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Psychological horror games on itch.io

49 psychological horror games on itch.io, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The fear comes mainly from the mind: dread, unreliable perception, guilt, isolation or a reality that comes apart, rather than from fighting monsters. A game with one such scene in an action game does not count.

49 games

All psychological horror games on itch.io

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

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

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

PC

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

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

A rough detective searches a Japanese town for missing children.

PC

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

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

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

PC

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

[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

[Chilla's Art] The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車

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

PC

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

Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood

Anthology Of The Killer

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

PC / Linux

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

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face key art: a low-poly woman with a frightened face stands by a bed in a dim room with patterned wallpaper

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

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

PC

blank_01 cover: the title in thin capitals above a single large cartoon eye on a white background

blank_01

Become an ordinary worker in an ordinary house.

Browser / PC

Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky? cover: a smiling white cartoon ghost beside the title on purple, with a red party hat

Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky?

Help a cute ghost find his stolen hat. What could go wrong?

PC / Mac / Linux

Exhibit of Sorrows screenshot: a circus stage with red curtains, a lit-up WELCOME sign, a blue parrot doll in an oval frame and a yellow instructions board

Exhibit of Sorrows

Explore a circus exhibit of friendly dolls, and do not upset the clown.

Browser

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout art: a fire lookout tower with lit windows above a dark pine forest at night

Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout

A new fire lookout, a tower in the woods, and the feeling that something is off.

PC / PlayStation

A large empty room in Fingerbones lit gold by sunlight through the windows, with a table and old furniture in the haze

Fingerbones

An abandoned building, scattered notes, and a story you will wish you had not read.

PC / Mac

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete cover: the title scrawled in white over a dark red photo of a concrete apartment block with balconies and barred windows

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

Explore a grim concrete apartment block and what its tenants left behind.

Browser / PC

Goodnight Meowmie screenshot: a girl and a white cat in a wood-panelled room above a menu of Talk, Feed, Pet, Play with health, food and happiness bars and the line 'Meowmie, my one true friend.'

Goodnight Meowmie

Care for your cat in a virtual pet game that turns to horror.

Browser

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

I Can't Sleep screenshot: a dim wood-panelled room with a fire burning in the fireplace between tall bookshelves

I Can't Sleep

A paid sleep study, one control room, and a week without sleep.

Browser / PC

IMSCARED art: a thin white figure with long hair standing on a black background with large pixelated shapes

IMSCARED

A pixelated nightmare that crashes on purpose and leaves notes on your desktop.

PC / Android

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

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

Leaftaker cover: the title in white serif letters on the black screen of an old monitor

Leaftaker

When Stephen Hester died, his grave was already occupied.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Masochisia key art: a hand-drawn gaunt head in front of flames and a dark house, with a scan-line filter

Masochisia

Your hallucinations say you will become a killer. Can you change that?

PC / Mac / Linux

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

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

my father's long, long legs cover: worn stone steps lead down into a dark basement under the title in typewriter letters

my father's long, long legs

Your father started digging in the basement, and he never stopped.

Browser

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

Night Bus driver's view at night: rain on the windscreen, a lit bus shelter with a waiting man and a CCTV monitor above the dashboard

Night Bus

Your first night shift on a country bus route. Please ignore That Which Has No Eyes.

PC

Notes of Obsession screenshot: a hand holding an open music box beside a large stuffed elephant in a dark bedroom

Notes of Obsession

A modern Swedish house at night, a music box, and someone's madness.

PC

Paper Cages screenshot: a pixel-art bedroom with a figure in bed, a close-up of a tired face between willpower and completion bars, and the prompt Mash Z to wake up

Paper Cages

Wake up, get dressed, go to work. A true horror story.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

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

Please Answer Carefully cover: the title in plain grey letters on a light grey background, like a web form

Please Answer Carefully

An online survey that knows a little too much about you.

Browser

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

Sofia? cover: a dark-haired young man glances sideways while a pale masked figure smeared with blood stands behind him, the title written in pink

Sofia?

A sweet night at your boyfriend's place, until a guest arrives.

Browser / PC

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 Anchorite screenshot: a pixel-art tower study with bookshelf and desk, a robed boy on a red rug told You have been blessed, child. You are now the Anchorite

The Anchorite

Never leave the tower. Never look upon the sullied.

Browser / PC

The Body Monstrous cover: pixelated photos of bare arms and hands reaching across a dark background, the title written on the skin

The Body Monstrous

Take care of your body. It lives in the basement.

Browser

The Cursed Forest key art: a misty autumn forest at night under a full moon, with lantern light glowing among the trees

The Cursed Forest

A shortcut through an autumn forest, a crash, and something waiting in the trees.

PC

The Open House cover: a real estate flyer reading Virtual Open House, 15615 Hollow Oak Lane, over a photo of a stone-fronted suburban home

The Open House

A virtual tour of a showcase home that is not what the brochure says.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

the static speaks my name screenshot: a dim apartment corner with a boarded-up door and a stack of old televisions all showing static

the static speaks my name

One man's last night alive, a painting he cannot stop thinking about, and a tank of pet shrimp.

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

The Windows Are Gone key art: a dark house with glowing yellow windows stands among thin blue trees above a field of red grass

The Windows Are Gone

A house from your dreams is calling, and you have just moved in.

PC

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

Time is Solid Here screenshot: a top-down room where the player figure is a floating severed head, beside a large warped portrait of an old man, with dialogue about word from upstairs or downstairs

Time is Solid Here

Step into surreal paintings and help uneasy figures move on.

Browser / PC / Mac

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