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Survival

Outlast

Film your way through a madhouse with no way to fight back.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Oxenfree

A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.

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

Psychological

Paper Cages

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Paper Lily - Chapter 1

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Paragnosia

Watch your haunted apartment from a camera on a rail and exorcise what moves.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Paratopic

Smuggle tapes, chase a bird, kill a man, and do not trust the road.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Penumbra: Black Plague

No weapons, an infected research complex and a voice in your head.

PC / Mac / Linux

Survival

Penumbra: Overture

Hide in the dark of a Greenland mine where something hunts you.

PC / Mac / Linux

Visual novels

Perceptions of the Dead

Three free ghost stories, one of them a Halloween livestream gone wrong.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Perfect Vermin

Smash an empty office with a sledgehammer and exterminate every vermin.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Pony Island

A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.

PC / Mac / Linux

Analog

POOLS

Endless tiled pools, still water and nobody else.

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

2D horror

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Follow a golden letter into your school after dark.

PC / Mac / Linux

Survival

Project Zomboid

Loot, barricade and stay quiet in a Kentucky county lost to the dead.

PC / Mac / Linux

Visual novels

PROJECT: Halloween

An AI made to ensure everyone enjoys Halloween. At all costs.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Pumpkin Eater

A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Rise of Insanity

A psychologist, a strange patient and what happened to his family.

PC / Linux / VR

Psychological

s.p.l.i.t

One terminal, one malware attack, and a night you will not be remembered for.

PC / Linux

Psychological

Saint Kotar

Two devout men, a missing sister and a town that worships something else.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

Sally Face

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

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

Psychological

Scarlet Hollow

Survive a week in a mountain town where something preys on more than livestock.

PC / Mac / Linux

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

Psychological

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Puzzle horror

Slender Threads

A salesman's nightmare of his own head on a wall starts coming true.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / iPhone / Android

Psychological

SOMA

A station on the sea floor where machines think they are people.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

2D horror

Stowaway

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Strangeland

A nightmare carnival, a woman who keeps falling, and a Dark Thing on the roller coaster.

PC / Mac / Linux

2D horror

Sunless Sea

Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Die. Then try again.

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

Survival

Teleglitch: Die More Edition

The lone survivor of a research base where the dead were put back to work.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

Terminal 81

A supermarket job in a São Paulo neighbourhood where women go missing.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

That's not my Neighbor

Check the papers, study the face, and decide who gets through the door.

PC / Linux

Puzzle horror

The Children of Clay

Study an ancient clay figure at your desk until it starts to change.

PC / Linux

Survival

The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

Hide from a demoness with your teacher's face in a shadow version of your school.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Survival

The Coma: Recut

Asleep in your final exam, awake in a school with a killer.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

The Count Lucanor

Guess the kobold's name, and become the new Count Lucanor.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

Psychological

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

A Victorian dig on the moors, and something waiting in the soil.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Survival

The Glass Staircase

Good girls take their medicine. Good girls do their chores.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Multiple endings

The Horror Of Salazar House

A reporter, a vanished author and a mansion that keeps its guests.

PC / Linux

Psychological

The Incident at Galley House

Listen in on the night of a 1936 massacre and work out who died, and how.

PC / Mac / Linux

Psychological

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

Treat a dead doctor's patients, and find out which one killed him.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

2D horror

The Last Door

A low-res Victorian nightmare of occult secrets and doors best left shut.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Psychological

The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

A psychiatrist follows his missing patient past the Veil and toward madness.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Multiple endings

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.

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

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

The Open House

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Multiple endings

The Radio Tower

Climb a radio tower by a quarantined town while something hunts you from the forest.

PC / Linux

Multiple endings

The Séance of Blake Manor

Find a missing woman before the séance on All Hallows' Eve.

PC / Linux