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Horror visual novels on itch.io

14 horror visual novels on itch.io, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The story is told mainly through text over character art and backgrounds, as a visual novel or sound novel, with reading and choices as the main way to play. A horror game with some dialogue scenes between exploration, puzzles or fights is not one.

14 games

All horror visual novels on itch.io

Beary the Hatchet: a goth girl with flame sunglasses and the clerk in a white bear mask with blood on his shirt stand in a gas station aisle under Beer and Cigs signs

Multiple endings

Beary the Hatchet

A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.

PC

CANIDAE: Red in a snarling fox mask with a baseball bat and Blue in a blue animal mask stand in a dark street of houses at night

Multiple endings

CANIDAE

Halloween night, animal masks, and friends who start to change.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

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

Don't Die Alone

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

PC

Lisa, a smiling girl in a Green Day T-shirt, tells you there's a big Halloween party tonight, with classroom scenes behind her

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

HIKEBACK screenshot: a bearded stranger with a knife seen in a car's rearview mirror, drawn in red lines on black, as the driver thinks one flinch is all it would take

HIKEBACK

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

Browser

It gets so lonely here key art: a girl in a school uniform with a red ribbon covers her face with her hands in a dark forest

It gets so lonely here

Run through the forest. She will never let you go.

PC / Mac / Linux

It Paints Me screenshot: Marie, a pale woman in an old-fashioned gown, standing by a lamp post at night as she says S-stop it, Sam

It Paints Me

A painter, a lost muse, and a brush that hurts to lift.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

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

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

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

missed messages. screenshot: May, a girl with pink hair and freckles, smiles from a doorway beside a speech bubble thanking you for being her friend

missed messages.

A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?

PC / Mac / Linux

Mycopsychosys: Remastered: Silvia, an officer in a gas mask and cap, stands on the porch of a black-and-white street with red spores in the air

Mycopsychosys: Remastered

A spore storm is coming. Stay inside, and decide who you let in.

PC / Mac

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

Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger key art: Taylor with arms crossed beside the smirking Dr. Krueger in pink and teal light

Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger

Book a session of patented Dream Therapy. The doctor will see you now.

PC / Mac / Linux

What Grows in the Night title art: the scarecrow girl sits among pumpkins under a bare cross-shaped post with a crow, a shooting star in the dusk sky

Multiple endings

What Grows in the Night

A scarecrow is given life to tend a stranger's garden. The plants grow too well.

PC / Mac / Linux