Skip to content

Psychological horror games on PC page 5 of 8

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

Mouthwashing art: a single bloodshot eye inside a red outline shaped like a dripping mouthwash drop, on black

Mouthwashing

A wrecked space freighter, five stranded crew and the captain who doomed them.

PC

Mundaun key art in pencil greys: a man holding a pitchfork and a lantern stands on a rock with a goat, looking over an Alpine valley with a chalet, a horned figure and a woman watching

Mundaun

A hand-pencilled folk horror tale high in the Alps.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

My Beautiful Paper Smile: a masked child with a drawn eye above his head walks between hooded guards with lanterns in a barbed-wire yard at night

My Beautiful Paper Smile

Keep smiling, stay in the light, and get out of the king's facility.

PC

My Friend is a Raven: Lutum, in a top hat and goggled beak mask, holds out a small bird on a balcony above a foggy, dead town

My Friend is a Raven

The last man alive comes home to talk to a dying raven.

PC

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

Narcosis screenshot: a large tentacled sea creature lunges at the diver's arm inside a dark flooded room, with the suit's oxygen gauges at the bottom

Narcosis

Walk the Pacific seafloor in a dive suit before your air and your nerve run out.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / VR

Neverending Nightmares key art: a man holding a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him from behind

Neverending Nightmares

Wake from a nightmare into another one, and another, in black and white.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

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

No one lives under the lighthouse key art: a white lighthouse under dark storm clouds with seagulls flying past

No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut

Keep the light burning, and do not open the basement door.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

No, I'm not a Human key art: four uncanny drawn faces lit in green, a grinning shirtless man, a woman in a scarf, an old man and a woman with a bob, against apartment blocks at night

No, I'm not a Human

They knock at night and look just like us. Decide who to let in.

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

Nox Timore: rows of grey mannequins on poles standing in white fog, with the game's title on the floor

Nox Timore

Mannequins, dark hallways, and a nightmare that comes back every night.

PC

Observer: System Redux screenshot: a dark, wet apartment full of cables and green-lit monitors, with a body slumped against the wall in the light of a heater

Observer: System Redux

A cyberpunk detective hacks into the minds of the dead in a 2084 tenement.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

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

Omen Exitio: Plague key art: tentacles curling round a hand that holds a glowing Earth

Omen Exitio: Plague

A plague that may not be natural, and a doctor who may be going mad.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / iPhone

OMORI key art: a pencil sketch of the boy OMORI's expressionless face

OMORI

A colourful dream-world RPG hiding the memory its hero cannot face.

PC / Mac / Switch / Xbox / PlayStation

ORDER 13: a dark warehouse aisle with tall blue racks, scattered boxes and a red light at the far end

ORDER 13

Pack the orders, mind the shadows, and keep your cat alive.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Outlast 2 art: a figure in the dark grass holds a long pickaxe, a lit shack and another figure in a green haze behind

Outlast 2

Search for your wife in a desert cult's town with nothing but a camcorder.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Oxenfree key art: a glowing triangular rift hanging in a dark cave

Oxenfree

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

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

Palmyra Orphanage key art: a pale child's face with dark eyes and blood running down it

Palmyra Orphanage

Walk the orphanage of your childhood while the principal hunts you.

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

Paragnosia: a dim living room with a sofa, lamps and bookshelves lit by a red glow

Paragnosia

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

PC / Linux

Paranormal Night Shift art: a dark attic in purple light, with chairs, a stool and a pale figure in an armchair

Paranormal Night Shift

Watch a haunted London house on camera and report every change, or the night ends badly.

PC

Two women at an old phone booth, one holding the receiver as a voice warns that the island will become a bloodbath unless she takes the last ferry alone

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

PARANORMASIGHT key art: the cast of cursed characters crowded under a pale-faced ghost with long dark hair

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Cursed strangers hunt each other through Showa-era Tokyo to raise the dead.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Paratopic: a dim diner in low-poly 3D with a Hot Food sign, checkered floor and a revolver with bullets on the counter

Paratopic

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

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

Pathologic 2 key art: two thin dark figures with stitched torsos and blank white masks with small black eyes stand against a blood-red background

Pathologic 2

Twelve days to save a town from a plague you cannot kill.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Pathologic 3 screenshot: a hooded, masked figure in rags holds out its hands in a foggy street as a man in the background aims a pistol

Pathologic 3

Twelve days, a plague and the power to go back and fix your mistakes.

PC

Pathologic Classic HD screenshot: a figure in a long beaked mask with glowing eyes stands by an iron fence on a cobbled street under a brown sky

Pathologic Classic HD

Twelve days, a dying steppe town, and a plague that cannot be stopped.

PC

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

Perception key art: Cassie's face in blue light with moths on her hair, beside the title and its braille lettering

Perception

A blind woman, a mansion from her nightmares, and every sound a risk.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

A grinning pixel-art news anchor beside a screen showing a sledgehammer smashing a bloody office, with a timer at 68

Perfect Vermin

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

PC / Linux

Photomaly screenshot: a customer in a gas mask and yellow suit at the photo studio counter

Photomaly

Run your late father's photo studio. Look closely at every customer.

PC

Platform 8 key art: a man in a pale shirt sits on a red bench seat in a bright Japanese train carriage, looking at his phone

Platform 8

A commuter train that never stops. Watch for what changes.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Pleh screenshot: a dark grid room with red scrawled words asking whether he is such a rude person

Pleh!

A game developer's game, and the thoughts he cannot keep out of it.

PC

Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum key art: a brown-haired girl in a blue dress lying among roses before a stained-glass window

Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

Wake in a dreamlike mansion with only a pocket mirror, and find out who you were.

PC / Mac

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

PRICE key art: blond siblings Ivry and Iva lying head to head among an accordion, a violin and dark flowers

PRICE

Wake from a nightmare and search a dark house for your missing sister.

PC

Project Songbird key art: a black crow against a blood-red sky over dark pine trees

Project Songbird

A musician, a cabin in the Appalachian woods, and an album that will not come.

PC

Psychopomp key art: a pale woman with a heavy dark helmet bowing her head against a red mass, on a black field of drifting red specks

Psychopomp

A free dungeon crawl into the catacombs under every building.

PC

Pumpkin Eater watercolour art: the son's carved jack-o'-lantern head slumped against a dark green sofa

Pumpkin Eater

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

PC / Mac / Linux

Raging Loop key art: three characters before a crimson sky, with a dark wolf's shape behind them

Raging Loop

A mist-bound village, a werewolf among the villagers, and a death you keep coming back from.

PC

REANIMAL key art: two children row a small lit boat across dark floodwater past wrecked ships and telephone poles, under a giant sheep-headed creature looming out of the stormy sky

REANIMAL

A brother and sister cross a drowned island of monsters to bring their friends home.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Rehaunted key art: a pale woman with dark hair and a wide, unnatural grin leaning out of the dark

Rehaunted

Search a dead woman's house where the evidence keeps changing its story.

PC

Retail Hell screenshot: a skinless red creature with a wide grin at the counter window beside a till and a Day 01 clock

Retail Hell

Clock in. Serve the dead. Survive the shift.

PC

Return to Shironagasu Island key art: a black-haired schoolgirl falling with a red apple, a red thread and an old book

Return to Shironagasu Island

A dead millionaire's invitation, an island mansion, and a demon nobody will explain.

PC / Mac / 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

Guides