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Horror puzzle games on itch.io

14 horror puzzle games on itch.io, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. Solving puzzles is a main way to play and to progress: codes, mechanisms, item combinations or logic, not just finding a key on the floor. A horror game with an occasional lock or lever puzzle between fights does not count.

14 games

All horror puzzle games on itch.io

Blackout cover: Marilyn in a witch hat holds up a lit match while a man with a knife through his head stands in a dark doorway behind her

Blackout

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

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

Hello Charlotte EP2 key art: Charlotte, a pale girl drawn in black and white, cries against a dark background

Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo

Steer your puppet through the House, the School and a Trial nobody escapes.

PC

INVITATIONEM cover: a dim wallpapered hallway lit by wall lamps, a portrait at its end, with the title in white letters

INVITATIONEM

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

Browser

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

Mausoleosis cover: David and a blonde woman holding a teddy bear between gravestone crosses, under a shadowy clawed figure

Mausoleosis

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

Browser / PC / Mac

Midnight Mansion cover: the red and white title over a dark, grainy picture of a gabled mansion among trees

Midnight Mansion

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

Browser

Paper Lily key art: Lacie, a blonde girl in a red scarf and white coat, holding a golden letter tangled in red threads

Paper Lily - Chapter 1

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Project Kat screenshot: girls holding a seance at a table in a dark pixel-art room, and a frightened girl saying Is that a ghost? We summoned a ghost

Multiple endings

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Follow a golden letter into your school after dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Sally Face screenshot: Sal, seen from behind with long blue hair, sits across from a therapist with a clipboard, his prosthetic face mask on the table

Sally Face

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

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

Servant of the Lake screenshot: a maid in apron and cap stands in the green hallway of the Vanderboom house, beside a staircase, portraits and a cat on a pink armchair

Servant of the Lake

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

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Stowaway screenshot: the pilot stands in a purple reactor room with blood on the floor and fleshy pipes around a central column

Stowaway

The last pilot of the Starcross, a dead crew and something aboard.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

The Supper: Ms. Appleton in a bloodied apron stands by a large pot of red liquid in her dark tavern kitchen, pixel art

The Supper

A tavern keeper hears a voice that wants her to cook something special.

PC

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