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Horror puzzle games on Mac

59 horror puzzle games on Mac, 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.

59 games

All horror puzzle games on mac

Bad Dream: Coma art: crows perch on cracked yellow paper that opens onto ink-drawn glimpses of a hospital bed, a house and a bloodstained floor

Bad Dream: Coma

A dreamland you cannot die in, only suffer in.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox

Bad Dream: Fever screenshot: a hand-drawn public toilet splashed with dark blue ink, 'Not ready yet' and 'Come back later' scrawled on the walls and stall doors

Bad Dream: Fever

A city drowned in ink, and a fever that changes everyone it touches.

PC / Mac / Switch

Being Her Darkest Friend: Selina stands on a rock ledge in the dark as a grey figure with red eyes sits above her, with the line 'Tomoko?!'

Being Her Darkest Friend

An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

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

Ceasing to be Her Demise nightmare art: a skeleton slumped in front of a grey wall of ribs, with tentacle-like shapes and an eye in the dark below

Ceasing to be Her Demise

Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale 3 key art: Ingrid sits on the floor of a dark cell as light from an open door throws a long, horned shadow toward her

Multiple endings

Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance

A spoiled girl falls into hell, and a sarcastic demon offers to help.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place key art: Martin in a red coat walks toward a giant skull-like face full of teeth in a dark forest

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

A quiet fishing trip ends in a dark fairy-tale land.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Cube Escape Collection screenshot: a man with a crow's head, a giant green glass and a fish with human legs stand in a cardboard room

Cube Escape Collection

Nine strange rooms, one dead woman and the mystery of Rusty Lake.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Cube Escape: Paradox screenshot: a crow-headed man in a suit sits in an armchair in a green, moth-papered room under a framed painting

Cube Escape: Paradox

Wake with no memory in a strange room, and escape the game an old foe has set.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Dead Secret key art: a white farmhouse among bare trees on the Kansas plain, with a crow spreading its wings

Multiple endings

Dead Secret

Solve a professor's murder in 1965 Kansas before his masked killer finds you.

PC / Mac / VR / PlayStation

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

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

Devotion key art: a girl in a white dress with a red band over her eyes stands before a many-armed deity drawn on a red background

Devotion

A 1980s Taiwanese family home that turns into a nightmare.

PC / Mac

Fear the Spotlight art: a shadowy long-haired figure with glowing eyes looms over two girls standing in flames

Fear the Spotlight

A séance at school goes wrong, and something with a spotlight walks the halls.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

FeedVid Live

A stranger's livestream, a locked bathroom stall, and a chat that tells them what to do.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

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

Homicipher key art: a pale, long-haired figure with a wide, bloody grin looms out of the dark

Multiple endings

Homicipher

Learn the words of the monsters before they decide what to do with you.

PC / Mac / Switch

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

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

Inscryption key art: a wooden cabin door lit from above by hanging lanterns in a dark log cabin

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Lakeview Cabin Collection: bloody skeletal remains on stakes in front of a cabin at night, lit by a spotlight

Lakeview Cabin Collection

Four pixel-art horror films where you work out how to survive the killer.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

LIMBO: the silhouetted boy stands in a bright clearing as the long legs of a giant spider reach down beside him

LIMBO

A boy looks for his sister in a grey forest where everything wants him dead.

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

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

OFF key art: a swarm of pale purple ghosts with varied faces pouring over dark purple buildings

OFF

Guide the Batter on a sacred mission to purify a world of specters.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

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

Penumbra: Black Plague screenshot: a flooded, arched brick tunnel lit green, a doorway glowing at the far end

Penumbra: Black Plague

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Pony Island screenshot: the title screen on an old CRT, with two horned pony heads and a 1992 copyright

Pony Island

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

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

Resident Evil 2 key art: Leon in his police uniform and Claire in a red jacket aim pistols as zombies close in on a rainy street

Resident Evil 2

Survive Raccoon City's overrun police station with too few bullets and a stalker on your trail.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone

Rusty Lake Hotel: the grey gothic hotel on an island in a still green lake, with mountains behind

Rusty Lake Hotel

Five guests, five dinners, and each one worth dying for.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake Paradise art: a beaked figure with insect wings hovers in a pale forest above a white rabbit

Rusty Lake Paradise

Lift the ten plagues from a remote island and find out how your mother died.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Rusty Lake: Roots key art: a painted valley with a lake, mountains, a castle and a church

Rusty Lake: Roots

Plant a strange seed and grow a family tree full of dark secrets.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon

Saint Kotar

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

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Samsara Room screenshot: a room with green floral wallpaper, a telephone on a small table, a wall cabinet with a jar, and a gold mirror holding a dark figure

Samsara Room

Wake in a strange room, and look closely at what stands in the mirror.

PC / Mac / iPhone / Android

A man in a light jacket runs through a narrow village street past a burning window, in saturated pink and orange

Saturnalia

Four strangers, one Sardinian village, a ritual night that keeps rebuilding the streets.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

SIMULACRA key art: a dark-haired woman stands before a wall of phone screens showing apps, photos and chats, with pink streaks across them

Multiple endings

SIMULACRA

A missing woman's phone, and something inside it.

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

Slender Threads key art: a frightened Harvey Green by a fire, hooded figures in bird masks behind him and a mustached man aiming a revolver

Slender Threads

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

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / iPhone / Android

Smile For Me key art: a huge dark tree with a glowing grin and stars for eyes looms over tiny figures, framed by swirling flowers

Smile For Me

Nod, shake your head, and find out what Doctor Habit is hiding.

PC / Mac / Switch

STASIS: BONE TOTEM key art: a woman with a scratched, bloodied face inside a diving helmet, wrapped in a pale tentacled growth

STASIS: BONE TOTEM

Salvage an abandoned oil rig and find what is buried beneath it.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Stories Untold art: a glowing red orb among 1980s computers, a radio, a camcorder and family photos

Stories Untold

Four stories on old machines, and one nightmare between them.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

Strangeland key art: a huge metal skull with glowing violet eyes between two ravens, over a fiery dark

Strangeland

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

PC / Mac / Linux

The Count Lucanor key art: Hans holding a candle in a purple night forest, a grinning blue jester-hatted kobold and a castle behind

The Count Lucanor

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

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

The Designer's Curse key art: a pale figure with a stitched, bloodied torso standing in a brick corridor beside the title

The Designer's Curse

Lost in a manor with the creatures you designed yourself.

PC / Mac

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow art: Thomasina Bateman looks out over a misty moor where a barrow glows with purple light

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

A man aims a pistol and flashlight down a dark brick alley at a zombie in an orange safety vest

The Hotel

A forgotten hotel, a few bullets and the old survival horror rules.

PC / Mac

Illustrated scene of a 1930s car with its headlights on in the rain outside a large country house at night, a man and a woman standing beside it

The Incident at Galley House

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Guides

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