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350 psychological horror games on PC, 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.

350 games

All psychological horror games on pc

Call of Cthulhu screenshot: robed cultists and candles around a tall crystal in a dark cave, with a strange figure in the foreground

Call of Cthulhu

A 1924 investigation on a whaling island, where the truth costs you your mind.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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

CAPTURED key art: a dark figure with small white eyes and a grin peers around a doorway, with tentacles curling in the grainy camcorder light

CAPTURED

Your own home has become an endless hallway. Film what has changed to get out.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

CAPTURED 2 camera view framing a glowing grandfather clock in a dim office as an anomaly to capture

CAPTURED 2

Trapped in a home that loops, with a camera and a flashlight.

PC

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

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl holding a large glowing sword, beside Takumi on a cracked grey pavement

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

Shibuya's serial killings, predicted by an image no one should have sent.

PC / Switch

CINERIS SOMNIA key art: a black-haired girl in a dark dress with a parasol standing on a pale, empty city street lined with lamp posts

CINERIS SOMNIA

Wake alone on a bright shore, and walk into three girls' cruel and lonely dreams.

PC

First-person view holding a pump shotgun on a foggy town square with bare trees and a white chapel at the end

Comatose

Fight your way out of a fog-bound town inside your own unconscious mind.

PC

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

Corpse Party: Blood Drive screenshot: Ayumi holds a light in a gore-smeared school corridor as a shadow with red eyes waits behind her

Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Go back into Heavenly Host for the book that might bring the dead back.

PC / Switch

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows key art: a schoolboy in a sailor-collar uniform looks out from behind bars beside a girl with her eyes closed and head tilted back

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

Go back into Heavenly Host and see the deaths you missed, and some you can escape.

PC

Crimson Snow key art: a pale red-haired woman with blood running from a wide smile, beside a snowbound house at night

Crimson Snow

Christmas night in a house where your obsessed ex is waiting.

PC

CROWDED. FOLLOWED. key art: a painted crowd of grey figures in a station, with a burst of red light at its centre

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Keep the briefcase away from something that could be anyone in the crowd.

PC

Cry of Fear screenshot: a young man in a white hoodie stands under a street lamp on a dark town street with a police car behind him

Cry of Fear

A free psychological horror game in a nightmarish Scandinavian town at night.

PC

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

A Daemonologie nightmare: a pale hand reaching from the dark between trees, beside the menu with the Wake Up button

Daemonologie

Find the witch in a Scottish village before the last morning.

PC

Dagon screenshot: dark tentacles rise from a black, fish-strewn mud flat beside a half-sunken ship hull

Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

Walk through Lovecraft's Dagon, from a morphine addict's room to the sea floor.

PC / VR

Darkness Within key art: a close-up of a terrified face with a huge dark eye and a hand pressed against it, a pale figure in a doorway behind

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

A detective chases an occult murder suspect into his own nightmares.

PC

DARQ screenshot: Lloyd, a pale boy in a striped shirt, crosses a tilted room of pipes and machines as gravity turns

DARQ: Complete Edition

Walk on the walls of a nightmare you cannot wake from, and keep out of sight.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DEAD LETTER DEPT. screenshot: a scanned photo on an old monitor while the typed line reads Tonight I watched the light leave their eyes

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.

PC / Linux

Dead Take key art: a bald man seen from behind, sitting alone in a dark cinema before a glowing screen

Dead Take

Find your missing friend in a Hollywood mansion, one corrupted clip at a time.

PC

Decarnation key art: a woman with dark hair that flows into a mass of flesh, organs and strange creatures

Decarnation

A cabaret dancer's life and nightmares, in surreal pixel art.

PC / Switch

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

Dinner with an Owl key art: the owl-headed host in a suit at a candlelit dinner table beside a woman in a pale dress, before patterned wallpaper

Dinner with an Owl

A business dinner with an owl-headed host, and an evening that never ends.

PC

DISTRAINT 2 screenshot: Price stands in a rotting room by a glowing old TV, dark growths hanging from the ceiling and a skull-faced figure in a chair beside him

DISTRAINT 2

A side-scrolling nightmare about a man's guilt and what he sold to get ahead.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition key art: Price in a shirt and tie among his bosses, a couple with teacups and an old woman with a rabbit, under a looming red elephant

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

Seize an old woman's home, then pay the price for it.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Do NOT Take This Cat Home cover: a round black cat with big yellow eyes peeking out of a cardboard box

Do NOT Take This Cat Home

A cute cat in a box in a dark alley. Surely you will take it home.

PC / Mac / Linux

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox

Dollmare art: two baby dolls in blue shirts at either side of a black background, the left one dirty and grinning with orange eyes

Dollmare

Check every doll on the line, and keep the doors closed.

PC

Doppelpartment screenshot: a soldier in a gas mask lit green in the dark, with the line There's a soldier outside

Doppelpartment

Some of your tenants are not your tenants anymore.

Browser / PC / Mac

Downfall screenshot: Joe and a woman stand in a hotel lounge under the words Devil Came Through Here written in blood on the wall

Downfall

A getaway to save a marriage, in a hotel where it all goes wrong.

PC

Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with burning eyes and dark hair in front of a field of sunflowers

Dread Fields

A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.

PC / Mac / Linux

DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with lit windows beside a red and white lighthouse under a dark sky, with tentacles and strange fish in the green water below

DREDGE

A quiet fishing adventure with a cosmic horror in the deep.

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

Eclipsium key art: a hooded figure with one huge round eye in a red cave, a robed figure holding up a glowing orb behind

Eclipsium

Follow a fading light through a world of flesh, and give up your body to reach her.

PC

Endacopia key art: a round-headed boy in a red cap beside a sign with a worried face, against a starry black sky

Endacopia

A boy with no senses, a cheerful world, and horrors if you go looking.

PC

Eversion

A cheerful platformer about saving a princess, until you evert.

PC / Mac / Linux

False Dream screenshot: the dark dream apartment with a television showing colour bars, a bed and a low table

False Dream

Photograph what is wrong with the room, or stay in the dream.

PC

Father's Day screenshot: a lit carousel with a white horse in an overgrown fairground at night

Father's Day

A grieving father's plan to bring his family back, told by three people.

PC

Fausts Alptraum key art: an orange-haired girl in a green dress holds a candle among crayon scribbles, beside a pale-haired figure in a red coat standing in water

Fausts Alptraum

A grieving girl, her father's old house and a demon who knows the way out.

PC

FEAR ASSESSMENT screenshot: a grinning, blurred face lit orange and red out of darkness on a CRT screen

FEAR ASSESSMENT

A government test of what frightens you, run on a flickering monitor.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Fears to Fathom - Carson House screenshot: a grainy security camera feed of a dark hallway labelled Camera 06

Fears to Fathom - Carson House

House-sit a stranger's home for the weekend and watch the cameras.

PC

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone screenshot: a dark bedroom with a curtained window looking out at a house across the street

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Home alone for the weekend, Miles slowly realises he is not.

PC

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

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike artwork: a car with red tail lights parked on a dark forest road at night

Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike

A long way home at night, a lonely gas station and a motel stay.

PC

A lonely wooden gas station at night among dark pine trees, its tall price sign lit beside the road

Fears to Fathom - Scratch Creek

A couple's move goes wrong in a decrepit small town. Survive it together.

PC

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