone
A house from your dreams is calling, and you have just moved in.
PC
Short
Vacant
Film a ghost-hunting show where something is listening.
Browser / PC / Mac
Psychological
a man outside
A vocabulary quiz, a quiet street, and a man who keeps standing there.
Browser
Short
Alone. Again.
A man stands in the street outside. It's getting closer.
Browser / PC
Short
Andy's Apple Farm
A cheerful 1980s farm game that starts to glitch.
PC
Short
Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
Lost in an empty mall and endless pools, with no way out but forward.
PC
Psychological
Assessment Examination
An entrance exam for a department that judges what is real.
Browser / PC / Mac
Psychological
FEAR ASSESSMENT
A government test of what frightens you, run on a flickering monitor.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
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
Puzzle horror
flies in a jar
First night as a security guard at an agency that keeps flies in a jar.
Browser / PC
Psychological
Julian & Friends
Help Julian plan a birthday party. Be careful which code you enter.
PC
Psychological
Krypta FM
Photograph the traces of a cryptid around a dark Polish village in 2006.
PC
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Classic
Collect seven notebooks and get out of Baldi's school before he catches you.
iPhone / Android / PC / Mac / Linux
Mascot horror
Baldi's Basics Plus
Collect the notebooks before Baldi and his ruler find you.
PC / Mac / Linux
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Survival
Cannibal Abduction
Escape a cannibal family's farmhouse before you become dinner.
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
Survival
Human Construction Site
Wake with no memory in a facility that treats people as specimens.
Browser / PC / Mac
Short
I See You
Trapped in a hospital. Find the keys. Someone is watching.
PC / Mac
Puzzle horror
INVITATIONEM
A breakdown in the rain, and the only light is a house in the woods.
Browser
Psychological
last seen online
Snoop through a stranger's old computer and find out what it hides.
Browser / PC
Short
The Backrooms 1998
Found footage from the Backrooms, 1998. Don't scream.
PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch
Multiple endings
Diner in the Storm
Shelter in a roadside diner while something waits in the storm.
Browser
Action horror
Shrine
A skinless monster with a shotgun against the eldritch horde.
PC / Linux
Action horror
Shrine II
Tusk returns to the Elder World, with more guns, more horrors and six bosses.
PC / Linux
Short
STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE
Talk a fisherman home by radio while something rises from the sea.
Browser
Puzzle horror
TAMASHII
A nameless soul in a twisted temple of flesh, idols and puzzles.
PC / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox
Multiple endings
Beary the Hatchet
A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.
PC
Puzzle horror
Blackout
A power cut, a witch costume and a very strange old house.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Slasher
Bloody Hallowfest
A 90s B-movie slasher at a summer camp on Halloween eve.
PC
Psychological
Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky?
Help a cute ghost find his stolen hat. What could go wrong?
PC / Mac / Linux
Multiple endings
CANIDAE
Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.
Browser / PC / Mac / Linux
Short
Crawling Pumpkin
Disguised as a pumpkin, crawl out of a graveyard before its creatures notice.
Browser / PC
Multiple endings
Crowscare
A straw boy's first Harvest Festival, and the reason he was kept home at night.
PC / Mac / Linux
Short
Death Trips
A short visit to an infamous hotel where a killer is probably inside.
PC / Mac
Visual novels
Don't Die Alone
Halloween night, 2006: a spam message, a friend count and a monster for whoever is alone.
PC
Short
Goodtown Halloween Run
Trick-or-treat a suburb where the old folks set deadly traps for you.
PC
Guides to horror games
- Backrooms Games: Lost in the Endless Yellow Rooms
- Games Like Amnesia: Hide in the Dark, Don't Fight
- Games Like Dead by Daylight: Asymmetric Horror Games
- Games Like Dead Space: Sci-Fi Survival Horror
- Games Like Doki Doki Literature Club: Cute Games That Turn
- Games Like Fears to Fathom: Everyday Horror on a Night Shift
- Games Like Granny: Escape the House Before They Find You
- Games Like Ib: Pixel-Art Horror Adventures
- Games Like Iron Lung: Horror Seen Through Instruments
- Games Like Lethal Company: Co-op Horror Jobs With Friends
- Games Like Little Nightmares: Small, Dark and Unsettling
- Games Like Mouthwashing: Short Psychological Horror
- Games Like Outlast: Horror Where You Can Only Hide and Run
- Games Like P.T.: First-Person Haunted Houses and Hallways
- Games Like Phasmophobia: Ghost Hunts and Co-op Horror
- Games Like Poppy Playtime: Mascot and Toy Horror
- Games Like Resident Evil: Survival Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Silent Hill: Fog, Guilt and Psychological Horror
- Games Like Slender: Pages, a Flashlight and Something Behind You
- Games Like The Exit 8: Anomaly Horror to Play Next
- Games Like Until Dawn: Choice-Driven Horror
- Horror Games for Beginners: Where to Start if You Scare Easily
- Japanese Horror Games: Ghosts, Curses and J-Horror
- New Horror Games of 2026: The Releases Worth Playing
- Scary Games to Play With Friends